I had a very enjoyable couple of days at Spurn over the weekend.

It started with a walk down to the sea at dusk on Friday night-on the way back there were 8 bats hunting along various hedgerows and sheltered spots.

Saturday morning had me down at Beacon Ponds. There were lots (over a hundred) little egrets about a dozen grey herons and a great white egret. They provided some nice photo opportunities as the sun rose. Interesting to watch them all disperse as the light improved.

Not much in the way of migrants around and a very small tide made it very quiet on the wader front.

A quick check of the moth trap when I got back to the caravan produced a rusty dot pearl, a bulrush wainscott and a bulrush veneer-all very interesting.

A wander round in the sunshine produced 11 species of butterfly including lots of small heath as well as a single wall and a single small copper.

I put the moth trap out again on Saturday night-this time in a slightly different spot but with very poor results.

Sunday morning had me back at Beacon Ponds-not much different from the day before with the exception of a flyby spoonbill.

A couple of crossbills were called out and it was nice to see a fine male feeding on the spruce in Church Field.

The weekend ended with a failed attempt for a rather elusive wood warbler, that had shown very well half an hour before I arrived.

A lovely late summer trip-not much in the way of migrants but nature filled nevertheless.