Calm south-westerly winds allowed the nets to be opened at Cristin allowing the students to all experience bird ringing with a Grey Wagtail, five Robins, three Chiffchaffs, three Willow Warblers, a Blackcap, two Goldcrests and a Spotted Flycatcher. Out to sea 71 Gannets, four Ringed Plovers, 50 Common Scoters, a Gadwall, six Arctic Skuas, three Mediterranean Gulls, three Common Gulls, 81 Sandwich Terns, eight Common Terns, 23 'Commic' Terns and 17 Arctic Terns went south with a Red-throated Diver and a Red-breasted Merganser north.

Grey Wagtail © Ed Betteridge

Elsewhere, an arrival of Wheatears and White Wagtails saw a total of 136 and 174 respectively with seven White Wagtails caught in the reed-bed at roost and the Solfach Heligoland Trap. Six Black-tailed Godwits went over the Narrows with three Pied Flycatcher at Nant, a Whinchat in the Wetlands and five Tree Pipits over. 

Pied Flycatcher © Ed Betteridge

Other birds of note was five Grey Herons, two Little Egrets, ten Teals, a Sparrowhawk, a Buzzard, a Kestrel, six Ringed Plovers, a Purple Sandpiper, seven Dunlins, five Common Sandpipers, two Mediterranean Gulls, 126 Black-headed Gulls, 12 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, 42 Razorbills, 57 Swallows, two Sand Martins, 143 Meadow Pipits, two Sedge Warblers, six Whitethroats,  four Blackcaps, eight Chiffchaffs, 36 Willow Warblers, eight Goldcrests, eight Spotted Flycatchers