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5th Sep

The highlight among the birds passing overhead was a Honey Buzzard with back up in the form of a Swift, a Little Egret, a Greenshank, four Buzzards, 250 Swallow, 640 House Martin, three Tree Sparrows, 23 Yellow Wagtails and three Grey Wagtails.

There were plenty of migrants in the bushes including 60 Willow Warblers, three Sedge Warblers, 19 Blackcaps, a Garden Warbler, seven Lesser Whitethroats, 24 Whitethroats, five Spotted Flycatchers, a Redstart and a Whinchat while a Kingfisher was an unexpected capture and a Wryneck was seen again.

The waders on the beach included a Curlew Sandpiper along with 42 Ringed Plover, eight Bar-tailed Godwit, 16 Sanderling and 27 Dunlin. Offshore passage was generally light but 14 Arctic Skuas were seen during the afternoon. 

Two Porpoises and a Grey Seal were feeding offshore and a Grey Squirrel was seen in a private garden.

Twenty Clouded Yellows were very noteworthy while the moths traps produced a Red Underwing and a Small Mottled Willow and three Vestals were flushed from vegetation during the day.