Bawdsey

A couple of weeks ago Sue and I had the opportunity to spend a few days with family up on the Suffolk cost at Bawdsey. It is usually a good place to go looking for birds but mid August is perhaps not the best time of the year to be finding anything. I did have some luck though, in spotting my first Cuckoo of the year, probably on migration back to Africa, but given my low expectations I wasn't even carrying a camera.

Fortunately I had the moth trap with me and managed to pick up a few new moths and a few I had not seen yet this year. 

Black Arches - Lymantria monacha

Leopard Moth - Zeuzera pyrina

Dingy Footman - Eilema griseola

Scarce Footman - Eilema complana

White-foot Bell - Epiblema foenella

Common Rustic - Mesapamea secalis

Common Wainscot - Mythimna pallens

Knot Grass - Acronicta rumicis

Lesser Swallow Prominent - Pheosia gnoma

Latticed Heath - Chiasmia clathrata

Straw Underwing - Thalpophila matura

Marbled Piercer - Cydia splendana

New Pine Knot-horn - Dioryctria sylvestrella

Ringed China-mark - Parapoynx stratiotata

Rosy Footman - Miltochrista miniata

Pebble Prominent - Notodonta ziczac

It was interesting to see the slightly different mix of Moths I was getting in Suffolk. The Leopard and Black Arches were both new for me as were the micros, White-foot Bell and New Pine Knot-horn. The Lattice Heath and Straw Underwing I have caught both times I put the trap out in Bawdsey yet I have never managed to catch them back home in my Worthing Garden. Better still there were no Heart and Dart and no Willow Beauty which tend to congregate in numbers around my trap back home.