June Hiatus
Sunday June 7 We did manage to get out on June 1, but the aim was moth traps at Weeting, birding always an intention. Weeting no longer opens as a reserve, the trapping had been arranged by Jane, one of the Titchwell moth-ers who have recently joined the Cley group. We were a few minutes late due to unforeseen traffic delays. The moth-ing looked chaotic. Everyone was milling around the trap with none of the semi organised passing around of egg boxes that we are used to. In the end, Mike, Roger and an unknown man wearing thin black gloves, were very good about making sure that we saw the better moths. We ended up with four lifers, three macros and one micro. Two of he macros were brought in from elsewhere. We'd missed David N's Eastern Bordered Straw (through a dirty plastic pot). which he took to Cley on Saturday and the Purple Marbled from the Titchwell group. A splendid Fox Moth was the other new micro. I'm out of the habit of taking a came...