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11th August 2024

Cream-bordered Green Pea

Six Spoonbills and 2 Great White Egrets were on the Broadwater and a Green Sandpiper flew west.

Another good night in the moth traps produced 9 Drinkers, a Willow Beauty, 6 Yellow Tails, 2 Shaded Broad-bars, a Fern, 14 Garden Tigers, 9 Dingy Footmen, 15 Scarce Footmen, 2 Sharp-angled Peacocks, a Common Carpet, a Brimstone, a Swallow Kitten, 4 Dark Arches, 6 Straw Dots, 6 Single Dotted Waves, a Shore Wainscot, 2 Cloaked Minors, 4 Straw Underwings, 5 Archer’s Darts, 5 Flame Shoulders, 3 Dusky Sallows, a Rosy Minor, a White-line Dart, 2 Webb’s Wainscots, a Shuttle-shaped Dart, Green Carpet, 3 Tree-Lichen Beauties, a Nutmeg, 2 Silky Wainscots, a True Lover’s Knot, a Knot Grass, Rosy Rustic, Coronet, Cream Bordered Green Pea, a Flounced Rustic, 2 Setaceous Hebrew Characters, a Large Yellow Underwing, a Turnip and a Smoky Wainscot.

Butterflies included Brown Argus, Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown, Red Admiral, Peacock, Wall and Common Blue.

A Brown Hawker was seen in the car parks and an Emperor was also seen.

NORFOLK NEWS FROM RARE BIRD ALERT
Norfolk 4.Spotted Redshanks Snettisham RSPB still c52.8502,0.4458
Norfolk 6+WHITE-RUMPED SANDS (all ads) Snettisham RSPB still 11.57am on mud near old jetty (+10.Curlew Sands still +3.Little Stints still. Long-finned Pilot Whale still stranded off sailing club) c52.8540,0.4451
Norfolk 3.WHITE-RUMPED SANDS (all ads) Snettisham RSPB still 11.12am on mud near old jetty (+2.Little Stints 4.Curlew Sands) c52.8540,0.4451) c52.8540,0.4451
Norfolk 3+WHITE-RUMPED SANDS (all ads) Snettisham RSPB still 9.11am on mud near old jetty (+Long-finned Pilot Whale stranded) c52.8540,0.4451
Norfolk Glossy Ibis Breydon Water RSPB again on The Lumps (+32.Spoonbills still) c52.6105,1.6975
Norfolk 5.Curlew Sands (all ads) Snettisham RSPB still just north of jetty at 9am +Little Stint still c52.8538,0.4461
Norfolk 2.WHITE-RUMPED SANDS (both ads) Snettisham RSPB still on mud viewed from end of hard standing at north end of pits at 8.40am