Autumnal vis & flighty Vestal

This 1st W Grey Wagtail was photographed by Reuben Neville and shows that the black ring (left leg lower ring) is quite difficult to see. There are quite a few of the sequences which have the black ring as the lower of the two. See column to the right for comment on this.

Heysham Obs
Outfalls/Ocean Edge - quick lunchtime check on dropping tide

Black Tern - juv still on S 2 outfall

Little Gull - ad as above

Wheatear - one

Linnet - 37

Vis mig - not a lot as observed mainly from Middleton

Grey Wagtail - 13 SE (8 of these colour-ringed)

Meadow Pipit - just 25 SE

Swallow - just 5 SE

Siskin - 2 SE

Skylark - 1 SE

Coal Tit - hyperactive bird by the office

Grounded

Garden Warbler - 2 ringed

Chiffchaff - probably about 10 around

Goldcrest - 2

Coal Tit one hyperactive bird by the NR office

Moths
A VESTAL was on the window frame & allowed identification before disappearing out of the window