Birds, Leps, Observations & Generalities - the images and ramblings of Mark Skevington. Sometimes.

Wednesday 17 March 2010

Obligatory Orthosia spp.

A hike in the moth trap results - this mornings haul was 3 individuals / 2 species, both Orthosia spp. It took me ages to sort that lot out ....

Hebrew Character

Clouded Drab (1 of 2)

Meanwhile, the first frogs I've seen in the garden this year were both hopping about earlier this evening - both small individuals.

4 comments:

Stewart said...

Mark tonight looks ok for moths, I've just popped out to look at the trap and find 16 March Moths onthe outside! No idea whats inside...

Skev said...

Bloody hell. Just checked - in 10 years I've had a total of 33 individual March Moths, with 5 in one night being the highest count .....

Might be okay where you are - my trap is bulging with 2 Satellite so far - though to be fair I've only had 6 of those before with the first in 2006.

And yet another frog loitering.

Bennyboymothman said...

I better keep my trap shut (my mouth)
just had a blinder in local Woodland, Moths everywhere...
only 4 to my security light in the Garden though.

Skev said...

Yes Ben - getting out into the woodland is certainly the way to go for numbers and diversity, especially in the early season (like the 191 of 18sp. I had at Pickworth Great Wood over a couple of hours on 28/02/2009). Usually a bit more coming to the garden trap though ...
Hopefully I'll be out tomorrow evening - if we get enough lights out we'll pick up plenty.