A brief walk to the Ferry Pool Hide produced 25 Avocet of which 6 or more were chicks. Also 30 or so Black-tailed Godwit.
A staff member is due to send out a moth list. EDIT And here it is!!
Treble Lines, Marbled Minor, Poplar Hawk Moth,Large Yellow Underwing, Poplar Grey, Garden Grass Veneer, Tawny Marbled Minor, Bright Line Brown Eye, Heart and Dart, Heart and Club, Smoky Wainscot, Snout, Dark Arches, Riband Wave, Cinnabar, Common Swift, Uncertain, Treble Brown Spot, Nutmeg, Small Mottled Willow, Large Straw, Diamond Back Moth, Rusty Dot Pearl, Garden Pebble, Bramble Shoot moth, Peach Blossom, Elephant Hawk Moth, Buff Tip, Langmaid's Yellow Underwing, Angle Shades, Privet Hawkmoth, Burnished Brass, Blood-vein, Dingy Shears, Scorched Wing, Buff Ermine, Mottled Rustic, Common Wainscot, Evergestis limbata, Flame, Dioryctria abietella, Scrobipalpa costella, Gypsonoma sociana, Agapeta hamana, Cochylis atricapitana, Cochylis moliculana, Homoeosoma sinuella, Acrobasis marmorea, Epiblema grandevana, Elachista abifrontella, Crambus lathoniellus, Crambus pascuella, Pandemis heparana.
Above, bycatch ichneumon spp (Netelia melanura via Jaswinder on FB) and Dioryctria spp, Blood-vein and Scorched Wing
Small Mottled Willow (now Beet Armyworm!!), Pandemis heparana, Gypsonoma sociana, the above Dioryctria abietella and Homoeosoma sinuella were species I've not caught before.
Five of the above micros would have been new moths - but with three traps, two 'moth experts', half a dozen RSPB staff and twenty visitors all packed into the building adjacent to reception it was hard to keep up with everything! Hopefully an autumn rerun of this event and maybe the same at WWT might produced some different moths.
