Some colour this morning in our NE Essex garden. 3 Beautiful Marbled in the last 3 nights. @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social
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A 3rd Clifden Nonpareil of the year here in our NE Essex garden and incredibly a 30th Marbled Clover. Migrants included 6 Vestal, 4 Olive-tree Pearl, 6 Rush Veneer, 3 Rusty-dot Pearl, 2 Silver Y and Dewick’s Plusia. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social
A good count of 22 Fisher’s Estuarine Moth at a local site in NE Essex. 3 roosting Clouded Yellow as well. @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social
Nice to see a few Yellow Belle this morning alongside 30+ Heath Rustic at their Essex stronghold.
Cats at the Regents Park open air theatre this afternoon was entertaining. I hadn’t any idea what was happening but there were lots of dancing and singing cats! Memories….
Light Crimson Underwing seem to be established in NE Essex. These 2 were from the night before last in the garden. @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social
The first Clifden Nonpareil of the year in our NE Essex garden. I’d forgotten how big they are! @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social
The Wombats at the Crystal Palace Bowl earlier. I danced to Joy Division and celebrated the irony!
A pinker Vestal overnight. Still double figures of Small Mottled Willow. Last night another Striped Hawk-moth and Ni Moth in NE Essex. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
Not the pinkest Vestal I’ve seen but the first in the garden since 2023. Also 2 Rush Veneer and 6 Small Mottled Willow. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
Striped Hawk-moth - a first for our NE Essex garden. Also a second Ni Moth, 2 Rush Veneer and 6 Small Mottled Willow. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
Jersey Mocha are now breeding locally in Essex. These are second generation at a second site this morning. @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social
The first Ni Moth for the garden and a Beautiful Marbled this morning in NE Essex. Only 1 Small Mottled Willow, 2 Silver Y, 2 White-point and 3 European Corn-borer as other possible migrants. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
Another Light Crimson Underwing, this time in the garden. They are having a good year in Essex.
@mothiduk.bsky.social From NE Essex last night. Unfortunately lost trying to pot it! It looks like a Stenoptliia with a white saddle? It’s wingspan was about 16mm.
It was a first for me to see both Dark and Light Crimson Underwing at the Fingringhoe Wick yesterday.
Sussex Emerald in the NE Essex garden overnight. A rare moth in Essex. Possibly a migrant but only others were 3 Small Mottled Willow, a Silver Y and Dewick’s Plusia. 20 plus European Corn Borer were probably local. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
