Charles Hill

East of Braefoot point, below Monk's Cave, I staked out the moths from 22:00 for a couple of hours, adding 4 species to the Bay total. This is what I consider to be the eastern limit of Dalgety Bay. It skirts Aberdour golf course, but Monk's Cave is in the Inverkeithing and Dalgety Bay administrative area and it ain't Inverkeithing. Anyway it has lots of lovely calcicole plants and a nice coastal grassland/heath feel about it. Enough Rock Rose to host NBA too.

Lepiled and Braefoot terminal

More than met expectations with more Annulet, which I expected, but also Lobesia littoralis and Agonopterix nervosa, which I hadn't.

As a bonus, on the way out I saw a badger galumph across the road and into the undergrowth.

Annulet

A.nervosa

Lobesia littoralis

Edit - I forgot about this Least Yellow Underwing! The DBY list now stands at 2507

Species 2500 for Dalgety Bay!

A last minute quick trip to Downing Point with the Lepiled produced an Annulet moth new to Dalgety Bay (and me) during a quick session from about 11 until midnight. This is a predominantly coastal species which is recorded from a handful of places on Fife's coast.

The broad make-up of the list:

And even broader:

Agrypnia varia, Spotted Peter, Dalgety Bay #2495

 Species #2495, AKA Spotted Peter in the fly-tying world. Came to LED on edge of the bay.

(edit: a grown up has observed that this is actually a Hydropsyche species and not what I thoughti t was. - a cautionary tale on not jumping to conclusions based on first appearances! Hopefully it can still be determined)

White Plume Moth added to Dalgety Bay list - #2494

 A quick session last night produced White Plume Moth. This is a species which likes a bit of bindweed, of which there is plenty along the coastal path in this location.

Dalgety Bay list grows to 2493

 A couple of new species on the 28th in the hoverfly Leucozona laternaria and a caterpillar of the Chamomile Shark moth

New Picture-winged Flies for Dalgety Bay

 The flies Herina frondescentiae and Urophora stylata added to the Dalgety Bay list, leaving only 15 species to go until the 2500 target is reached.

Guelder-rose - flowering plant #421 for Dalgety Bay

A surprise find on my BBS survey this morning. In a hedge on Barns Farm. One little twiglet with flowers sticking out. I guess this has gone through the digestive system of a thrush or something to get here. (edit: later turned out to be quite a stretch of hedge of this that I never noticed)