Last night's electric storm did precious little for us on the migrant moth front: lots of routine variety at the Obs including 10 Small Mottled Willow, 2 each tumidana & Small Marbled, singles verellus & Splendid Brocade but for us the pick of the catch was a Lappet (still fewer than 10 records)
— Portland Bird Observatory (@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social) June 26, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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Bramble Bronze Agolamprotes micella an expected and probably overdue addition to the island moth list from our garden moth-trap at the Grove last night - small but very perfectly formed!
— Portland Bird Observatory (@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social) June 26, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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trying to run the survey of silver studded blues on portland again, if anyone has any records with location please let me know. around 20 seen today in windy conditions, only 1x kingbarrow, the rest in tout. only 2x females.
— andylportland.bsky.social (@andylportland.bsky.social) June 26, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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15 species in tout n kingbarrow, grayling in kingbarrow was a new spot for me albeit not unexpected. after struggling to get out all of grayling, gatekeeper, ringlet were nfy and small tort was first portland sighting of the year for me.
— andylportland.bsky.social (@andylportland.bsky.social) June 26, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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how few years do we go back before the thought this was the highlight of tout quarry today would seem absurd! once thought to be the victim of the parasitic fly sturmia bella, would now just seem to be another victim of global warming as uk population moves north searching for cooler climes.
— andylportland.bsky.social (@andylportland.bsky.social) June 26, 2026 at 6:22 PM
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