Lee Mount - last few days

 Nothing too exciting but enough to keep the interest going....

24th Oct - Red-green Carpet x 4, Silver Y x 3, Feathered Thorn x 3, November Moth agg x 3

25th Oct - November Moth agg x 6, Tachystola acroxantha x 2, Acleris sparsana x 1, 

Light-brown Apple-moth x 1 and a Twenty-plume Moth.

Also a Svennson's Copper Underwing found dead indoors so I was able to check the underside of the hindwing to be certain of the species.

Silver Y

Lee Mount - 22nd October

 A new and  beautiful looking moth for me this morning was a bit special.

Grey Shoulder-knot (NFS)

Also a Spruce Carpet, Light Brown Apple-moth and a November Moth agg

1 Speckled Wood butterfly fluttering around in the sunshine then landed on the neighbours house wall.

Spruce Carpet

Shibden Valley

This Small Tortoiseshell was in our sitting room today. We've nowhere suitable for it to hibernate, and it's a bright day (temp 13 degrees), so I released it outdoors.

Lee Mount - 15th October

Been a quiet few days with no returns then just a few this morning.

November Moth agg x 4, Light-brown Apple-moth x 2. 

One each Ypsolopha sequella, Yellow-line Quaker, Silver Y and a Common Marbled Carpet.

Ypsolopha sequella (always nice to find this micro even though it's looking a little worn)

Lee Mount

 I double checked this late Pug from 5th October with CF.

Just the second record for this site.

Golden-rod Pug (20mm wing-span)

Lee Mount - 6th October

 Beautiful Plume, Orange Sallow, 3 Common Marbled Carpets, November Moth and a Pug (still to check).

Orange Sallow

Lee Mount - 5th October

Quite a surprise to find a Light Emerald on the window last night and in the trap this morning. Fading a little and quite late for this species.

Light Emerald

Yellow-line Quaker (also this morning)

Lee Mount and then Soil Hill etc.

 Nothing doing at all lately even though the trap-light has been on most nights.

Just 2 moths this morning - a Silver Y and a Light-brown Apple-moth. 

One Common Marbled Carpet this evening so far.

2 butterfly's on Soil Hill this morning (thanks to NK for the Red Admiral) and then I had a flypast 'white' with no idea to species level !

Yesterday was a little better for late butterfly's with 2 Speckled Woods in Lee Mount and a Red Admiral and 2 more Speckled Woods at Ogden.