On a seawatch this morning there were 404 Common Scoter, 1 Whimbrel, 12 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Greenshank, 2 Guillemot, 1 Little Gull, 2 Med Gull, 3 Common Gull and 35 Common Tern.

Nice variety in the moth traps today with 1 Common Wainscot, 7 Yellowtail, 14 Scarce Footman, 1 Poplar Grey, 5 Common Masoner, 1 Acleris laterana, 6 Uncertain / Rustic agg, 6 Dingy Footman, 1 Diamondback, 2 Small Fan-footed Wave, 5 Drinker, 2 Single-dotted Wave, 5 Rosy Footman, 1 Sharp Angled Peacock, 4 Garden Tiger, 2 Shuttled Shaped Dart, 1 Silver-barred Moss-moth, 2 Buff Footman, 1 Garden Grass-moth, 1 Lime Speck Pug, 1 Dog’s Tooth, 1 Fen Wainscot, 3 Bryotropha sp, 1 Bird Cherry Ermine, 4 Turnip, 2 Eudonia pallida, 1 Ermine agg, 3 Straw Underwing, 4 Rolled Grass-moth, 1 Shore Wainscot, 1 Large Yellow Underwing, 1 Reed Dagger, 1 Agriphila selasella, 1 Ringed China-mark, 1 Tree-lichen Beauty, 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character, 1 Least Yellow Underwing, 1 Dark Arches, 1 Common Rustic agg. Tree-lichen Beauty are one I look forward to every year, they’re just such a vibrant green colour.

Tree-lichen Beauty!

There’s still a fantastic Wasp Spider around the pond, which is surprisingly difficult to spot even with it being quite a large yellow spider but well worth looking for. There has also been a Brown Argus around the pond for most of today too.

Wasp Spider

Shannon Clifford – Assistant Warden

NORFOLK BIRD NEWS FROM RARE BIRD ALERT

White-rumped Sandpiper ad Snettisham RSPB still from shore hide at 9.26am. c52.8502,0.4458.

Pec Sand ad Snettisham RSPB still 9.59am from Rotary Hide with Redshank at back of pool c52.8537,0.4483. Viewed from c52.8538,0.4463.

White Stork (metal-ringed) Welney WWT still by bridge from layby 52.514,0.2599. Viewed from 52.5123,0.26.

Caspian Gull juv Clet NWT feeding offshore with gulls at 1.32pm c52.9656,1.0478.

2 Curlew Sands Snettisham RSPB still on pit 4 at high tide + 2 Little Stints c52.815,0.4472.