Yet again grim on the duck front with just a handful of quackage knocking around, the highlight of the morning being the Red Kite which was scouting the sheep-fields of Horse-eye & Down first thing before drifting off towards Rickney. Apart from that it really was pretty much bulk standard with a really tatmungus Marsh Harrier, 2 pairs of Shelduck, a pair of Tufted Duck, a pair of Gadwall, and the pair of Stockies the only birds of any note along with a singing Chiff-chaff near Rickney.
On the moth front it was also exceptionally ordinary with only 3 Common Quaker and 3 Hebrew Character in the Skinner this morning.
The Clouded Drab above was trapped at Paul Chapman's house in Clevedon on Thursday night. Bizzarely it is a species I don't get at all often in the garden so to see half a dozen or so made a change. It was great to get away to the Cheltenham festival for a couple of days with good friends, although the less said about the punting the better...
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