Mild, cloudy, E2 - Our first two Goldeneyes of autumn were on Lade south this morning; a distant redhead over by the wall `mirror` and a closer drake from the main footpath. Despite good birding conditions yet again few passerines were noted apart from several Chaffinches, a couple of Blackbirds and a Chiffchaff by the ponds; there was absolutely no overhead passage. A check of the beach on the high tide revealed a roost of 200 Oystercatchers, 30 Turnstones, six Grey Plovers, four Bar-tailed Godwits and seven Sandwich Terns.
Normally by now I would have packed away the garden moth trap for the winter, but not so this year as the mild overnight temperatures have ensured a steady flow of late autumn moths including, this morning, a Brick a common immigrant and new for the trap site.
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