Latest bits from the Old Vic

It's still been damp and cool but the moth list has still been slowly climbing, now on 370 for the year. 

Latest Ebird list from the garden HERE. 

There's quite a few small Common Frogs around at the moment presumably out of the neighbour's pond. 

Jersey Tiger- NFY

Was surprised to see this Privet Hawkmoth- it's been only Poplar Hawks for a few weeks now

Small Phoenix- only get one or so a year here

Bird's-nest Moth, Tinea trinotella- NFY

Toadflax Brocade

Closest I can get to this is something like Viburnum Button, Acleris schalleriana. 130812 update, maybe not this species , see here

I've no experience with these but been trying to sort out the Copper Underwings here this year (considering there isn't much else to do due to the weather). From what I can see this is more like Svensson's Copper Underwing with the orange on the underside of the hind-wing extending towards the base of the wing and beyond the wing bar? 

Every year I get caught out by these Small Clouded Brindle look-a-likes which are usually just another colour variation of Common Rustic agg

Don't know- Bactra sp? (above and below)  130823 update, this is Mottled Marble Bactra furturana (thanks Dave, see here)

Parsnip moth I think. 130823 update- could be Depressaria radiella (see here from moth guru Dave Wilton here) 

Jacob and I have been doing stuff in the garden during the summer holidays- did a bit of harvesting yesterday for dinner (above and below). 

Another summer holiday activity was a grockle bus tour of Oxford having a look at the different colleges and gardens- here's Christ Church College. I've got to deal with the hell of Legoland today.