The moth trap has been pretty quiet this week with night temperatures barely above 10 C. Only about 30 moths of six species last night. I've now converted the MV to a twin actinic (on advice from our county moth recorder who guarantees higher catches with actinic through the late autumn/ winter). Only new for year was a Barred Sallow and a surprise Western Conifer Seed Bug in the office this morning .
A few Meadow Pipits and Skylarks have been going over during the dry spells (in between the fronts and rain throughout this last week) and there's been up to eight Mistle Thrush about. Still the odd Chiffchaff.
On the mini-farm front Bryan has put some Garlic in for the winter, we have begun to harvest the pumpkins, the last of the courgettes and most of the Sweetcorn and we are currently preparing pumpkin soup, tomato soup, pumpkin bread, marrow curry and stuffed marrow (and will freeze a lot of that to last through the winter months- to add to the freezer full of food we have already prepared). Following the last few weeks fuel crisis might need to think about getting a diesel tank at the work yard.
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