It was the very modest aim here for 30DWiJ to ensure a post on or pertaining to each day of the month with a few pictures and hopefully no repetition of species. And with any number of plants and insects it really shouldn't be a problem; but the fact is it's quite a task to find things of interest especially animals or plants which might be deemed 'photogenic'. There are a number of regularly occurring species which should pop up here before the month is out - various dragonflies, some moths from the trap, the Chichester Peregrines, a couple more butterflies. But with the wet weather set to last, Day 10 proved to be almost too much. Fifty or more each of Black-tailed Godwit and Avocet were too far and too dull for the little m43 camera. One Fox cub on show from the family is probably a reason why there wasn't a single chick of any species on south scrape other than Canada Goose.
The birding highlights were 100+ Swift forced down by the rain, a male Blackcap feeding two young and the female Sprawk bringing a meal in; presumably its nest is very close to last year's. Oh, and its good to see the harbour based Shelducklings continue to survive with no losses.
So, this Cormorant was one of twenty toughing out the rain and catching forty winks and the caterpillar of micro-moth
Depressaria daucella was
one of many on Hemlock Water Dropwort. Anything else of note escaped me.
