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Friday 28 September 2012

Extraordinary Surprise in Father's Moth Trap!!!

My mother told me this morning that yesterday, father had gone to empty the moth trap as normal and shouted to mother to come and see what was in the trap. In the bottom of the moth trap, happily feeding on moths was a PIED FLYCATCHER!!!!! Can you believe that! Finding a bird in a moth trap is one thing, but a finding a pied flycatcher in there, how amazing is that!!!

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    1. Think it startled father a bit, which is hardly surprising!

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  2. I once had a Redstart around the trap in the middle of the night, picking off moths as they came in! It was in a period of heavy drift migrant passage and it must have arrived off the sea and began to devour moths! Wasn't in the trap though in the morning!

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  3. Hi Barry,I have seen birds around moth traps many times, but never heard of one inside until now!

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