They Fly

 Monday June 20

A regular in the summer garden, this Four-spotted Chaser chose to spend the night in an egg box.

 The best moth we have caught this weekend has been a macro sized micro. It had been  retained  overnight as it was a late catch from outside the MV trap, then kept for me to see and to identify. An Evergestis limbata, Dark-bordered Pearl.

Norfolk status
Rare migrant and suspected resident in a few counties, including Suffolk.

First recorded on the south coast of England in 1993.

New for Norfolk* in 2019 trapped at Haddiscoe 

Retained Specimen / Photograph will be Required.

Sunday 

We drove to Hickling for a late afternoon visit yesterday. Our first Norfolk Willow Warbler of the year sang from a tree near the Visitors Centre. Another sang and showed well near Whiteslea Lodge.They were everywhere in Scotland and  the Hebrides. Pam climbed the bank in order to look over Brendon's Marsh. The Glossy Ibis was missing, probably at Potter Heigham Marshes nearby.- as the bird flies. I refuse to say that a Reed Bunting sang, it called, as did a muted Cetti's Warbler. There was an obvious lack of odonata. We eventually found a Black-tailed Skimmer.It was distant, skittish, and kept landing amongst vegetation on the ground.

A candidate for worst photo of the year.

 

Moth trap opening here on Wednesday mornings is done as part of the Butterfly walk, but may be attended exclusively. We may go this week.