After lunch I waited for the high tide and then went to Church Norton and checked out the colony and the mudflats down to the middle reedbed. Roseate Terns were constantly on view amongst the Sandwich Terns on the mud with at least two together and probably a third bird seen a distant from the first two that went out to sea. There were thousands of terns and hundreds of young terns and gull with my first juvenile Med Gull for the autumn too. The wader numbers were up again, with nearly 40 Dunlin now but the heat haze was pretty bad.
70 species in total of over 3000 individuals HERE.
Adult Roseate Terns (above and below)
The Oystercatcher chick on Ferry is growing well although sadly seems to have lost it's sibling
Seems like it's mainly Med Gulls on Tern island now. I've only one juvenile Med so presumably the young fledge later than the Sandwich Terns and Black-headed Gulls
Gatekeepers were everywhere today, well over 100 on my route. Also lots of Small/Essex Skipper, Meadow Browns, a few Painted Lady, Red Admiral, Peacock, three Small Copper, Holly Blue, Speckled Wood, Small Whites, Green-viened White, the odd Large White and a single Brown Argus.
Female Migrant Hawker. A few of these around, also Blue Emperor, Broad-bodied Chaser and Common Blue Damselfly.
Buff Arches was the best in the moth trap. A NFY. Now on 396 for the year.
Black-banded Masoner, Blastobasis rebeli- the first this year
Coastal Buff, Agonopterix yeatiana
Obsidentify reckons this is Slender Rufous Tortrix, Lathronympha strigana? Doesn't look red enough for me. I've kept it for critical examination.
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