A young nightingale was a nice surprise in the early morning. First of the autumn, and youngest we've seen here in a while. A golden plover flying north may well have been resting on the beach. Autumn for waders continues with singles of curlew and whimbrel heading south.
3 southern migrant hawker dragonflies were in the moat, joined by our first southern hawkers of the year. The former species is a lot more regular than it used to be, and it now breeds in parts of Britain, and teneral (freshly emerged) females suggests they're doing so not too far away from us.
Acleris forskskaleana is a tortrix sp living on our sycamores in small numbers.
Birds Ringed: Blue Tit 1, Goldfinch 1, Nightingale 1.