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Tuesday 5th August 2014


Best day of the autumn so far with 8 Willow Warblers, Nightingale & Green Woodpecker around the bushes, overhead passage included 169 Swallow, 3 Sand Martins & a House Martin. Offshore 14 Common Scoter & a Gannet north, 3 Turnstone & a Golden Plover south and a Grey Plover west.

Highlights amongst the insects were a Hummingbird Hawk-moth and a Clouded Yellow of the 'helice' form.

13 Birds ringed; 3 Willow Warbler, 3 Linnet, 2 Greenfinch, 1 Wren, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Pied Wagtail, 1 Nightingale, 1 Great Tit, 1 Goldfinch, 1 Whitethroat.