Pretty clear skies at first light but heavy cloud soon rolled in and while it stayed dry with light winds, it was overcast throughout the morning; the highlights comprised a Great White Egret which flew south far out at sea and a Nightingale (probably the one that was seen yesterday) found a mist-net mid-morning.
A few birds heading south at sea today comprised 15 Black-headed Gulls, 3 Common Gulls, a Curlew, 5 Grey Plover, 29 Oystercatchers, 22 Ringed Plovers, a Sanderling, 2 Turnstone, 3 Whimbrel, 2 Shoveler and 13 Teal.
Elsewhere 6 Barnacle Geese flew north, 8 Sand Martins and 6 Swallows flew south and 5 Willow Warblers were the only other grounded migrants.
Nightingale
I caught this Southern Migrant Hawker in the Heligoland trap this morning, there has been a big arrival/influx/emergence into the UK this year and this is the third record for the Obs after two in July.
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