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<title>By: paulb</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 08:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Same here in the west. It's either been cold and clear, or just too darn windy to bother putting the trap out. Consequently, I've only run a few times this year, the last being 3 April when I managed 12 Hebrew C's, 3 Small + 2 Common Quaker, 2 Shoulder Stripe and an Early Grey. ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Same here in the west. It’s either been cold and clear, or just too darn windy to bother putting the trap out. Consequently, I’ve only run a few times this year, the last being 3 April when I managed 12 Hebrew C’s, 3 Small + 2 Common Quaker, 2 Shoulder Stripe and an Early Grey.</p>
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<title>By: Raymond Watson</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2015 08:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Nothing exciting here in my garden at Hollesley. 9 and 13 species on two nights recently. Looks marginally warmer in a couple of days that may take me farther afield and hopefully bring a few more moths out. ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Nothing exciting here in my garden at Hollesley. 9 and 13 species on two nights recently. Looks marginally warmer in a couple of days that may take me farther afield and hopefully bring a few more moths out.</p>
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<title>By: Brian</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2015 22:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ I gave it a try this evening (Sunday) in the local wood. It turned out to be a little better but no cloud appeared and temp. went down to 5 deg. All packed up by 10 pm and by then I had recorded about 40 moths of 9 species but nothing new for the year.
It may be better later in the week.
Brian ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>I gave it a try this evening (Sunday) in the local wood. It turned out to be a little better but no cloud appeared and temp. went down to 5 deg. All packed up by 10 pm and by then I had recorded about 40 moths of 9 species but nothing new for the year.<br />
It may be better later in the week.</p>
<p>Brian</p>
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<title>By: keith</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2015 17:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Am still holding out for my first session and haven't even checked the traps over yet. Will hopefully use them in the coming week and report. ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Am still holding out for my first session and haven’t even checked the traps over yet. Will hopefully use them in the coming week and report.</p>
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<title>By: Brian</title>
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<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2015 16:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ Same with me, it’s almost an embarrassment at the moment. On the April 2nd I ran 4 traps on one of my prime sites. The promised cloud did not turn up till gone midnight, long after I had packed up and the total catch was 2 March Moth, 1 Small Quaker & 1 Common Quaker. Yesterday evening was not much better on the nearby SWT site. The sky was clear when I set the traps up but there was cloud threatening from all four directions. I sat it out until 9.45 with still no movement from the clouds but by the time I had packed the last trap away at 10.15 the sky had filled with cloud. Very frustrating! Just 15 moths of 4 species had come to the lights.
As I write this the sky is clear. Do I risk it again tonight? Will the forecast cloud arrive this evening? It’s a bit of a lottery at the moment.
Brian ]]>
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<![CDATA[ <p>Same with me, it’s almost an embarrassment at the moment. On the April 2nd I ran 4 traps on one of my prime sites. The promised cloud did not turn up till gone midnight, long after I had packed up and the total catch was 2 March Moth, 1 Small Quaker & 1 Common Quaker. Yesterday evening was not much better on the nearby SWT site. The sky was clear when I set the traps up but there was cloud threatening from all four directions. I sat it out until 9.45 with still no movement from the clouds but by the time I had packed the last trap away at 10.15 the sky had filled with cloud. Very frustrating! Just 15 moths of 4 species had come to the lights.<br />
As I write this the sky is clear. Do I risk it again tonight? Will the forecast cloud arrive this evening? It’s a bit of a lottery at the moment.</p>
<p>Brian</p>
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<title>By: Paul Kitchener</title>
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<dc:creator>Paul Kitchener</dc:creator>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2015 16:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[ I too am underwhelmed Neil. I have yet to record ten or more species in a night this year in my Ipswich garden. All Orthosia numbers have been very low with only single figures of Small Quaker and Clouded Drab. The best moth recently was a Pale Pinion on the 29th March, almost a year to the day since my first one here.
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<![CDATA[ <p>I too am underwhelmed Neil. I have yet to record ten or more species in a night this year in my Ipswich garden. All Orthosia numbers have been very low with only single figures of Small Quaker and Clouded Drab. The best moth recently was a Pale Pinion on the 29th March, almost a year to the day since my first one here.</p>
<p>Paul</p>
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