More migrants to my moth box.

Wednesday 10th August 2022.

My first Flounced Rustic of the year.

Another hot day beckons as I was up early again this morning to check the moth box. Two Bordered Straw, 2 Jersey Tigers (though they possibly could be home-grown?), 1 White-point and a Diamond-back Moth were the migrant moths this morning, while two micro moths, Pleurata bicostella and Isophrictis striatella were added to my life list. Garden Tiger numbers have reached a new height with 18 counted this morning, but Pompey Moth-er, Mike Wearing, is currently getting well over 20+ of this beautiful species. 

Above, two Bordered Straws were present and below, two Jersey Tigers graced my moth box.

Moths present this morning included the following:

• 1 Flounced Rustic (NFY)
• 2 Bordered Straw
• 2 Jersey Tiger
• 18 Garden Tiger
• 2 Willow Beauty
• 3 Marbled Beauty
• 6 Bright-line Bright-eye
• 3 Lime-speck Pug
• 8 Double-striped Pug
• 1 Yellow Shell
• 5 Brimstone Moth
• 1 Grey/Dark Dagger
• 1 Pale Mottled Willow
• 1 L-album Wainscot
• 2 Vines Rustic
• 1 White-point
• 2 Shuttle-shaped Dart
• 1 Square-spot Rustic
• 1 Garden Carpet
• 1 Turnip Moth
  
• 1 Mother-of Pearl
• 3 Tachystola acroxantha
• 2 Beautiful Plume
• 2 Garden Pebble
• 1 Diamond-back Moth
• 7 Common Plume
• 1 Bramble Shoot Moth
• 4 Apple Leaf Miner
• 1 Pyrausta aurata
• 1 Pleurata bicostella (NFY + LIFER) 
• 1 Acrobasis advenella
• 3 Blastobasis adustella
• 1 Hawthorn Moth
• 1 Oegoconia quadripuncta
• 1 Swammerdamia pyrella
• 1 Brown House Moth
• 1 Carcina quercana
• 1 Isophrictis striatella (NFY + LIFER)
• 1 Yponomeuta species.
• 2 Light Brown Apple Moth
• 1 Monopsis crocicapitella
• 1 Bryotropha basaltinella

Above, the Temminck's Stint on Sidlesham Ferry Pool was still present today. A much better and clearer photo of the bird. Photo by JB (Lazee Birder). Below, a Flutter Fly, Palloptera muliebris, that was in my kitchen this evening.

In Hampshire today, one of the ‘Lazee Birders’ Franno, scored with 6 species of Tern on the ‘Rainbow bar’ off Hill Head this morning. One Roseate, 4 Black Tern, 1 Arctic Tern, 4 Little Terns and both Sandwich and Common Terns were present at low tide and a further 6 Black Terns were seen around midday at the same site. An Osprey was at Fishlake Meadows again and a Whinchat was at Hook-with-Warsash reserve. I did not go out after all, but while eating lunch, a female Sparrowhawk flew into a nearby bush, but I don't know if it was successful in grabbing one of the many House Sparrows present.

Over in West Sussex, the Squacco Heron was still showing well in its usual haunt and up to 64 Cattle Egrets were counted in the roost this afternoon!

Above, a Black Tern off Hill Head and below, a Roseate Tern also off the same place (furthest bird behind the Common Tern).

Below, an Arctic Tern also off Hill Head this morning. All the Tern photos photographed by Franno.