Record evening for Ivy in Stutton

Tony Fox and I were out last night for a couple of hours checking the prime locations in Alton Hall Lane and Lower Street. We amassed 23 species, including seven new ones – Small Dusty Wave, postvittana, Lunar Underwing, Garden Carpet, Pale Mottled Willow, Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing and best of all Pearly Underwing (never seen one before). Square-spot Rustics are thinning out at last. The Stutton ivy year list stands at 26 and the full list is at 40.