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This is my 3rd year doing moth trapping with the Garden Moth Scheme, I'd done some trapping in the garden for a couple of years, but didn't put the trap out that often.  The GMS involves trapping every Friday night for 36 weeks from early March to November, you can miss up to 7 weeks as long as you miss no more than 3 in a row.  You put out your trap in the same spot in the garden each week, you can trap either a couple of days early or late, but the Friday is preferred if possible unless the weather is so bad that the moths or the trap would be damaged.  Last Friday was one of those nights with high winds and torrential rain, so I trapped on the Saturday instead.  All I caught was a single Hebrew Character, so that makes 5 moths of 3 species in the 1st 9 weeks of the scheme this year. 

A quick walk around the woods yesterday of just under an hour brought me another 13 new species for the year bringing my total to 65.  One of these was a gorgeous male Redstart which I haven't seen in the square before.  Another spring migrant was a Willow Warbler, the other 11 species were plants.  Some of these were flowering, others are pretty easy ones that I can recognise without flowers.  The full list is below along with a picture of a Wood Anemone.

	Taxon	Vernacular	Date Added
52	Orthosia gothica	Hebrew Character	27th of April
53	Phoenicurus phoenicurus	Redstart	29th of April
54	Phylloscopus trochilus	Willow Warbler	29th of April
55	Vaccinium myrtillus	Blaeberry	29th of April
56	Myrica gale	Bog Myrtle	29th of April
57	Cytisus scoparia	Broom	29th of April
58	Urtica dioica	Common Nettle	29th of April
59	Vaccinium vitis-idaea	Cowberry	29th of April
60	Lonicera periclymenum	Honeysuckle	29th of April
61	Ficaria verna	Lesser Celandine	29th of April
62	Calluna vulgaris	Heather	29th of April
63	Caltha palustris	Marsh Marigold	29th of April
64	Anemone nemorosa	Wood Anemone	29th of April
65	Oxalis acetosella	Wood Sorrel	29th of April

Wood Anemone - Anemone nemorosa