Green Hairstreak

Despite very cloudy weather on Sunday I managed a couple of Green Hairstreaks at Warren Hills. Peacock also plus my first Cuckoo of the year.

Trap Result 25/04/09

Little out of the ordinary save a particularly smart Streamer.

For Sale

Before I ebay these items I thought I would post here. I'm offloading the following items.........

1 x 15W actinic Skinner trap. Originally purchased from Anglian Lepidopterist Supplies in 2004 used for two years but only a couple of times since. Plywood construction with all electrics, bulb and control box, ready to go. Possibly one or two small cracks to the perspex if memory serves me right. Plywood will have a new coat of preservative shortly! Happy to email pics if interested. £30.00 (rrp £108)

Richard Souths 'Moths of the British Isles'. Both volumes in very good condition. Bought together from a second hand dealer in Stamford but only oddity is that each volume is a slightly different shade of blue. No dust jackets. £15.00

The Millennium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland. A mammoth work albeit a little out of date now (published 2001). Excellent quality. Hardcover £15.00

British and Irish Pug Moths - A Guide to Their Identification (Hardcover) by Adrian Riley, again very good condition. £15.00

Lunchtime Butterflies

A bumper crop today including Small, Large and Green Veined White, Orange Tip, Small Tortoiseshell, Speckled Wood and Brimstone.

Trap Result 18/04/09

Highlights were 2 male Brindled Beauty and Pale Pinion.

Trap Result 17/04/2009

2 Hebrew Character

Large White

First for me of 2009 along the river near Belgrave Gardens.

Trap Result 13/04/09

Amongst the usual suspects last night were Pale Brindled Beauty and Twenty-plume Moth. Also 2 Early Thorn and Dotted Border.

Trap Result 11/04/09

As the numbers get better I'll just post the highlights (if any). Engrailed wasn't entirely unexpected but welcome nevertheless.

Dotted Border
Engrailed (new to garden)
Small Quaker
Common Quaker
Hebrew Character
Early Grey
Early Thorn

Red Rumped Swallow

A cracking find by Rob Gill this morning. Presumably the Frolesworth bird from the previous day. Sadly I didn't get chance to get over to see it as I was at Woodlands Garden Centre at Stapleton which is currently flogging a copy of my book at the bargain price of £7.99. Oh how the mighty have fallen...........

Small White

Singles this weekend at Thornton and Wistow Park were the first of 2009. Also in the garden this weekend was a new species, for me at least, Common Leaf Weevil. Several of them noted over the course of Sunday both in and out of the house......

Trap Result 04/04/09

Early Grey
Clouded Drab
3 Hebrew Character

Avocets

Five of the little beauties at Thornton Reservoir this morning. Dropped in at 07.10. Cracking....

Trap Result 01/04/09

The ususal mix of Orthosia including Hebrew Character plus

Purple Thorn (new to garden)
Oak Beauty
Early Grey
Bright Line Brown Eye (very early)

Back in the days.........

A self indulgent look at some goth type classics from my youth. Strangely enough I saw all of these artists at the sadly defunct Charlotte (or the Princess Charlotte as it was then) mainly when I worked there so didn't have to pay to get in!!!

CHRISTIAN DEATH


BALAAM AND THE ANGEL


CRAZYHEAD

Red Kite

Another today between Anstey and Thurlaston and a very tatty one too, so certainly a different bird to the one last week at Newtown Linford

Butterfly Firsts

First Peacock and Speckled Wood of 2009 this afternoon in Belgrave. Single Brimstone also.............