09/10/2025

 Another morning with no sea watching, I'm starting to get withdrawal symptoms, hopefully things will pick up in a few days time.

A wander around The Desert instead and TA was also quiet, 2 very distant Glossy Ibis flying around the reserve, Skylarks, Siskins, Reed Buntings and Chaffinches overhead in small numbers, a big decrease in the number of Hirundines and also much fewer Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps around and just a single Wheatear, pick of the bunch were 3 Dartford Warblers flitting around the Gorse.                                                           Wheatear in The Desert

At the back of Scotney the usual Lapwing, Golden Plovers, Linnets, Goldfinches, Pied Wagtails, Skylarks,Reed Buntings, Common Buzzards, Marsh Harriers, Sparrowhawks and Kestrels, but I was unable to find the Buff-breasted Sandpiper or American Golden Plover, there was still at lest 2 Yellow Wagtails present.

On the way home I dropped in on the local Little Owl that was keeping an eye on a Common Buzzard.

A visit to the reserve this afternoon saw the long staying Curlew Sandpiper, a few Golden Plover and Lapwing but there was disturbance from the work parties. 

A Nathusius Pipistrelle which was found in the visitor centre is now in care.

A Bloxworth Snout a very rare visitor to my trap

Palpita vitrealis a beautiful but relatively common micro