After a bright sunny start overcast conditions soon set in with a belt of annoying fine drizzle mid-am. Southbound 80 Black-headed Gull, 9 Common Tern, 8 Med Gull, 5 Whimbrel, 4 Swallow, 3 Curlew & 3 Oyk with northbound 15 Common Scoter, 4 Meds, 3 Swift & a Gannet. 6 Sanderling, on their way from Greenland to West Africa, were on the beach & a juv Yellow-legged Gull was in the river. Yet another juv Cetti's & Grey Wagtail with no idea where the young Grey Wags are originating from at this juncture as autumn passage doesn't get going, in this species, before the tail end of August.
Euspilapteryx auroguttella is a tiny tot living on the Perforate St. John's Wort which we have a plethora of this year.
Ringing: 2 Wren, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Dunnock, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Whitethroat.
