I met up with Colin Plant to have a look for Plumed Prominent at Groton Wood last night although prospects for a good night’s mothing were a bit slim with temperatures starting off at around 7.5C. We set five MV traps running around the southern part of the wood and after all the hard work had been done we were joined my Matthew 
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Moths were a bit low on the ground but we did manage a few species – Feathered Thorn, Chestnut, Winter Moth, Mottled Umber, Yellow-line Quaker, Brick, December Moth, a dark Plutella xylostella. There were a few Acleris, probably ferrugana based on the abundance of oak and general lack of birch in the wood. We also had three males of the target species, Plumed Prominent, which was pretty fair going given the cold night. Sitting in Colin’s Landrover van drinking coffee is a much better way of moth recording on these cold autumn nights than sitting out in the open waiting for the moths to trickle in.