Spot the Ringed Plover chick! (Charadrius hiaticula), fingers crossed for our two chicks surviving.
A cloudy but humid morning with a SW wind. Few migrants around the compound, however some straggling geese seen while seawatching. Most excitingly one of the Ringed Plover nests have been successful at hatching two young, however, the odds are still stacked against the tiny birds but as you can see from the pic they are well camouflaged.
Seawatching produced: 8 Barnacle Goose, 1 Brent Goose and 2 Oystercatcher north. 7 Oystercatcher and a Cormorant south.
Overland 7 Mute Swan and 1 Swallow north. 4 Swallow south.
Moth Trapping: 97 Species of moths across our 3 traps last night following pretty perfect conditions for moth trapping, loads of new species for the year. Our most interesting moth of the bunch was the Obscure Wainscot, a moth with a local distribution and scattered throughout England and Wales, occupying marsh and fenland (this habitat perhaps leading to under recording i.e. fewer people moth trapping). The larvae of the moth feed on Common Reed.
Obscure Wainscot (Leucania obsoleta), the first record from this site in 30 years!
Bird Ringing: 7 Great Tit, 2 Goldfinch, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 House Sparrow, 1 Linnet, 1 Reed Warbler.