Much quieter today for migrants and I didn’t have much luck in the dunes compared to yesterday with little apart from the usual residents with Stonechat, Whitethroat and a few Lesser Whitethroat. There was another bit of Swallow passage this morning with over 20 birds trickling through all passing west.

A really good haul in the moth traps this morning with 49 species including 1 Bedstraw Hawkmoth, 1 Limespeck Pug, 4 A geniculea, 4 A tristella, 1 A crocealis, 3 P despicata, 1 Tawny Wave, 1 Sharp-angled Peacock, 2 Rusty-dot Pearl, 1 Single-dotted Wave, 3 Ruby Tiger, 169 Beet Moth, 5 Scrobipalpa, 11 Flounced Rustic, 8 White-lined Dart, 20 Setaceous Hebrew Character, 10 Vines Rustic, 3 Flame Shoulder, 4 Large Yellow Underwing, 8 Common Wainscot, 1 White-point, 1 P contaminella, 18 Archers Dart, 1 Dark Sword-grass, 1 Limnaecia phragmitella, 1 Pale Pinion, 2 Shore Wainscot, 2 Silky Wainscot, 1 Bright-line Brown-eye, 1 Lesser Bb Y Underwing, 1 Brown House Moth, 4 Rosy Rustic, 1 A perlucidalis, 3 Frosted Orange, 1 Rush veneer, 1 P alpinella, 2 Spectacle, 2 Shuttle-shaped Dart, 2 Turnip, 1 Evergistis extimalis, 1 Six-striped Rustic, 4 Diamond back, 1 Small Waved Umber, 1 E. angustea, 1 A. selasella, 1 Square-spot Rustic, 1 Nutmeg, 1 Broad-b Y Underwing, 1 Mottled Rustic. A few nice migrants with E. extimalis (Marbled Yellow Pearl), Dark Sword Grass and a few Diamondback.

Marbled Yellow Pearl – photo by David Norgate

Shannon Clifford – Assistant Warden

NORFOLK BIRDS NEWS FROM RARE BIRD ALERT

Norfolk Pied Fly Winterton North Dunes late morning c52.7364,1.6792 Park at c52.7179,1.6982

Norfolk 3.Garganey flew south past Hemsby at 12.50pm 52.6944,1.7094

Norfolk 4.Wood Sands y’day Buckenham Marshes RSPB on pool NW of hide by fishermen’s car park 52.5939,1.4657. Park at 52.5981,1.4698. Viewed from 52.5921,1.4662

Norfolk released White-tailed Eagle imm south of Titchwell RSPB still 11.15am over ridge c52.9386,0.6089

Norfolk released White-tailed Eagle imm Titchwell RSPB flew south over Thornham Marsh at 9.56am c52.9693,0.6016

Norfolk 2.Little Stints y’day Snettisham RSPB still +Curlew Sand c52.8502,0.4458

Norfolk 4.Curlew Sands Cley NWT on Pat’s Pool from Daukes’s Hide at 8.55am +Little Stint c52.9591,1.0553. Park at 52.9544,1.0566. Viewed from 52.9580,1.0543

Norfolk 1+Dotterel NE of Ringstead still in field along Green Bank c52.9490,0.5508. Park at Ringstead +walk east for c300yds