Warm, dry and sunny, SW 4-5 - The unseasonably mild weather continues, mainly due to a plume of warm air streaming up from the Azores with daytime temperatures reaching a heady 20C in NR this afternoon. As a result a number of rare, immigrant Crimson Speckled moths have been displaced from their range across the Mediterranean Basin and reported locally, with one being found at DBO by JTM this morning. No doubt many more are out there awaiting discovery, and hopefully one will grace me with its presence in the garden trap over the coming days...
I called in at Lade where the rising water level is rapidly flooding over the islands on south lake; another week or so and it will return to being a large lake again, but for now a handful each of Grey Heron, Great White and Little Egrets were still present. Great Crested and Little Grebes have both fared well this year, plundering the fish-rich wetlands, although numbers of the former are now well down as birds return to the sea for the winter. Nothing much had changed on the bird reserve since last week where a Hobby and two Little Stints were the highlights on ARC and a Peregrine spooked the waders and wildfowl.
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