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Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Unmarried Moth'ers - Part I

While rain was sporadic across most of the weekend, in the main we stayed reasonably dry, but while Friday nights catch was considered to be excellent it was massively outshone by what we recorded the following day. The highlights of the former were published on yesterday's Post while we have dedicate this and the following two Posts to compliment Saturday night, Sunday morning and part of Sunday afternoon. It was a hard plod!

BLACK - just for interest.

BLUE - a new species for the Year.

RED - a new species for our Recording Area.

Dave's 'extra' 3 Moth Traps on the Fifth Golf Fairway at dusk.

We decided to leave the Best Until First which was certainly the

RAREST

and likely the most `Aesthetically Pleasing' of all the Weekends Catch!

SCARCE MERVEILLE du JOUR

According to most Authorities the range of this most striking Insect

includes a number of the Southern Counties of England but not our

Home County of Dorset.

It was first caught here in 2002, since when there have been a further

40 or so records, all but one from the East of the County,
and is considered to be widening its range,

Of no real List significance but to catch both male (left) and female

FOX MOTH
together was thought worthy of publication.

PEBBLE HOOK-TIP

GREY PUG

TAWNY BARRED-ANGLE

SATIN WAVE

FREYER'S PUG
a welcome addition to the Property List.

a nice example of
PINE CARPET

DINGY MOCHA
and the close relative

BIRCH MOCHA

BROWN RUSTIC

CLAY TRIPLE-LINES

Considered a nice combination and showing the diversity of these Insects
FOXGLOVE PUG with LIGHT EMERALD

FOXGLOVE PUG

GREEN SILVER-LINES

NARROW-WINGED PUG

SYCAMORE

a slightly unusual 'dark morph'

WILLOW BEAUTY
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Tuesday, 14 June 2016

Black is Black - Los Bravos

Another rain soaked morning yesterday but just intermittent enough to get the Moth Traps cleared between downpours. However, the weather proved to be idea for sitting at Slight Return II editing the seemingly endless number of photographs taken over the weekend. We will endeavour to publish these in the next couple of days starting with Saturday's contribution which now follow. Added to the Moth Year List

SMALL RIVULET

BARRED STRAW

CURRENT PUG

POPLAR KITTEN

BRUSSELS LACE

SHARK

TRUE LOVER'S KNOT
and

SHOULDER-STRIPED WAINSCOT

Male PHEASANTs 'squaring up'!

BLACK SHEEP
(it's usually me)
and

BLACK SLUG

RIBWORT PLANTAIN

Looks like predated

CANADA GOOSE EGG

LESSER HAWBIT

It seemed a little strange to encounter

SHELDUCK
on the Heath.

ROSA MULTIFLORA

ROE DEER
and often overlooked

HOLLY BLOSSOM
and finally an addition from the
Trail Cams

now becoming a frequent visitor to these fence posts

GREEN WOODPECKER

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Monday, 13 June 2016

Your'e Gorgeous - Babybird

Despite some rain on both mornings of the weekend, it was a great pleasure to have our friend Dave Foot to stay and engage in a number of successful Wildlife forays together. On Saturday there were a manageable number of Moths to monitor and photograph while the following day there was a massive increase in both quality and quantity, so the images will not be edited/published until later in the week. Otherwise it was systems normal as from the Traps before the weekend we secured