Butterflies & Moths 2021

Germain said:

Mike, I think it's a Silver Y playing tricks

I think you could be 100% right.

The silver y isn't in any of my books, and because there are so many different species of moth in the UK alone, I took a wild guess. Many thanks for the correction.

Hi Mike,

I saw a Silver Y at Minsmere recently, I was lucky enough to see it in flight and watch it land otherwise I would never have seen it. The upside down Y that gives it it's name showing right in the middle of it's wing. Before I found one in the garden during Lockdown last year I'd never come across one.

Also at Minsmere a couple of Small Heath Butterflies

Best Wishes,

Trevor

TJS said:

Hi Mike,

I saw a Silver Y at Minsmere recently, I was lucky enough to see it in flight and watch it land otherwise I would never have seen it. The upside down Y that gives it it's name showing right in the middle of it's wing. Before I found one in the garden during Lockdown last year I'd never come across one.

Best Wishes,

Trevor

Yes, I'd seen that, but wasn't able to comment. I know I could easily join the Minsmere group, as with any other group, the only reason why I don't join these groups is down to the massive dose of notifications. I know I can mute, but that also seems a never ending task, and the increase in notifications via email, sends my email provider into overdrive sending all forum posts straight to spam!

But I still view a great many of the posts via the home page, there's always something interesting.

Hi Mike,
I joined the Minsmere group so that I could reply to one of Clare's posts and also because I go to Minsmere quite a lot as it the most diverse wildlife watching spot local to me (23 miles away). I've only done one post within the group and did find a different selection of people responding to it. Perhaps next time I come back from Minsmere from a productive day out I'll split the photos between two posts.
Next week we're on a trip to North Yorkshire, fingers crossed for wildlife and weather.
Best Wishes,
Trevor

Yesterday the weather was stunning and I had plenty to count on one of my survey sites - It has been such an odd year and this particular site has been returning reducing numbers over the last few years but there was a marked difference yesterday and the only thing I can put it down to is ragwort providing a nectar source in drought conditions - it was full of Small Copper, Small Heath, 3 types of White - Large, Small and Green-veined, wonderfully fresh Brown Argus, Common Blue, Peacock, Wall and Red Admiral but the absolute stars of the show were 4 cracking Clouded Yellow -  I actually had to point them out to other people walking past them.

An impressive amount of sightings Caroline ... after waiting (somewhat impatiently) & reading other's posts re Comma, a favourite of mine but rare visitor here, finally saw three in the warm sunshine yesterday ... no pics as I didn't want to scare them off!
No chance today as all mizzly drizzly !

An Angle Shades in my garden this morning

Ooooh, lucky you Sandra, one of my favourite moths & never saw one here this year!

A first for me this year, Wendy, so it was a lovely surprise to see it.