Another warm but windy day here. It was generally quiet for birds again today with the highlight being a nice Spoonbill having a snooze from the first NWT hide.

It was a very good night for moths here at Holme this morning, somewhat unexpected after yesterday! We had 1 Willow Beauty, 2 Large Yellow Underwing, 2 White Ermine, 3 Meadow Grass Moth, 2 Buff Tip, 11 Turnip, 4 Mottled Rustic, 3 Middle Barred Minor, 2 Garden Mompha, 1 Fern, 1 Giant Water Veneer, 1 Brown Moss-moth, 6 Marbled Minor agg., 6 Setaceous Hebrew Character, 1 Mouse Ear Groundling, 2 Poplar Hawk, 1 Cnephasia agg., 1 Tawny Wave, 2 Shuttle Shaped Dart, 1 Pallid Grey, 1 Bright-line Brown-eye, 1 Peppered Moth, 1 Privet Hawk, 1 Flame, 1 Small Clouded Brindle, 1 Yellow Belle, 3 Vine Rustic, 1 White Point, 2 Pine Nut Moth, 1 Elephant Hawk, 3 Treble Lines, 1 Bramble shoot Moth, 1 Straw Dot, 1 Cinnabar, 1 Bordered White, 1 Sand Dart, 1 Delicate, 16 Common Wainscot and 3 Heart and Dart.

A really nice mix of species, great to get 3 species of Hawk moth (Poplar, Privet and Elephant) and some more local species like Pine Nut Moth, Mouse Ear Groundling, Tawny Wave, Small Clouded Brindle and Sand Dart. I had a Lesser Banded Longhorn moth around the Obs on some Dog Rose too.

Lesser Banded Longhorn Moth

There was a Four-spotted Chaser around the pond along with Large Red and Azure Damselflies. Thick-legged Flower Beetle are out and about now and this one was on one of the Iris around the pond. To top the day off, as I was sitting writing this in the Obs I heard a great commotion outside, rushed out to find a Rabbit chasing a Stoat, not quite the way round you’d expect!

Thick-legged Flower Beetle

Shannon

NORFOLK BIRD NEWS FROM RAREBIRD ALERT

Norfolk GULL-BILLED TERN Cley NWT on Pat’s Pool at 1.36pm c52.9573,1.0565 Viewed from c52.9577,1.0546 Park at c52.9544,1.0567

Norfolk Bee-eater Weybourne flew west over A149 at 12.40pm c52.9424,1.1344

Norfolk Honey Buzzard west of California flew SW over Ormesby St.Margaret at 12.55pm c52.6751,1.6890

Norfolk GULL-BILLED TERN Cley NWT briefly at 1.04pm possibly landed on east side of North Scrape c52.9609,1.0574 Park at c52.9543,1.0567

Norfolk GULL-BILLED TERN Salthouse Marshes flew in from south over Babcock Hide at 12.59pm then flew west c52.9552,1.0758

Norfolk Temminck’s Stint Salthouse Marshes till 12.48pm from Babcock Hide then flew west c52.9552,1.0758

Norfolk Temminck’s Stint Salthouse Marshes still from Babcock Hide at 12.45pm c52.9552,1.0758

Norfolk Red-veined Darter dragonfly Salthouse Marshes from Babcock Hide at 12.33pm c52.9552,1.0758

Norfolk 2.Honey Buzzards (1.male) 1.25mls ESE of Fulmodeston again at Swanton Great Wood from Swanton Novers raptor watchpoint by Hindolveston Road c52.8390,0.9878. Viewed from 52.8323,0.9823

Norfolk Glossy Ibis Cley NWT again at Simmonds’s Scrape from Daukes’s Hide at 9.14am c52.9591,1.0553 Park at c52.9544,1.0566

Norfolk BLACK-WINGED KITE ad east of Lessingham still at Hempstead Marshes north of junction of Hickling Lane +Stalham Road c52.791,1.5812 Viewed from c52.7845,1.5848

Norfolk Quail male singing Cley NWT near Teal Hide at 8.25am 52.9577,1.0545 Park at c52.9543,1.0567

Norfolk Ring Ouzel Waxham near old pipe dump at c8am c52.7682,1.6363

Norfolk Quail male singing Cley NWT in field south of visitor centre at 5.39am +Little Stint on North Scrape briefly then flew towards Simmond’s Scrape c52.9525,1.0569 Park at c52.9543,1.0567