Author Archives: Brian

Return of the warm evenings.

Good cloud cover yesterday evening ensured that it was just that. So I left a 125MV running in the garden while I took 3 other traps down the road to the Fen Barn SWT reserve for a couple of hours. Combined … Continue reading

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Finding shelter from the wind

This wasn’t easy on Saturday evening, but with good thick cloud cover and 13 deg. temperature I thought it worth a try. The site I chose proved to be well sheltered and although conditions were far from perfect, over 150 … Continue reading

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Stanley Carr

This wonderful site on the bank of the river Waveney is accessible only until about mid-May. After that the nettle growth on the paths becomes so rank that it is nigh impossible to access, which is a pity because who … Continue reading

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April ends in Flames!

This was mainly in the form of a few Flame Shoulder and a Flame Carpet but also the best moth of the evening a Flame Wainscot, only the second time I’ve recorded it in April. Not much was happening until … Continue reading

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Forecast storms didn’t materialize

The threat of storms yesterday evening meant that Keith and I decided to revise our plans. I left it to the last moment and the radar showed they had possibly moved out to sea so I chanced it down on … Continue reading

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A change in the opposite direction!

Several evenings recently the skies have cleared at dusk and temperatures have quickly fallen. Yesterday evening was very different. A stiff chilly breeze was blowing in off the sea with a clear sky when I set out to look for … Continue reading

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First Generation Balsam Carpet

Yesterday evening I was joined by Adrian Russell & Keith Tailby who came over from the midlands hoping to see first generation Balsam Carpet on one of my sites on the Norfolk bank of the river Waveney. As per usual, … Continue reading

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Perfect conditions yesterday evening

With thick cloud, calm conditions and temperature of 10.5 deg, Keith and myself set up our traps on the edge of Roundhouse woods at Fritton. After a slow start all the traps produced well, particularly the actinics. From dusk to … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Mist spoils the evening

Yesterday evening started off OK with a bit of cloud cover, but by 9.30 the sky was clear and as I was trapping not far from the river a wet mist descended. Even so, 22 species recorded and new for … Continue reading

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