Christine's walking & birds blog

Taplow

Greger called me into his office as I was going to bed; and there on the window was a large, quite sensational moth. We've seen a red underwing here before but not from below. My flash-aided picture doesn't do it justice. It measured 55mm across and that's without the wings being fully opened.

I went outside to try a shot from above; this shows a large but rather drab brown moth.

Then it opened its wings.