The Old Vic- garden mega

2 Shelducks flying over the garden this morning is the best it gets round here- garden tick. No photo as I was unarmed feeding the chickens. The garden bird list is now on 96 here . It was interesting to compare today's garden bird records with this time last year. There were three Blackcaps holding territory by now last year but apart from one record last week they have not arrived yet. A Willow Warbler this morning is quite a good Spring record. 

The moth trapping has still not picked up properly. It's either been wet and windy at night or warm during the day and then clear skies at night with even some light frosts recently.  I've also missed a couple of good nights because been away working. I had two traps out last night and only got two species; Hebrew Character (6) and Clouded Drab (1).  A Muslin moth about a week ago was the last new species for the year.

Fortunately I'm off to Bulgaria tomorrow for a couple of weeks so might have some better content for this blog rather than my omelette below. 

Muslin moth- NFY

Frosted Green- seems to have been a reasonable showing of them this Spring 

The chickens are laying over 20 eggs a week at the moment so I'm having to come up with different ways of eating them- here's a wild mushroom omelette

 Another lack of content photo. Here's our Scooter Blenny, a native of the tropical seas from East Africa to Indonesia hiding out the Sixth Extinction in the office. 

Here is the moth trapping set up nowadays, the 125W Robinsons (above) and pimped up Heath Trap (below) - the only thing lacking is moths