The great night
Ninety-six moths of nineteen species before the generator coughed twice and the cloud came down. The sheet looked like a tapestry being re-woven every minute.
Taken 96 · released 96
Night survey Nº 214 · Alder Fen station · 25 August 2026
The lamp is lit; the fen answers.
A field archive of nocturnal Lepidoptera, gathered at one sheet of calico and a single actinic tube on the fen edge — counted, drawn, photographed, and released before sunrise since 2019.
- Temp
- 14.2 °C
- Wind
- SW · force 2
- Moon
- Waxing gibbous · 87 %
- Flight index
Lamp burning since 20:41 · sheet inspected at midnight
“Whatever the sheet gives, the dawn takes back. I count, I photograph, I let go.”