The third Radford's Flame Shoulder of the autumn was the pick of the overnight immigrant moth catch at the Obs.
As a change from photos we've got a few sound recordings from the morning at the Obs courtesy of Joe Stockwell:
And finally, many thanks to Steve Gantlett cleybirds for his studious detective work in establishing the definitive details of the origins - together with a timeline of its movements - of the White Stork that visited the island during the August bank holiday weekend:
25th
June 2016
female ringed in the nest as a chick at Opacz, in the Vistula valley just south
of Warsaw, Poland
??????
found very weak and under-weight near Opacz, taken into care and transferred to
Warsaw Zoo
December
2016
transferred to Knepp Castle Rewilding Project, West Sussex
22nd
July
2017
Cley Marshes, Norfolk (Confirmed Z9404)
23rd
July
2017
Kelling Quag, Norfolk (9.25am) (Confirmed Z9404)
23rd
July
2017
Norwich, Norfolk (1.45pm) (Presumed Z9404)
10th-11th
August 2017
Langton Herring area, the Fleet, Dorset (Presumed Z9404)
12th
August
2017
Charmouth, Dorset (Presumed Z9404)
25th-27th
August 2017
Isle of Portland, Dorset (to 9.40am on 27th) (Confirmed Z9404)
27th
August
2017
Pembury, Kent (TWO 4.35pm) (Presumed Z9404 now found a friend)
29th-31st
August 2017
Romney Marsh (TWO) (Confirmed Z9404 plus the other bird also-green-ringed, so
presumed another reintroduced bird)
1st
September 2017
Dungeness, Kent (TWO) (Presumed Z9404 & also-green-ringed friend)
3rd-5th
September 2017
Rustington, West Sussex (TWO) (Presumed Z9404 & also green-ringed friend)
9th-15th
September
2017 Pagham Harbour, West Sussex (TWO) (Confirmed both green-ringed so Presumed
Z9404 & also-green-ringed
friend)
18th
September
2017 Isle
of Wight (Confirmed Z9404) (but not known if it is still accompanying the other
bird or not)
...and a little bit of video of it when it was over the Bill on 25th August © Martin Cade: