Some Migrants!

At north end of the trapping area 2 Swifts and a Marsh Harriers I drove to the observatory. In the Desert Several Common Whitethroats and Willow Warblers, also a an elusive Pied Flycatcher, 2 Whinchats and a Spotted Flycatcher. At Boulderwall Farm a distant Cattle Egret could be seen seemingly becoming very regular at Dungeness.

 A poor image of the elusive Pied Flycatcher

From the Plodland garden 2 Marsh Harriers, a Hobby, a Peregrine and several Yellow wagtails of note.

A sea watch this afternoon 15.15-17.00 was much better than of late, with SO and AJG who kindly collated the numbers. 

Tufted Duck: 1W

Common Scoter: 14W

Great-crested Grebe: 3 around

Fulmar: 2W

Balearic Shearwater: 1W

Gannet: 71W 

Cormorant: 8 around
Oystercatcher: 4E
Turnstone: 2W
Great Skua: 1E
Arctic Skua: 4W
Yellow-legged Gull: 1 juvenile around
Kittiwake: 9W
Little Tern: 1W
Sandwich Tern: 24W
Common Tern: 194W
Arctic Tern: 2W
Black Tern: 53W
Late afternoon at the ARC from Hanson 2 Wood Sandpipers, 2 LRPs, c200 Lapwings and a Black-necked Grebe among the common wildfowl.

 Common Sandpiper from Makepiece

A late afternoon /early evening visit to the reserve saw the Cattle Egret still at Boulderwall. In the car park bushes another elusive Pied Flycatcher. From Firth an Avocet, 4 Common Sandpipers, 2 Little Egrets and 2 Garganey, from Makepiece 2 more Common Sandpipers, a Turnstone, a Ruff and a confiding Dunlin.

 Dunlin from Makepiece

At Christmas Dell a Whinchat, Reed, Sedge and Cetti's Warblers, Common and Lesser Whitethroats. From Dengemarsh 2 Great White Egrets and a brief Bittern fly over. From the viewing ramp 2 Bearded Tits and 3 Marsh Harriers. 

 Leopard Moth in the Plodland MV

I got my new Robinson MV trap yesterday, it may be a coincidence but last nights moth haul was my best, in excess of 250 macros of 47 sp not including the 27 micro sp.

Coleophora sp. probably?