I had the trap out again last
night and was joined by Dave at 07:00 to empty it. We started at 07:00 and it was 10:40 when we
finished and there was over 400 moths trapped.
These were mainly Chrysoteuchia culmella, with over 200 but there was
still a good number of species with over fifty identified.
The following were trapped:
Brown House-moth [1]; Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix [3]; Timothy Tortrix [2]; Clepsis
consimilana [1]; Aleimma loeflingiana [1]; Marble Orchard Tortrix [1];
Red-barred Tortrix [2]; Ancylis achatana [3]; Codling Moth [1]; Chrysoteuchia
culmella [201]; Crambus pascuella [10]; Crambus perlella [3]; Scoparia
pyralella [1]; Small Magpie [3]; Dioryctria abietella [1]; Phycitodes
binaevella [1]; Buff Arches [1]; Common Emerald [2]; Riband Wave [13]; Garden
Carpet [1]; Foxglove Pug [1]; Brimstone Moth [3]; Swallow-tailed Moth [7];
Peppered Moth [5]; Willow Beauty [7]; Clouded Silver [2]; Light Emerald [1];
White Satin Moth [2]; Common Footman [6]; Heart and Dart [13]; Flame [1]; Large
Yellow Underwing [1]; Double Square-spot [1]; Dot Moth [2]; Bright-line
Brown-eye [2]; Common Wainscot [1]; The Miller [1]; Dagger sp. [2]; Marbled
Beauty [7]; Small Angle Shades [1]; Dark Arches [50]; Large Nutmeg [1]; Marbled
Minor sp. [2]; Middle-barred Minor [1]; Uncertain [31]; Silver Y [1]; Plain
Golden Y [1]; Spectacle [2]; Blackneck [1] and Snout [2].
Marbled Orchard Tortrix
Ancylis achatana
Dioyctria abietella
Buff Arches
White Satin Moth
Small Angle Shades
Blackneck
We eventually set off for
Ketton Quarry, seeing a single Buzzard near King’s Norton, and on arrival it
was already very warm. Initially we
parked at the top of the road and walked the short distance to where there had
been twenty odd spikes of Bee Orchid last year but all we could find this year
was two. There was also a good number of
butterflies on the wing and we had seen Marbled White, Meadow Brown, Ringlet
and Small Skipper.
Bee Orchid
Common Centaury
Yellow-wort
After some lunch we entered
the small quarry and found more Marbled White, Meadow Brown, Ringlet and Small
Skipper but the highlight was a Dark Green Fritillary. This was a new butterfly for me and to find
one in the counties was excellent.
Having watched the fritillary for quite some time, mainly in flight, it
was chased by a second similar looking butterfly that could also have been a
second fritillary but more likely a Comma.
We walked along the ride to
the west of the car park as a Monarch had been seen on Thursday this week. There was no sign of the Monarch but we did
have a further brief view of the Dark Green Fritillary and saw plenty more
Marbled White, Meadow Brown and Ringlet and also added Large White, Brimstone,
Common Blue, Small Heath and Large Skipper and there was also several Six-spot
Burnet on the wing.
Returning to the small quarry
but there was no sign of the fritillary but we did have a Comma as we left.
Six-spot Burnet
Dark Green Fritillary
The last couple of hours were
spent at Rutland Water where we went to the north arm before going to Egleton
and walking to shoveler hide on lagoon three.
There were two Oystercatcher, nine Little Ringed Plover and twelve
Little Egrets in the north arm and from shoveler hide we saw a Ruff, a Snipe,
ten Black-tailed Godwits, three Curlew, a Common Sandpiper and five Green
Sandpipers.
Finally we called at sandpiper
hide on lagoon four where we saw a Ringed Plover, two Little Gulls, a Curlew,
seven Yellow-legged Gulls and a few Common Terns.
Insect wise we had seen
numerous Meadow Browns, a few Ringlets, Speckled Wood and Small Skipper and a
single Small Tortoiseshell.
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