29th September

Where has this month gone !!

Lee Mount - One each Red Admiral and a Comma on Erysimum still - but they stayed only briefly.

Suspicion, in sunny spells,  of a Vapourer moth this morning, at home, and another disturbed in an herbaceous border near Ogden this afternoon. Both really brown and both flew rapidly straight up and into the canopy though I can't be 100% sure that was what they were. Both fleeting glimpses and I couldn't re-locate either of them - so they hace to remain as 'might have been's.

A couple of Speckled Woods at Ogden this afternoon - looking a bit faded now.

Black Rustic in the  trap yesterday morning and a single large Yellow Underwing.

Cold Edge

 Speckled Wood 1

Fox Moth ....

 I counted 107 Fox Moth cats yesterday in one area of heather moorland up near top Walshaw  and 24 in another area near Widdop rocks........\They seem to like the top stems of heather and stand out from a distance when you get your eye in................

Lee Mount - 24th September

 I didn't expect one of these just yet - then had to check as it is quite unusually marked.

Feathered Thorn

Lunar Underwing x 1

Large Yellow Underwing x 3

Painted Lady from yesterday was still around the garden this morning.

Cold Edge

An angled shot of the Common Darter, in the same spot as yesterday. It shows the 2 yellow patches on the side of the thorax.

And 1 of 3 Black Darters.

Cold Edge

 Common Darter

Last couple of Nights 19th and 20th September

 Red Green Carpet x 1

Autumn Green Carpet x 1

Shuttle Shaped Dart x 2

Common MArbled Carpet x 4

Large YU x 31

Burnished Brass x 1

Oak Hook Tip x 1

Lunar Underwing x 11

Garden Rose Tortrix x 3

LBAM x 4 

Barred Sallow x 1

Pink Barred Sallow x 1

Currant Pug x 1

Small Dusty Wave x 1

Green Carpet x 1

Spruce Carpet x 2

Copper Underwing agg x 3

Black Rustic x 4

Angle Shades x 2

Brown Spot Pinion x 4

Lesser yellow Underwing x 1

Canary Shouldered Thorn x 1 

Lee Mount - 21st September

 Not a lot overnight.

One each Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing and Acleris sparsana along with this one below.

Lunar Underwing

Just eight records of this species here - all in September

Lee Mount etc - 20th September

 Brown-spot Pinion this morning (only 4th record for here - all in September)

Elsewhere - Plenty of Red Admirals and 1 Comma about still. At home and Red Admirals even in town centre areas where Buddleias are growing by the roadside. 

Lee Mount - 19th September

 Not a lot doing other than 4 Red Admirals at the same time and 1 Comma on both Erysimum and Sedum over the last few days.

This mornings trap

Black Rustic x 1 was the best

Large Yellow Underwing x 10

Lesser Yellow Underwing x 1

Light-brown Apple-moth x 1

Copper Underwing agg x 2

 

Black Rustic (very black but I've lightened it up a bit to show the markings better)

Also this afternoon a Hummingbird Hawk-moth briefly on Verbena and the last few flowers on a Buddleia but it was away before I got the camera to it.

Beacon Hill Road

Red Admiral 2, Painted Lady 1

Lee Mount - last few days

Not much doing at all recently though evenings have still been fairly mild the rain seems to have slowed things down here.

Best on 11th  was this smart looking Spruce Carpet

Large Yellow Underwing x 8

Copper Underwing agg x 1

Garden Carpet x 1

Tachystola acroxantha x 1

Not many butterflies about home other than a few Speckled Woods and a Red Admiral yesterday.

Lee Mount...

 Been puzzling this one from 2nd September. Looking in the wrong direction - at Pyrausta sp. and then tonight 'the penny dropped'

Gold Triangle

Before the rain set in last night 4th September I found this one on a window ledge.

Canary-shouldered Thorn

Lee Mount - 3rd September

Decided not to put the trap on last night till the 'hangers on' from the last few days have cleared. Found this one on the kitchen window late on. Second one on the last few days, this time intact after the last one was 'spidered' .

Blood-vein (second ever record for here)

Lee Mount - 2nd September

 Started off the morning with a new one for me in Calderdale - a Blood-vein -then I saw the spider clinging to it and the body parts just about gone. What a shame for such a beautiful moth, long awaited here for me !

The rest of the catch was intact including....

One each of Setaceous Hebrew Character, Garden Carpet, Marbled Beauty, Mouse Moth.

Still plenty Large Yellow Underwings with 35 along with 2 Lessers and 2 Lesser Broad-bordered plus a few other expected species and a Pyrausta sp. I am still trying to sort !