Weekend Round-up

Spent most of the weekend uploading this year's bird and other wildlife records from iRecord, Ebird and iNaturalist onto iGoTerra HERE but got in a garden birding session on Saturday morning HERE where the highlights included 5 Fieldfare, 6 Redwing and a large flock of Golden Plover circling. Then we took the family to Arundel Wetland Centre so that Jacob could take some photos for his school bird photography competition and then in the evening I met up with Marc Read for night birding at Medmerry where we had a Woodcock (a Peninsula lifer) and a Barn Owl. 

Sunday was a bit of a write-off, we did some stuff around the garden in the morning before heading to London for Mia's 18th birthday party. 

The nights are relatively mild so I had the moth trap out a couple of times over last few days- a couple of Rusty-dots and a Mottled Umber was my lot. I also spent time this weekend uploading the last batch of dissection results from Mike Bailey which yielded 4 new species for the garden including a lifer for me- Summer Fruit Tortrix which wasn't even on my radar so that was interesting. Also confirmed records of  November moth (rather than November moth agg), Tuta absoluta, Blastobasis vittata, Caloptilia robustella, Coleophora peribenanderi and C.versurella . Thanks again to Mike for his intricate work. 

Woodcock at Medmerry 

Fieldfare in the garden- two of the top local year listers still need Fieldfare for the Peninsula, not a common bird locally 

Summer Fruit Tortrix, Adoxophyes orana from 16th August - lifer and according to Sterling et al, a very local species 

Jacob's photo competition entry- Dalmation Pelican at Arundel 

iGoTerra produces this useful map of the countries I've visited. Still 1585 bird species away from my target of 5000 (half of the world's birds) so need to up my game as well over the hill now and the hour glass is running out. iGoTerra profile HERE. Off to Thailand in early 2026 to get on with this.