Firstly I start with some news from Clare Stonehouse the chair of our conservation group. She was at Raw Nook LNR of the 29th of May when she saw a Kingfisher at the pond flying back and forth from the pond into Raw Nook. Now the Kingfisher does not breed in our recording area but this behaviour may suggest that it was feeding young!!
Now a few years ago I received a sighting of a pair at Oakenshaw Country Park…Has a pair bred there and been visiting Raw Nook ? If anyone has any recent sighting at either site please could you let me know. Thank you.
Now for the rarity..
On the 30th of May following a few days of southerly winds I found a strange moth in the moth trap that I was puzzled with.
I narrowed it down to two?
It turned out to be a rare migrant moth an Eastern bordered straw moth with only a few Yorkshire records!
What has happened is there has been a small influx from southern Europe that have arrived on the southerly winds and one has turn up in our recording area!!
