Pale Prominent, Tree Pipit and Sedgie

Pale Prominent

A quick whiz around Orcombe Point, early doors, produced very little but single Tree Pipit, Willow Warbler and Sedge Warbler were noted, along with 3 Whitethroat and about half a dozen Swallow.

Back home it was another non-eventful day with just 5 Dark-bellied Brent Goose, 2 Pale-bellied Brent Goose, 2 Sandwich Tern, 8 Whimbrel, 1 or 2 House Martin and a fly-over Yellow Wagtail noted.

Mothing produced 6 Rusty Dot Pearl, 6 Brimstone Moth, 2 Garden Carpet, 1 Powdered Quaker, 1 Early Grey, 7 Muslin Moth, 3 Early Thorn, 1 Double-striped Pug, 3 Oak-tree Pug, 1 Swallow Prominent, 1 Knot Grass, 4 Light Brown Apple Moth, 1 Pale Prominent, 3 Common Pug, 2 Silver Y, 2 Bright-line Brown-eye, 1 Common Carpet, 1 Lunar Marbled Brown, 1 Narrow-winged Grey, 3 Least Black Arches, 2 Hebrew Character and 1 Nut-tree Tussock.

 

As the 'new for the year' moths appear I'm photographing them and sticking them on here. I never normally have the time to record all the moths I trap, never mind photograph them. The only new species for me so far this year is Lichen Button Acleris literana. The fifty-one recorded so far during this lockdown period are as follows:

 

Common Quaker

Small Quaker

Early Grey

Double-striped Pug

Brimstone Moth

Hebrew Character

Lunar Marbled Brown

Muslin Moth

Flame Shoulder

Powdered Quaker

Mullein

Shuttle-shaped Dart

Narrow-winged Grey (Eeudonia angustea)

Brindled Pug

Early Thorn,

Brown-spot Flatbody (Agnopterix alstromeriana)

Clouded Drab

Pale Mottled Willow

Oak-tree Pug

Water Carpet

Swallow Prominent

Frosted Green

Angle Shades

Brindled Flat-body (Agnopterix arenella) 

Pine Beauty

Rusty Dot Pearl

Silver Y

Sulphur Tubic (Esperia sulphurella)

Lichen Button (Acleris literana)

Twenty-plume Moth (Alucita hexadactyla)

Lime-speck Pug

Red Twin-spot Carpet

Ruddy Streak (Acroxantha tachystola)

V-Pug

Nut-tree Tussock

Light Brown Apple Moth (Epiphyas postvittana)

Least Black Arches

Brindled Beauty

Common Slender (Gracillaria syringella)

Iron Prominent

Cinnabar

Knot Grass

Bird's-nest Moth (Tinea trinotella)

Bright-line Brown-eye

Streamer

White-shouldered House Moth (Endrosis sarcitrella)

Common Marbled Carpet

Common Carpet

Garden Carpet

Pale Prominent

Common Pug

Common Pug above and a different individual below showing variation.

Garden Carpet