Glow-worm

Alex found this little fella on the path next to Great Byard's Sale. Click the pic, it's big!

Glow-worm Lampyris noctiluca

Canon Powershot A640

Purple Heron

Didn't think this one was going to perform for me. I missed it by a few minutes on the day that it was found but this morning, on my sixth visit to the area, I struck lucky. I was just setting up my scope about 200m east of Eldernell carpark when the thing got up from Moreton's Leam close by. It then proceeded to give outstanding and extended flight views in the beautiful morning light before dropping just behind Lord's Holt. I had time to watch it through bins and scope and even get a couple of digiscoped flight shots.

This is the 7th day for this bird. The last in the Peterborough area was 12 years ago, also a mid-late September record. It was my first in the UK.

Purple Heron Ardea purpurea, juvenile


Digiscoped with Canon A640 and Leica APO77 x20

Pink-barred Sallow

Another addition to the garden moth list. I've previously only recorded this species in my parents' garden in Hampshire.

The catch was also remarkable for having the most Snouts I've ever caught in a single night. They were the most numerous species, even outnumbering the Large Yellow Underwings.

Pink-barred Sallow Xanthia togata

Nikon Coolpix P4

1524 Emmelina monodactyla 1
1682 Blood-vein (Timandra comae) 1
1764 Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata) 1
1862 Double-striped Pug (Gymnoscelis rufifasciata) 1
1906 Brimstone Moth (Opisthograptis luteolata) 1
2107 Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) 5
2109 Lesser Yellow Underwing (Noctua comes) 3
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum) 1
2134 Square-spot Rustic (Xestia xanthographa) 3
2199 Common Wainscot (Mythimna pallens) 3
2269 Centre-barred Sallow (Atethmia centrago) 2
2273 Pink-barred Sallow (Xanthia togata) 1
2364 Frosted Orange (Gortyna flavago) 1
2384 Vine's Rustic (Hoplodrina ambigua) 1
2434 Burnished Brass (Diachrysia chrysitis) f. juncta 1
2477 The Snout (Hypena proboscidalis) 6

Assymetric Large Ranunculus

Note the left wing is noticably shorter than the right. On the same night elsewhere in Cambridgeshire Ray caught one with the right wings shorter than the left.

Large Ranunculus Polymixis flavicincta

Nikon Coolpix P4

1764 Common Marbled Carpet (Chloroclysta truncata) 1
1776 Green Carpet (Colostygia pectinataria) 1
1906 Brimstone Moth (Opisthograptis luteolata) 2
2064 Ruby Tiger (Phragmatobia fuliginosa) 1
2107 Large Yellow Underwing (Noctua pronuba) 2
2109 Lesser Yellow Underwing (Noctua comes) 6
2126 Setaceous Hebrew Character (Xestia c-nigrum) 4
2134 Square-spot Rustic (Xestia xanthographa) 1
2199 Common Wainscot (Mythimna pallens) 1
2252 Large Ranunculus (Polymixis flavicincta) 1
2269 Centre-barred Sallow (Atethmia centrago) 1
2434 Burnished Brass (Diachrysia chrysitis) f. juncta 1
2477 The Snout (Hypena proboscidalis) 1

Med Gull, Maxey

Very little else of note anywhere in the area at the moment.

Mediterranean Gull Larus melanocephalus

Digiscoped with Nikon Coolpix P4 and Leica APO77 x20