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Wednesday 20th July 2016

Activity again from a bird perspective was limited, with a juvenile Cuckoo around the Obs Building early morning the best bird of the day. Butterfly numbers increased again with Small White being particularly numerous and the moth trap produced a catch of thirty seven species which included Dot Moth and  Dark/Grey Dagger.