Holme Bird Observatory

Another cool, overcast morning felt more like autumn than summer, with 1 Blackbird and 1 Song Thrush hanging around the Obs and 1 Robin ticking.

Our moths of today:

1 Poplar Hawk moth, 1 Ermine agg, 22 Uncertain agg, 1 Brown Tail, 1 Scalloped Oak, 1 Shore Knot-horn, 3 Garden Tiger, 3 Cloaked Minor, 1 Brown Moss Moth, 3 Large Yellow Underwing, 3 Eudonia sp., 1 Rosy Footman, 2 Archer’s Dart, 2 Sharp-angled Peacock, 3 Drinker, 4 Scarce Footman, 1 Beautiful Hook Tip, 1 Common Groundling, 1 Common Zebra Moth, 2 Pine Leaf-mining Moth, 1 Small Mottled Willow, 1 Brown-line Bright-eye, 2 Dingy Footman, 1 Single-dotted Wave, 2 Pearl Grass Moth, 1 Yellow Tail, 1 Large Pale Masoner, 2 Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, 1 Common Rustic, 1 Bryotropha terrella, 1 Breckland Plume

We also had 1 Hummingbird Hawk Moth around the Obs and recorded 15 Gatekeeper, 2 Admiral, 3 Wall, 4 Meadow Brown, 2 White sp.

Our bird highlights are: 1 Whimbrel, 3 Curlew, 1 Great White Egret flying past the Obs, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 38 Redshank, 3 Common Sandpiper and 2 Dunlin on Broadwater, 35 Cormorants flying over. Also 1 Arctic Skua on the sea.

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Norfolk Bird News from Rare Bird Alert

Norfolk Glossy Ibis Holkham Freshmarsh still on pool SW of Joe Jordan Hide at 1.53pm c52.9701,0.7912 Park at c52.9663,0.8143

Norfolk Red-backed Shrike male Hickling Broad NWT still 1.25pm from Stubb Mill viewpoint 52.7417,1.6112: Viewed from 52.7421,1.6099; Park at c52.7422,1.5949

Norfolk Red-backed Shrike male Hickling Broad NWT still 10.52am from Stubb Mill viewpoint 52.7417,1.6112: Viewed from 52.7421,1.6099; Park at c52.7422,1.5949

Norfolk Red-backed Shrike male Hickling Broad NWT still in bush from Stubb Mill viewpoint at 8.23am 52.7412,1.61: Park at 52.7422,1.5949; Viewed from 52.7413,1.6092

Norfolk 2.Glossy Ibises Kelling Water Meadows still at main pool at 8.10am c52.9493,1.1168

Norfolk Quail male singing y’day south of Burnham Market again audible from Beacon Hill Road in a’noon c52.9301,0.7240