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5th July

Birds passing overhead included 390 Swifts and a Little Egret while seawatching produced 150 Mediterranean Gulls, three juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls, an Arctic Skua and a Manx Shearwater.

The day was also notable for our Moth Meeting which we began last night and then participants gathered in the morning to go through the catches.

 For the evening event we gathered around 9.00pm to set up the various traps across the area in a variety of habitats and then spent some time watching to see what came in.





The morning started at 7.00 am with a large numbers of moths coming from eight traps. A total of around 200 species were recorded. Highlights included Elephant Hawkmoths, Sussex Emeralds, Garden Tigers, White Spots and best of all, two Light Crimson Underwings.






Three Porpoises and four Grey Seals were feeding offshore.