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23rd Aug

There was a reasonable arrival of grounded migrants with 50 Willow Warblers, ten Reed Warblers, eight Blackcaps, a Garden Warbler, 16 Lesser Whitethroats, 60 Whitethroats and 21 Wheatears and a Wood Warbler seen at the Long Pits was of note. 

An Osprey, a Greenshank, 510 Sand Martins, 270 Swallows, 70 Yellow Wagtails and three Tree Pipits flew over. There were 35 Ringed Plovers, three Bar-tailed Godwit and two Sanderling on the beach and 100 Mediterranean Gulls, four juvenile Caspian Gulls, a Black Tern, 1,000 Sandwich Terns and 14 Arctic Skuas were feeding offshore.

Five Porpoises and two Grey Seals were feeding offshore and a Brown Hare was seen on the land.

The moth traps produced a Vestal, a Small Mottled Willow and two Delicates while 22 Hummingbird Hawkmoths were seen during the day and four Clouded Yellows were seen in the Desert.

The White-winged Black Tern was still showing well from Firth Screen on the RSPB Reserve.