Tuesday September 19
As we parked at Natural Surroundings, an unknown man entered the gate. Another stranger at a supposedly invitation only moth group? Visitors should pay an entry fee, all regulars pay an annual membership fee.
Getting to the cabin, a small group surrounded the stranger and I was nodded in that direction.He had brought a Clifden Nonpareil, trapped in Surrey, for us to see. Waw. Never thought I'd see one. Big, blue underwing, rare immigrant to the south coast. He displayed it on the wooden bench for all to photograph. It wouldn't open its wings fully for me.....
What a splendid moth. That leaves Deathshead Hawkmoth now........
Then, we got on with opening the traps, an anticlimax to-day.
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