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Tuesday 22nd November 2011

Mild but murky start degenerating into fog with some spots of rain by mid-day. Bird wise it's a bit yawnsville this morning with the only new migrants in the bushes being singles of Blacky & Chaffinch. Snow Buntings are on the beach somewhere as they can be heard calling from the observatory, but with the fog no-one has had the enthusiasm to go out and round them up yet. The moth traps were far more interesting yielding our 1st ever record of Red-headed Chestnut. This migrant has appeared in Suffolk on half a dozen previous occasions so it was probably only a matter of time before we recorded one - and a particularly stunning individual it is to !