Adela out in numbers today

In the bright sunshine today and on the usual clump of willows, using the binoculars I counted at least 30 Adela cuprella in one small area of the willows. Males flying and females mostly sitting on the flowers. This is a very exposed site on the bank of Breydon Water and the regular date they appear here is around 20th April, so they are about 2 weeks early this year.
I also had a few other new for the year in yesterday evenings catch of 19 species. These were Epinotia immundana, Parornix anglicella, Pine Beauty and first Prominent for the year which was a Pale.

Brian

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