This weekend Jaffa, Helen, Lee, Rachel and Sue came down to visit. We did a couple of sessions at Pagham Harbour with a visit to east side on Saturday HERE and Ferry and Church Norton yesterday HERE. Highlights included a nice couple of juvenile Little Rings on Ferry, watching the juvenile Little Terns from Pagham Spit, a couple of Coal Tits at Mill Lane Pond and a nice selection of autumn waders in the harbour.
The moths were more exciting with the 10th Old World Webworm for Sussex (previous records HERE) and even more exciting it was our 600th species for the garden and 500th for the year. We also had a nice selection of other 'migrants' including up to 4 Small Mottled Willows, Radford's Flame Shoulder, Blair's Mocha, Marbled Green, Portland Ribbon Wave, Four-spotted Footmans, Silver-Y and the obligatory Rusty-dots, Rush Veneers and Diamond backs. On the local moth front Oak Eggars, Garden and Jersey Tigers and still quite a few Elephant Hawkmoths and a single Poplar Hawkmoth were crowd pleasers. Oak Processionary was also a new for site.
Great to get the gang together from far and wide. Brilliant weekend.
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