Curlew passage picking up with at least 26 south. Also southbound 11 Swift, 2 Common Scoter & 2 Tufted Duck. 2 Lapwing were on the reserve plus 2 Chiffchaff & 2 Reed Warbler in the bushes. The first dispersing juvenile Blackcap of the summer turned up plus a well developed young Whitethroat which may have wandered down from the Butts. A Coal Tit was at the north end.
First site record of what looks like
Elachista triatomella was nearly overlooked. Obsidentify misidentified it (but this may be due to the poor quality photo taken on an antique mobile) & thought it looked like a similar
Elachista that we get here so just as well a better photo was taken with the camera so it could be re-identified.
We have very few records of Ingrailed Clay so good to get the first one for nine years of this declining species.
Ringing: 2 Linnet, 1 Blackcap, 1 Dunnock, 1 Goldfinch, 1 Great Tit, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Ringed Plover (pulli), 1 Whitethroat.
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