A fine sunny morning deserved some good birds, and it delivered. The Avocets have returned for another year, more or less bang on time. I'm not quite sure why they keep coming back because there is nowhere for them to breed here. Perhaps the feeding in the nearest flash is too good to resist.
As you can see there is virtually no muddy edge, but despite this they shared the flash with two Green Sandpipers and a small number of Teal.
I was rather hoping for an early Wheatear, but the only migrants apart from the Avocets were one or two singing Chiffchaffs dotted about the site and a male Stonechat.
There was nearly some moth news because I kept seeing an orange and black moth which refused to land. I'm fairly sure it was an Orange Underwing.
The Garden Moth Scheme started for the year yesterday, and I awoke to find 19 moths of six species nestled in and around the trap. They were all familiar from previous years, but for those who are interested, the full list was: March Moth 1, Oak Beauty 2, Small Brindled Beauty 1, Chestnut 1, Common Quaker 12, Hebrew Character 2.
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| Small Brindled Beauty (second for garden after one last year) |
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| Chestnut (a common moth which I missed last year for the first time) |
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