Thursday, 16 April 2020

Luddenden 15th April 2020

A quite night under clear skies but with two of my favourites

Common Quaker 1
Hebrew Character 2
Clouded Drab 2
Brindled Pug 1
Pine Beauty 1
Red Sword Grass 1

Pine Beauty - a scarce moth here with usually 1 per year (maximum 3 in 2017). 10 records between 26th March - 1st June.

Red Sword Grass - a rare moth here, this is the sixth record and the first since 2014. This is only the second Spring record, the other was 12th March 2011. Recorded between 12th March - 26th November.



2 comments:

AndyC said...

2 beauties there,,,,,not seen RSG for a long time..

David Sutcliffe said...

Nice one-two Martyn. Not seen either of those - yet. Very smart looking moths.