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Holme Bird Observatory Thursday 4th August 2022

Highlights today were 5+ Spoonbills near the Car Park Hide, 5 Avocets, 14 Black-tailed Godwits, a Green Sandpiper, Green and Great Spotted Woodpecker, a Cetti's Warbler and 4+ Stonechats.

Moths today were varied with 7 Sharp-angled Peacocks, 5 Latticed Heaths, 5 Scarce Footmen, Common Carpet, 11 Straw Dots, Yellow Tail, Burnished Brass, 3 Common Rustics, 10 Garden Tigers, 3 Small Square Spots, 4 Flounced Rustics, 3 Small Waved Umbers, 2 Small Fan-footed Waves, 5 Cloaked Minors, Canary Shouldered Thorn, 32 Setaceous Hebrew Characters, 10 Flame Shoulders, 3 Single Dotted Waves, Rush Veneer, 8 Shuttle-shaped Darts, 9 Dingy Footmen, 2 Angle-barred Pugs, 3 Least Yellow Underwings, 5 Straw Underwings, 2 Mother of Pearls, 11 Rustics, Drinker, Rosy Footman, 2 Lime-speck Pugs, 2 Willow Beauties, 4 Shaded Broad-bars, Lyme Grass, Antler, Tree Lichen Beauty, 2 Vine's Rustics, 15 Turnips, Fen Wainscot, Dark Sword-grass, White Point, Webb's Wainscot, 2 White-lined Darts, 3 Rosy Rustics, Dark Arches, 5 Arhcer's Darts, Nutmeg, Cabbage, Twin-spotted Wainscot and Humming-bird Hawk recorded.




                                                        Antler and Webb's Wainscot


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Norfolk 5+BEE-EATERS (all ads) still 2pm 1/2ml SE of Trimingham in sand quarry at nests from RSPB viewpoint. Park only in designated field south of Gimingham Rd/ Mundesley Rd junction 7am-7pm. £5 cash charge TG.285.384 NR11 8DZ

Norfolk Little Stint ad Snettisham RSPB still on The Wash near chalets

Norfolk 7.Spoonbills Cley NWT still

Norfolk Hooded Crow ad still Warham Greens north of barn at NE end of pig field near coast path viewable from Cocklestrand Drove this a'noon. Access from Garden Drove; keep to footpaths TF.945.435

Norfolk Caspian Gull Cromer still on beach

Norfolk Black Tern juv Snettisham RSPB

Norfolk 8.Spoonbills Burgh Castle still from viewpoint

Norfolk 3.Honey Buzzards still 1.25mls ESE of Fulmodeston at Swanton Great Wood from Swanton Novers raptor watchpoint by Hindolveston Road (+2.Goshawks) TG.009.302

Norfolk Little Gull Titchwell RSPB

Norfolk 3.Curlew Sands (all ads) Snettisham RSPB still on The Wash at 7.30am

Norfolk 2.Spoonbills (ad +juv) Welney WWT still on main lagoon

Norfolk Wood Sand East Wretham Heath still on Langmere at 8.25am

Norfolk 2.Spoonbills Titchwell RSPB still

Norfolk Wood Sand just east of Wells still at North Point Pools. Keep to public rights of way +don't enter from railway station