A pleasant start, bright with a moderate SW breeze which slowly increased through the morning; a small selection of birds went south including 23 Swallows, 48 Meadow Pipits, 2 Grey Wagtails, a Jackdaw and 3 Rooks whilst in the bushes 4 Chiffchaffs and 4 Blackcaps were about it but a Jay did bundle into a net.
Totals at Melton in the afternoon consisted of an increased 166 Wigeon and 94 Teal, 4 Avocets (my first here), 2 Grey Plovers, 28 Ringed Plovers, 30+ Curlew, 440 Black-tailed Godwits, 3 Turnstone, just a single Greenshank and 150+ Redshank.
Fischer's Estuarine Moth - Super-rare in British terms, known only from two sites one of which is just across the water in Essex (the other is in north Kent); they are very sedentary so out-of-range wanderers such as this one is even rarer!
Jay
Black-tailed Godwits
Wigeon
Redshank
Curlew
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