The last two nights have seen me trapping at two private sites within SP82 (the least well recorded 10km square in Bucks), both of which I've been visiting monthly since April in order to try and give the area's species list a boost. One site is near Soulbury and the other near Stewkley. Last night's visit to the latter location was particularly good with close to 80 species seen, more than acceptable in late-August for what is basically hedgerow habitat (certainly a better result over three hours than what was achieved all night in my garden!). There was nothing particularly noteworthy but some of the counts were good, the highest being Small Square-spot (90), Green Carpet (63), Square-spot Rustic (57), Common Wainscot (56) & Large Yellow Underwing (51). It was interesting to see autumnal species appearing, with Feathered Gothic (4) and Brindled Green (2) recorded in addition to Centre-barred Sallow (14) which has been out for a week or two now. The Brindled Greens were my first ever August sightings of that species.
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| Brindled Green, near Stewkley 28th August |
Dave Wilton Westcott, Bucks
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