😂🤣 its a pretty standard mix but I think it has more to do with the place and trees. Aspens are naturally sap-rich and seem to be attractive to moths combined with being in an area of low natural sugars it makes the additional sugar mix irresistible. I also think the area has very good insect pops

Thanks for tag Tim and hi Tom. Defo worth taking the trap but you might have more luck sugaring. I’ve had up to 1000 moths at sugar at this time of year on nights where temps hang at 1-2oC or even lower. Scottish moths are hardcore!

💪💪 I knew it!

WOW! That’s immense. I’ve seen a fair few this autumn in the Med plus Scorcerer and I’d LOVE to catch one in the UK- top work

Reckon it’s the same you had in Jan 24? It’s behaviour with the other duck made it feel like a new arrival. I suspect this bit of coast has a reasonable turn over of birds given the near annual status on Islay but with clearly different birds. I’m sure some, like the Rhuna bird is a returner tho

Nope think that would be my 6th. @saloplarus.bsky.social and I had an awesome bird at the back of a skein of Barnacles arriving onto Islay one October. It ditched at the mouth of the estuary and left the Barnies to land on the salt marsh. Others in Lincs, Gwynedd, Western Isles, 2x Islay

Yep I completely agree. Masses of habitat and very few people looking. As you know the estuaries are huge and so many flooded fields. This week is going to be pretty passive birding for me but hoping for something else 🤞🤞🤞long billed Dow would do me fine.

That is classic. The education system has failed big style somewhere along the way!

The only anomaly I can see for C.hastulatum are the strikingly pointed black abdominal segment patterning and the two blue eyes (segment 7?)