For the last 48 hours the garden at Dempsey Towers has been invaded by Silver Y moths, gorging on the buddleia.
Really active and so hard to photograph (that's my excuse anyway), but I can't wait to crank up the moth trap tomorrrow night.
At least seven moths to each buddleia bush (and there's five of them).
Also Painted Lady, Red Admiral, Holly Blues, Peacocks, Speckled Woods, Commas etc - feeding alongside the moths through the heat of the day.
Plenty of gulls thermalling and feeding on hatching ants, Sprawk female, up to 27 Swifts, light passage of finches and a greater 'pecker.
Dunnock and Wren just about the only things still singing.
Further afield, Chris Felton was on Hilbre last week and had young Black Tern, hundreds of Sandwich Terns, and two Common Sandpipers.
Chris also found a Wren's nest there in Rock Sea Spurrey, full of young.
Very late news from Bill Hale, via Gary McLardy, of a Red Kite over Marshside on July 6th.
Eyes to the skies everyone, eyes to the skies.....
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