Belted Beauty habitat. You can see a female on the post in the foreground in
the right hand photo, just below halfway up the post. The saltmarsh is of
course tidal, so the water levels in this creek will rise and fall, but at the
time the photo was taken, the post was completely surrounded by water. Makes
me wonder if the females can tollerate at least some salt water and maybe can
cross small patches of water. The posts may seem a safe place to live, but the
caterpillars need to feed in the vegetation, so at some stage in the life
cycle, the moth has to get from the post to the vegetation!
Yes, this is a moth. Female Belted Beauty.
A male Belted Beauty (left) and a pair mating (right).
Drake Eider, never a common bird in the North West.
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