Thought I would kick this years thread off with the beautiful Peacock spotted today - I have had quite a few moths around the front door but not deployed the lights recently
Edit: 2021 thread can be found here community.rspb.org.uk/.../butterflies-moths-2021
Cin J
Genus: Leaf roller Moths
Walked my transects today, getting them done early as prepping for travels this week. I'm so glad I did - numbers were a little low on my first site but Bear got to say hello to lots of people and then we watched about 1200 motor bikes take nearly 20 minutes to negotiate a hairpin bend on a big charity ride out . I only took the phone out with me for photos
Clouded Silver moth
Speckled Wood investigating the salt on a Limpit shell
After I dropped bear home I headed off to my second and longer site. When I got there I had one of those internal conversations - was it worth it? the wind had picked up and there was some cloud about and, and ... but I pulled myself together and set off and with the big camera - I have been concerned about the low numbers and worried about the really poor showing of Common Blue
Pleased to say that Common Blue were about at my favourite part and I also saw Small Heath and decent numbers of Green Hairstreak
But the one that left me with a really big grin on my face was this very unexpected delight
Long-tailed Blue
Small copper
A couple of days ago, before the rain started, this Green-veined White allowed me lots of opportunities to get some nice shots of it on some Sweet Rocket(I think).
Best Wishes,
Trevor
2013 photos & vids here
eff37 on Flickr
Wonderful shots Trevor. They are all excellent, but if I had to choose I would pick numbers 2, 5 & 6 as my faves, closely followed by the others ...