The exceptionally mild weather has encouraged me to spend more time than usual on the reserve during the last fortnight. It also tempted a young lady to completely strip off and go skinny-dipping, but she wasn't the streaker in my title. My streak, and the sprawler, were two of the six new moths we found either on the walls or in the moth trap. The others being dark chestnut, heart and dart, large wainscot and the migrant rusty dot pearl.
All the good birds we've had recently, such as yellow-browed warbler, yellow-legged gull, black-throated diver and hundreds of little gulls were already on my list; but being primarily a birdwatcher, I still went to look at them and while doing this I found a small orange fungi in the dunes, identified as a dune waxcap, a dog whelk and dead men's fingers sponge on the beach, plus some viper's bugloss flowering east of fen hide.
The Ray's Rambles list now stands at 922, but would be quite a lot higher if I was any use at all in identifying mosses, lichens and most fungi!
Ray Kimber.