The weather is dodging about in true British fashion at the moment, fresh and crisp one evening and warm but moisty the next. Last night was very promising initially but shortly before midnight the rain came drumming down and I got up in my dressing gown and pyjamas to turn the light off before it fused.
Visitors continue to be many and varied as my first picture shows: from the top left, we have a male Feathered Thorn with his glorious antennae, a Green-brindled Crescent (one of the top moths in terms of numbers at the moment), a Large Yellow Underwing, a Beaded Chestnut, the micro Aethes smithmanniana, a probable Common Quaker very worn, a Sallow, a Black Rustic and a Red-green Carpet. As well as these, the eggboxes were home to numerous Autumnal and November Moths.
The Feathered Thorn is the current star of proceedings, four in the trap last night and all very freshly-hatched judging by their condition. One of them was still asleep upside down and I contrast it with the usual view in the photo above. The first pic below meanwhile suggests Macbeth's three witches, appropriately given that last night was Hallowe'en.
And then there were four...the one on the right below a lot friskier than the others and just starting its getaway which is under way in the second photo.
They were the only visitors apart from the Barred Sallow below, which adds its own small contribution to the variety of moths in the trap at this tailend of the year.
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