Monday is my main birding day so I targeted some more local patch year ticks today. I started off at the Bill (with Andrew, Ian ,Sarah and Co) hoping for the Red-necked Grebe (that has appeared 4-5 times out of 34 days this year so a bit of a long shot). No Red-necked Grebe but a Black-throated, a few Great Northerns and a load of Red-throated Divers plus a female Long-tailed Duck and a few Common Scoters and Mergs. Ebird list HERE .
I then went to Medmerry and walked along the west track from the car park to Stilt Pool; 61 species of nearly 3000 indiviudals in about 2 hours HERE. Local patch year ticks included Yellowhammers (about 65 of them), Dartford Warbler and finally got some Stonechats. Now on 114 (out of 143) for the Selsey Peninsula year list.
I had to cut the day short to meet up with Holly and Issac and later with Derek and Mike, local moth-ers. We met at the RSPB visitor's centre for a couple of hours discussing a few plans for moth trapping this year. Derek and Mike both do genital dissection and have very kindly offered to do some of the coleophora and cnephasia etc that I'm catching in the garden which will be very intersting. Also we discussed targeting some Peninsula and Sussex specialities later in the year and identifying leaf mines- all new areas of lepidoptery for me, so very exciting. Looking forward to all that.
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