Birds Recorded
Tufted Duck
Pheasant
Moorhen
Black Headed Gull
Wood Pigeon
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Robin
Reed Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Blackcap
Garden Warbler
Whitethroat
John Bath, Judith Boniface
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
Magpie
Jay
Blue Tit
Wren
Mistle Thrush
Blackbird
Starling
Greenfinch
Bullfinch
Reed Bunting
House Sparrow
MOTH TRAPPING AT SANDFORD MILL - 10TH JULY 1996
A warm humid night, bright at first, thin cloud cover later. Previous weeks of rather
mixed and sometimes cool weather, following a very cool spring.
Present: Tony & Judith Boniface, David Turner, Peter West, Phil Butler, Tony
Walentowicz.
Peter West brought a bat detector and recorded three species along the river - Noctule,
Serotine and Pipestrelle.
One Cockchafer was observed in flight.
The light trap operated from about 9.00 till 12.30. Very many Trichoptera (caddis flies)
were about.
The following mostly macro moths were identified:
Elephant hawk-moth
Barred Straw
Dark Arches
Common Emerald
Small Emerald?
Large Emerald
Least Carpet
Fen Wainscot?
Common Footman
Thistle Ermine
Plume Moth
Riband Wave (dark specimen)
Peppered Moth
Pale Prominent
Double Square-spot?
Deilephila elpenor
Eulithis pyraliata
Apamea monoglypha
Hemithea aestivaria
Hemistola chrysoprasaria
Geometra papilionaria
Idaea vulpinaria atrosignaria
Arenostola phragmitidis
Eilema lurideola
Idaea aversata
Biston betularia f. carbonaria
Pterostoma palpina
Xestia triangulum
?not 100% certain