Tales from a down-shifted family
- Making the most of modest means
I put the moth trap out in the garden last night, but there wasn’t sign of a single moth in or around the trap this morning. Mind you, with temperatures down to less than 3°C and day time temperatures still struggling to get into double figures it really doesn’t feel like May out there. I’m sure...
Goldfinches – They have to be my favourite garden bird and although we don’t get that many of them we do usually have a pair in the garden now and then during spring and summer. They are pretty spectacular but I haven’t yet taken a photo of one in the garden. They appeared yesterday though...
Morgan and I found this caterpillar in the garden on Saturday. We’re not quite sure what it is though, possibly the caterpillar of a Grass Eggar Moth. Does anyone agree / disagree?
The Pier on Aberystwyth is becoming known as a spectacular place to watch starlings coming in to roost, so here’s some footage of the starling murmuration at its best. An amazing display by the starlings all with the gorgeous backdrop of Aberystwyth seafront on a sunny Spring evening. What could be better?
I had a gorgeous run last night. The clocks have gone forward, the evenings are long and the weather is as good as it could be. I wasn’t supposed to go for a run but I couldn’t resist it so headed off down the beach towards Borth. The beach was quiet with only a few people wandering...
It’s a perfect night for star-gazing tonight, I’ve just been out there wearing shorts and ‘T’-shirt looking at a triangle formed by the Moon, Venus and Jupiter. To be honest you don’t need a telescope to see them at their best and on a clear night like tonight, they are really obvious in the sky...
We haven’t had the moth trap out much lately, and when we have there has been nothing in it. We put it out on Friday evening and despite pretty good conditions, the catch was still pretty small: 2x Early Grey 1x Common Quaker 2x Hebrew Character There have been quite a few shoulder stripes at...
I’ve always liked the Horsehead nebula (also known as Barnard 33 in emission nebula IC 434). I remember looking at amazing photos of it in astronomy books and marvelling at it. It is s a dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of the star Alnitak, which is farthest west on Orion’s Belt. I haven;t yet been...
Following on from the BBC Stargazing Live programmes, there was an event at Nant yr Arian yesterday organised by the Physics Department at the university, so we booked onto it and had been looking forward to it for a while. Our plan was to get there mid afternoon, have a mountain bike ride / walk...
After a glorious night of star-gazing last night we were treated to an amazing sunrise too. You can’t beat the natural world for a light display.
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Fixing the Altimeter on my Garmin Forerunner 910XT
Monday, March 17th, 2014
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