Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
Mike, the warden of the local Nature Reserve has called around a couple of time this week with little challenges for me in the form of Micro Moths to photograph and identify. I’m only just getting to grips with the Macro Moths so the micros are pretty difficult. The first was this which I think...
Things have been fairly quiet on the moth front recently. Numbers have been avergae but the same old species were showing up all the time. Last saw a change in the weather however, with much warmer overnight temperatures – the minimum was 11ºC, light winds and some rain. This led to some new species in...
It feels as though summer is here and as a new member of the RSPB I thought I’d make use of my membership and attend some of the ‘courses’ at Ynyshir, our local RSPB reserve. Today’s course was ‘Bird Identification for Beginners’ run by Caroline. My bird ID isn’t bad but you can always learn...
It wasn’t a great night last night as far as moth trapping goes. I don’t think we can blame the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano either as there was no sign of it during last nights sunset. The temperatures dropped to 3.4ºC and the winds were light. Morgan has some friends coming over after...
After our pretty harsh winter, everything in the garden is tentatively poking its head out to see if Spring really has arrived. It’s nice to see everything coming back to life and despite the weather most things seem to have made it through. All the activity prompted us to get the garden furniture out of...
It was a good night for the moth trap last night. 72 moths in total, my first ever Emperor Moth, 17 different species, 6 of them new to the garden list. Emperor Moth* x1 Pale Pinion* x1 Early Thorn x2 Double-striped Pug x4 Brindled Pug* x1 Small Quaker x27 Hebrew Character x9 Early Grey x6...
A new species for the garden list last night and an impressive one at that so I thought it deserved a post of its own! I popped out to check the trap last night and was about to catch a tiny little Pug that was on the sheet beneath the trap when ‘Thwuuuump‘ something big...
I thought last night would be a good night for the Moth Trap. It was raining heavily to start with so I didn’t put it out until later, but the winds had eased, the temperatures were mild – only dropping to 7.7ºC and the damp conditions seemed ideal for moths. The catch was as follows:...
I was looking up the details of the Pine Beauty moth that I caught in our trap over the weekend. The 1988 Nature Conservancy Council publication “The Moths of Ceredigion” by Adrian Fowles says that the Pine Beauty (Panolis flammea) is unusually rare in the county and that only eight specimens had been recorded. I’m...
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