Another month, with a lot of wind and rain. Moth list stands at 23 at the end of March. New for the year include: March Moth, Double-striped Pug, Dark Sword-grass, Small Quaker, Clouded Drab, Twin-spotted Quaker, The Herald and my 2nd ever Acleris literana. Interesting birds seen include: The White Stork at Sandwich Bay, and 3 pairs of Mandarin Ducks at Selling Pond.
Acleris literana
Twin-spotted Quaker
White Stork
Mandarins
Another month has passed and the moth list for the year stands at 14, which is fairly good. New species during February include: Pale Brindled Beauty, Early Grey, Common Quaker, Hebrew Character, Chestnut and 3 records of Acleris Cristana. Interesting birds seen in the month include: Short-eared Owl, Barn Owl, Glossy Ibis, Hawfinch, Hume's Warbler and Snow Bunting.
Hume's Warbler
Short-eared Owl
Acleris cristana
Hawfinch
End of another month and the garden moth list stands at 4: Mottled Umber, Winter Moth, Light Brown Apple Moth, and Dotted Border. Birds seen include Dartford Warbler and Great Grey Shrike. I've recently returned from a trip to Costa Rica and my photos will be appearing on my Flickr site. Crested Owls from that trip below.
Mottled Umber
The end of another year. Since the last post I've added just 2 species to the garden Moth List for 2022: Winter Moth and Mottled Umber. The final total for the year being 405, which is my 2nd best year and only the 2nd time I've passed 400 species. Also surprising is the addition of 37 new species this year bringing the overall total for the site to 731. Interesting birds seen since the last post include A Purple Sandpiper at Hampton Pier and Whooper Swans at Dungeness.
Winter Moth
The end of another (very wet) month has seen only 3 species being added to the moth year list (403) with December Moth being the only new macro. Interesting birds seen since my last post include the Great Grey Shrike at Hothfield Heathlands, Sabine's Gull at Port Lympne Zoo, with Red-rumped Swallows and Snow Bunting at Palm Bay, Margate.
December Moth
Great Grey Shrike
Sabine's Gull
Snow Bunting
We've reached the end of another month. Moth trapping has produced some of the usual Autumn favourites but catch numbers have been low, initially by cold nights and more recently by wet and windy ones. It's always nice to get a Merveille du Jour and Pink-barred Sallow was only my 6th record. At Dungeness we managed to find one of the several Crimson Speckled moths that had arrived on the warm southerlies. Finally the tiny micro P. messaniella was new for the garden and brought the year list to 400 for only the 2nd time ever.
Merveille du Jour
Pink-barred Sallow
I see this is my first post for 2 months. I spent the first 3 weeks of September on a birding trip to Australia. A Southern Cassowary was the bird of the trip with Duck-billed Platypus as another star species. The moth trap year list has advanced to 383 which already is more than for the whole of last year. Recently Brown-spot Pinion was a new macro for the garden list and other Autumnal favourites have included: Centre-barred Sallow, The Sallow, Barred Sallow, Lunar Underwing, Clancy's Rustic and Green-brindled Crescent. More pictures from Australia will be appearing on my Flickr site.
Southern Cassowary
Platypus
Brown-spot Pinion
Barred Sallow
