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Saturday 30th July 2022

More visible migration today, with whimbrel, turnstone, sand martin, swallows, teal and common terns heading south. Other common terns were feeding offshore all morning, with a few sandwich terns and gulls. The great black backed gull pair nesting in the dock brought their juvenile out to the beach today to cause havoc amongst the other birds. There really aren't many pairs of this gull nesting in Suffolk, so its nice this pair was successful. 

A couple of Jersey Tiger moths and a Clouded Yellow butterfly were the most colourful lepidoptera of the day, and one of the former even posed for photos. 


Acleris cristana is a species we see infrequently despite living on hawthorns which we have in abundance. 

Birds Ringed: Blackbird 1, Dunnock 2, Goldfinch 4, House Sparrow 2, Linnet 2, Starling 19, Whitethroat 2, Woodpigeon 1.