Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
As well as attracting lots of wildlife to your garden, a wildlife garden also gives you an excuse to be a bit lazy with the gardening from time to time! It isn’t just about bird boxes and ponds; just as important are areas of unkempt garden and piles of logs and sticks. We don’t have...
As I was rigging my windsurf kit up on the edge of the dunes here at Ynyslas yesterday, a big squall hit with 40 knot winds and heavy rain. I sat there huddled over my kit as a stoat ran out from the grass, sheltered under my sail for a few seconds and then scurried...
Although we live in a rural location surrounded by countryside, we don’t get a huge variety of birds to our feeders. It isn’t surprising really as the countryside around is is fairly sparse. There are few trees, and the ones that do grow are small and stunted and the number of different habitats that we...
Last night was the first dry, windless night we’ve had for a while so I put the moth trap out to see what we could catch. We awoke this morning to the first frost of the winter and not a moth in sight. The first night since getting the moth trap that we’ve caught nothing....
Don’t worry, I haven’t stopped moth trapping. I haven’t posted any lists of ‘this weeks moths’ as it has just been far too wet and windy to deploy the trap this week. Things should be fairly quiet on the moth front at this time of year, but I shall still be putting it out now...
October 26th 2009 13ºC and damp. 1 Rush Veneer 1 Red-line Quaker 1 Angle Shades 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character 1 Large Yellow Underwing 1 Large Wainscot 1 Feathered Ranunculus October 29th 2009 13ºC, moderate winds 1 Black Rustic 1 Large Wainscot 1 November Moth New this week
October 18th 2009 My Dad was here so we put the trap out to see what we could get. *= New to our trap. 1 Dark Sword Grass * 1 Angle Shades 1 Setaceous Hebrew Character 5 Red-line Quaker 1 Large Wainscot 1 Black Rustic 5 Lunar Underwing 1 Feathered Ranunculus October 21st 2009 A...
Another week and more moth trapping. 10th October 2009 It looked like a good night so after last nights successful trapping we put the moth trap out again. Temperatures remained mild, only dropping to 13.8ºC and there was no rain and relatively light winds; Westerly, gusting to 20 knots.. 1x Angle Shades * 3x Silver...
I’ve been doing quite a bit of moth-trapping lately. Usually it just involves placing a moth trap in the garden overnight and then investigating the contents in the morning. The identification, counting and photographing of the moths can take a while sometimes, but generally its a fairly laid back affair. Last night was a lovely...
Fitness / Technology / Triathlon
Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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Hiking / The Welsh Nuttalls / Wales
Moel Siabod via the Daear Ddu Ridge: A Nuttall Worth the Climb
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