Moths 2017

Done quite a few traps in the garden with Donna over the past cpl of months with small numbers but still picking up new moths for the garden despite this being about my tenth year of mothing in the back yard..............

Pale Brindled Beauty

 Oak Beauty

Small Quaker

Common Quaker

Grey Shoulder-knot

Clouded Drab

Early Grey

Hebrew Character

5th - 28th March 2017

Not much doing over the last few weeks with the Tundra Bean Geese departing from Seeswood overnight 12/3/17, 5 Waxwings at Marsh Lane NR on the 5/3/17 & good numbers of Chiffchaff in the Tame Valley & 1 singing on Seeswood 14/3/17, 1st  Sand Martins with 20+ over Coton Lakes with 2 Garganey & 1 Little Ringed Plover at Middleton Lakes RSPB on the 18/3/17 & my 1st Swallow on Seeswood pool with 5 Sand Martin,4 Chiffchaff & 30+ Meadow Pipit on the 28th.....

Waxwing (Marsh Lane NR 5/3/17)

Yellowhammer (Marsh Lane NR 19/3/17)