Dorset etc - 11th-14th September
11th: Morning at work and then off to Portland for a night of mothing near Portland Bill
12th: Traps produced one of my 2 target species - Feathered Brindle. Lapland Bunting at Portland Bill. Lodmore RSPB (Weymouth) for Long-billed Dowitcher. Checked in to Heights Hotel. Night trapping near the Verne
13th: Nothing worthwhile in the traps. Wryneck at Portland Bill bird obs quarry. Keyhaven marshes (Hampshire). Set traps in New Forest, but the full moon was so bright that no moths were coming. Packed up at 11pm and drove home.
14th: Evening survey of Fisher's Estuarine Moth at Hamford Water with the Essex Moth Group
12th: Traps produced one of my 2 target species - Feathered Brindle. Lapland Bunting at Portland Bill. Lodmore RSPB (Weymouth) for Long-billed Dowitcher. Checked in to Heights Hotel. Night trapping near the Verne
13th: Nothing worthwhile in the traps. Wryneck at Portland Bill bird obs quarry. Keyhaven marshes (Hampshire). Set traps in New Forest, but the full moon was so bright that no moths were coming. Packed up at 11pm and drove home.
14th: Evening survey of Fisher's Estuarine Moth at Hamford Water with the Essex Moth Group