Wednesday 23rd July 2025.
As mentioned yesterday, there was no Pembroke Road this morning due to the fact it is now the Schools Summer break and therefore, I can relax a bit more and check the surrounding Moth Box more thoroughly. It was bright this morning, though a bit cloudy at times and relatively mild. Temperatures have been a lot cooler this week so far and today, a very light northerly was blowing in 18 degrees. The Moth Box was on overnight and a reasonable total was had.
My Moth Box:
One of two Canary-shouldered Thorns. These were my first of the year.
There were FIVE new moths for the year this morning and a nice variety of immigrant moths too. Two Canary-shouldered Thorns were found outside the Box and a Dot Moth was my first for many a year. A Satin Wave was also a good find and also new for the year. I rarely get them in my garden and can only recollect a handful since I have been studying the Moths.
Above, my first Dot Moth for many years and below, a Satin Wave; both new for the year.
Above, another cracking moth, the Twin Gold-spot and below, my first Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner of the year.
Above, a real rarity to my garden, a Marbled Yellow Pearl and below, a superb Four-dotted Footman.
Among the immigrant moths there was a male Four-spotted Footman, Twin Gold-spot, Rush Veneer, Diamond-back Moth, Jasmine Moth and a Marbled Yellow Pearl; the latter a good record for my garden and my first for the year. Though common and always seen as the result of their larvae in Highland Road Cemetery, the Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner was my first of the year within my Moth Box.
Macro moths: Macro moths:
Jersey Tiger x3 Oak Knot-horn x1
Canary-shouldered Thorn x2 * Garden Pebble x1
Willow Beauty x3 Large Pale Masoner x2
Lychnis x1 Black-banded Masoner x2
Four-spotted Footman x1 Common Masoner x5
Common Rustic x1 Rush Veneer x1
Shuttle-shaped Dart x2 Diamond-back Moth x1
Pale Mottled Willow x1 Copper-fringed Drab x1
Twin Gold-spot Light Brown Apple Moth x16
Double-striped Pug x7 Beautiful Plume x1
Lime-speck Pug x4 Ash-bark Knot-horn x1
Silver Y x1 Rusty-dot Pearl x3
Knot Grass x1 Garden Grey x1
Dot Moth x1 * Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner x1 *
Satin Wave x1 * Jasmine Moth x1
Brimstone Moth x2 Garden Grass-veneer x1
Dark Arches x1 Apple Leaf Miner x1
Brown House Moth x2
Willow Ermine x1
Marbled Yellow Pearl x1 *
In Hampshire today, news broke out this afternoon of a Pectoral Sandpiper down at Farlington Marshes. It was on the Info end of the Stream area where it spent several hours but by 4.30pm, it had gone, leaving behind 3 Little Ringed Plovers and a Green Sandpiper in its wake. A Curlew Sandpiper and a Knot were in the Lake area.
Above, the Pectoral Sandpiper on Farlington Marshes today and below, the long-staying Long-tailed Duck at Pennington Marshes. Both photos by Andy Tew.
Over at Cowplain Marsh, Andy Fisher had a Southern Hawker by his Garden Pond and thankfully, he took a photo of the Dragonfly. An excellent garden ‘tick’. My garden couldn’t produce a Dragonfly, but a Small White and a Red Admiral were present this afternoon. Another check around my Moth Box and the surrounding area produced another Double-striped Pug and I also found a Marbled Beauty moth, which, incidentally, I didn't see this morning.
Above, a Red Admiral butterfly perched on my garden fence this afternoon and below, a Small White resting in my garden.
Above, Andy Fisher had this Southern Hawker dragonfly in his garden yesterday.
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