Thursday 10th September 2026.
A cool start to the morning here in Southsea with some high
cloud looking attractively pink due to the reflection of the sunrise. At 6.30am
this morning, it was around 13 degrees, but I am assured it will get a bit
warmer as the day goes on.
Thankfully, after yesterdays low turn out of Moths, this morning was much better though I must get a new white board to put behind the Moth Box as my old one is well bent out of shape. There was also a good movement of passerines overhead with several flocks of Meadow Pipits passing overhead. At least 30+ flew over in 4 separate flocks and also recorded were 2 single Grey Wagtails.
In my garden, there was a bit of bird activity with a Robin heard 'ticking' somewhere deep within the vegetation and both Blue and Great Tits in the big tree behind my garden.
My Moth Box:
Only my second ever Centre-barred Sallow moth.
Finally, a new Moth species for the year was added to my
Year List, a Centre-barred Sallow. I have only ever seen one of this species
and that was many years ago by a friend’s house in Bishop’s Waltham. So, yes, I
was excited in seeing this Moth by my trap this morning.
In fact, it was among a good total of 73 moths of 28 species
of which there was a sprinkle of excellent Moths that included 2 Golden Twin-spots,
Least Carpet, Pearly Underwing, Light Emerald and a very smart Maiden’s Blush.
Among the micro moths, a Bramble Shoot Moth was the first
for about a month and a single Olive-tree Pearl was a good migrant species to
have in your garden. There was also a single Rush Veneer micro moth, another migrant
moth, that quickly flew off as I was trying to get a photo of it.
Large Yellow Underwings won the race to be the most numerous
Moth species this morning, with 11 individuals in total recorded. The following
Moths were recorded this morning:
|
MACRO MOTHS |
MICRO MOTHS |
|
|
|
|
Centre-barred
Sallow *x1 |
Common Plume
x1 |
|
Large Yellow Underwing
x11 |
Rusty-dot Pearl
x3 |
|
Lesser Yellow
Underwing x5 |
Rush Veneer
x1 |
|
Vine’s Rustic
x1 |
Light Brown
Apple Moth x6 |
|
Turnip Moth
x3 |
Box Tree Moth
x2 |
|
Garden Carpet
x1 |
Olive-tree Pearl
x1 |
|
Golden
Twin-spot x2 |
Tree-mallow
Tortrix x1 |
|
Pale Mottled
Willow x2 |
Chevron Grass-moth |
|
Least Carpet
x1 |
Bramble Shoot
Moth x1 |
|
Clancy’s
Rustic x4 |
|
|
Flounced
Rustic x1 |
|
|
Pearly
Underwing x1 |
|
|
Light Emerald
x1 |
|
|
Double-striped
Pug x5 |
|
|
Maiden’s
Blush x1 |
|
|
Willow Beauty
x1 |
|
Pembroke Road, Old Portsmouth:
One of the big cross-channel Ferries making its way out of Portsmouth Harbour.
Visible migration was still going on this morning on my
first shift in Pembroke Road where there were several flocks of Meadow Pipits
passing over. Though it was hard at times to hear the birds calling overhead
due to the traffic, I did pick out a few big flocks of these ‘Mipits’ going
through.
Only ten bird species were noted this morning, which is still rather low, but a large commotion going on by the Garrison Church with all the birds in the area (Starlings, Gulls and Pigeons) taking off in panic; I can only assume a raptor was passing through, but sadly, I did not see it.
The second shift this afternoon produced just one addition
to this morning’s bird species and that was a distant Black-headed Gull heading
high south. Apart from a few Buff-tailed Bumblebee’s and a few Common Wasps,
all was very quiet here this afternoon at Pembroke Road.
In Hampshire today:
The juvenile Red-backed Shrike at Farlington Marshes for its second day. Photo by Dolly Hawkes.
Though not much was mentioned on Hants Birding website
today, I can confirm that the juvenile Red-backed Shrike was still present on
Farlington Marshes still and an adult winter Bonaparte’s Gull was seen sitting
on the sea off Sandy Point, Hayling Island this afternoon, but disappeared into
Chichester Harbour. A Black Tern was seen in a feeding flock of Gulls and Terns
from Hill Head and a Wryneck was reported at Lower Test Marshes this morning.
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