With starting at 3am ringing the Sand Martin this morning (please see our blog post from today about it here) Bee and I headed to the Obs afterwards until early afternoon and enjoyed the rest of the afternoon off. It was a quiet day for bird sightings with the highlight being a Greenshank along the Broadwater and a group of 15 Redshank on the grazing marsh.

The moths were the stars of the day again, and it was a great day for the Wednesday Moth Morning! Thank you to our volunteers who help every Wednesday morning and do the moth traps and show everyone the moths we catch, please do come along on Wednesdays at 10am if you would like to see lots of moths! I have included the list below, which as you can see I ran out of room! But we also had 2 Yellow-tail, 1 White Satin, 1 Spindle Ermine, 1 Coleophora salicorniae (only the second ever record at the Obs) and 1 Coleophora Pennella. We had our first Garden Tiger of the year which is always lovely to see! We also had a Shore Knot-horn which is a rare moth in Norfolk (restricted to coastal sites usually).

Garden Tiger

Moths from 08.07.26

Shannon & Bee

NORFOLK BIRD NEWS FROM RAREBIRD ALERT

Norfolk SQUACCO HERON north of A149 still 9.30am at Kelling Water Meadows +showing well c52.9490,1.1168 Park at c52.9422,1.1146

Norfolk SQUACCO HERON north of A149 still at Kelling Water Meadow c52.9490,1.1168 Park at c52.9422,1.1146

Norfolk Quail male singing Wiggenhall St.Mary Magdalen at 3.06am c52.6734,0.3618

Norfolk Quail male singing y’day east of Great Massingham at Weasenham St.Peter in field NW of village c52.7678,0.7407