Recent bits

                                                   Gold Spangle

                                                     Brown Hawker

                                                Old lady

Gulls ID

A brilliant pic from Sweden ,,,,for all you gull freaks............

Red Kite

Had a very lucky Red Kite on the 20th at Jay House lane , I had been there at lunch time looking for Med Gulls with no luck and then I had to drop my lad off at Golf just up the road and just as I drove along jay house lane one flew low south..☺☺☺Also had my first Buzzard over the local wood for a few weeks which is a good sign..................

Scarce Silver Y and White Satin

                   The good run of new moths continues with these two beautys ............SSY on the 16th and 19th and White Satin on the 19th.

Sabine's Gull

 Went to Nosterfield CP with Nick D to catch up with this beauty , also present breeding Avocet , 3 Black tailed Godwit , 100 + Curlew / Lapwing  , LRP , RP , Common Sand , 2 Common Tern , Redshank and Brimstone butterfly...... (picks by NCD above and Glyn  Sellors below thanks guys)

Varied Coronet x 2

This was a smart moth from last nightand another first for me here  , also on the garage wall were 6 Swallow -tailed Moths.

Bempton

                                                        Marbled White and Burnet

                                                                 Juv Kitiwake

                                                                Balck tailed Skimmers

House Sparrows

An excellent year for House Sparrows with a flock of 25 (mainly juvs ) on a bird table behind our house and up to 15 in and around Hedge top lane.

Last week of June early July 2017

                                                   Common Emerald

                                                                   Clay -triple Lines

Four  new moths for Northowram recently with  Beautiful Hook Tip , Clay triple lines , Common Emerald and Pine Carpet , nice to have a bit of time at home. Also very good news from the Mull moth recorder confirming that the Catoptria furcatellus was the first confirmed record for Mull....One old record is mentioned but with no details................

Beautiful Hook Tip

Pine Carpet