Thursday 27th April 2023

Strong south easterlies held the promise of more interesting migrants, and in some respects did deliver, with a summer plumaged black-throated diver flying north, 4 arctic terns doing the same and the first garden warbler of the year. Other migrants were thin on the ground, but lesser whitethroat numbers have picked up over the week.

This Emperor (Empress) moth was the first of the year recorded here, a good looking specimen and not a species we see every day.

Birds Ringed: Garden Warbler 1, Linnet 2, Wren 1.