Bee-Eater at Longstones

 

Pale and Pebble Prominent at Longstones

  Overnight mothing at Porth Hellick got me two new species. A Pale Prominent and Common Wave. The reed area was dominated by Smoky Wainscots, but only 2 Brown-veined Wainscot.

 

Common Wave 

 

 

Pale Prominent 

A total of 27 species at Porth Hellick

1 Pale Prominent
1 Common Wave
1 Lime-speck Pug
1 Dark Swordgrass
1 White Ermine 
1 Angle Shade
1 Bright-line Brown Eye
1 Garden Carpet
1 Bee Moth
1 Six-spotted Burnet
1 Common Emerald
1 Brussels Lace 
1 Buff Footman
1 Dark Arches
1 Cloaked  Minor
1 Common Rustic
1 Snout 
2 Brown-veined Wainscot
2 Early Thorn
2 Willow Beauty 
2 Single-dotted Wave 
2 Flame Shoulder 
2 Brown-veined Wainscot
3 Dingy Footman 
3 Small Fan-footed Wave
20+July Highflyer 
70+Smoky Wainscot

  After work I went to Mick's to check out the traps. Straw Underwing and Rhigognostis annulatella were both new species for me, otherwise it was the same usual stuff. Maybe the moths were crap, but a BEE-EATER, first heard and then seen briefly heading N towards Higher Lanes/Telegraph made up for it. Is this the same individual that was last seen, 2nd July, just up the road at Maypole? It's a long time for a Bee-Eater to stick around and not be heard or seen. A single Willow Warbler was also in the garden.

Total of species at Longstones 

Yponomeuta evonymella 1
Rhigognostis annulatella 1
Agonopterix heracliana 1
Agonopterix nervosa 3
Blastobasis lignea 6
Cnephasia sp 1
Acleris laterana 2
Acleris variegana 1
Celypha lacunana 1
Eucosma cana 1
Alucita hexadactyla 4
Chrysoteuchia culmella 7
Pediasia contaminella 3
Evergestis forficalis (Garden Pebble) 1
Eurrhypara hortulata (Small Magpie) 1
Phlyctaenia coronata 1
Udea ferrugalis (Rusty Dot Pearl) 13
Nomophila noctuella 3
Adaina microdactyla 2
Emmelina monodactyla 1
Small Blood-vein 1
Small Fan-footed Wave 1
Single-dotted Wave 8
Riband Wave 12
Grey Pine Carpet 1
July Highflyer 1
Wormwood Pug 1
Common Pug 1
Early Thorn 11
Scalloped Oak 5
Swallow-tailed Moth 1
Willow Beauty 4
Brussels Lace 8
Poplar Hawk-moth 1
Buff-tip 5
Pebble Prominent 2
Pale Prominent 1
Yellow-tail 1
Dingy Footman 14
Scarce Footman 1
Buff Footman 16
Common Footman 3
Four-spotted Footman 6
Garden Tiger 1
Ruby Tiger 6
Kent Black Arches 7
Heart and Dart 2
Shuttle-shaped Dart 5
Flame 1
Flame Shoulder 15
Large Yellow Underwing 4
Lesser Yellow Underwing 7
Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow UW 2
True Lover's Knot 5
Square-spot Rustic 3
Nutmeg 9
Cabbage Moth 1
Bright-line Brown-eye 9
Marbled Coronet 1
Lychnis 11
The Clay 4
Smoky Wainscot 9
Straw Underwing 1
Dark Arches 6
Cloaked Minor 1
Common/Lesser Common Rustic 13
Rosy Rustic 6
The Rustic 1
Dark Spectacle 1
Spectacle 1
Straw Dot 3
Snout 1
Pinion-streaked Snout 1

 

Field Grasshopper at Longstones