Monday 7 July 2014

Sunday 6th July

Sunny but cool for July 6 - 18C, light W wind

5/6th final night of National Moth Night

Warbreck Hill - moths: scalloped oak, single dotted wave, 5 heart & darts, buff ermine, 2 dotted clays, 3 common grass veneers, riband wave

Regency Gardens - kestrel

Anchorsholme - moths: Magpie, dot moth, heart & dart, dark arches, 2 bright line brown eyes, large yellow underwing, garden carpet, common wainscot, 2 buff ermines,

To learn more about these moths copy their names into the search box here  http://www.ukmoths.org.uk/

Devonshire Road Rock Gardens - 3+ white letterhairstreaks (one of only a handful of sites for this rare  butterfly in Lancashire north of the R. Ribble), 10+ meadow browns, 5+ large skippers, 2 small skippers, brown hawker dragonfly, many tree bees, blackcap

Zoo - Goldcrest

Salisbury Woodland - Goldcrest

Stanley Park - Goldcrest, 2 adult + 3 juv great crested grebes, 2 pochards

Marton Mere LNR - Cetti's warbler, 10+ house martins, 55 coots, 2 ad + 2 great crested grebes, barn owl, buzzard

Heron's Reach golf course - Goldcrest