Blundeston & Bradwell 3rd to 5th September

A change of planned location took Brian and I to Great Warren, Sandy lane and Nebb Carr at Blundeston with most traps on Great Warren, a large sandhill where the vegetation was completely parched. A slow start, a fair few number of moths at the end, 90+ species. However no outstanding highlight. A single Feathered Gothic ( we as yet only find singles) White-spotted Pug, Gold Spot, Peach Blossom, Frosted Orange, a late Drinker and Agonopterix nervosa and yeatiana. The highlight of the night for me was when picking up my last trap packing away in the dark I heard wing-beats, thinking it unlikely I had flushed a bird as it was completely dark I turned on my torch and spotted two large bats overhead, bending to pick up the trap one of them came so close the wing-beats were heard again, a first for me!
At home on the 4th and 56 species recorded. A very good night for me although the actinic only produced about 6 species. Mv’s produced a Gem, 5 Gold Spot, 4 Frosted Orange and like elsewhere the first Sallow of the season. My favourite moth of the night was, however, a Treble-bar, only my second home record. An abundance of Large Yellow Under-wing noted. Plenty of moths in general.
The 5th, and I have finally picked a permanent spot for the actinic Skinner just 6 feet from the Bungalow. Here it totalled 28 species including Old Lady and my first home, and only second ever, Wax Moth. Also attracted to the Actinic was a Western Conifer Seed Bug which, I believe, is still considered a migrant? Anyone else catching them apart from Matthew? In the Mv’s the first Black Rustic and Brown-spot Pinion of the Autumn, also my first Bulrush Wainscot with 3, Webb’s 2, Red Under-wing, Flame Carpet, Dark Sword-grass 2. No Gold Spot at all. Final tally, 74 species. Very large numbers of moths especially Setaceous Hebrew Character.

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