One lonely moth
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After a warm day yesterday we had high hopes for the moth trap. Unfortunately the night was quite cold and this morning we only had one lonely moth in our trap.
However it was the very beautiful Poplar Hawkmoth which is on the wing from now to the end of July. The caterpillars of this moth feed on poplars, sallows and willows and it spends the winter as a pupa underground. It is the first we have trapped this year.
Elsewhere we watched as 3 Lapwing chicks were brooded by their mother on the wet meadows. 4 Redshank were wheeling in the air with 2 Oystercatchers and 4 Lapwings.