The feel of migrants seemed to have reduced in the atmosphere this evening as Tony and I did a quick half hour check of the ivy along Alton Hall Lane before 8 o'clock. Just 13 moths of six species and six of those were Angle Shades.
After a meeting of the village community woodland project, we headed down Lower Street. There was the merest hint of a south-westerly, but nothing significant to put the moths off performing. Vestals were absent, but in 45 minutes we recorded 61 moths of 17 species. We start at either end of the 200m-long hedgerow and meet in the middle. By the time we did, Tony was double-filling his pots. Two new species for the season were Rush Veneer (a migrant) and a Copper Underwing agg. (I don't have the knowledge to separate Svensonn's).
In order of abundance, those 61 moths comprised:
Chestnut - 13
Angle Shades - 10
Large Yellow Underwing - 8
Dark Sword-grass - 7
L-album Wainscot - 5
Barred Sallow - 4
Lunar Underwing - 2
Setaceous Hebrew Character - 2
Rush Veneer - 2
...with singles of Copper Underwing agg., White-Point, Green-brindled Crescent, Brick, Common Marbled Carpet, Lesser Yellow Underwing, Yellow-line Quaker and Emmelina monodactyla.
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