It was a pretty cloudy and windy start turning very hot again at 30 degrees at the Obs.

The highlight for me today was a Grass Snake in the village near Redwell crossing the road being pursued by a Song Thrush of all things! The Snake very narrowly missed getting hit by a car and then disappeared onto the roadside verge. There was a Dunlin feeding on the car park pools. The Swallow chicks are very close to fledging which means the parents have been working extra hard to bring in enough food for the five hungry chicks and today one of the meals was an unlucky Meadow Brown!

Lunch for the Swallow chicks

A very very busy moth trap today that took Bee and I at least 2 hours! Our list for the morning with some very nice moths: Brown-tail 17, Latticed Heath 4, Fen Wainscot 2, Brown Bark Moth 1, Garden Grass Veneer 50, Small China-mark 1, Dwarf Cream Wave 8, Beautiful Hook-tip 1, Least Carpet 11, Straw-barred Pearl 1, Scarce Footman 3, Pine Marble 12, Common Footman 14, Pine Blossom Knot-horn 9, Sea-lavender Case-bearer 3, Smoky Wainscot 4, Ruby Tiger 12, Sandhill Knot-horn 2, Hook-tipped Grass-moth 5, Bird-cherry Ermine 5, Dark Arches 8, Large Elephant Hawk-moth 1, Rustic/Uncertain 10, Haworth’s Pug 4, Kent Black Arches 2, Small Mottled Willow 2, Round-winged Muslin 1, Nutmeg 1, Chinese Character 2, Lettuce Tortrix 1, Large Yellow Underwing 3, Lesser Yellow Underwing 1, Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 1, Archer’s Dart 2, Pale Water Veneer 1, Eudonia sp. 3, Oak Eggar 2, Pallid Grey 1, Ermine agg. 3, Single-dotted Wave 2, Diamond-back 1, Bulrush Veneer 4, Bright Straw 1, Satin Grass-moth 1, Sand Dart 1, Orange Pine Tortrix 3, Black-fronted Straw 2, Agapeta hamana 6, Dusky Sallow 1, Triple-spotted Nest Moth 2, Garden Grey 1, Lime-speck Pug 1, Cloaked Minor 1, Marbled Minor agg. 1, Blackthorn Knot-horn 2, Riband Wave 1, Marbled Clover 1, Straw Grass-moth 1, Bright-line Brown-eye 1, Silver-barred Moss-moth 3, Scalloped Oak 1, Mottled Rustic 1, Shaded Broad-bar 2, Double Square-spot 1, Swallow Prominent 1, Hoary Tortrix 1, Hawthorn Piercer 1, Aster Straw 1, Dingy Footman 1, Small Emerald 1, Gorse Wanderer 1, Cnephasia sp. 1, Thistle Ermine 1, Ringed China-mark 1, Silky Wainscot 1, Fleabane Drab 1 and Sandhill Double-spot 1.

Sea-lavendar Case-bearer 

Shannon & Bee

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Norfolk 3.Quails (all males) singing Hemsby c52.6970,1.6914