Dave Wilton
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| Common Fan-foot, Bernwood Forest 25th May |
A Blog for moth recorders in Bucks, Berks and Oxon
Monday, 26 May 2014
Another BAP Species
With the weather looking to be cool and wet now until towards the end of the week I took the almost foolhardy decision to try for another NERC Act S.41 (the former UK BAP list) Priority Species in Bernwood Forest, Bucks last night. The temperature was a tolerable 11C at dusk but had fallen to 6C within a couple of hours under clear skies (why is it that the Met Office are singularly incapable of accurately predicting cloud cover at night?). I stuck it out and was rewarded with a grand total of 43 moths of 21 species in the allotted three hours, within an area of prime woodland habitat that on a warmer night would have been heaving with moths! However, happily for me the desired species did put in an appearance, a single male of the (not so) Common Fan-foot entering the trap while a pair in cop landed on the grass nearby.
Dave Wilton
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Dave: You could also try yr.no - a Norwegian weather site with an English language version.
ReplyDeleteAndy King.
Thanks, Andy. I'll give that one a try. The best result, though, may be to continue with the Met Office in the knowledge that whatever they predict the opposite will happen!
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