Hummers and Clearwings

As usual the day started off doing the moths (after Isaac woke me up around 4 am of course) and then after the school run I did a bit round the garden before lunch at Potters with Holly (Selsey crab and lobster) and then did a few hours birding on East Side and Ferry HERE which was basically a ground hog day of Monday apart from a few more Dunlins and Blackwits and also a flock of 35 Sand Martins over north wall. 

Whimbrel- two or three around

The locals

Red-tipped Clearwing in the Six-belted lure was a nice surprise- a first for garden. There was also a Tawny Sycamore Piercer, Pammene aurita and a few Double Orange-spots, Pammene aurana in the trap. Garden list on 672 (following some edits by the CMR). 

Up to four Hummingbird Hawkmoths are feeding on the garden lavender (above and below)

The only shot I managed to get more than one in

European Woolcarder Bee. A few other new pan-species for the garden today HERE. Now recorded 332 potential species in this 'group'. The lavender is absolutely buzzing mainly with White-tailed Bumbles and Honey Bees but also a few other solitary bees, flies,  Gatekeepers, Small White and the odd Small/Essex Skipper. 

Currant Pug. NFY. Now on 382 for the year. 

Beautiful Oak Knot-horn, Acrobasis repandana  (above) was a NFY. Compare to one of the Tufted Oak Knot, -horn, Acrobasis tumidana caught during the heatwave below

Vestal- not many of these this year. Others on the migrant front included 8 Small Mottled Willow, 3 Silver-Y,  2 Rush Veneer and a couple of Rusty-dots. Still a couple of Painted Lady in the garden too.

White Oak Leaf-miner, Phyllonorycter harrisella

The Ducks have got a bigger dabbling pool now- still no eggs