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3rd August 2024

Pine Hawkmoth

Waders today included 10 Whimbrel, 2 Black-tailed Godwits and a Green Sandpiper.

In the moth traps a Brown Tail, 6 Yellow Tails, 23 Garden Tigers, 10 Drinkers, a Least Carpet, 21 Scarce Footmen, 2 Pine Hawks, 2 Sharp-angled Peacocks, 4 Flame Shoulders, 10 Rustics, 11 Ruby Tigers, 5 Dingy Footmen, a Common Footman, Swallow Prominent, 2 Large Yellow Underwings, a Webb’s Wainscot, 2 Smoky Wainscots, a Straw Dot, 2 Single Dotted Waves, a Shaded Broad-bar, Latticed Heath, 3 Cloaked Minors, 3 Lesser Broad Bordered Yellow Underwings, an Archer’s Dart, Garden Pebble, Brown-line Bright-eye, 2 Straw Underwings, a Southern Wainscot, and a Humming-bird Hawk moth was on the wing during the afternoon.

NORFOLK NEWS FROM RARE BIRD ALERT
Norfolk Glossy Ibis Breydon Water RSPB again on The Lumps (+32.Spoonbills still) c52.6105,1.6975
Norfolk Spotted Redshank Breydon Water RSPB still c52.6105,1.6975
Norfolk 2.Caspian Gulls (both juvs) Cromer on beach c52.9339,1.3014
Norfolk 2.Ospreys Ranworth Broad NWT still 52.6827,1.4872
Norfolk CASPIAN TERN Hickling Broad NWT still c11.25am over broad c52.7399,1.6025
Norfolk Little Stint Cley NWT still from Daukes’ Hide +2.Wood Sands 52.9579,1.0544
Norfolk Red-throated Diver Strumpshaw Fen RSPB again on River Yare c52.5989,1.4550
Norfolk Spoonbill Buckenham Marshes RSPB c52.5918,1.4675
Norfolk CASPIAN TERN Hickling Broad NWT c1/3ml ESE of visitor centre at Brendan’s Marsh at 9.55am c52.7399,1.6025
Norfolk Ring Ouzel flew east over Titchwell RSPB c52.9692,0.6068
Norfolk presumed escaped Black-winged Stilt Snettisham RSPB from Knot’s Landing hide 52.8480,0.4483
Norfolk Curlew Sand Titchwell RSPB still on Freshmarsh from end of East Trail. Blue-headed Wagtail in horse paddock c52.9692,0.6068
Norfolk Roseate Tern ad y’day flew east past Sheringham in morning