Whooper Swans

Mild, misty, S1 - A gloomy morning for a tour of the peninsula, commencing at Lade for the WeBS count and where a drop in of ten Robins, five Song Thrushes and two Blackbirds around the ponds was the highlight. At Dungeness I had distant views of yesterdays Sabine`s Gull from the seawatch hide as it flew towards Penn Bars, while at least four Black Redstarts were noted on the land. On the bird reserve the regulation two Whooper Swans had just arrived for the winter and were best viewed from the Screen hide where a Peregrine was feeding nearby. From Hanson hide a flock of 100 Black-headed Gulls contained several Mediterranean Gulls and a single Goldeneye was present out on the lake.

                                 Black Redstart, Dungeness

                                  Whooper Swans, ARC

An Oak Rustic was the only moth in the garden trap last night (a species I didn`t get down on the coast) making a total of 201 species of macro moths in my first year of trapping in NR. As the weather is due to deteriorate this week I`ve decided to pack the trap away for the winter. 

                                  Oak Rustic, NR