Our garden was the best place for birds this week with warblers present most days, these included up to four Chiffchaffs at a time (including one singing) and a female Blackcap. Today there were two late Swifts over the garden with a mixed flock of around 80 hirundines, a Grey Wagtail fly over and best of all superb views of a Hobby low over our heads as we celebrated my mother in law’s birthday!
I tried my first ‘solo’ moth trapping on Friday night in Jim
and Sue’s garden. In the end it was a relatively cold and windy night but still
managed 73 moths of 15 species. These included two new species for the parish,
Autumnal Rustic…
And Lunar Underwing…
As well as these smart Beaded Chestnuts
And Angle Shades...
Another new species, botanical this time, was Common Toadflax which I found down Waterworks Lane. Not a rare plant but still good to find and along a lane I have walked literally hundreds of times.
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