Brussels Lace

Friday 26th July - Lade - hot, overcast humid, light airs - Following the extreme weather of yesterday evening which delivered violent gusts of wind associated with thunder, lightening and heavy rain causing damage to our slate roof, this morning dawned relatively quiet and humid. Yesterdays mystery moth was confirmed by SC as a Brussels Lace, an immigrant and only the 14th Dungeness area record. Needless to say it was a first for the Plovers garden trap.

                                Brussels Lace, 14th Dungeness area record

  A visit to Hanson hide mid-morning produced our first Little Stint of the return passage along with five each of Green and Common Sandpipers, Ruff, Dunlin and Redshank, two Little Ringed Plovers and a Wood Sandpiper, plus Little Gull and Great White Egret. More Common and Green Sandpipers Ruff and LRP were noted on Burrowes, along with three Marsh Harriers from the access road.
  An afternoon wader count on the bay on an incoming tide delivered: Curlew 224, Oystercatcher 365, Bar-tailed Godwit 15, Dunlin 35, Sanderling 12, Knot 4.