Thursday 7 July 2011

MOTHS!!!???


Dark Arches?

Garden Dart?

Clay?

No idea

Copper Underwing?

Here's my latest attempt at trying to identify moths. So far I reckon I've seen (or stringed) the following species over the last few weeks:
Buff Arches, Least Carpet, Small Scallop, Riband Wave, Yellow Shell, Common Pug, Brimstone Moth, Swallow-tailed Moth, Common Footman, Cinnabar, Garden Dart, Heart and Dart, Flame Shoulder, Clay, Smoky Wainscot, Common Wainscot, Knot Grass, Copper Underwing, Straw Underwing, Dun-bar, Common Rustic, Silver Y, Mother Shipton, Common Rustic and Dark Arches.

Birds today included 30 Green Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank and a juvenile Peregrine. The other guys had some more Blackwits too.

5 comments:

Steve Gale said...

Hi Peter, your Garden Dart is a Lesser Yellow Underwing and your 'no idea' is a Knot Grass

Peter Alfrey said...

Did I actually get the others right?

Steve Gale said...

Yes, although the Copper Underwing could be a Svensson's Copper Underwing

Peter Alfrey said...

I read that the only way to tell Svensson's is to look at the pattern on the inner wing- I had another one last night and caught it in a jar but still couldn't work it out.

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