My new Robin is a great improvement on the one which pestered me over the moth trap for the last two years. That was a rather battered bruiser with the nearest equivalent a bird can manage to a nasty look. This one is...well...here he is, above.
He's also better-mannered and doesn't attempt quite such reckless dives into the eggboxes as his predecessor, giving me time to inspect and photograph the visiting moths. I am well aware that most moths end up as bird or bat food and are a very important part of the animal food-chain in consequence, but I don't see a role for myself as an interfering human aiding this process.
The moths have been unspectacular since I last posted with the variation in the weather, including some cracking sunny days, not extending to the nights which have been cold. Hevrew Characters are easily the most numerous guests, but I get half-a-dozen Small Quakers a night like the one above, lots of Common Quakers and and plenty of Clouded Drabs including the three below.
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