Whitethroat (Curruca communis).
A Sunny morning with winds increasing from the west. Quite within the compound. Starlings are starting to build up in numbers with around 250 seen out on the nature reserve and our Ringed Plover chicks are still running around the beach area. The Black Redstart remains calling from the fort.
Seawatching produced: 5 Black-headed Gull, 3 Dunlin, 3 Mediterranean Gull and a Curlew southbound. A Sandwich Tern north.
Hirundine movement included 25 Sand Martian, 12 Swift and a Swallow all south.
Moth trapping: 86 Moth species recorded between our 3 traps this morning. Todays pick of the bunch is the Digitivalva pulicariae (pictured below), this moth is a rare species in Suffolk with two previous records here. The larva mine into common fleaban and form inflated brown/whitish blotches - UK Moths.
Digitivalva pulicariae.
Bird ringing: 3 Linnet, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Whitethroat.