I've recently returned from Alberta, Canada-more photrgraphs on my Flickr site.

At home Red-line Quaker has been the only new moth species for the year, although a 2nd Merveille du Jour of the Autumn was nice to see.

Big Horn Sheep-Kananaskis, Alberta.

 Red-line Quaker

Great Grey Owl, Alberta, Canada.

In spite of some cold nights and rain, some interesting Autumn species have continued to turn up in the moth trap: Merveille Du Jour, Beaded Chestnut and another Deep-brown Dart.

Merveille Du Jour

 Beaded Chestnut

 Deep-brown Dart

Since my last posting we've had some cold nights and some very wet ones, but despite that I've had 3 good moth species in the last week. Last weekend there was the migrant: Scarce Bordered Straw, and yesterday my 2nd record of Deep-brown Dart (the last was 3 years ago), but best of all this morning was my first ever Pale-lemon Sallow, a nationally scarce species. A Grey Phalarope spent a few days the previous week at Birchington. (Photo on my Flickr site). 

Pale-lemon Sallow

Deep-brown Dart

 Scarce Bordered Straw