A dry sunny day with a light west wind.
South shore (Malcolm)
Just a quick check of Red Nab as the rising tide approached.
Mediterranean gull 5 - 4 adult and a 2nd calendar year.
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| 2nd calendar year Mediterranean gull |
Fortunately, one of the adults was a white ringed bird, ringed in Belgium in 2018, it showed here last July, hopefully it will have been seen elsewhere since. Update awaited.
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| This juvenile Little Egret has pronounced yellow legs! |
Peregrine Falcon 2 were being disruptive again.
Middleton Nature Reserve
Janet checked this morning
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| Common Darter |
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| Broad-Bodied Chaser |
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| Green-Veined White |
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| Small Skipper and Six-spot Burnet |
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| Yellow Shell |
I checked mid afternoon, by that time it was quite warm (Malcolm)
Wildfowl unchanged
Blackcap 2 singing
Reed Warbler 1 half-hearted singing
Chiffchaff 3 calling, one summoning its young.
Emperor 3
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| Female Emperor ovipositoring |
Brown Hawker 1
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| Female Brown Hawker ovipositoring |
Broad-Bodied Chaser 1 male
Blue-Tailed Skimmer 1 male
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| Male Black-Tailed Skimmer |
Common Dater several
The above were on and around the main ponds on the north side. I went to the south side to check the grass meadow where the Copper-Tipped Longhorn moths were located (see map and video 24/07/24). When Janet checked in the morning she couldn't see any, but the afternoon heat had brought them out and I located 4.
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Copper-tip Longhorn - Nemophora cupriacella |
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| There is one on each of these three ragwort, the fourth was only a few metres away. |
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| This is the location of the ragwort. Line up the wooden cross beams (middle distance) with the pylon behind |
Also in this area
Ringlet 3
Green-veined White 1
Meadow Brown 3
Strangely no sign of yesterday's abundant Skippers
Jay 2
