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Moth trapping 04/04/2020
4 Hebrew Character Total 4 moths of 1 species
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Moth trapping 03/04/2020
2nd new for garden of 2020 caught, an otherwise small catch 1 March Moth (NFG) 1 Hebrew Character 1 Clouded Drab Total 3 moths of 3 species. 1 NFG
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Moth trapping 01/04/2020
Still very small catches compared to last year, hopefully it will pick up with the warmer weather this weekend. 1 Hebrew Character 1 Clouded Drab Total 2 moths of 2 species
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Moth trapping 31/03/2020
Nice to get my first new moth species of 2020, quite a good species considering there being no oak nearby. Otherwise another small catch 1 Oak Beauty (NFG) 1 Mottled Grey 1 Hebrew Character 1 Clouded Drab Total 4 moths of 4 species. 1 NFG
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Moth trapping 30/03/2020
A small catch, hopefully numbers will start to pick up soon 3 Hebrew Character Total 3 moths of 1 species
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Moth trapping 27/03/2020
Friday GMS night. Less than previous catches this week. -2.1°c min temp 1 Hebrew Character 1 Mottled Grey (NFY) Total 2 moths of 2 species. 1 NFY
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Moth trapping 26/03/2020
2 Hebrew Character 1 Clouded Drab 1 Common Quaker 1 Red Chestnut Total 5 moths of 4 species
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Moth trapping 24/03/2020
Our first successful catch of 2020, after 3 months of nothing. We are starting Garden Moth Scheme this year, so the trap will be out Friday night every week as well as other days. Just a reminder that NFY is new for year and NFG is new for garden. 2 Clouded Drab (NFY) 2 Common Quaker (NFY) 1 Red Chestnut (NFY) 1 Chestnut (NFY) 1 Early Grey (NFY) 1 Hebrew Character (NFY) Total 8 moths of 6 species. 6 NFY
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Moth trapping 04/10/2019
Our last catch of 2019, with some decent autumn species and a better number than most other recent catches Macros 13 Yellow-line Quaker (NFG) 1 Autumn Green Carpet (NFG) 1 Red-Green Carpet (NFG) 1 Lesser Yellow Underwing 1 Common Marbled Carpet Micros 1 Agonopterix heracliana Total 17 macros of 5 species, 1 micro of 1 species making 18 moths of 6 species. 3 NFG
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Moth trapping 28/09/2019
1 Pink-barred Sallow Total 1 moth of 1 species
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Dippers
Over the winter on my patch, I have been keeping tabs on the population of wintering birds, particularly Dippers which I have really enjoyed photographing. There has been a ringed bird most of winter, and from my photos I managed to read the full ring number. I managed to get in touch with the ringer, who processed the bird in the nest near Wild Boar Clough in 2019.
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Dippers
Over the winter on my patch, I have been keeping tabs on the population of wintering birds, particularly Dippers which I have really enjoyed photographing. There has been a ringed bird most of winter, and from my photos I managed to read the full ring number. I managed to get in touch with the ringer, who processed the bird in the nest near Wild Boar Clough in 2019.
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New Year birding 1st January
On the 1st Jan 2020, my mum and I went on a day’s birding. We started off at Attenborough Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire, with hopes of connecting with a Slavonian Grebe which had been showing incredibly well outside the visitor centre. As expected, it showed really close and we watched it for about an hour. It was nice to be able to see a Slav in winter plumage and so close in, as we’d seen them in Scotland in summer but they were much more distant. Other birds of note at Attenborough were several Egyptian Geese, 2 Stock Dove and a male Red-crested Pochard. We then made…
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Carsington Water 27/12/19
I’m trying to get back into the routine of posting more regularly on here, this post is quite belated but I’ll be putting on some more stuff from the past few months too. Soon after Christmas, I arranged to have a meet up with Simon Roddis at Carsington Water. I met Simon briefly at Hen Harrier Day in August, and I have spoken to him lots on Twitter. He is at Carsington practically every day, and over the past weeks there had been a couple of Great Northern Divers which I was interested in seeing. My mum and I met with him at 8:30am from Stones Island, where we quickly…
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Ringed Dipper
Went for a walk round my patch at the weekend, and was pleased to find a singing male Dipper in the woodland. Even more exciting, after taking some photos I realised it was ringed! After taking a closer look at some of my picturess, I can see the last few digits look like R771, but there many be another number after that. My ringing trainer rings Dippers in the nest down at Lathkill Dale, so it’s possibly one he’s done. We think young Dippers come to our local woodland after being pushed off their breeding site by the adults, and come here to proclaim a territory. Unfortunately there are very…
