Looks okay to me for Common Swift.
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May/June Moths (4 Viewers)
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Looks okay to me for Common Swift.
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
I need to find a more powerful magnifying glass. I caught a titchy Argyresthia sp. this morning but just could not see it well enough to be sure what it was, probably cupresella.
Not a lot else on what I thought would be a good night.
Steve
Not a lot else on what I thought would be a good night.
Steve
KenM
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Just three moths last night from my ''Heath Robinson''. A Grey-Pine Carpet, an Iron Prominent (one of my favourites) and my 4th Pale Tussock of the last seven days (doing a fair imitation of a troubled Viking, wearing cape and night shirt! :-O
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Andy Adcock
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I may be teaching grandma to suck eggs here, Steve, sorry if so, but you do know looking through your binoculars the 'wrong' way makes an excellent magnifying glass, yes/no?
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
Yes - must admit that slipped my mind this morning. Always shows how mucky the lenses are!
Steve
Farnboro John
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Can't be more than 3/4 mile in a straight line. Maybe less. Never had one!
Today's score:
53 moths of 16 species, so more variety.
27 Heart and Dart easily the biggest score, nothing else more than Treble Lines with 4.
Snout and Vine's Rustic NFY, though I may have misid'd the latter and might have done again but for warnings on here about the pitfall. Angle Shades, White Ermine and Buff Tip the aesthetic winners.
Thursley this morning for a session with Colin and the Redstarts: Cinnabar, Yellow Shell and Latticed Heath bycatch.
John
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Allen
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Sorry John, Nada....in fact pathetic with 1 x Willow Beauty and 1 x Heart and Dart. I even positioned it close to a Honeysuckle in hope.
Farnboro John
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Allen
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Or tonights another night ! And the Common Swift was near Haslemere so not Farnborough
Farnboro John
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Andy Adcock
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Have you all noticed that the site is now automatically resizing images, it didn't used to?
My images were all under the 1mb limit but they were still further reduced by about 2/3
My images were all under the 1mb limit but they were still further reduced by about 2/3
Rubia
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Last night I had -
2 Pale Tussocks (males), 2 Treble Lines, 12 Light Brown Apple Moths, 1 Pale Prominent, 2 Small Elephant Hawk-moths, 5 Nutmegs, 2 Green Carpets, 10 Heart & Dart, 1 PINE HAWKMOTH, 1 White Ermine, 5 Common Wainscot, 3 Freyer's Pugs, 1 Scalloped Hazel, 1 Argyresthia trifasciata, 1 Grey Dagger agg., 1 MAIDEN'S BLUSH, 1 Udea olivalis, 1 Light Emerald, 1 Willow Beauty, 1 NOTOCELIA UDDMANNIANA, 3 Large Nutmeg, 1 Broken-barred Carpet, 1 Garden Carpet, 1 Shuttle-shaped Dart, 2 Celypha lacunana, 1 Ptycholoma lecheana.
1 Cockchafer.
Capitals denote new for garden. Positively thrilled by the Pine Hawk, probably the least colourful Hawk but what a flyer and huge. Subtly graceful.
That Gold Spot is nice, hope I get one.
2 Pale Tussocks (males), 2 Treble Lines, 12 Light Brown Apple Moths, 1 Pale Prominent, 2 Small Elephant Hawk-moths, 5 Nutmegs, 2 Green Carpets, 10 Heart & Dart, 1 PINE HAWKMOTH, 1 White Ermine, 5 Common Wainscot, 3 Freyer's Pugs, 1 Scalloped Hazel, 1 Argyresthia trifasciata, 1 Grey Dagger agg., 1 MAIDEN'S BLUSH, 1 Udea olivalis, 1 Light Emerald, 1 Willow Beauty, 1 NOTOCELIA UDDMANNIANA, 3 Large Nutmeg, 1 Broken-barred Carpet, 1 Garden Carpet, 1 Shuttle-shaped Dart, 2 Celypha lacunana, 1 Ptycholoma lecheana.
1 Cockchafer.
Capitals denote new for garden. Positively thrilled by the Pine Hawk, probably the least colourful Hawk but what a flyer and huge. Subtly graceful.
That Gold Spot is nice, hope I get one.
dantheman
Bah humbug
Farnboro John
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28 May and more of the same really. 16 Heart and Dart still way ahead of even resurgent Shuttle-shaped Darts' effort of 7. 37 individuals of 11 species in total: Dark Arches NFY and a nice Bright-line Brown-eye without the ragged edge on the first one of the year. Another Poplar Hawk-moth kept the big moth sequence on track but it must be time for something new....
John
John
JWN Andrewes
Poor Judge of Pasta.
Up until yesterday my garden moth list numbered 5. Pending ID confirmations I have quadrupled that overnight with my first session with a brand new moth trap! Had a very enjoyable morning sorting through the goodies, with my favourites attached. (I am still at a stage where I am pretty oblivious to rarity value and judge quality purely on the look of the thing. Interesting to see if that changes over time. I hope not!)
And at one point there was the following exchange -
Me (engrossed in photographing Pale Tussock): "Is that a Kingfisher I can hear?"
Arch: "Ooh, yes, its on that TV aerial!! There it goes!"
I was too slow - missed it!
Lesser Swallow Prominent
Elephant Hawk
Pale Tussocks
Scorched Wing
Peppered
And at one point there was the following exchange -
Me (engrossed in photographing Pale Tussock): "Is that a Kingfisher I can hear?"
Arch: "Ooh, yes, its on that TV aerial!! There it goes!"
I was too slow - missed it!
Lesser Swallow Prominent
Elephant Hawk
Pale Tussocks
Scorched Wing
Peppered
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Andy Adcock
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Pale Tussocks seem to be having a good year everywhere including here.
Steve Lister
Senior Birder, ex County Recorder, Garden Moths.
I seem to be in a rut of catching around 20 moths a night - this morning's haul of exactly 20 included 3 NFY though: White Ermine (a nice buff one which almost fooled me), Shoulder-striped Wainscot and Spectacle. These take my garden year list up to 69.
Steve
Steve
Jabberwocky
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Nice Gold Spot Andy, I've never had one here, I live in hope.
I didn't trap last night but the previous night I got 95 macros and 29 micros plus a few that would need dissection to ID. I don't bother with those.
New for garden were Grey Carpet, Lathronympa strigana, Homoeosoma sinuella, Notocelia trimaculana and Epinotia bilunana.
New for year were Scorched Wing, Elephant Hawk-moth, Angle Shades, Marbled Brown, Mottled Rustic, Anania perlucidalis and Scoparia ambigualis.
Lewis
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