Well, We Spotted One Migrant, At Least...

Sunday early afternoon saw me scuttling over to the Nose in response to a text from the Teacher.

He'd found something and in a shocking turn, it was not only still there, but posed quite beautifully, too;

Spotted Flycatcher!

In the North Side trees - the same place I've seen every Spot Fly at the Nose - about halfway down the First Slope. Also in the immediate vicinity were several phylloscs; at least three Chiffs, a probable Willow, and a very white-bellied warbler I never got on properly.

A definite Willow was in the Top Dell, with the only Blackcap of the day.

 

Chiffchaff

 

While I was there [and after I'd finished cooing over the Spotfly...];

Small Copper

Nurseryweb Spider

[Pisaura mirabilis]

The nursery web contains recently hatched spiderlings, guarded by the female.

Dark Bush Cricket

Finally got a shot of one!

Common Field Grasshopper

[if you can see it]

Pyrausta despicata

The moulty adult BHG was inshore off the Sole again and joined briefly by a frustratingly mobile juvenile Med Gull, but the sea was quiet, with only a lone Gannet finally seen from IMD as I was leaving! [Big contrast to the day before]

All the good stuff - and quickly all the mobile birders - was in cornwall, it seems....

[LARGE QUANTITY OF VERY NAUGHTY WORDS EXCISED BY CENSOR]

Ahem.

I shall 

Be Seeing You...