This is how it should be every night. Conditions last night were ideal with thunderstorm rumbles in the background but hardly any rain, very warm and humid and boy o boy did it bring the moths out. Added two to my garden list with Drinker and Wormwood Pug by experimenting with an old overhead projector screen next to my normal trap with an additional 50mv lamp and that certainly worked. If they did not go in to trap then they landed on screen to be potted up and managed 146 moths of 46 species.
Just a quick visit to Draycote Water before the forcasted rain. Three Common Tern, 12 Lapwing, 2 Dunlin and Common Sandpiper all in toft bay with a few Buzzards up plus many Swifts.
Drinker
Poplar Grey
Mid-afternoon a Sparrowhawk landed on garden fence carrying a recently caught Blackbird and as normal shot off before I had found my camera. Coal Tit briefly.
Richard
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