Moth Update

Friday 29th July 2011, Minimum Temperature 8.2C. 12 species recorded.

Marbled Beauty 3

Bee Moth 1

Willow Beauty 3

Scalloped Oak 2

Large Yellow Underwing 11

Lesser Board-bordered Yellow Underwing 2

Cabbage Moth 2

Dark Arches 8

Uncertain 2

Bird Cherry Ermine 2

Shuttle-shaped Dart 1

Orange Swift 1 (nfy)

Toadflax Pug 1

Carcina Quercana 1 (nfy)

Yellowshell 1 (nfy)

Common Rustic agg 5

Golden Plusia 1 (nfy)

Acleris forsskaleana 1

Trachycera advenella 1

Garden Grass Veneer 2

Garden Carpet 1

Dipleurina lacustrata 3

Garden Birdwatch Update

Week Starting 24th July 2011.

1 Blue Tit

2 Collared Dove

2 Dunnock

20 House Sparrow

3 Jackdaw

2 Woodpigeon

1 Blackbird

21 Starling

2 Feral Pigeon

2 Greenfinch

1 Coal Tit

Food: Peanuts, Seed & Sunflower Hearts.

Water.

Butterflies: Comma, Red Admiral & Large White.

Insects: Honeybee, White-tailed Bee, Common Carder Bee & Garden Bumblebee.

On Sunday 24th July, I had an afternoon walk at Coatham Wood near Long Newton. The warm afternoon sunshine was also enjoyed by the Butterflies, Moths and Dragonflies. The follwing species were recorded:

Butterflies: 12 Meadow Brown, 16 Large Skipper, 10 Large White, 8 Small Skipper, 1 Small White, 16 Small Tortoiseshell, 11 Small Heath, 1 Green-veined Butterfly and 1 Comma.

Moths: 1 Yellowshell Moth, 2 Shaded Board-bar and 1 Udea Lutealis.

Dragonfly: 1 Brown Hawker.

Mammals: Rabbit & Stoat.

Butterflies of Coatham Wood

Moth Update

16/7/10 - I forgot to post last weeks garden moths. New for year moths marked.

Hightlights were....
Swallowtail 1
Buff Arches 1
Uncertain 4
Burnished Brass 1
Common Footman 1
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing 2 (nfy)
Scalloped Oak 2
Agriphila Straminella 3 (nfy)
Tinea Trinotella 1 (nfy)
Grey Dagger agg 1 (nfy)
Snout 1 (nfy)

25 species trapped

Grey Heron's of Regents Park, London

A pleasant walk around Regents Park, London.

London Wetlands Centre 9th July 2011

Birds: Rose-ringed Parakeet, Common Tern, Tufted Duck, Mallard, Lapwing, Mute Swan, Starling, Coot, Moorhen, Pochard, Grey Heron, Little Grebe, Great-crested Grebe, Black-headed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull & Canada Geese.

Butterflies: Red Admiral, Speckled Wood & Large White.

Photographic highlights of a trip to the London Wetlands Centre at Barnes.

Platyptilia pallidactyla

Another new species for the garden. Four were present in the garden on Sunday 3rd July 2011.

Iron Prominent

This is my third new prominent this year!

Moth Update

I put the moth trap out on Friday 1st July and it was warm dry night with the minimum temperature of 13.2C. 45 species recorded of 134 individuals, so it was the best night of the year so far.

Highlights included my first record of Iron Prominent (2000) and Engrailed (1947). There were also new records for the year:

2199 Common Wainscot

1682 Bloodvein

1709 Satin Wave

1922 Swallow-tailed Moth

1887 Clouded Border

2050 Common Footman

2193 Clay

1378 Phlyictaenia coronata

1816 Toadflax Pug

1304 Agriphila Straminella

1439 Trachycera Advenella.

Garden Birdwatch Update

Week starting the 26th June 2011.

Blue Tit 2

Coal Tit 1

Robin 1

House Sparrow 6

Dunnock 2

Goldfinch 5

Greenfinch 2

Blackbird 2

Starling 11

Jackdaw 2

Woodpigeon 4

Collared Dove 2

Feral Pigeon 3

Food: Sunflower Hearts, Seed & Peanuts

Water

Mammals: 1 Hedgehog & 2 Cats.

Insects: 1 Common Carder Bee & 4 Garden Bumblebee

Moth Update

Highlights from Friday 24th June 2011.

21 species trapped and the minimum temperature recorded overnight was 11.0C. The highlights included another Swallow Prominent (2007) and the first records of the year for the following species.

1001 - Lozotaeniodes formosanus

2434 - Burnished Brass

1654 - Buff Arches

1376 - Small Magpie.

Garden Birdwatch Update

Week starting 19th June 2011.

Blue Tit 2

Goldfinch 4

Greenfinch 2

House Sparrow 6

Dunnock 3

Jackdaw 2

Starling 14

Blackbird 2

Collared Dove 2

Woodpigeon 3

Feral Pigeon 2

Food: Sunflower Hearts, Peanuts & Seed.

Water

Mammals: 1 Hedgehog.

Insects: 1 Red-tailed Bumblebee, 2 White-tailed Bumblebee.

A pair of Blackbirds have been prospecting in the garden this week. I think this is their second brood this year having previously reared one chick from a nest in a nearby garden.