My Drop in the Ocean

The season properly under way with the garden MV over the last two or three nights.

We have lived here near Halesworth for eleven years now; in the first year or two I planted up the bare (ex-arable field corner) garden with all sorts of wildlife-friendly plants as well as establishing a couple of ponds etc, and planting dozens of trees. The pay-off is that we now have nesting chiffchaff,whitethroat, bullfinch etc, and the moth trap often yields new species probably attracted in by the new habitat and food plants. Last night I had my fourth lead-coloured drab of the week, and Ypsolopha mucronella. Both aspen and spindle (the foodplants) are doing well in the garden (the aspen rather too well) and I don’t think the moths would have been here otherwise.
It may only be a drop in the ocean but at least it’s something!

Meanwhile, we plant potatoes every year but haven’t managed to establish our own colony of death’s-heads…