Miscellaneous Common Insects

Beautiful Demoiselle - male.

Beautiful Knot-horn - Rhodophaea formosa.

Drinker

Fulvous Clothes Moth - Tinea semifulvella.

Common Emerald

Beautiful Demoiselle - male.

Beautiful Demoiselle - female.

Beautiful Demoiselle -male.

Small Red Damselfly

Brimstone

Common Blue - female.

Small Skipper on Knapweed.

Six-spot Burnet on Knapweed.

Broad-bodied Chaser - female.

Beautiful Demoiselle - female.

Four-spotted Chaser

Two Ospreys and High Brown Frit

Two Ospreys fishing the lower reaches of the Exe shortly after 6am this morning. One bird plonked down in the shallow water, too impatient to wait for some mud to appear. Other species noted included 6 Dunlin, 1 Knot, 8+ Sandwich Tern, 2 Common Tern, 3+ Mediterranean Gull, 4+ Whimbrel and 9 Mallard, signalling the start of the late summer wildfowl build-up.

Lunch with Lu in the 'Hound of the Baskervilles', in Ashburton, was combined with a short walk around Aish Tor, where a small number of High Brown Fritillaries were seen. Sods to photograph today though.

Crescent Dart

Crescent Dart - only the second time I've trapped this coastal species.

An early morning look off Mudbank produced 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 10+ Sandwich Tern, 8 Sand Martin, 2+ Whimbrel, a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull and 2 Mediterranean Gulls. Nearby off Maer Rocks - 2 Common Tern and 2 Mediterranean Gulls.

Martin and I popped up to Taunton to try for clearwings but we had no luck, scuppered by overcast conditions and a cool breeze. Got some nice moths at Martin's though! My journey back took me past Exton Station where the Osprey did the decent thing and put on an impressive, and ultimately successful, fishing display.

 

Barred Marble - Celypha striana

Common Tern - off Maer Rocks. A juvenile was on the next buoy along.

One of two Mediterranean Gulls on Maer Rocks.

 

Minor agg - a probable Rufous Minor with pale brown oval and kidney mark, reddish-brown tufts on thorax and a nice reddish central cross-band - Saint Hill.

 

Blue-bordered Carpet - Saint Hill

Garden Tiger - Saint Hill

Osprey - Exton Station

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.