Been a reasonably quiet weekend doing household stuff however managed to get in a brief session on the ferry and tramway yesterday and morning backyard session earlier than spending the day on the Weald and Downland Museum immediately.
Birding highlights included 3 Avocet on Ferry yesterday (been pretty skinny on the bottom spherical right here in current weeks) and an fascinating Rock Pipit and immediately the backyard birding was fairly good with Gray Plover a backyard tick, over 3000 Woodpigeon going over, my first 5 Redwings and a couple of Fieldfare of the autumn, a few Mistle Thrush and some Music Thrush, the 15 or so Redpolls are nonetheless within the backyard and total there have been 42 species of over 3400 people HERE.
The moths have been fairly quiet with the temperature down to six C final night time however nonetheless getting the odd NFY. We’ve got a interval of fairly a big southerly airflow from Wednesday this week in order that may very well be very fascinating for moths and late autumn vagrants like Pallid Swift.
Avocets on Ferry
Cattle Egrets at Marsh Farm
Woodpigeons on the transfer (above), in the meantime they’re nonetheless breeding within the backyard (under)
Lesser Redpoll within the backyard
Feathered Ranaculus- NFY
Flame Brocade- at all times impressed to see these
Darkish Chestnut
A few recordings from this morning- Gray Plover going over and Redpolls within the backyard
