A brief wander yesterday, to check on local ponds for dragons and damsels turned up a good surprise. In a verge alongside a farm track I came across Creeping cinquefoil (
Potentilla reptans.) A bright yellow flower. There appeared to be at least 3 in bloom.
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| Creeping cinquefoil |
On the main lagoon just 5 mallards and a single tufted duck, but plenty of common blue damselflies in the long grass. I spent a while searching for wasp spiders, but none were evident.
On the smaller ponds at Hadham Hall juvenile moorhens were posing well for a photo and a brown hawker dragonfly buzzed me.
A single lesser balck backed gull eased south before resting in a recently harvested field where over 100 mixed corvids were also feeding.
Mothing over the last 2 nights has been atrocious with 23 moths of 13 species taken last night and 16 moths of 14 species taken the night before. Nothing new for the year. Hopefully, things will pick up over the week as I am running several traps in a local wood on Saturday night. The last 2 nights have been clear and much colder than any time over the previous 2 months. Need some good cloud cover for the weekend.
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