A lack of visibility and dense cloud resulted in a better day, which could almost be predicted by the fact a Sedge Warbler was hoping around the moth traps at 3am in the morning! It was actually fairly quiet in the bushes at dawn, but birds started to appear as the morning progressed with a light drizzle drifting in and out. In the bushes by the end of the day were two Cuckoos, 70 Willow Warblers, four Chiffchaffs, 10 Sedge Warblers, 23 Reed Warbler, five Garden Warblers, 13 Lesser Whitethroats, 34 Whitethroats, three Spotted Flycatchers, a Nightingale, a Pied Flycatcher, a Redstart, just one Wheatear and two Tree Pipits. Birds passing overhead was on a much slower rate and resulted in a Grey Plover, a Ringed Plover, a Curlew, a Wood Sandpiper, 48 Sand Martins, 13 Swallow and five Yellow Wagtail.
The observatory moth traps were far busier than recently, the best being four Vestals, a Pearly Underwing, two Palpita vitrealis and a Antigastra catalaunalis. However, the moth of the night went to Bob Arnfield who trapped at the Long Pits with this stunning Three-humped Prominent. A very rare migrant to Britain.
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| Three-humped Prominent Notodonta tritophus Dungeness (Martin Casemore) |
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| Spotted Flycatcher Muscicapa striata Dungeness (Martin Casemore) |