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Sunday, 9 March 2014
The mother's foe returns...
Our local Brown Long-eared Bat population seems to have awoken earlier than usual this year. It never takes them long to realise where there's a good source of food and there was at least one set of Common Quaker wings by the trap this morning, so I expect there'll be more tonight...
Dave Wilton, Westcott, Bucks
Brown Long-eared Bat at the twin-30wt actinic trap
Goodness! I am a bit nervous about birds (a Robin got into the trap once in Leeds) but they seem surprisingly unable to spot completely inert moths, even on the shield or nearby walls, when I forget to shuffle the catch off into dark and hard-to-reach places
Goodness! I am a bit nervous about birds (a Robin got into the trap once in Leeds) but they seem surprisingly unable to spot completely inert moths, even on the shield or nearby walls, when I forget to shuffle the catch off into dark and hard-to-reach places
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