Wednesday, 25 July 2018

Trickling Migrants!

Many gulls off shore from The Patch this morning but none on the beach due to the oriental fisherman after Mackerel. Among the Gulls were a single juvenile Yellow-legged Gull and a few Mediterranean Gulls also a Common Seal present.
 My first Willow Warbler of the autumn
A net round round with JTM produced my first Willow Warbler of the autumn, also Garden Warbler, Reed Warbler, Green Woodpecker, Great and Blue Tits and a Chaffinch. Over the trapping area at least 70 Mediterranean Gulls with Black-headed and Herring Gulls spiralling around after flying Ants, also a minimum of 150 Swifts.
 Juvenile Green Woodpecker
An early afternoon visit to the ARC found another 14 Mediterranean Gulls including a green ringed individual RV17 among c200 Black-headed Gulls, also my first Golden Plover of the autumn, 3 Garganey, a Wood Sandpiper, a Ruff, a Dunlin and a Black-tailed Godwit all among the many eclipse ducks.
 Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull fly by this afternoon at the fishing boats:
15.15-17.15 from the fishing boats joined by JTM:

Gannet: 8E   12W
Cormorant: 8 around
Turnstone: 1 on beach
Whimbrel: 1W
Mediterranean Gull: 3 around
Yellow-legged Gull: 1 around  juv
Sandwich Tern: c15 around
Guillemot: 1 around
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 5
Jersey Tiger on the Buddleia in my garden
Another bulging moth trap today with a record 10 Jersey Tigers in the trap with 3 more on the Buddleia but nothing else out of the ordinary.

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