A wet and windy morning was almost business as usual this year. No sound of yesterdays marsh warbler or its backing chorus of two reed warblers. The only movements of note were overhead or out to sea. 9 sandwich tern flew south, as did 3 house martin and 1357 swift. By the standards of the last two years, this is an impressive day count, but in the past the observatory has recorded a day number of 18,000.
Dark Spectacle is a regular in low numbers whose larvae feed on nettles.