Another C. fraxini on night of 19th. Different specimen to last week.

Night of 18 September: 2 Scarce Bordered Straw

Night of 17 September: 1 Humming-bird Hawk, 3 Cosmopolitan, 1 Delicate, 5 Pearly Underwing

Night of 18/09: singles of Vestal & Silver Y.

Despite recent uninspired weather, a male Lesser Emperor dragonfly was reported from Trimingham, Norfolk, on 17 September [J. Gearty]. Just possibly it's a Northern European-bred one migrating south??

17/9 with 6 traps - Counts for the night were;
Rusty-dot Pearl x 1
Dark Swordgrass x 3
Pearly Underwing x 1
Silver Y x 1
& 1 x Four-spotted Footman which I assume was a resident?

Here are my counts for 16/9 with previous night's figures in brackets; Rusty-dot Pearl 13 (10), Rush Venerr 6 (9), Convolvulus hawk 1 (1 - this was a different individual), Dark Swordgrass 23 (20), Pearly underwing 20 (30), Delicate 2 (4), Scarce bordered Straw 1 (2), Silver Y 4 (6), White-speck 1 (0), Pale Mottled willow 1 (0). Also increased surely due to migration? were Setaceous Hebrew Characters up from 99 to 207?

Hummingbird Hawk nectaring on Honeysuckle on 14th.

great night last night for migrants with 7 traps - 15/9 - not sure why with north winds! Rusty-dot Pearl x 10, Rush Veneer x 9, Dark Swordgrass x 20, Pearly Underwing x 30, Delicate x 4, Scarce Bordered Straw x 2, Silver y x 6, Cosmopolitan x 1, Convolvulus Hawk x 1, Nycteoline sp x 1, plus commoner species possibly migrants too with 99 Setaceous Hebrew Character etc.

Yesterday evening (15th) at 19:15. Hummingbird Hawk-moth flew into my garden and after briefly hovering around the Nicotiana flowers, flew off at high speed. Wind NW, force 2-3. Temperature 9.70C

One Dark Sword-grass to garden trap
last night