Actually it isn't, because the earliest record of Early Grey in Bucks is unlikely to be bettered for quite a while (4th January 2011 by Richard Ellis in Chorleywood!), but last night's example here at Westcott is next in line and only the second in the county to have been seen during the first two weeks of February, the other being on the 14th in 2005 by the late George Higgs at Willen. It is really a moth of March and April, but in Bucks there are now ten further records during the second half of February, all post-millennium, so its start date does seem to be creeping slowly forwards.
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| Early Grey, Westcott 7th February |
Dave Wilton Westcott, Bucks
An error here, I think! Being investigated
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Chorleywood
It has since been confirmed that the 4th January 2011 Early Grey record was a data entry error (not Richard's fault) so the example illustrated here is now the Earliest Grey for Bucks!
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