The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Myself and Alan Dale ran a couple of MV lamps and an actinic lamp at Low Hameringham (SE of Horncastle) on Saturday night as part of the LNU field meeting there. A few species were also noted during the sunny afternoon session including twin-spot carpet, silver Y and straw dot.

About 64 species recorded. Probably over 200 moths caught in traps with several hundred free-flyers including impressive numbers of ghost swifts along road verges and over pasture. Some migrant activity with the diamondbacks noted.

Moth list:
Yellowshell
Red twin-spot carpet
Riband Wave
Bee Moth 5
Ingrailed Clay
Silver-ground Carpet (common)
Middle-barred Minor (common)
Tawny Minor
Tawny speckled pug
The Flame
Heart and Club
Heart and dart (common)
Clouded Silver
Clouded border
Marbled Beauty
Willow beauty
Mottled beauty
The Fan-foot
Brown Rustic (common)
White Ermine (common)
Light Emerald
Cloaked Minor
Common Wainscot
Twin-spot Carpet (common)
Large Nutmeg
Marbled Minor
Green Pug
Mottled Rustic
Common Swift
Ghost swift (common in grassland areas)
Common Carpet
Brimstone Moth
Buff Ermine
Straw Dot (common)
Green Carpet (common)
Silver Y 1
Plain Golden Y 2
Beautiful Golden Y 2
Burnished Brass 1
Large yellow underwing
Flame shoulder
Snout (common)
Double square-spot
Dark arches
Uncertain
Rivulet 1
Rustic shoulder-knot

Micros
Brown house moth
Pandemis cerasana (Barred fruit-tree tortrix)
small china-mark
Water veneer
Pseudargyrotoza conwagana
Crambus lathoniellus
Crambus perlella
Agapeta hamana (common)
Nettle-tap
Diamond-back Moth 6
Chrysoteuchia culmella (common)
Hedya pruniana (common)
Epiblema scutulana
Notocelia trimaculana
Eudonia mercurella
Scoparia ambigualis
Bryotropha sp.