Dawn raid

Getting up early is getting harder -  but at least dawn is getting later... if you get what I mean.

Tis the season of the Black Arches - found five of these handsome moths, all on the outside of the trap

I thought this was going to be a Snout until I realised that it didn't have a snout. Fortunately Jay Clark put me in the picture - it's a Shaded Broad-bar, a moth garden tick

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Getting up early for the party animals

I have to get up early to check the moth trap, but it always seems like the moths themselves have had a good night dancing around the bulb. Some of them even seem a little hungover in the morning.

Pretty skies when I got up to check the moth trap this morning...

Purple Thorn

Swallow Prominent

The Spectacle

Broad-bordered Yellow Underwings

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