The last mothing of
the season last night. The weather was much colder than forecast and resulted
in only 27 moths being caught of just eight species. But this did include a new
one for the parish, Feathered Thorn…
...and 11 examples of ‘November’ moths, there was some
variation in these but they are very hard to distinguish the three very similar
species and John has taken them for further analysis
As we emptied the traps this morning there was a large
movement of Redwings over, all generally heading South-South-East, along with small
numbers of Skylarks. This is in contrast to yesterday when it was almost
exclusively Fieldfares, heading high west, presumably straight in from the
coast.
Yesterday I flushed my second Woodcock of the year from the
Magic Garden, a Buzzard has taken up almost permanent residence there…
And there was still the odd Chiffchaff hanging on (or
passing through) the Garden. More remarkably Chris Knight spotted an
exceptionally late Swift over the village on Wednesday. Given all the birds
arriving from the east over the last few days it’s interesting to speculate
where this bird originated from…
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