10th June

A wind drop and swing to a 6.5mph SE. Winds were light all night giving opportunity for the sea birds to make their way out of the channel in darkness.
13 Manx Shearwater (9 up, 4 down)
18 Swift E
1 Sand Martin SE
1 House Martin W
3 Swallow W
In Sand Bay 8 Curlew and 7 Black-headed Gull

Storm Petrels

Storm Petrel (not bad views for Sand Point)

Shag

Another good sea bird day at Sand Point. Winds around 12mph with gusts up to 18mph throughout the morning.
1 dark phase Arctic Skua down channel
1 Great Skua on the sea
1 Pomarine Skua up channel
1 Kittiwake up channel
1 Gannet up channel
16 Storm Petrel down channel
42 Manx Shearwater involving birds up and down
1 Shag on the sea
1 Crossbill west
1 Siskin west
3 Swallow west

Sea birds

Fulmar

Manx Shearwater

Storm Petrel

30mph south-westerly winds with gusts up to 60mph hit overnight and still around 25mph by the evening. At Sand Point birds started moving up channel around 6:30am lasting until mid-morning when a continuous movement throughout the rest of the day involved birds heading back down channel.
2 Arctic Skua
1 Pomarine Skua
1 Great Skua
8 Gannet
175 Manx Shearwater
79 Fulmar
2 Common Scoter
1 Swift
5 Storm Petrel
7 Kittiwake
30 House Martin
Also 1,000+ Lesser Black-back Gulls west all day. Presumably these are local movements.

Mullein

Mullein (TBC)

Ephestia parasitella

Garden moth trap: Mullein was a new moth for the garden and the first time I have caught this species. An Ephestia parasitella was the only other year tick.

Grey Plovers and new garden moth E.bilunana

Grey Plover

Epinotia bilunana

Temperatures still very poor for the time of year with a series of Atlantic lows sweeping through. The outlook is for more of the same. A sea watch could be on for Friday but otherwise it's a waiting game for a change in the weather.
A short visit to Sand Bay/Point this morning produced 3 Grey Plover in winter type plumage whilst at the Point nothing was recorded migrating through.
The garden moth trap still holding small numbers but Large Tabby, Freyer's Pug were new for the year and Epinotia bilunana was a garden first bringing the total to 446.

Migrant moth influx

White Ermine

Temperatures around 11 degrees last night feeling much cooler with a cold southerly breeze. Very little on the wing last night except for common migrants: 19 Silver Y, 11 Diamond-back Moths and 2 Rush Veneer.
Middle Hope: A small flurry of migrants through mid afternoon involving 60 Swift, 15 House Martin and 3 Swallow.

Brean moth list for 1st June

Just a trickle of migrants today at Brean with 1 Swift, 1 Swallow and 3 House Martin through. Slightly more interest came from the moths with Treble-bar, Glyphipterix fuscoviridella, Plutella xylostella and Parornix anglicella.
No small waders at Sand Bay this evening.
Here is the moth list from Brean on 1st June:

Heart and Dart
Flame Shoulder
Treble Lines
Common Marbled Carpet
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Pale Tussock
Silver-ground Carpet
Vine's Rustic
Common Pug
Green Carpet
Common Swift
Silver Y
Poplar Hawk-moth
Scalloped Hazel
Clouded Silver
Large Yellow Underwing
Hebrew Character
Pale Mottled Willow
Angle Shades
Common Carpet
Marbled Minor
Green Pug
Shoulder-striped Wainscot
Broken-barred Carpet
Willow Beauty
Rustic Shoulder-knot
Shears
Light Emerald
Knot Grass
Cream Wave
Light Brocade
Waved Umber
Small Elephant Hawk-moth
Swallow Prominent
Grey Pug
Heart and Club
Chinese Character
Brown Rustic
Dark Sword-grass
Dog's Tooth
Marbled Coronet
L-album Wainscot
Light Brown Apple Moth
Celypha lacunana
Small Magpie
Scoparia pyralella
Elachista argentella
Glyphipterix fuscoviridella
Large Fruit-tree Tortrix
Monopis weaverella