A really rather quiet day where the lepidopteran highlights far outweighed the avian highlights. Two
Pomarine Skuas east past the Bill in the early morning were the best of the bunch on the sea; the rest being made up of six apiece of
Manx Shearwater and
Common Scoter as well as singles of
Balearic Shearwater and
Black-
headed Gull. The land was exceptionally quiet with single figures of
Willow Warblers,
Whitethroats and
Yellow Wagtails making up the migrant tallies. An unexpected highlight of
recent days in the nets is the capture of 11
Greenfinches - a really positive sign for a species that has been declining rapidly on the island.
On a night of exciting immigrant moth action Portland wasn't blessed with a killer rare but single Oak Processionary Moths trapped at the Obs and at Blacknor were only the second and third records for the island © Martin Cade: