Marvellously early

Back from a few days' holiday in Dorset, and I almost missed this very welcome debut for the year, snoozing after a pretty chilly night on the house wall near a Black Rustic whose familiar triangle was much less effective as camouflage - see below.  It's the earliest Merveille du Jour in my seven years of running the light trap in Oxfordshire.  I never encountered the moth in Leeds although a friend in Scarborough recorded plenty.  Previous first-arrivals here were: 2013: 16 Oct, 2014: 9 Oct; 2015: 10 Oct; 2016: 9 Oct, 2017: 9 Oct; 2018: 8 Oct and last year: 4 Oct. Martin Wainwright, Thrupp, Oxon