Fortunate to witness an astonishing spectacle at the beach tonight: tens of thousands of (mainly Small) white butterflies pouring in over the sea, as far as you could see. Pulses of butterflies swept in-off everywhere, an extraordinary sight.
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@stevenash71.bsky.social Hi Steve, caught Catocala nymphaea last night. It’s taken me, Paul and Phil this long to be confident of the id. Photos are poor camera shots, one of it in the trap.
As you can imagine, I’m one happy chap.

2 migrant sable, diasemiopsis ramburialis, 3 sml mott willow and three four-sptd ftmn in the garden traps in Weymouth this morning.

Another striped hawk last night, this time near Blandford Forest. No other migrants though.

A single striped hawk at Merritown Heath, East Dorset.

What a perfect snout, apart from the slightly rubbed thorax. Beautiful.

Two ring ouzels, 14 wheatears and a willow warbler at High Angle Battery, Portland.

2 black redstarts and a wheatear in the Verne Prison compound.

Single golden plover going south over the Verne Prison. Also a big pigeon movement again.

Wakeham area- 2 ring ouzels and a fly over woodlark.

A marbled fern was caught at West Bexington on the night of the 21st.