Again 2 Cattle Egrets, 8 Spoonbills, 2 Great White Egrets and 3 Little Egrets were showing well from the car park hide, and 3 Green Sandpipers and a Greenshank were of interest, with another 2 Whimbrel passing over during the day.

In the moth traps a Small Waved Umber, 4 Garden Tigers, 3 Cloaked Minors, 4 Scarce Footmen, a Shaded Broad-bar, 4 Drinkers, 2 Oak Eggars, 11 Ruby Tigers, 3 Uncertains, 11 Large Yellow Underwings, an Olive moth, 3 Fen Wainscots, a Common Rustic, 2 Lesser Yellow Underwings, 2 Southern Wainscots, 2 Least Carpets, 2 Dark Arches, 2 Striped Wainscots, a Nutmeg, an Archer’s Dart, 2 Common Footmen, an Early Thorn, Smoky Wainscot and 2 Silver Ys were caught.

Butterflies included Common Blue, Peacock, Gatekeper, Red Admiral, Essex Skipper and Brown Argus.

NORFOLK NEWS FROM RARE BIRD ALERT
Norfolk 3+Red-veined Darter dragonflies Winterton at North Dunes on new pools by the old ‘double pool’ c52.7333,1.6836
Norfolk Temminck’s Stint Cley NWT still 1.42pm in NW corner of Simmonds’ Scrape c52.9591,1.0553
Norfolk Wood Sand Welney WWT c52.5278,0.2775
Norfolk Honey Buzzard flew east over Cley at 12.40pm c52.9536,1.0565
Norfolk Glossy Ibis Breydon Water still at NE end on The Lumps c52.6148,1.7117
Norfolk 2.Honey Buzzards flew east over Pensthorpe Water Fowl Park towards Sennowe Park at 11.04am c52.8274,0.8873
Norfolk Honey Buzzard flew over Pensthorpe Water Fowl Park c52.8274,0.8873
Norfolk Caspian Gull juv Sheringham c52.9459,1.2069
Norfolk Curlew Sand ad Potter Heigham Marshes. Use car park at Lathams (£8.50 per day) NR29 5JE