Lovely day today, to Palace to start with with 80 +, maybe as many as 116 Blackwits, impressive as I've only ever seen one there before. Also a very nice juv Curlew Sand.
As well as plenty of Pied Wags there was a single White Wag, also Whites at both Howaback and The Shunan (unusually).
The moth trap produced over 200 moths of 16 species, one likely new tortrix, and a few other micros to identify.
Autumnal Rustic (dark form)
Aphobius ater (most likely)
Parsnip Moth
Another Aphobius sp to be identified but a revelation about Nicrophorus beetles as downloading the key I discovered that they are not entirely straightforward, caught 23 today, this from a previous day.
Nicrophorus investigator
Two Red Admirals in the garden, Small Tortoiseshell 3+, Green-veined White, Large White and down by The Shunan an excellent Painted Lady.
The star of the day turned up in the afternoon, first a fly-by but a couple of hours later the main performance:
What's that over the roof?
Also 29 Blackwits flew by early evening and there were c1,000 Common Gulls in to The Shunan. Robin, Dunnock and Song Thrush in the garden.
2 comments:
not seen that form of Autumnal Rustic before ,,very impressive
Don't catch too many of those, I've been catching much better since I got a new bulb and sorted out the positioning of the trap. Still find moths tricky, I think because they can be so variable but bit of a break through this year, I'm starting to know quite a few of the species here and can ID them pretty quick. Worry that I'm missing things tho.
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