A dark morph Arctic skua was chasing kittiwakes off Tutt Head and Limeslade at 07:00.
Wheatears on Mumbles Hill and at Tutt Head.
Early morning movement of meadow pipits across the bay (c. 30-40), then swallow numbers started to pick up with c. 80-100 east in 20 minutes (while searching the scrub on the hill for migrants).

Did a 1 hour visible migration watch this morning between 07:00 and 08:00, followed by a short walk around the hill.
Totals were: swallow 81, sand martin 1, meadow pipit 27, tree pipit 6, pied wagtail 7, yellow wagtail 1. Swallow movements increasing as I left.
Also: peregrine (first locally for a little while), shelduck (4), and a handful of common migrants in the bushes including chiffchaff (6+), willow warbler (3), blackcap (4), whitethroat (2). A reed bunting also present. Chiffs moving around with flocks of long-tailed and other common tit species.

Spent an hour looking out off the head this morning in the hope of some terns. In just over an hour: 7 common scoter (west), 5 turnstone (west) and a gannet. More notably (possibly) 19 grey wagtail over, including a flock of 10 going straight out. A few pied wag and meadow pipit, and swallow movement just starting as I left. A common sandpiper and a wheatear on the rocks at Limeslade.

Some obvious movements over the hill this morning: 43 sand martin, a steady stream of swallows, 3 tree pipits, a few pied wagtails, grey wagtails and meadow pipits were seen in a brief walk around.
Grounded migrants limited to a wheatear, blackcap and a couple of chiffs.
54 Med gulls on the rocks / carpark at Bracelet.

Not a lot on the hill – a flyover tree pipit and a lot of chiffchaffs.
Eclipse drake eider in Bracelet Bay. Actively foraging.

2 curlew sandpiper with 93 dunlin and 104 ringed plover on foreshore.
Also 14 Sandwich tern, 5 whimbrel and a few barwit.
Lots of phylloscs and blackcap in the scrub east of the plantation – would be worth working the area if anyone has time.

This morning spotted flycatcher family still present, plus male redstart and 2 tree pipit.
Butterflies included silver-washed fritillary, purple hairstreak and 2 clouded yellow.

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Crossbill over first thing, and a garden warbler in the marsh this morning. 

Earlier this week, spotted flycatcher with very recently fledged young at Ilston appears to be a good Gower record.

Productivity in Cetti’s warbler (at Oxwich) proven on Wednesday last.

Good numbers of fledged reed warblers in the reed bed this morning.  More unusually, 2 Sandwich terns high over the marsh with a flock of black-headed gulls.  Assumedly disturbed from the roost at Nicholaston Pill,