Another very warm day with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees celcius. Bird activity was very limited but at least 4 Lesser Whitethroats, 2 Whitethroats, 3 Sedge Warblers a Cetti’s Warblers and a Reed Warbler were singing around the NOA reserve.

In the moth traps a Pine Hawk, 2 Buff Tips, 3 Small Elephant Hawks, an Elephant Hawk, Scoparia ambigualis, a Dwarf Cream Wave, a Plum Tortrix, Large Fruit-tree Tortrix, a Wormwood Pug, 3 Riband Waves, a Cream Wave, 3 Garden Grass moths, Shoenobius gigantella, a V-Pug, Pebble Prominent, 7 Sand Darts, 5 Mottled Rustics, 2 Buff Ermine, 3 Common Footmen, 2 Uncertain, an Obscure Wainscot, a Common Marbled Carpet, a Piniphila bifasciana, a Heart & Club, a Rusic, 4 Middle-barred Minor, Eucosma cana, a Lime-speck Pug, Large Pale Masoner, Isotrias rectifascianus, a Bird Cherry Ermine, Small China-mark, a Brown-tail, 5 Striped Wainscot, 2 Large Yellow Underwings, a Common Swift, a Cinnabar, Diamond-back and a Shore Wainscot were caught.

Butterflies included Red Admiral, Small Copper, Meadow Brown, Speckled Wood, Wall, and Small White

A Hairy Hawker was near the main pond hawking small insects on the wing, with two Large Red Damselflies and a Blue-tailed Damselfly together with a newly-hatched Common Darter seen in the same area.

NORFOLK NEWS FROM RARE BIRD ALERT
Norfolk Marsh Warbler singing 1ml east of Cley still 11.22am 200yds west of Walsey Hills car park +just west of North Foreland Wood north of Skirts Path 52.9549,1.0624: Park at 52.9548,1.0651
Norfolk Green-winged Teal drk Welney WWT still from screen between from Lyle Hide at 10.30am 52.5332,0.2814: Viewed from 52.5333,0.2817
Norfolk Wood Sand Welney WWT still from Nelson-Lyle Hide at 10.02am