A cooler night so only 13 moths of 10 species this morning. Peppered Moth was new for the year plus a difficult Tortrix, Eana incanana, which would have been new for the garden. However, looking at some old photographs of similar species I appear to have seen one before. Garden list revised now 510.

 Peppered Moth

 Eana incanana

Very heavy rain last night meant a trap full of very soggy egg boxes this morning. Surprisingly 25 moths of 15 species still manged to swim into the trap. The Dun-bar was the only new one for the year.

The Dun-bar

 Diamond-back Moth

The Moth trap has been somewhat disappointing for the last few days with only Red-barred Tortrix being new for the year. Made a visit to Sissinghurst yesterday where we saw 13 species of Dragon/Damselfly. I was hoping to photograph Golden-ringed but we just had 2 brief sightings. There were also 4 White Admirals seen which were not particularly co-operative with photography either. I did see a new Hoverfly species.

 Beautiful Demoiselle

 Xylota sylvarum

  

Moth numbers have increased a bit in the last few days with Orange Moth, Cream-bordered Green Pea, and Least Carpet all new for the year. Unfortunately the first two escaped before I could photograph them.(Picture below form the archives-2009). I spent a couple of hours yesterday morning at Lorenden park at Painter's Forstall, where there were dozens of Marbled Whites.

Marbled White

 Orange Moth

Just 19 moths of 12 species on Saturday morning and nothing new for the year. I then made a morning visit to Hothfield Common where I failed to see a single Dragon or Damselfly. In the early afternoon I made another visit to East Blean Woods where there were about 10 Heath Fritaillaries in the car park area. I also photographed a fairly scarce moth: Clay Fan-foot, which was a new one for me.

Clay Fan-foot

Yesterday morning there were 14 species in the trap including Swallow-tailed Moth and Waved Black, which wee both nre for the year. This morning after a cooler night there only 9 species. Had a day at Dunge and Rye Harbour yesterday. Fairly quiet at Dunge but there was a mass emergence of Narrsow-bordered Five-spot Burnet Moth.

 Swallow-tailed Moth

 Waved Black

Narrow-bordered 5-spot Burnets

A slightly wet night with a low of 12c produced 15 moths of 11 species this morning. However, a Barred Straw was new for the garden list and the 4th new macro of the year which, after 15 years, I'm quite pleased with.

Barred Straw

 Foxglove Pug