Moths for Breakfast

This is one of the many moths we were able to see at a "Moth Breakfast" event at Leighton Moss on July 20th. We didn't actually eat the moths, merely learned more about them from a number of experts who kindly identified them for us.

Bird wise July is normally a quiet month although a common scoter was seen on Haweswater, a small lake in Gait Barrows NNR where I also saw a Forester moth in a meadow close by.

Excitement was provided by a number of Ringlet butterflies again flying in a meadow at the head of Haweswater, where they were in competition with many meadow brown butterflies.