Yesterdays surprise juvenile Long-tailed Skua at the fishing boats
The last couple of days have seen a trickle of Arctic Skuas, Sandwich and Common Terns and Gannets past The Point, certainly not the numbers and variety I would expect this time of year, though the Long-tailed skua was most welcome.
Little Stint and a Dunlin on the ARC today
The ARC is still where most of the birds are to be found, in recent days Curlew, Common and Green Sandpipers, Ruff, Common Snipe, Little Stint, Ringed and Little Ringed Plovers, several Garganey, Great, Cattle and Little Egrets, Glossy Ibis, Peregrine, Hobby and a few warblers. I'm afraid Burrowes is still very disappointing avian wise.
Another very poorly thought out venture are the new islands at Makepiece, again no birds present. I doubt that situation will change even when the planned all singing and dancing hide is built.
Juvenile Peregrine creating havoc over the ARC yesterday
A worn Clifton Nonpareil a monster of a moth, the first one to have graced my trap
Euchromius ocellea a very scarce migrant from the continent, a first for my trap.
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