Toadflax Pearl Antigastra catalaunalis - a long hoped-for and anticipated new moth for me and a rare immigrant species which, like many others, appears to be getting more regular. Gutted I didn't manage a better photo before I lost it.
Rusty Acorn Piercer Cydia amplana. Other presumed immigrant species included 4 Dark Sword-grass, 1 Silver Y, 2+ Rusty Dot Pearl, and 4+ Rush Veneer. Also another Blair's Mocha, 1 Maiden's Blush and another 33 Portland Ribbon Waves.
An early morning look at Orcombe Point produced c50 Swallows heading east into the breeze. Also - 9+ Yellow Wagtails, 2 Tree Pipits, 2 Wheatears, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1+ Sand Martin, 2 Mediterranean Gulls and 1 Cirl Bunting.
Off Mudbank - 1 Osprey hunting the lower river around 0930 and seen again around 1440 sat on a post off Lympstone (thank you to Rob for the text). Also off Mudbank today - 40+ Common Terns downriver with another flock of 30+ seen a while later that may or may not have been different birds. Additionally - 40 Whimbrel, 2 Knot, 3 Redshank, 27 Shelduck, 21 Mute Swans and my first returning Kingfisher of the autumn.
Yesterday on Orcombe - 2 Yellow Wagtails, 7 Willow Warblers and 2 Canada Geese. Mudbank - 33 Whimbrel, 2 Knot, 3 Bar-tailed Godwits, 1 Grey Plover, 1 Greenshank and 8 Dunlin.
The Blair's Mochas keep coming...
Osprey from the back garden this morning.
Osprey off Lympstone this afternoon.
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