July 6th 2008

Last nights mothing session with Dave at Oxhouse Farm, Combrook was marred by heavy rain just before we started and not surprisingly a very poor turnout with only four hardy souls braving the elements. Moths were slow to come in but we managed 29 species in three hours with two new for my Warwickshire list, Maple Pug and Satin Beauty. Both difficult to identify so very grateful for the presence of moth expert David Brown.
We arrived home at 2am and back out again to Draycote Water by 7:15am bleary eyed so the walk out to toft bay in the poring rain woke us up with three Common Sandpiper seen along farborough bank, a few Sand Martin's and on the return a Hobby flew close by. Nothing of note in Grandborough Valley and at Brandon Marsh more rain but we did see two Green Sandpiper before eventually calling it quits - there's only so much wet stuff one can take.

Richard