Fog!

 Common Gull claiming a nest box

I didn't go out today until after 2 PM when the fog lifted a little. The 2 Whooper Swans were still in the Kale field and 3+ Cattle Egrets were in the horse paddocks, there were at least 3 Great White Egrets around, I saw the drake Smew distantly at Xmas Dell to the accompaniment of the New Lighthouse fog horn. By 3.30 PM the fog had closed in again so home for a cup of tea.

Oak Beauty

The second night of running my moth trap caught the moths of the year, a splendid Oak Beauty, a Common Quaker and a Common Plume.