Yellow-legged Gulls and some Moths!

It was very quiet around The Point this morning, very few birds found there way into the nets and very little moving at sea.

At the ARC from Hanson Hide 4 Wood Sandpipers, a Greenshank, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Common Sandpipers, a Dunlin, 66 Golden Plover including 1 juvenile, 5 Garganey among the many eclipse ducks.

Chris Philpott was in the car park with a Death's-head Hawk-moth his son had found on a scaffold at Lydd on Sea, he kindly brought it there for me to see.

Death's-head Hawk-moth

 Juv Yellow-legged Gull

A very poor sea watch this afternoon from the fishing boats in the company of AJG:

13.30-15.30 from the fishing boats:
Gannet: 8E.  4W
Yellow-legged Gull: 3 juveniles
Kittiwake: 2W
Sandwich Tern: 59W
Common Tern: 37W
Harbour Porpoise: 3+

This evening on the reserve from Firth the usual Common Terns including a new Dutch ringed juvenile, also 3 Black Terns, another juvenile Yellow-legged Gull, a Dunlin, a Ringed Plover and a Common Sandpiper.

 A Many-lined only the second Dungeness area record

The Plodland MV has produced some nice moths recently the best being a rather worn Many-lined

 Clay Triple Lines the first to grace the Plodland trap

 Convolvulus Hawk-moth  in safe place on the wall

Convolvulus Hawk-moth where I found it on the ground next to the trap

Pale Grass Eggar