June 2nd 2010

A misty start to the day so Bob was content to continue photographing my catch till the sun broke through then we went to the pond where the only birds of interest were the overnight arrival of a male Pochard in toft bay, female Grey Wagtail on toft bank and the first 2 young Yellow Wagtails of the year among the 8 seen today.
Once the sun was out then butterflies and moths became our main interest with butterflies represented by 60+ Common Blue (only 5 females), 7 Grizzled Skipper, 2 Brimstone and Large White.
Moths were Scorched Wing, Grass Rivulet, Brimstone, Brown Rustic, Marbled Minor agg and Ghost Moth around the visitors centre and Yellow Shell, 2 Common Swift, Cinnabar, Pyrausta purpupalis,
Crambus pascuella, Crambus lathoniellus and a couple of others grass veneer types that went unidentified among the vegetation.
Moved on to Draycote Meadows where we added Large Skipper, Brown Argus, Small Copper, Chimney Sweep and Burnet Companion to our day list and the 400+ Grass Rivulets were impressive as were the many Common-spotted Orchids that were just starting to bloom.

Richard