First thing this morning when I got in I had three Crossbill flying east. There was a Lesser Whitethroat in the dunes, but I couldn’t find any Wheatear after reports of one at Thornham first thing this morning, followed by another two at Thornham late afternoon.

A much busier moth trap this morning with 36 species! We had 1 Sallow Kitten, 7 Turnip, 5 Dingy Footman, 1 Black-fronted Straw, 5 White Point, 5 Nutmeg, 8 Setaceous Hebrew Character, 12 Common Wainscot, 1 Common Carpet, 4 Drinker, 1 Straw-barred Pearl, 1 Frosted Orange, 1 Angle-barred Pug, 6 Vine’s Rustic, 1 Least Yellow Underwing, 10 Yellowtail, 5 Scarce footman, 2 Lesser Broad Bordered Yellow Underwing, 1 Pine Marble, 1 Rolled Grass-moth, 1 Marbled Clover, 2 Fern, 3 Sharp Angled Peacock, 1 Diamondback, 2 Archer’s Dart, 2 Dark Arches, 1 Six-striped Rustic, 3 Bryotropha sp., 1 Scalloped Oak, 1 Single Dotted Wave, 2 Flame Shoulder, 2 Garden Tiger, 3 Common Masoner, 1 Uncertain/Rustic agg., 2 Rosy Footman and 1 Common Grass-moth. This is the first Frosted Orange of the year and are one of the most distinctive autumnal moth species, summer is officially over!

Frosted Orange!

There were a few Common Blue in the dunes and a single Brown Argus.

Shannon Clifford – Assistant Warden

NORFOLK BIRDS NEWS FROM RARE BIRD ALERT

Norfolk Cory’s S’water Sheringham lingered offshore between 6.13am-6.24am then drifted east c52.9469,1.2070. Park at 52.9450,1.2067. Viewed from 52.9459,1.2069

Norfolk probable Bonaparte’s Gull 1s Cley flew west past coastguards at c9.25am c52.9651,1.0483