Chinese Character, the 'bird dropping moth' is fairly common but seems to have avoided me at both sites over the 26 months of trapping and also at Blashford over the years; I guess the last would have been at Pulborough some years back. Evergestis limbata is much less widely spread but presumably here from original populations on Hayling or thereabouts. Both NfG/T.
Otherwise nothing special although yet another dark Box-tree Moth - an Essex trapper tweeted a catch of 154 of these recently!! This Small Dusty Wave was doing a good job of blending in to the garage wall.
Birdwise TD did well locally with Hoopoe yesterday and Wryneck this morning; I should really make the effort to get out early😁😁
Locally, the change in vegetation i.e removal of Buddleia, the swamping of Water Mint and lack of umbellifers and Hemp Agrimony meant that today's Volucella zonaria was the first this year here. Plenty of Migrant Hawkers over the reeds and odd ones being blown over into the garden. The real telltale sign of autumn is the exponential increase in spiders/webs.
