http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/ NottinghamshireWildlife Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:08:43 GMT Neil Pinder http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/842 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/842 I've decided to stick to moths! Last night; 2 new sp for my garden: Blackneck and Oak Eggar I'm having to survey over a sheet from 10.30 til one-ish because of Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:01:20 GMT barry Johnson http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/841 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/841 I don't know what this attachment thing is about, I didn't intend to send one, if there is one do not trust it. Hopefully it is not possible to send attachment Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:41:03 GMT Barry Johnson http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/840 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/840 err!...not cut for silage 6 weeks ago. ... From: barryj@... Sent: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:28:36 -0000 To: NottinghamshireWildlife@yahoogroups.com Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:29:11 GMT barryjohnson131 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/839 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/839 I suspect that grass grows later in the hills of Yorkshire, but in these parts July is considered as late cutting. A friend of mine owns a SSSI hay meadow and Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:00:20 GMT Dave Jones http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/838 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/838 Bennerley is alive at the moment, orchids, butterflies, damsels & dragons, birds, probably coneheads [clueless but interested] the Rosebay is out now and that Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:58:56 GMT Neil Pinder http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/837 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/837 I'm pleased only Sandy was daft enough to chase this up. I must go birdwatching more. The good news is that I can still hear Grasshopper Warbler. The bad news Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:59:05 GMT Neil Pinder http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/836 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/836 Thanks Sandy I've intended to buy the CD for a while - would you recommend it? From your description and the descriptions I've read in Marshall & Haes and Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:52:07 GMT Colin Bowler http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/835 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/835 Further to recent postings I thought the report below may be interesting. Re Roesel's, perhaps it's another case of first appearance date getting earlier and Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:10:22 GMT Roy Frost http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/834 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/834 I would just add to the debate that grasshoppers, especially Meadow G, may sing well after sunset on warm evenings. Roy Frost ... From: Neil Pinder To: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:51:17 GMT Sandy Aitken http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/833 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/833 Hi Neil I am not particularly experienced at identifying orthopterans on sound, not outside the Emids anyway. However I do have the tape recording titled Sun, 28 Jun 2009 23:10:58 GMT Neil Pinder http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/832 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/832 I was told on Sat of crickets singing nocturnally at East Bridgford so I checked it out tonight. Coming from a field of very tall grass (soon to be hay I Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:50:25 GMT Roy Frost http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/831 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/831 It's extremely early, Richard. My two main references are Marshall & Haes [1988] and Evans & Edmondson [2007]. For Roesel's, the former says adulthood is from Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:51:53 GMT rogers777@... http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/830 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/830 Several nymph Long-winged Coneheads yesterday and at least 7 adult Roesel's stridulating this morning. The Roesel's are a month earlier than my first last Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:05:28 GMT Dave Jones http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/829 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/829 Hello all, 2 Dingy Skippers at Bennerley today + up to 5 Emperors Dave J. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:02:01 GMT Dave Jones http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/828 http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/NottinghamshireWildlife/message/828 Sorry Neil, just found your reply. The "gloop" is on a small pond on my local patch.. how are those tenter-hooks ? which is Bennerley Marsh. ... got a clue