Starting cloudy but then clearing late morning. Another brief visit from a Greater Spotted Woodpecker mid morning within the compound. Stinking Goosefoot is now out on the reserve.
Seawatching produced 2 Sandwich Tern, 2 Black-headed Gull and a Whimbrel south. Northbound: 3 Sandwich Tern only. Hirundine movement consisted of 9 Swift north only.
Moth trapping: 89 moth species identified in our 3 traps last night - a slight increase from the previous night with it being warmer and less windy around the traps. Pick of the bunch will be the second site record of Monochroa lucidella, with the previous one 23 years ago. This moth is a specialist of wetlands and coastal habitat and has fewer than 100 records annually in Suffolk - Suffolk Moths.
Bird ringing: 3 Whitethroat, 2 Goldfinch, 2 Linnet, 1 Blackbird, 1 House Sparrow, 1 Reed Warbler, 1 Robin.
Our first dispersing juvenile Reed Warbler of the year today, with its post Juvenile moult coming through.