Eleven Spoonbills, a Great White Egret and a Common Sandpiper were the highlights on the Broadwater, while a juvenile Cuckoo was in the dunes.

In the moth traps 7 Yellow Tails, 28 Garden Tigers, 2 Common Carpets, 2 Oak Hook-tips ,a Poplar Hawk, 5 Dingy Footmen, 19 Ruby Tigers, 15 Rustics, 17 Scarce Footmen, a Privet Hawk, a Shaded Broad-bar, 6 Cloaked Minors, a Gold Spot, a Small Waved Umber, 8 Flame Shoulders, a Sharp-angled Peacock, 6 Smoky Wainscots, a Tree-lichen Beauty, 2 Least Carpets, 3 Drinkers, a Rosy Minor, a Pebble Hook-tip, Single Dotted Wave, Small Fan-footed Wave, Rosy Rustic, Latticed Heath, Eyed Hawk, Pebble Prominent, Sallow Kitten, Brown Tail, Straw Dot, 2 Dark Arches, 3 Dusky Sallows, a Nut-tree Tussock, a Twin-spotted Wainscot, a Brown-line Bright-eye, a Southern Wainscot, a Common Rustic, a Large Yellow Underwing and a Humming-bird Hawk Moth.

Banded Demoiselle, Migrant Hawker, Black-tailed Skimmer, Common and Ruddy Darter were noted, and butterflies included Brown Argus, Small Copper, Wall and Gatekeeper.

NORFOLK NEWS FROM RARE BIRD ALERT
Norfolk Wood Sand Cley NWT still from Bishop Hide this morning 52.9560,1.0583
Norfolk Wood Sand Hickling Broad NWT still c1/3ml ESE of visitor centre at Brendan’s Marsh mid morning c52.7399,1.6025
Norfolk 4.Caspian Gulls (2s +3.juvs) Cromer on beach west of pier c52.9339,1.3014
Norfolk 5.Wood Sands Holkham Freshmarsh still from Joe Jordan Hide