Not much to sing and dance about

Expectations are high in September and like all high expectations they mainly lead to disappointment, with nothing that exciting over the last week.  I've only got a couple of months left at the Old Vic and the garden bird list is stuck on 96 for all time HERE. Would have been good to get to 100 species so will pull all the plugs over the next few weeks (get the noc-mig out etc).  Recent ebird checklist HERE . There's been Yellow Wagtails going over nearly daily recently and the village hirundine flock is over 50 strong now. Still a few Chiffs and the odd Willow Warbler too. 

Also quiet on the moth front which has really slowed down now. There's a heat wave this week so fingers crossed that stirs things up. Year list has crept up to 426 and all time list is stuck on 629. 

Fortunately there's a couple of things coming up to look forward to including two weeks at the Bulgaria project for the last two weeks of this month and I'm hopefully going to try to get to Corvo for a week too in October (if the house moving allows). 

Feathered Gothics are always nice to see

The odd Silver-Y has all there has been in the moth migrant department 

Birch Marble- a new for year

Not sure what this is, the closest I can get is a dark morph Winter Groundling . 050923 update- yep confirmed by Stephen Palmer. 

Presumably a plain form of Flounced Rustic 

Obsidentify has this as a Slender Ground-hopper- a new for the garden

This creature appeared in the reef tank, presumably a stowaway pest but not even sure what broad taxa it is

The garden sweetcorn have been very good this year