Saturday 19 August 2017

Wilstone Reservoir 15th August 2017 - CES and moth trap

Weather: Warm with a light breeze
Ringers: JT, JSJ, SM, CL, LL, EM plus potential trainee Jen and Sandra’s friend Alan.

Full house this morning. Sandra brought an interested friend, Alan, and Jenny, a student from Hemel Hempstead, came for a taster session.
We had a good number of birds, 110, to make up for last time, largely Reed Warblers, also evidence of the autumn passage with 9 Willow Warblers handled.
Lynne and Colin had set the moth trap the night before so more fun was had there.



New
Retrap
Total
Blackbird

1
1
Blackcap
12
5
17
Blue Tit
1

1
Chiffchaff
11
2
13
Dunnock
1

1
Garden Warbler
1

1
Goldcrest
1

1
Great Tit
1

1
Long Tailed Tit
2
1
3
Reed Bunting
1
1
2
Reed Warbler
38
1
39
Robin
1
2
3
Sedge Warbler
9

9
Willow Warbler
9

9
Wren
6
3
9




Total
94
16
110

Johne


Moths recorded at Wilstone Reservoir for the night of 14/8/2017
Report by Colin

Moth Traps used to be a regular event at Wilstone Reservoir but haven’t been done in recent years, so we were glad to take the opportunity this weekend. Although moth numbers were not great there were some interesting species, particularly Brown-veined Wainscot and Twin-spotted Wainscot.
The Pale Prominents and abundant Poplar Hawkmoths were popular with the visitors who hadn’t seen these impressive moths before, and the Canary-shouldered Thorn was nice.
Apologies for the lack of order of the records. I’ll correct this when I can.

Species
Count
Brown-veined Wainscot
1
Twin-spotted Wainscot
1
Common Wainscot
1
Southern Wainscot
3
Poplar Hawkmoth
10
Canary-shouldered Thorn
1
White Satin Moth
1
Engrailed
1
Blood-vein
1
Riband Wave
2
July Highflyer
3
Common Carpet
1
Common Wave
3
Willow Beauty
2
Swallow Prominent
3
Pale Prominent
3
Large Yellow Underwing
14
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
2
Least Yellow Underwing
1
Copper Underwing
1
Small Square-spot
1
Dingy Footman
2
Straw Dot
1
Chilo phragmitella
1
Pyrausta aurata
1
Brown China-mark
1


Brown-veined Wainscot. Photo by Lynne

Twin-spotted Wainscot. Photo by Lynne

Poplar Hawkmoth. Photo by Jenny

Pale Prominent. Photo by Jenny

July Highflyer. Photo by Jenny


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