The morning was calm and cloudy, the afternoon breezy with sunny spells.

There weren’t really any bird highlights today. The only noteworthy sighting was 3 Sandwich Tern flying inland over Broadwater and the grazing marshes. However, there were lots of insects about.

Last night’s moth trap:

1 Cinnabar, 1 The Clay, 1 Crassa unitella, 1 Kent Black Arches, 1 Green Pug, 2 Archer’s Dart, 35 Garden Grass Veneer, 1 Common Emerald, 2 Common Pug36 Piniphilia bifasciana, 1 Flax Tortrix, 1 Garden Grey, 4 Homoeosoma sinuella, 1 Eudonia lacustrata, 1 Notocilia uddmanniana, 3 Schoenobius gigantella, 4 Heart and Club, 5 Cnephasia sp., 3 Dark Arches, 1 Latticed Heath, 1 Smokey Wainscot, 2 Large Fruit-tree Tortrix, 1 Ephestia sp. , 8 Vitula biviella, 1 Beautiful Hook Tip, 2 Isotrias rectifasciana, 1 Mopis obviella (Yellow-backed Detritus Moth), 2 Brown-tail, 12 Dwarf Cream Wave, 8 Haworth’s Pug, 1 Sharp-angled Peacock, 2 Willow Beauty, 4 Common Fottman, 1 Small Blood-vein, 2 Crambus lathoniellus, 2 Sand Dart, 2 Agapeta hamana, 2 LargeYellow Underwing, 8 The Uncertain, 1 Barred Straw, 1 Lyme Grass, 2 Least Carpet, 2 Mottled Rustic, 2 Privet Hawkmoth, 1 Lesser Yellow Underwing, 1 Brown Rustic, 4 Riband Wave, 2 Bordered White, 1 Crambus perella

 

Beautiful Hook-tip

Bird-cherry Ermine

Futhermore, I saw 2 Ringlet, 10 Meadow Brown, 8 Painted Lady, 1 Cinnabar, 3 Admiral, 3 Small Heath, 1 Large Skipper, 3 Peacock, 1 White sp. 2 Large White.

Also 1 Black-tailed Skimmer and 2 Ruddy Darter, 1 Common Red Soldier Beetle and 1 Common Lizard.

male Black-tailed Skimmer

 

Ruddy Darter

Bee

Norfolk Bird News from Rare Bird Alert

Norfolk BLACK-WINGED KITE ad Sea Palling still 1.20pm south of The Marrams from double metal gate tho distant NR12 0AL c52.7930,1.5836 Viewed from c52.7949,1.5891

Norfolk GREEN WARBLER male singing on Tuesday Winterton North Dunes in silver birches but no sign since (not Greenish Warbler) [re-identified from sonograms] 52.7360,1.6783. Use beach carpark then walk north NR29 4AJ

Norfolk Common Crane ad Rawhall still at Old Beetley at School Road Flash at 10.30am 52.7307,0.9088: Viewed from 52.7303,0.9102

Norfolk BLACK-WINGED KITE ad Sea Palling still south of The Marrams from double metal gate tho distant NR12 0AL c52.7930,1.5836 Viewed from c52.7949,1.5891

Norfolk Purple Heron reported on Thursday Catfield Fen NWT c52.7327,1.5137

Norfolk Quail male singing Snettisham audible from Diglea camp site c52.8718,0.4615

Norfolk Caspian Gull 2s y’day Great Yarmouth at North Beach c52.6207,1.7428

Norfolk 4.Spotted Redshanks Hickling Broad NWT still at Brendan’s Marsh c52.7394,1.6009: Park at 52.7421,1.595; Viewed from 52.7404,1.6019 NR12 0BW