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. The plan is to get in as much local birding as possible. Unlike island vagrant traps, seems like the concentration mechanism of vagrants round here in the autumn is the trickle down of birds onto the south coast as the autumn progresses with the very late autumn being the best hope of autumn rarities. So now is the peak time for these parts.
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