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11th August 2023

Green Sandpiper

Four Green Sandpipers were on the NWT pools early afternoon.

In the moth traps today 2 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwings, 4 Garden Tigers, 6 Turnips, 4 Least Yellow Underwings, 13 Large Yellow Underwings, 4 Flounced Rustics, 3 White Ermines, a Smoky Wainscot, 4 Straw Underwings, 6 Shuttle-shaped Darts, 3 Drinkers, 5 Ruby Tigers, a Fen Wainscot, 3 Setaceous Hebrew Characters, 3 Archer’s Darts, 2 Rustics, 2 Webb’s Wainscots, 2 Latticed Heaths, an Ear sp, a Brown-veined Wainscot, Garden Pebble, 2 Mouse Moths, a Dingy Footman, a Lesser Yellow Underwing, 3 Flame Shoulders, a Dusky Sallow, Nutmeg, 2 Cloaked Minors and a Scarce Footman. A Humming-bird Hawk Moth was on the Viper’s Bugloss near the Observatory centre.

Butterflies included Brown Argus, Small Copper, Small Heath, Wall Brown, Gatekeeper, Common Blue and Small White.

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Norfolk Honey Buzzard Strumpshaw Fen RSPB still west of vicitor centre at 9.50am 52.6064,1.4562 NR13 4HS
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