13th October

Crocidosema plebejana

Weather: Westerlies dying out overnight as high pressure moves over the UK bring windless morning with fog. Overnight conditions were mostly windless with thin high level cloud and a full moon. Temperatures hovering around 14 degrees.

Redwings could be heard moving through during the early hours of the morning following influxes in the North-east of England. Spurn reported over 8,000 yesterday.

Lepidoptera: Migrants included 15 Udea ferrugalis, 5 Silver Y, 1 Pearly Underwing and 2 Red Admirals. Also a new moth for me Crocidosema plebejana

8th October

Still nothing to report on the bird front from Weston. Many birds leaving Norway last night but heading south and reaching speeds of 100km/h as they were picked up on radar ascending at dusk and reaching Holland just after mid-night. Any favourable winds from now for the next few weeks will produce falls on the east coast which will filter through the country.

7th October

Figure of Eight

Common Tern

Common Tern

Nothing to report on the bird front.

Sand Point moths: Figure of Eight new for year.

5th October

Bedellia somnulentella all over Weston currently

Sadly nothing to report on the bird front.

Migrant Moths: Vestal in the garden, a Small Marbled at Burnham and Dark Mottled Willow at Taunton.

3rd October

Vestal

Hellula undalis Old World Webworm from Burnham

Brean Down moths: The last of the southerly winds as a wind change to westerly is due to take place. 3 Vestal, 2 Dark Sword-grass, 1 Pearly Underwing, 1 Scarce Bordered Straw, 15 Rusty Dot Pearl, 5 Silver Y the migrant total. Also Yellow Belle, Flounced Chestnut, November Moth agg, Mallow, Oak Nycteoline.

2nd October

Delicate

Mallow

Sand Point: 1 Wryneck at Sand Point this morning (P.Gregory)

Brean Down: 1 Delicate, 5 Udea ferrugalis, 2 Silver Y

Weston: Dewick's Plusia D.Agassiz garden

1st Ocotber

Scarce Bordered Straw

Flounced Chestnut

Pearly Underwing

Brean Down moths: 2 Scarce Bordered Straw, 3 Pearly Underwing, 12 Rusty Dot Pearl, 7 Silver Y made up the migrants. Also Dark Arches, Turnip, Cypress Carpet, Common Marbled Carpet, Light Emerald, Brimstone, Frosted Orange, Green-brindled Crescent, L-album Wainscot, Pale Mottled Willow, Square-spot Rustic, Common Wainscot, Large Wainscot, Large Yellow Underwing, Lesser Yellow Underwing, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Engrailed, Beaded Chestnut, Lunar Underwing, Autumnal Rustic, Flounced Chestnut, Mallow, Black Rustic, Barred Sallow, Sallow, Garden Pebble, Acleris rhombana, Angle Shades, Vapourer, Feathered Ranunculus, Blair's Shoulder-knot, Mottled Beauty, Green Carpet, The Brick, Vine's Rustic (39 species).

Garden moth trap: 1 Silver Y, Brindled Green.