Not that there was much going on anyway, but the premature arrival of high summer saw to it that there was even less today. Although the day's coverage showed that several migrants had arrived overnight on breeding territories that had been unoccupied just yesterday, anything heading further afield made the most of the conditions and carried on over without stopping. At the Bill it was only a small arrival of
Wheatears that saved the cumulative total of grounded newcomers from failing to get beyond single figures, with nothing of note there beyond a likely lingering
Grasshopper Warbler. Overhead passage was stronger, with another steady throughput of
Swallows; 2
Little Egrets also arrived separately in from the south. Were it not for 2 each of
Great Northern Diver and
Arctic Skua the seawatch scorers at the Bill would hardly have been troubled.
The increasing warmth saw a flurry of butterfly first records for the year, with Small Copper, Small Blue and Dingy Skipper all on the wing at the Bill.
