Sunday 18 August 2024

Moths - home and away

 
















Home - Dusky Thorn, Gypsy Moth, Canary-shouldered Thorn x 2 and Noble False Widow. Nice in both gardens to FINALLY not get any Jersey Tigers! 




















Away - well Selborne. And the last trap of the year with Chris and Kimberley - fewer moths but more pleasantly calm after the previous fortnight's BNA visit. All done and dusted before 9.am. which meant revitalising coffee was taken at Hilliers.

Orange Swift, September Thorn, Fern (new), Pandemis corylana, Ear Moth spp, Rosy Rustic close up, Prominent wrangling and the star-of-the-show, Pretty Chalk Carpet,  also new.

The common moth Six-striped Rustic passed me by and would have been new and a possible Hoary Footman needed more examination (P.S. recorded as such by CP).

A smart Copper Underwing was also left at spp although Obsidentify was confident it was Svenssons!!

Three Roe Deer were in the meadow but bird life was pretty much nil other than a flyover Tree Pipit.