You don't get a figure like mine without putting some serious effort in.

Hello to Y5 and Y6 Entomologists!

 My moth trap. The bulb at the top is a special one that's very bright. It stays on all night and the moths come to look. Then they snuggle down into the egg boxes below and stay there.

Here are the moths I caught on Friday May 18th:

Garden Carpet moth

Muslin moth

 Spectacles

 Shuttle-shaped Dart moth

 Heart and Dart moth

 A micro-moth, one of the Tortrix family

 Above and below: the Iron Prominent moth. It's called Prominent because its front legs

 stick out in front when it's resting.

And here's a male Emperor moth I saw on Whixall Moss.

And here are some moths I caught on Saturday 1st June:

Bee moth

 Brimstone

 Magpie

 Elephant Hawk moth

 Green Carpet moth

 Peppered moth

 Light Emerald

 Clouded Silver

Pale Tussock

'Griffiths Tool-Hire' Voles

 A Timber Yard vole.

 Above: baby vole, White Lion Meadow car park, and below, another Timber Yard vole.

The brook as it runs past the Timber Yard.

I was excited to find tat the stretch between Edward German Drive and Griffiths Tool Hire is also full of signs - burrows, trackways, feeding, and then an actual vole sighting. This area's been used as a passageway before but I've never seen is colonised as busily as it is this spring.

 Above: White Lion Meadow vole. Below, a shy Edgeley Road vole.

Great Tit.

Some Birds

 Continental (Channel) yellow wagtail

Yellow wagtails

Corn bunting

Water vole on Edward German Drive

Keep Talking!

 Emperor moth, Whixall Moss

 Female stonechat, Whixall Moss

Male and female blackcaps and a goldcrest in my garden.

 Slow worms, Clun

 Above, Timber Yard voles, and below, Tesco (White Lion Meadow car park) voles.

Below, the back of Edward German Drive where I saw two water voles yesterday. Shropshire Council used to mow right up to the edge of the water course and spray weedkiller on the bank, but Whitchurch Water Vole Group negotiated with them over a couple of years and now they leave a good margin with the mower and they don't use chemicals. It is ALWAYS worth speaking to your local council about the way they manage wildlife habitat - they might not realise they're doing anything harmful. Make sure the message filters through to the contractors, though!

 An Edward German Drive water vole.