Monday, 20 August 2018

A few migrants

There was a bit of vis mig going on at the farmlands this morning; 1 first-winter Wheatear, 9 Yellow Wagtails (6+3), 41 Swift going through, 4 Barn Swallow, 2 Hobby appeared over the lake hunting Starlings and there were at least 15 Chiffchaff along the railway and we caught a Sedge Warbler by the lake. Also 1 Kingfisher, 9 Green Sandpiper, 3 Common Sandpiper, 2 Buzzard, 2 Sprawk,, 2 Little Egret and about 2000 Starling around too.

Been busy on the moth front again- loads of Vine's Rustics now and also up to 20 Box Tree Moths (a local record). 

 Juvenile Sedge Warbler
 First-winter Wheatear
 Juvenile Starlings moulting to winter plumage 
 Small Heath 
  A couple of Knothorns- Rhodophaea formosa (above) and Euzophera pinguis (below) 

 A couple of Cabbage moths showing some variation 

Up to 20 Box Tree Moths in recent evenings 

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