A cooler overcast day with a light breeze from the north.

On the sea today 52 Common Scoter, 7 Gannets, a Great Crested Grebe, 5 Little Terns, 192 Sandwich Terns, and 8 Common Terns were recorded, with a creche of 39 juvenile Shelducks and 6 adults, a Great White Egret, 2 Red Kites, 3 Marsh Harriers, 18 Avocets, a Whimbrel, 17 Curlew, 4 Black-tailed Godwits, a Green Sandpiper, a Greenshank, 34 Redshank, 2 Sand Martins, 2 Cetti’s Warblers, a Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcaps, Common Whitethroat, 2 Reed and 2 Sedge Warblers, and a flyover Siskin all noted.

In the moth traps a Willow Beauty, 2 Dusky Sallows, 5 Drinkers, a Least Carpet, Riband Wave, Small Waved Umber, Garden Tiger, Red Twin-spot Carpet, 14 Ruby Tiger, 6 Dingy Footmen, 12 Scarce Footmen, 3 Yellow Tails, 30 Rustic, 2 Common Footmen, 4 Brown-line Bright-eye, 2 Oak Eggars, 2 Lozotaenoides formosana,a Garden Grass Moth, a Buff Tip, a Pine Hawk, a Shuttle-shaped Dart, a Rosy Footman, 3 Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing, 2 Smoky Wainscots, a Knot Grass, 2 Bird Cherry Ermines, 2 Uncertains,Scoparia ambigualis,Notocelia roborana nd Monopis weaverella.

A Wall Brown, a Peacock and several Gatekeepers were on the wing despite the lack of sunshine.

NORFOLK NEWS FROM RARE BIRD ALERT
Norfolk 2.Wood Sands Salthouse by Iron Road on Swan Pool at 12.35pm 52.9566,1.0831. Park at 52.9534,1.0806
Norfolk Wood Sand Salthouse by Iron Road on Swan Pool at 12.30pm 52.9566,1.0831. Park at 52.9534,1.0806
Norfolk reported probable Lesser Yellowlegs Salthouse by Iron Road is a Redshank 52.9566,1.0831
Norfolk probable Lesser Yellowlegs Salthouse by Iron Road on Swan Pool then flushed 52.9566,1.0831. Park at 52.9534,1.0806
Norfolk Night Heron ad 1ml ENE of Stiffkey just north of A149 at Stiffkey Fen at 11.53am. Use A149 layby, walk east +take footpath north along west side of River Stiffkey 52.9534,0.9562. Park at 52.9547,0.9512
Norfolk Caspian Gull juv Cromer on beach c52.9339,1.3014
Norfolk 2.Quail y’day Flitcham flushed at 9.30pm c52.8098,0.5621
Norfolk Night Heron ad Blakeney Point flew west over Halfway House at 9.10am 52.9728,1.0107
Norfolk Night Heron ad Cley NWT till 9.05am on Simmonds’ Scrape from Daukes’ Hide then flew west over West Bank c52.9591,1.0553. Park at 52.9544,1.0566. Viewed from 52.9580,1.0543
Norfolk Night Heron ad Cley NWT still c8.35am on Simmonds’ Scrape from Daukes’ Hide c52.9591,1.0553. Park at 52.9544,1.0566. Viewed from 52.9580,1.0543
Norfolk Night Heron ad Cley NWT again in North Foreland Wood c52.9543,1.0638. Park at 52.9544,1.0567
Norfolk Glossy Ibis y’day Breydon Water still