Traps & Feeders

It has been a very mixed weeek up here on Mull, we have had just about every kind of weather you can think off. Including a couple of very nice days indeed, which have brought out the Bumble Bee’s and other flies.

The flowers are coming on fairly quick too, Primroses are popping up all over and others include Lesser Celandine, Golden Saxifrage, Dogs Mercury and the Bluebells are shooting up but no sign of the buds yet.

On one of the very nice days i thought it was time to put out my moth trap for the first time, so it came out on Sunday night the temp dropped to below freezing but i still managed to get 6 species of moth (8 moths in all) not a big number when you compare to the amount you can get in summer.

A Yellow Horned and a Hebrew Character

I will be running my trap as much as the weather allows, i would recommend anybody to have a go at mothing, some of the colours and patterns that you get are truly magnificent. It does away with the myth that moths are just plain brown and eat your clothes, there are over 2400 species of moth in the British Isles. So why not have a go all you need is a outdoor light to start with.

It is so nice on the sunny days to hear all of the bird song around at the moment,  everything seems to be dispalying and gettign ready for the impending breeding season. I am still however feeding the birds and the are really going through the food. I am filling up the feeder everyday for them, the feeder has only been up for 12 days and they found it straight away. I just hope their natural food starts to make an apperance soon, i’m getting low on seed.

  So far i have had on the feeder.

•    Blue Tit
•    Great Tit
•    Coal Tit
•    Chaffinch
•    Greenfinch
•    House Sparrow
•    Sisken
•    Robin

    and on the Song Thrush, Blackbird, Wren and Hedge Sparrow.