5 Common Quakers and 5 Hebrew Characters last night brought my 2020 totals up to 13 moths and 3 species. I always think that a slow start to the year indicates good numbers later on and this has certainly been a slow start.

Drizzle / light rain for most of the evening and I packed up at 23:00 by which time seven moths of six species: two Double-striped Pug and one each March Moth, Early Grey, Dark Chestnut, Common Quaker and Emmelina monodactyla.

A Clouded Drab (FFY), Common Quaker (2, FFY) and a Dark Chestnut from a two hour session before rain intervened (again).

20/2/20 - another cold night, and the moths stayed by the radiators - I don't blame them. They didn't come here anyway.

I found a FFY Common Quaker in my porch this morning - whether it nipped in last evening when I let the dogs out for a wee, or was left over from last Thursday night's trapping, I will never know.

13/2/20 - Prior to "Storm Dennis" coming along, and with no rain forecast (for a change), I tried a trapping session.  Result?  3 Hebrew Characters, which is a bit better than nothing I suppose, but not much.  Roll on warmer nights.

4/2/20 - just one lonesome Hebrew Character last night, but then it was quite cold.

29th Jan - Dark Chestnut on shop window, the parade, Langport.
Firethorn Leaf Miner Phyllonorycter leucographella mines on Pyracantha, Burton Close, Curry Rivel.
30th Jan - empty trap.
31st Jan - one each Dark Chestnut and Early Moth.

Trappng in my garden is likely to be even less productive as the new building site to the East of us grows - high powered security lights on all night!

02/02/2020 - what a nice date !!

Four singletons last night - Winter Moth, Chestnut, and FFYs Early Moth and Pale Brindled Beauty.  An improvement , but a long way to go.

A Dark Chestnut and my first Ypsolopha mucronella since 2016 - the only visitors until the rain came at 11.30.

31/1/20 - again just a single moth in the traps, this time a Chestnut - FFY, although not rhe first this winter, having recorded one in October.