In lovely still conditions overnight moth-trapping was busy but immigrant numbers were inexplicably low, with a Small Marbled at the Grove the best of the oddities; a White Satin was a good island record at Weston.
Once a great rarity here, White Satin has become an almost expected oddity during periods of mid-summer immigration/dispersal © Duncan Walbridge/Martin Cade:
And we'd got behind with a few butterfly photos from the weekend; these mating Marbled Whites and Silver-studded Blues include a pair of the latter with a deformed female - fortunately, since their numbers look to be at a really low ebb this year, she seems to be making the best of getting the job done © Ken Dolbear: