Ipswich

1st two days not much over the first three days, A Red Kite quite high over Portman Road was notable flying east on Tuesday. Holywells Park produced a single Pied Flycatcher, a family of Kestrels and a few overhead Swifts. Going to spen the next few days doing some urban botany

Only Mad Dogs and Englishmen..............

Go out in the midday sun. Phew what a scorcher We went to Herringfleet Hills TM46749811.on the North Suffolk Border to look for anything that we cam across. we saw a Miller Moth (Acronicta leporia resting on vegetation.

Muggy weather but autumn migration begins

As usual working my local patch when I heard a cetti's Warbler calling from the undergrowth by Kirkley Ham. I assume this is a wandering individual from the Suffolk Broads some three miles to the west or could be a male that has actually set up territory. I will keep listening for it and as I have really only started the patch up it will take some time to get used to the resident birds and passage migrants. There was a low tide at Lake Lothing by ASDA but it was holding a few BHG's but alas no passage waders. Despite full flowers on Buddlija davidii. Still no butterlies nectaring.

Sawflies and White Admirals

went to Waveney Forest Fritton TG4610 with Frank G and Matthew W. we saw a single White Admirals and a few Honeysuckle Sawflies Zaraea fasciata Lots of Odonata too like Aeshna cyanea and Aeshna grandis. here is the Honeysuckle sawfly