We were really excited to spot this moth settled on the underside of the perspex of one of the Obs garden moth-traps this morning and guessed that it might be a Lesser Pearl Sitochroa verticalis - something that we'd often been concerned about overlooking; sure enough, once potted that's what it turned out to be and we could indeed see that if just the upperside had been seen it could easily have been passed off in a busy trap as a European Corn-borer or one of the Anania Pearls. Lesser Pearl evidently occurred on the island in the Victorian era but, in common with much of its former range, it's long gone from here as a resident, indeed the Dorset Moth Group website suggests it hasn't been recorded in Dorset since the Second World War © Martin Cade:
Three of the seven Sanderling present at Ferrybridge ©Pete Saunders:
