Last Knocking Migrants

The southerly airflow has resumed with a nice uptick in moth migration and regionally there have been further Pallid Swifts and Pallas's Warblers have been appearing in numbers on the south east coasts. 

Yesterday the highlight was a Small Marbled in the moth trap- the 4th this year which is incredible. Supporting cast included a few Rusty-dots and a Ypsolpha ustella which was new for the lodge. 

This morning there were more moth migrants in the trap with White-speck and Olive-tree Pearl. 

As it's getting to the end of play for the autumn Marc and I met up again for another bash of East Head and Snowhill Marsh area. No Pallas's unfortunately but a bit of vis mig and some late migrants around including 6 Brambling over and good numbers of Goldcrests HERE.

In order to squeeze the last juice out of the autumn I then met up with Ian and we did Church Norton area and found a nice Ring Ouzel in St.Wilfred's graveyard which was Ian's 200th Peninsula tick for the year- a great achievement- I'm only on 188! Not much else really apart from a build up of Brents and 30+ Goldcrests HERE. We also flushed a white moth from the hedge which could have been a Crimson Speckled (there has been an influx) but it flew strongly away from us and we couldn't relocate it. 

It's basically one week left for what I would call autumn and then from mid-November it's the beginning of the long winter. 

First-winter Ring Ouzel

Small Marbled 

White-speck

Dark Marbled Tabby

Nettle-tap- not sure if these were migrants too. Other migrants over the last couple of days included up to 7 Rusty-dots, single Rush Veneers, Olive-tree Pearl, Delicate, Scarce Bordered Straw, Whitepoints and Turnips. Very low numbers of moths but clearly a distilled migrant blend pushed up from the south in these winds. 

Ypsolpha ustella - now on 622 for the garden and 562 for the year