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26th May

Offshore, 81 Common Scoters, six Grey Plovers and seven Mediterranean Gulls passed through but nothing much to report on the land.

Five Porpoises and two Grey Seals were seen offshore and four Brown Hares were seen on the land.

The highlight of the day though was the catching of an Eastern Bordered Straw overnight. The third Observatory record of this scarce migrant moth.

Eastern Bordered Straw Heliothis nubigera   Dungeness   26th May 2026


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