This morning, staff at Head Office opened up the Moth Trap which was put out the evening before to see what moths they could find. All together, 51 moths were counted belonging to 8 different species which were identified by Charlie Bell, our BioLinks Project Officer.
We uploaded our findings to the live-curated project, Spring Nature Diary, a project set up by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the LandLines research team which is supported by the FSC, National Trust and Natural England which aims to create a crowd-sourced spring nature diary.
It’s asking the public, in no more than 150 words, to write their own nature observations in prose or poetry, describing where they are – whether that’s a park, an urban garden, or a rural nature reserve – and what they can see and hear. It might be the song of a chiffchaff returned from its winter migration, frog spawn in the local pond, the first bumblebees visiting newly blooming wildflowers, or simply a fox darting through a city centre at dawn. Submissions will help create a record of the spring as it sweeps across the country. If you would like to upload your own nature observation, please do so here.
