A New Interest, A New Blog !

Since retirement I find that I now have the time and inclination to follow my many interests in the world of nature.

 Bird Watching has been my main interest, closely followed by Butterflies, Dragonflies Bumblebees and Bees and I now find myself being drawn into the mysterious world of Moths.

A subject I know very little about, but armed with a couple of Field guides on Moths, a newly acquired "Skinner Moth Trap" I am totally hooked.

The anticipation of investigating a nights catch in the early hours of the morning is very addictive, Photographing the moths caught has been challenging, to say the least, frustrating is understatement.

Most of the Moths caught  up to now  all seem to be described as 'Common and Widespread'  for me that's not a problem, every new moth caught and identified  is as exciting as seeing  a rare specimen,
 I live for the day when I finally trap a Hawk Moth though.

I'm playing catch up at the moment, trying to record previous catch's  from the garden since first putting the trap out. this will allow me to keep a record of the individual species caught around the garden.

I do not expect to have many views on this particular blog, more a means to an end for recording Moths seen.

But if any interested ' moth-ers ' find themselves visiting this blog and notice any misidentifications please let me know so that I can correct them,

 I expect there will be many as there seems to be many  species variations and similar looking moths to confuse the beginner.