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20th July

Still warm and sunny with a trickle of passage overhead including 25 Sand Martins, nine Yellow Wagtails and a Grey Wagtail. There was a small increase in grounded migrants with a Common Sandpiper and a Kingfisher at the Long Pits and three Great Spotted Woodpeckers, two Willow Warblers, four Sedge Warblers, two Garden Warblers and 35 Reed Warblers in the bushes. Eight Shelduck flew east while 25 Mediterranean Gulls and a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull were feeding offshore.

Three Porpoises and two Grey Seals were feeding offshore.

Another Eastern Bordered Straw was caught in the moth traps while three Lesser Emperor dragonflies and a Norfolk Hawker were seen.


Eastern Bordered Straw Heliothis nubigera   Dungeness   20th July 2026



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