Saturday, 9 September 2023

Seeing the Changes 1875

Moth trap out again last night in Loughor. Captured a Common marbled carpet (Chloroclysta truncata); an unidentified small moth; 2 Garden darts (Euxoa nigricans); 6 Yellow underwings (Noctua pronuba); 12 Willow beauties (Peribatoides rhomboidaria); 3 Silver'Y' (Autographa gamma); a Light emerald (Campaea margaritata) and 3 Small emerald (Hemistola chrysoprasaria). There were even oddities, including a backswimmer.

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Birder's Bonus 241

Noted a Curlew ( Numenius arquata ) on the Loughor estuary at Bynea.