Twelve of us gathered at the Insh Marshes RSPB Reserve car park, including two Dutch tourists. The morning started out quite dull, but gradually brightened up during the day. We walked a little way along the trail to the first trap, where we found a total of 36 species. We then walked along to the next trap, and saw some butterflies along the way including Ringlet and Northern Brown Argus.

There was a total of 35 species at the 2nd trap, although some were different from the species in the 1st trap. There were also some Northern Brown Argus eggs on Common Rock-rose leaves beside the trap. Most of us then walked the trail around the reserve, we saw some more butterfly species before stopping at the viewpoint for lunch.

After lunch we carried on around the reserve seeing a few more butterflies and some of the same moths that we had already seen in the traps and some Agriphila straminella moths as well as a Fox Moth larva. We also found a Birch tree with several rolled-up dried leaves, later identified as being the pupal cases of Coleophoridae moths. We also saw a couple of Dragonfly species, Black Darter and Common Hawker as well as a couple of Common Frogs and a Common Lizard.

After completing the circuit some people went home whilst the rest of us walked to a 3rd trap where we again saw 35 species, some of which were different to those seen in the other traps. There was also a Nicrophorus investigator, a species of Sexton Beetle in the trap. In total we saw 52 species across the 3 traps with a further 2 seen on the walk and a total of 9 species of butterfly.