Wednesday, August 09, 2006


Rush veneer, a pyralid moth and is a migrant moth with varying numbers each year.

Cochylimorpha straminea


Prescot reservoirs,
1 drake common scoter remained on no 4 reservoirs today.
Also today,
44 barnacle geese
10 canada geese
3 greylag
1 juv cormorant
14o tufted duck
3 gadwall
6 great crested grebe
1 little grebe
3 common sandpipers
2 grey wagtails
4 pied wagtails
200 house martins
1 sand martin
10 swifts
30 swallows
30 goldfinch
10 linnets
Micro moths in the meadow today were 2 cochylimorpha straminea(936) and 2 nomophila noctuella (rush veneer 1398). These were both new moths for me.

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