Howdy folks! And welcome to the Frampton Marsh weekly sightings. With me, Chris the visitor guy! Your weekly round up of what has been exciting here on the reserve.
And we'll start off where we left off last week. Yes, the white-rumped sandpiper is still about! Sometimes disappearing for short periods (and with some confusion with juvenile dunlin). But as I write this it is *still* being seen from the 360 hide, out on Middle Scrape. Nice and handy. Here is a photo of it, courtesy of Paul Sullivan.
See how grey it is, and the white stripe over the eye. Both features that help distinguish it from the many juvenile dunlin that currently abound on the reserve.
So, onto the maps...
Thursday...
Wednesday...
Tuesday...
Monday...
And Sunday....
Sorry, no Saturday map, I was too busy with the Big Wild Sleepout to do one.
For those of you into your moths, the trap on Saturday produced a fine variety of moths. 32 species at least, with some good ones in there. Least carpet was the most exciting (if you have read yesterday's blog) but also things like pebble hoot-tip, Chinese character, a second generation Early Thorn, yellow-tail, fen wainscot, and a swallow-tailed moth. Sunday was also good, with the star being a privet hawkmoth. But other catches were iron, pebble and swallow prominents, silver Y and ruby tigers. No mothing this weekend, but the trap will run next weekend.
Reedbed, freshwater scrapes, saltmarsh and wet meadow. Frampton Marsh has it all! Come and pay us a visit soon.