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Moths Hotting Up

Despite the temperatures dropping to 1.1ºC last night we still had quite a few moths to contend with. Many of them were on the pergola rather than in the trap, but there were a few unfamiliar ones to me so it took a bit of effort to identify them all. The catch comprised of: Shoulder...

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Lifestyle / Nature / Photography

Naturalist Weekend

I’ve just spent the weekend in Conwy. I decided to head up to North Wales as there was a North Wales Moth Recorders’ Meeting at the Pensychnant Conservation Centre. I travelled there on Saturday, stopping on the way to do a few geocaches and arrived in plenty of time for the meeting. After a coffee...

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Mottled Grey Moth

The moth-trapping season is just getting underway and although we’ve yet to catch any moths in the moth trap, we are getting some attracted to the porch light. As I’m still fairly new to moth trapping, most of the species I catch at the moment are new to me, so here’s a new one from...

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Moths at Last

So far this year my moth-trapping exploits have been a little disappointing. We’ve put the moth trap out a few times but have had no success. This has been made more frustrating by the fact that I have seen plenty of moths on the wing in front of my headlights whilst driving between Aberystwyth and...

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Family / Nature / Photography / Wales

Juvenile Robin?

Morgan and I made use of our new RSPB membership and went for a cold winters walk at Ynyshir this morning. Lots of Canada Geese about but Morgan was a little cold so we couldn’t sit and look for birds for too long. I did manage a couple of photos of a bird that I...

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Spring Usher – Ceredigion Moths

I’ve put the moth trap out a few times this winter but with no luck, but last night I caught our first moth of the year near to the porch light. A Spring Usher (Agriopis leucophaeria). Not a bad looking moth and hopefully one that is ushering in the spring, although, we’ve woken up to...

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Doing our bit for Conservation

As you may know from recent posts I’ve started moth trapping and have been part of the formation of the Ceredigion Moth Group. It’s all a little ‘geeky’ but I quite enjoy the moth trapping, as does Morgan and learning more about the creatures around us is always a good thing. Keeping records of them...

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Lifestyle / Nature

Ceredigion Moth Records

The Ceredigion Moth Group is up and running and we seem to be making some progress. I’ve set up a mailing list so that we can all keep in touch with each other and we have been sending our records from 2009 to the new County Recorder. I only had a fairly small number of...

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Nature

RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch

This weekend is the weekend that the RSPB have picked for their Big Garden Birdwatch. All you have to do to join in and help with the data is sit down for an hour (preferably with a cup of coffee) and count the birds you see in your garden. You count the number of birds...

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Chaffinch and Blue Tit

Just a couple of photos of birds in the garden. There are a lot that I still need to photograph from the garden species list and I’m sure I can improve on some of these too, but here’s a female Chaffinch and a Blue Tit.