The last 2 days the birding has been fairly slow. I've spent a quite a few hours staring at the sea but very little appears to be moving even with an on shore breeze. The same 5 Arctic Skuas chasing Sandwich Terns. Checking the French web sites there appears to be very little moving down their side of the channel. The Desert and The Point have produced very small numbers of Wheatears, Whinchats, Chiffchaffs and Sylvia's with a steady trickle of Hirundines and Meadow Pipits.
The ARC has hosted the Glossy Ibis, 4+ Garganey, 2 Black-necked Grebes, the Red-crested Pochard, 6 Black-tailed Godwits, 5 Ruff, 6 Dunlin and a Common Sandpiper along with all the common wildfowl and many Hirundines. The 2 Great White Egrets appear to be exclusive to Dengemarsh, also there a Hobby, 3+ Marsh Harriers and an Osprey reported there.
Below a few moths from the Plodland trap
Golden Twin-spot
Cypress Carpet
Size variation of Feathered Gothics
Wasp Spider Dungeness
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