Lade - overcast, humid, light airs - Its been a busy couple of nights around the garden moth trap due to perfect weather conditions in the high humidity and low cloud cover. Highlights were Jersey Tigers in double figures, along with four Tree-lichen Beauties and another Pale Shoulder.
Jersey Tigers and Pale Shoulder
On the local patch the first Wheatears and a Whinchat of autumn dropped onto the Desert yesterday, while two Little Terns were noted amongst 20 odd Sandwich Terns on the bay at high tide, where DS found a Curlew Sandpiper (rare here) earlier within a Dunlin flock. A few more Wheatears on the Desert today at Lade, plus two Green Sandpipers over calling, while a scattering of Pied Flycatchers and a Wood Warbler were reported from across Dungeness and Galloways. The bay this evening on an incoming tide delivered the goods with thousands of gulls, terns and waders including yesterdays Curlew Sandpiper, 150 Dunlins, 30 Sanderlings, 20 Ringed Plovers, 520 Oystercatchers, 220 Curlews, 10 Knots and 10 Turnstones, plus two each of Black and Little Terns, 50 Common and 30 Sandwich Terns. Most of the gulls were Black-headed and Common along with at least 10 Mediterranean Gulls.
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