Bank holiday Monday and a big change in the weather – cold and cloudy. Typical. I put out the moth trap last night, not many moths but some different ones. In the top photo is Old Lady which was good to see – the last one recorded here was back in 2019. It’s a seriously big moth, aside from some of the Hawk-moths. The forewing can measure up to 65mm.
There were several Straw Underwings, the first ones for this year and a Crescent Dart, which is a new species for my garden. Mind you, one seems rather poor when I heard that the moth traps for Nature Guernsey at Plainmont had around two hundred on Saturday night!
Straw Underwing, Thalpophila matura 
Crescent Dart, Agrotis trux
Also some of the other seventeen species present were Bright-line Brown-eye, two Burnished Brass, Oak Hook-tip, three White Point and a Yellow Belle. The light is very poor so only a couple of photos taken with my phone.
With luck, I’ll be back bird ringing tomorrow. The Nature Guernsey event had a Wryneck in the net which was ringed. I wasn’t there and that bird is high on my list of ones I’d like to see!
Natural history of the Bailiwick of Guernsey 