There was a a strong wind from the North today which hampered ringing and there seemed to be few migrants around. Stuart found the Wryneck again along Nant Valley. There were few warblers with three Whitethroats on the Mountain and a Blackcap and one Willow Warbler at the Obs. Another Willow Warbler was at Carreg Withy.

It was a good morning for moths with a few scarcities and interesting species including two Treble-bar, a Common Wave, Lychnis, Angle Shades, Dark-Sword Grass and the micro moth Acrobasis advenella.

The Lychnis

Treble-bar

Acrobasis advenella

In the afternoon Stuart and Louis went to the South of the Mountain and ringed Manx Shearwater chicks and checked the productivity burrows. There are a few at different stages with a few having already fledged. The evenings are getting quiet now that the majority of adults have abandoned their chicks and headed off for South America.

Stuart extracting a Manx Shearwater chick at Pen Cristin

Birds today: ten Fulmars, 17 Gannets, two Grey Herons, one Teal, three Common Scoters, two Kestrels, nine Ringed Plovers, one Knot, three Sanderling, nine Dunlins, 50 Curlews, five Redshanks, 16 Turnstones, three Mediterranean Gulls, three Black-headed Gulls, 407 Kittiwakes, ten Sandwich Terns, one Guillemot, 13 Collared Doves, one Wryneck, 11 Sand Martins, 20 Swallows, 12 House Martins, five White Wagtails, 25 Wheatear, three Whitethroats, one Blackcap, two Willow Warblers