The still annual, first battery Actinic Skinner field outing to Warndon Wood in thick cloud and 8.5 degrees C got great results again last night. But for how much longer ? The council owned NR is adjacent to 'green belt' land sold off and already sporting two huge warehouse frames and blinding arc lights. The wood was mentioned in the Doomsday Book itself and now Doomsday may soon be the word for the woods remaining wildlife. By 22:20 there
53 Spring Ushers including 2 melanistic forms which I have not seen anywhere before.
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8 Pale Brindled Beauty included 3 fresh bottle green 'melanic forms' as well as a tiny individual. A single
Dotted Border and at least one brown form
Mottled Umber were noted. These always seem to persist longer into the new year than the blatant patterned forms.
2 Satellites, 4 Chestnuts, a Winter Moth, 18
Tortricodes alternellas plus an
Early Moth torched in nearby hawthorn hedge.
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Pale Brindled Beauty
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