Moths galore!

Lade - hot, dry, sunny, light airs - Needless to say the past two nights have been pretty good for moths with a combined total of 45 species in the garden MV. Several were new for the year including Yellow Shell and Rosy Footman, the latter species I don't often trap.

                                Yellow Shell and Rosy Footman

                               "Phew, that`s better!"

As the sun rose by mid-morning the shingle ridges were quivering in a fierce heat haze, with the afternoon temperature soaring into the mid 20s Centigrade. Around the shaded ponds plenty of common dragon and damselflies were on the wing along with more Marbled Whites, common grassland butterflies and day-flying moths elsewhere.
  A check of ARC revealed just the usual Cuckoo, Marsh Harrier, Lesser Whitethroat, eclipse  wildfowl, Lapwings and breeding Little Ringed Plovers. Summer is upon us...