After Fridays excitement with the Black Stork, the weekend has been a bit of an anti climax. Having said that, the last 2 mornings I have been assisting Barry Banson emptying the 2 traps on the reserve at Boulderwall Farm. On both days the 2 traps have been full of moths 70+ macro species over the 2 days, the best being a Scarce Chocholate-tip a Dungeness speciality, a Gem, several Small Mottled Willows. In the Plodland trap the plain straw yellow form of Dingy Footman was a first for me.
Dingy Footman(f.stramineola) in the Plodland trap
Scarce Chocholate-tip in the R.S.P.B. trap
Gem in the R.S.P.B.trap
The birding has been fairly quiet but some good birds can still be found on the peninsular, Spoonbills, Hobby's, Peregrines, Marsh Harriers, Bitterns, Great White Egrets, Tree Sparrows, Wood Sandpiper, Black-necked Grebe to name a few, it is very easy to be blase about these brilliant birds, just seeing those is a good days birding and you will always see more.
The sea has been very quiet this weekend with 2 Pomarine Skuas (AJG) the highlights.
An hour and half at the fishing boats was very slow, but we still managed to see a Black Tern, my first this year of an Autumn juvenile Arctic Tern, a Shearwater sp, a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull, a few each of Common and Sandwich Terns, a few Gannets, Ringed Plovers and Turnstones and that is on a very quiet sea watch.
Couldn't resist putting up another pic of this super bird.
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