Offshore
A scan of the sea revealed just 55 Common Scoter, 5 Shag and 2 Gannet.
Grounded Migrants
Warblers involved 5 Whitethroat and single Sedge Warbler, Blackcap and Willow Warbler while 3 White Wagtail were amongst 20 Pied Wagtail and 2 Stonechat amongst 8 Robin.
Diurnal Migration
A total of 26 Swallows trickled through along with 23 Meadow Pipit, 10 Pied Wagtail, 6 Sand Martin, 5 Tree Sparrow and single Yellow Wagtail and Grey Wagtail.
Wildfowl and Waders
Waders included 80 Ringed Plover.
Miscellaneous
A Water Rail was the best of the rest
Butterflies and Moths
The light trap held 158 moths of 34 species with migrants represented by 10 Rusty Dot Pearl, 6 Silver Y, 3 Dark Sword-grass and single Rush Veneer along with a worn example of L-album Wainscot – the latter the first for the island and perhaps Cumbria.
