Start July - six new for garden in three days

Lots of excitement at Wychwood Avenue over the first few days of the month with a hot spell and six new macro moth species for the garden. Four are illustrated here and the other two (much scarcer) species to come in a later post as they are currently with the VC30 recorders for confirmation. Come back in a few days for the next installment to find out what they are !

Haworths Pug (on the scratched perspex cove of the trap) - NFG 4th July

Treble-bar - NFG 3rd July (have found on local hills in daytime earlier this year)

Common White Wave - NFG 4th July (though plenty around the local woodlands)

Dingy Shears - pair together NFG 3rd July

Scalloped Oak - NFY 3rd July, three were recorded in 2010

Short-cloaked Moth on the shed door - NFY 3rd July, just one record in 2010

Fern - second one this year, this is fresh and well marked in contrast to the previous one

Marbled Beauty - very common around these parts but not usually with this amount of orange colouration

Common Emerald - NFY 2nd July, four of these in the garden in 2010

Daytime mothing

A bit of daytime mothing for me at Galley Hill Luton on a fine but breezy afternoon was prompted by the finding of a Burnet Companion in the garden. I have spent most of the spring looking up on the hills but birding has been hard work up there recently so I got some rewards for looking down instead.
Treble-Bar x3
Common Carpet x2
Green Carpet
Mother Shipton x2
and my first Silver Y of the year also

I did not have the camera with me so the following images are were quickly grabbed with the limited technology provided by my Nokia N73

Mother Shipton

Treble-bar

Burnet Companion