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16th Aug

A quieter morning with just 20 Willow Warblers, two Spotted Flycatchers and a Tree Pipit on the land while the sea produced just six Mediterranean Gulls and a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull. The White Stork also had a good fly round and spent some time in Observatory airspace.

Three Porpoise and two Grey Seals were feeding offshore. In the evening Soprano and Common Pipistrelles were flying over the trapping area.

Numbers of moths in the traps remain very low but the oddities continues to appear with a Convolvulus Hawk-moth and a Palpita vitrealis of note this time.


Convolvulus Hawkmoth Agrius convolvuli   Dungeness   16th August 2024


A Southern Hawker dragonfly at the Long Pits was of great note.

Another evening search for crickets produced five Large Coneheads, 22 Sickle-bearing Bush-crickets, two Southern Oak Bush-crickets and a nymph Mediterranean Stick-insect.


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