Common Quaker Orthosia cerasi, found in a bedroom at my house Nedd on 27th March 2015. This spring-flying noctuid moth occurs in a range of shades of brown, with a conspicuous pale-edged oval and kidney-mark on the fore-wing. The adults feed on sallow catkins, which are just beginning to open, and the caterpillars on the leaves of oak, sallow and hazel in May and June. Although widespread further south, it is apparently scarce in the north of Scotland.
Ian Evans
four Mistle Thrush and single Fieldfare and Redwing, Oldany Farm (DAH) (26/02)
three birds (two adult, one 1st-winter) Loch Culag (Fiona Carter) (26/02)
two male birds, Loch na Claise (DAH) (26/02)
10 birds on grazing land, Balchladich (DAH) (26/02)
single adult bird, Lochan Fearna, Lagg (DAH) (26/02)
two animals feeding at the water line during low tide, Loch Kirkaig (Fiona Carter) (25/02)
two pairs on Loch Ruighean an Aitinn, Drumbeg (Ian Evans) (23/02)
one small clump flowering, south facing sheltered spot, Lochinver (DAH) (23/02)
