A very poor, or a typical friday night, here. Only a handful of moths with Shuttle Shaped Dart being my only first for the year. However 2009 has so far been very good and continues to show promise in my opinion from my garden observations. Each of the five most common Spring moths, Hebrew Character, Common Quaker, Small Quaker, Early Grey and Clouded Drab are not only well up on the 6 year average here but I anticipate all will have their best ever year. I reached my 50th different Macro for the year on 21/04/09 which is the earliest date that has happened and only the second time it has happened before the beginning of May since I started trapping here in 2003. Yesterday afternoon I walked along the field margin behind my house and came across 4 Small Tortoiseshell nests. There are normally 1-3 spring nests in this field whilst last year I did not see any at all.