Night of 28th June; 2 nubilalis, 6 small mottled willow, 2 borderde straw, 1 scarce bordered straw, 1 vestal and 4 small marbled. I have now recorded 5 small marbled - interestingly all are female. Has anyone else noted this?

A Small Marbled has reached my garden in Weston on 27th. The only other migrant of note was Ostrinia nubilalis on 26th at Brean Down.

Night of 28th
Scarce Black Arches 2nd individual 1 Small Mottled Willow 2 Silver Y.

Night of 27th June; 1 extimalis, i bordered straw, 3 small mottled willows and 1 small marbled

Night of 27th June 2011 - Small mottled willow and Plutella xylostella to 125w MV.

A bumper night for migrants on Dorset coast last night, night of 27th June. See Dorset Moths website for full details.

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2 Silver Y to light, and Hummingbird Hawkmoth on open ground.

Southern Emerald Damselflies again this year on north Kent marshes.

Thanks to a heads-up from an Odonthead mate, I had five Southern Emerald Damsels (two male, three female) today at Cliffe RSPB - in the same basic area as last year. From the second viewing mound on the 'main' road leading from Pond Hill, take the stony track north, flanked on each side by a sparse hedge. There was a female in the first E-W ditch N of the road (ie last year's most visited site), but also four along the stony track itself - at the base of brambles to the W of the track, 20m S of the ditch. Photos of male and female attached. Bumping into the RSPB wardens, they said they hadn't heard that SED had been seen again at Cliffe this year... but said they have been seen this year at Northward Hill RSPB, a few miles east. The Isle of Grain abounds with apparently suitable habitat - so colonization seems a shoe-in.

Painted Lady
Red Admiral 3
by day on 28 June2011
Red-necked Footman
trapped at Penberth Cove
night of 26 June 2011

Single Small Marbled and Small Mottled Willow here.
Striped Hawk nearby in Preston (R. Lambert)