Close after my trip to Dorset I had booked a trip to Finland for Wild Brown Bear with hopes for Wolf and Wolverine. Not a huge number of birds but flocks of Waxwings and Cranes were nice with Osprey and several Honey Buzzards being seen.
Over the last few weeks the moth trap has attracted quite a few moths, averaging between 70-80 most nights with a high of 125 on Friday. Most are normal but a few less usual ones for my trap, such as Spectacle, Orange swift, Lunar and Dusky Thorn and Oak and Pebble Hook-tips.Very few Yellow underwings seem to have been about, apart from Lesser Broad-bordered and last night the were 15 Flame shoulders and 24 Square-spot Rustics.
It does seem to have been a good year for butterflies, compared to the last few. We had 2 common blues which are very unusual, as well as both Whites, Speckled Wood, Small Torts and a Comma.
A visit to Dungeness yesterday was very wet but I did manage to see the juv cuckoo, 2 Pied Flycatchers, 4 Wheatears, several Willow Warblers and Whitethroats as well as 4/6 Whinchats and a couple of Stonechats.
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Over the last few weeks the moth trap has attracted quite a few moths, averaging between 70-80 most nights with a high of 125 on Friday. Most are normal but a few less usual ones for my trap, such as Spectacle, Orange swift, Lunar and Dusky Thorn and Oak and Pebble Hook-tips.Very few Yellow underwings seem to have been about, apart from Lesser Broad-bordered and last night the were 15 Flame shoulders and 24 Square-spot Rustics.
It does seem to have been a good year for butterflies, compared to the last few. We had 2 common blues which are very unusual, as well as both Whites, Speckled Wood, Small Torts and a Comma.
A visit to Dungeness yesterday was very wet but I did manage to see the juv cuckoo, 2 Pied Flycatchers, 4 Wheatears, several Willow Warblers and Whitethroats as well as 4/6 Whinchats and a couple of Stonechats.
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