Holme Bird Observatory
for as little as 14p per day.
23rd July 2024

Bedstraw Hawk Shannon Clifford
Highlights today were a Cattle Egret and 10+ Spoonbills, a Green Sandpiper, one Whimbrel, 2 Cuckoos, and 2 Lesser Whitethroats.
In the moth traps a Magpie, 8 Scarce Footmen, 5 Yellow Tails, a Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet, Red Twin-spot Carpet, 11 Common Footmen, 6 Dingy Footmen, Shaded Broad-bar, 30 Ruby Tigers, 3 Least Carpets, 14 Rustics, 8 Drinkers, a Small Waved Umber, 2 Single Dotted Waves, a Peppered Moth, 2 Fen Wainscots, 2 Nut-tree Tussocks, an Archer’s Dart, Uncertain, Scalloped Oak, Silver Y, 4 Cloaked Minors, Rosy Minor, Treble Brown-spot, Sharp-angled Peacock, Privet Hawk, Dark Arches, Striped Wainscot, 2 Oak Eggars, 4 Garden Tigers, a Riband Wave, Common Rustic, Heart & Club, Brown-line Bright-eye, Ear sp., Flame Shoulder, 2 Large Yellow Underwings, 3 Rosy Footmen, Dusky Sallow and Common Carpet were caught.
The last of the Bedstraw Hawk moth cocoons hatched and the moth was released.
Butterflies included Wall, Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood, Gatekeeper, Brown Argus
NORFOLK NEWS FROM RARE BIRD ALERT
Norfolk WHITE-RUMPED SAND Snettisham RSPB still 12.50pm on mud on The Wash opposite Rotary Hide but distant +mobile c52.8538,0.4461
Norfolk no sign of any White-rumped Sands Snettisham RSPB late morning (but 2.Curlew Sands Black Tern) c52.8502,0.4458
Norfolk Red-throated Diver Buckenham Marshes RSPB again on River Yare opposite hide c52.5921,1.4663
Norfolk Curlew Sand ad Cley NWT still on Simmonds’s Scrape c52.9591,1.0553
Norfolk 3.WHITE-RUMPED SANDS Snettisham RSPB at 8.20am: 2.from Rotary Hide c52.8538,0.4461; 1.from Shore Hide 52.8502,0.4458
Norfolk report of Rose-coloured Starling y’day at Thetford was erroneous
Norfolk WHITE-RUMPED SAND ad Snettisham RSPB still 7.57am from Shore Hide +ad.Pec Sand (+3.Black Terns (2.ads +juv) 52.8502,0.4458
Norfolk 2.WHITE-RUMPED SANDS (both ads) Snettisham RSPB on mud just north of Rotary Hide at c7am c52.8538,0.4461
Norfolk WHITE-RUMPED SAND ad Snettisham RSPB on mud just north of Rotary Hide at c6.35am