A brief pre-dental half-hour at QE produced a few new looking Small Coppers, three blues all so badly worn they could have been anything(!!) and three Firecrests in a mixed flock including two which were singing well and one of which responded strongly to my pishing, giving nice binocular-less views.

Post-dental, a walk around Farlington in a strong westerly breeze over high-tide produced a few birds, notably waders on the lake. Estimates here were 500 Redshanks, 300 Black-tailed Godwits, 125 Black-bellied Plovers, twenty Dunlins, three Snipe, three Knot and twenty Pintail, some here below. On the deeps a fine juvenile Spotted Redshank was snoozing, some more Dunlin and twenty Ringed Plovers. Also, difficult to count, but about 50 roosting Little Egrets. The Osprey was on its usual North Binness perch giving rather better scope views than previously from Broadmarsh. Insectwise just Migrant Hawkers, this male Leafcutter bee and a few fresh Small Coppers, Small Heaths and Common Blues in more sheltered area.

On the last leg this Whichat and a nearby Wheatear were pretty much the only passerines other than M'ipit and Swallow.

And earlier no Deaths-head Hawkmoth for me, just the usual stuff, although six L-album Wainscots was as many as the rest of the summer's total.