David, Roger and I started off
today at Newton Harcourt emptying Dave’s moth trap. It was rather a disappointing morning with
thirty-four moth being trapped and covering just fourteen species.
The following were recorded:
Blastodacna hellerella [1]; Small Dusty Wave [1]; Riband Wave [2]; Peppered
Moth [1]; Elephant Hawkmoth [1]; Scarce Footman [1]; Common Footman [9]; Heart
and Dart [6]; Large Yellow Underwing [1]; Clay [1]; Dark Arches [2]; Rustic sp.
[2], Uncertain [2] and Rustic [4]..
Blastodacna hellerella
Small Dusty Wave
Large Yellow Underwing
Clay
With the weather forecast
being pretty good today we decide we should go to Fermyn Wood in
Northamptonshire and hopefully some butterflies.
On arrival it was still quite
cool and there was little sun. We walked
down the track to the first cross roads were we had three Ospreys over the
wood, two of which were certainly adults.
There was several brief intervals of sun when we saw a number of
Ringlets and my first White Admiral of the year and a Southern Hawker.
We eventually finished up at
the bend in the track and did have a fairly prolonged period of sunshine when
we had a single Purple Emperor on three occasions but unlike on previous visits
it did not settle on the track. We also
saw to White-letter Hairstreaks at the same spot. Dave also managed to catch two micros and we
identified them back at the car as Brown Oak Tortrix and a Green Oak Tortrix.
Red Admiral
Ringlet
After some lunch we moved of
to Rutland Water where we spent most of our time on lagoon four visiting both
sandpiper and dunlin hides. There was a
reasonable selection of waders present and we recorded four Oystercatcher, a
single juvenile Little Ringed Plover, ten Ringed Plovers, ten Dunlin, fourteen
Curlew, a Common Sandpiper, two Green Sandpipers and four Greenshanks. I also found a male and female Red-crested
Pochard and an Osprey flew over. There
were at least five Little Egrets feeding on the lagoon and a Little Owl was
heard calling on several occasions whilst we were in dunlin hide. We spent some time just outside the hide
before we returned as saw twelve Black-tailed Godwits dropping onto the lagoon
and there was also a distant Hobby.
Whilst we were outside the
hide we found a Four-spotted Chaser, two Ruddy Darters and an Emerald Damselfly
and there were plenty of Common Blue Damselflies as well.
Four-spotted Chaser
Ruddy Darter
Emerald Damselfly
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