Back to unsettled weather, with a brisk northerly wind. However the morning had an early spring feel as there were a few migrants around and at least 3 that should have moved on before now. Another two blackcaps, a female with a brood patch and a briefly singing male could be failed breeders moving to a different area to try again, though the male could just be a late migrant. A willow warbler late morning was also a late migrant, as was a Short-eared owl found in the afternoon. This was our latest spring record of this species by 2 days out of our 5 previous May sightings.
Spurge Hawk-moth was formerly a rare vagrant here, but now seems to live here.
Birds Ringed: Blackcap 1, Linnet 1, Reed Warbler 1, Starling 2, Willow Warbler 1.