A fine morning – very calm, clear and sunny albeit chilly first thing; there were some interesting mid-summer movements offshore which comprised an excellent 309 Common Scoter moving south (one of only ten >300 counts here) and 33 Curlew dribbling through, also heading south after presumably failing to breed this season.
Also offshore were 27 Black-headed Gulls also vaguely heading south, 3 Common Gulls, a Kittiwake, 2 Little Terns and 2 Sandwich Terns.
Elsewhere, highlights were hard to come by with the lingering Chiffchaff, a House Martin and 5 Swifts whilst a Southern Hawker along one of the net lanes was the first of the year and possibly new for me (I’m sure I’ve seen them before but not identified them).
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