A day of strong south-easterly winds continued to make conditions a little difficult for southward-bound migrants. With very high tides following the recent new moon, waders are featuring well every day at the moment. Today's counts from the rocks around the Narrows comprised nine
Ringed Plovers, one
Sanderling, two
Dunlins, five
Whimbrels, 35
Curlews, three
Redshanks, one
Common Sandpiper and 15
Turnstones. Singles of
Common Gull and
Arctic Tern flew south past the West Coast, along with three
Sandwich Terns and 765
Manx Shearwaters. In terms of passerines, three
Sand Martins were seen around the Narrows, suggesting some movements, but other five
Willow Warblers and a
Goldcrest were the only other apparent migrants.
Sedge Warbler
Green-veined White
Male Northern Eggar, trapped in the Nant Withy heath trap
Blackberry Skeletonizer (Schreckensteinia festaliella)
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