Nothing to say.....

I've been really ill this week with a bout of tonsilitis so very little happening. Tried snooping around between Stanton and Ellistown today for a site that looks spot on for Corn Bunting but lots of shooting going on. Managed Green Woodpecker and Kestrel and that was about it ! Hopefully some migrants this week, fingers crossed.

Forester in Norfolk

Now sadly a new UK BAP priority species. See the current map including my Burnham Thorpe record for 2007 here -

http://www.norfolkmoths.co.uk/index.php?bf=1630&list=&show=&fil=a

Belgrave

My lunchtime wanderings are being curtailed at the moment by the floods from the weekend. There are two points where my route has been encroached by the water. One I fairly successfully negotiated, the second was occupied by two Moorhen and a Mallard. I decided that they were better equipped and had to make do with a Nuthatch in Belgrave Hall Gardens. Surely a Chiffchaff is on the cards this week?

Moths

Dave had Agonopterix heracliana at a lighted window in Thornton the other night, which I have never recorded. I was looking, with some envy, at Graham Finch's trip to Pickworth Great Wood on Friday night. I was so chuffed with my 2 Yellow Horned on the same night but he surpassed that somewhat with 183 !!!! Check out the full catch at http://www.mothsplus.co.uk/SITE%20LISTS/2008/Pickworth%20Great%20Wood%2014th%20March%202008.htm

Trap Result 14/03/08

2 Emmelina monodactyla
2 Yellow Horned (new to garden)
2 Oak Beauty
1 Common Quaker
1 Clouded Drab

Quite a good haul really and Yellow Horned was a real bonus. They can have a very short flight time so good to get.

Book and stuff

The publishers have emailed the opening chapters of the book today, complete with images and I have to say that I'm really quite pleased with the layout. It's a difficult thing to try and visualise when you are writing away but it looks the mutts nuts - Even though I do say so myself. Still a bit weird having my name on their with the likes of Dominic Couzens. I'm not worthy etc.. etc..

I'm lending a helping hand to an online newsletter for the Back Garden Moths website which co-incidentally Simon Wantling also sent me the first draft of. Mutts nuts volume two....It looks really good. Simon is very excited about the development of the newsletter and I'm really happy to have a small part to play. The second issue will be available early March and you can get to it via the website - See links page. I've kinda replicated the article I did that was published in Atropos (Number 27) plus a little site guide to the mecca that is Wicken Fen and possibly something else by way of an ID workshop. Please check it out....

Trap Result 07/03/08

Nil !

Trap Result 05/03/08

Zilch, Zip, Nil, Nought, Nothing.......

I thought that a cloudy night with projected temperature above freezing might produce something but I was wrong. I did notice however that the wind was getting up a fair bit though. Never mind. Weekend forecast doesn't look too clever either. John Hague has been in tocuh to let me know that he and Dave Gray had been over to Thornton and managed not only Water Rail (Thornton bogey bird No.1) but Little Owl (Thornton bogey bird No.2). Surely it can't get any worse - Can it?

Happy Moth-ers Day!!

To Moth-ers everywhere.............................

Trap Result 01/03/08

1 March Moth