22/23rd

Interesting comparison of angle-shades numbers on different nights here: 3 on 21st, 25 on 22nd and 1 on 23rd. Big emergence/dispersal, or migrants?

Other migrants on 23rd: 2 gem (both males, and rather worn), 3 dark sword-grass, 1 silver y, 4 rush veneer.

Commonest ‘regular’ is setaceous hebrew character, with a few large yellow underwing (decreasing), green brindled crescent (decreasing), sallow, pink-barred and barred sallow (all decreasing and worn). Only one lunar underwing, this having been the commonest species a week or so ago, along with green-brindled cresc. Stable numbers (two or three a night) of brick, merveille du jour, large wainscot, satellite, red and yellow-line quaker etc, and increasing numbers of November, feathered thorn, chestnut and dark chestnut. Just needs a December eggar to sign things off for the autumn; that and a blast of winter this weekend.

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