A lone Dark Sword Grass was the first immigrant moth of the year in the Obs moth-traps.
When this was all that could be seen of the Obs from just across the road in the Crown Estate Field it wasn't really a surprise that migrant-hunting was pretty hard work:
Nearly all of the day's new Blackbirds were males:
Although no doubt anything will do after a long flight, the still leafless trees and general air of dank gloom hardly looked very inviting for today's crop of new migrants:
