Silver-washed Fritillary

Silver-washed Fritillary - a fair few seen this afternoon. In fact lots of butterflies up on East Budleigh Common, with fifteen species noted - Marbled White being the most unexpected.

White Admiral - several seen - most tree-height though.

Comma

Large Skippers - mating pair.

Green Hairstreak

Small Heath

Speckled Wood - master of camouflage.

Scarlet Tiger - nectaring. Good to see Tom this afternoon, like me, out 'butterflying'. He did well to pick this one out.

Pearl Grass-veneer - Catoptria pinella

Micro sp - got some work to do on this one.

Small Purple-barred

Grass Emerald

Double Lobed and Box Tree Moth

Double Lobed - this is my first in Exmouth. I haven't seen one for many years.

Phoenix

Inlaid Grass-veneer - Crambus pascuella

Dun-bar

Common Marble - Celypha lacunana

Pied Grey - Eudonia delunella

Oak Nycteoline

Box Tree Moth - a first for me here in Exmouth but very much expected!

Common Purple & Gold - Pyrausta purpuralis

Diamond-back Moth

Small Tortoiseshell

Gatekeeper

Grayling - angling itself to avoid detection.

Silver-studded Blue

Painted Lady

Juvenile Mediterranean Gull - one of two or three Meds off Mudbank this afternoon, after high tide. The only other birds of note - 8 Sandwich Terns.

Scarce Chaser White Admiral

Scarce Chaser - Dart's Farm - one of three males seen together.

Small Red-eyed Damselfly - Dart's Farm

Common Carpet

Burnished Brass

Four-spotted Footman - female.

Dark Arches - showing variation.

Smoky Wainscot

Keeled Skimmer - male.

Garden Grass-veneer - Chrysoteuchia culmella

Black-tailed Skimmer

Keeled Skimmer

 

White Admiral (above and below) - East Budleigh Common - two or three showing really well this afternoon - two individuals photographed.

Satin Beauty

Satin Beauty - I've only ever trapped one or two of these. This is my first in Exmouth. This one has a red mite attached to its antennae - something you see quite often with moths.

True Lover's Knot - love this moth!

Beautiful Hook-tip

White Satin Moth

Brown-tail Moth - playing dead and displaying its poisonous brown hairs.

Small Skipper - proboscis out.

Juvenile Mediterranean Gull - Mudbank.