Friday 23 February 2018

Earlier in the week on a mild but very drizzly night I put the rap out more in hope that expectation, but next morning there were 5 species of moth in the trap or nearby: Hebrew Character, Pale Brindled Beauty, March Moth, Light Brown Apple Moth and a tortrix which I can narrow down only to one of two species, so has to be recorded as Acleris ferrugana/notana. However, this still is the 600th species recorded in the garden.
At Dungeness today in a very strong freezing North-Easterly it was a case of seeing the usual suspects, with a Glaucous Gull at the Patch, Drake and Redhead Smews, Slavonian Grebe, Black-throated Diver, Great White Egret, Little Egret and Buzzard on the RSPB reserve. On Walland Marsh there 40 Tree Sparrows at some feeders and another Buzzard or two.

Pale Brindled Beauty

 March Moth

 Acleris ferrugana/notana


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