Red-line Quaker.

Having painted a bit of the back wall white, it all needs painting, however, I had a shuffle around with the moth traps and put the Robinson with the blacklight by the wall and put the synergetic Heath trap where the actinic Heath had been. They're a bit close together really but having had a couple of goes I seem to be getting a result. First try produced a NFS and maybe NFM, Red-line Quaker.

Red-line Quaker.

Small Square-spot.

Also a nice, fresh Small Square-spot, presumably from a second generation. Along with these there were Depressaria radiella and Acleris sparsana.

A second go last night and I caught and managed to photograph the Agonopterix heracliana more successfully than last time. Also in there LYU, Blastobasis adustella and a Silver Y on the wall. The intruders included loads of craneflies on the wall, mostly Limonia nubeculosa, but Rhipidia maculata and Tipula confusa also found. Other intruders have included Dryomyza anilis, twice and Melanostoma scalare twice. I like it when weird stuff gets in the trap, like the slug Arion fasciatus, also a couple of tiny Arions but I've ignored them for now...

Agonopterix heracliana.

Blastobasis adustella.

Silver Y.

Strangely I quite like trapping at this time of year when I don't catch so much, however, the potential for new things is quite high. There's more time to look at the intruders as well and sort through them a bit more carefully. Today I found the rather small Psocopteran, Chilenocaecilius ornatipennis. This is a creature I've caught and written about before https://literateherringthisway.blogspot.com/search?q=+Chilenocaecilius+ornatipennis  but I've not recorded it as an intruder previously.

Chilenocaecilius ornatipennis.

 

Some of the other intruders from these outings:

Arion fasciatus, clear slime and quite small.

Nicrophorus humator and phorid mites.

Limonia nubecolosa with the banded legs.

Female, Melanostoma scalare.

Male Rhipidia maculata with fancy antennae (and a new fancy English name that it doesn't need).

Tipula confusa.

On the bird front the Ring-necked Duck is still on Loch of Bosquoy (but no further wonderful photos) and was joined by a Goosander and a Ruff today. Little Grebes have done their usual thing and appeared on The Shunan where there are varying numbers of duck, of a variety of species. Swallows are becoming intermittent but still plenty of Mepits going through and the usual Skylark movements. No warblers, no surprise. First Chaffinch of the autumn today.

No further definite bat sightings, the odd, maybe, distant blip on the detector, need something better than that.

Windows.

The cultural stuff is probably going to be posted on my new The Many Days site, which I'm still sorting out. No time of late with the painting project in order to get the new conservatory/lean-to up next week (with luck).

Here we are putting the weather proofing on, several coats of it.