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Moth trapping 31/05/2019
Another good night for moths last night with the following caught: 4 Rustic Shoulder-Knot 2 Common Pug (NFY) 2 Clouded-bordered Brindle 1 Pale-shouldered Brocade (NFG) 1 Grey Pug 1 Scalloped Hazel (NFY) 1 Brimstone (NFG) 1 Spruce Carpet (NFG) 1 Common Swift 1 Early Grey Total 15 of 10 species. 3 NFG and 2 NFY
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1st January 2019
Ferneydale 1. Blue Tit 2. Great Tit 3. Coal Tit 4. coque iphone pas cher Greenfinch 5. coque iphone Goldfinch 6. Chaffinch 7. Brambling 9. coque iphone solde Robin 10. Dunnock 11. House Sparrow 11. Blackbird 12. coque iphone pas cher Starling 13. soldes coque iphone Jackdaw 14. Carrion Crow 15. Magpie 16. Raven 17. Black-headed Gull 18. Herring Gull 19. soldes coque iphone Buzzard 20. coque iphone 8 Kestrel 21. Mallard 22. Wood Pigeon 23.
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Moth trapping 30/05/2019
I put the moth trap out in a different place last night and had more variety than usual and the following totals. 4 Common Swift (NFY) 4 Rustic Shoulder-Knot 1 Small Elephant Hawkmoth (NFY) 1 Common Marbled Carpet (NFY) 1 Heart and Dart (NFG) 1 Grey Pug (NFG) 1 Clouded-Bordered Brindle (NFG) 1 Grass Rivulet (NFY) 1 Dusky Brocade (NFG) Total 15 of 9 species. 4 NFG and 4 NFY
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Moth trapping 23/05/2019
First time of putting the trap out this month due to Blue Tits in our nest box, 1 Flame Shoulder (NFG) 1 Rustic Shoulder-Knot (NFG) 1 Brown Silver Line (NFG) Total 3 moths of 3 species. All NFG
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Sparrow and Blue Tit pics
These are my first photos taken with the new camera (a Nikon COOLPIX P900) that I got for my birthday. We’ve also got a pair of Blue Tits nesting in our box in the privet and the first occupants we’ve had. We hear the chicks cheeping for food and they should fledge soon. Unfortunately there’s no way of opening the box so hopes of ringing the brood have been dashed until next year if they use it again. At least the male is one we ringed in December last year.
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Bird Track
I started entering records to Bird Track in spring 2018 and I currently count records for 6 sites as follows: Ferneydale, Sherbrooke, Ramsley, Norbriggs Flash, Hope Valley, Renishaw and Lightwood. Complete lists from birders from around the UK are entered into the database and helps the BTO to compile information, for example about arrival dates of migrants each year.
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WeBS
I started counting for a WeBS (Wetland Bird Survey) site at the Pavilion Gardens in Buxton in January this year. The survey’s aim is to estimate a population of non-breeding waterbirds in the UK mainly during the winter. Unfortunately the site doesn’t have a wide range of species with just the common species being regular, but Renishaw Park where we ring with Geoff is also a vacant survey site so we may take that on in the future.
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Garden Wildlife Health
This is a BTO survey which monitors the health of wildlife in gardens. For this scheme I record any disease incidents for birds, mammals and reptiles, for example bumble foot in finches and avian pox in Dunnocks. I also record the number of ponds and the size of the garden being surveyed. For more info visit the BTO website.
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Who says micros are boring?
We recently found quite an interesting micro moth one night in the house which was a Twenty-Plume. Fortunately we managed to catch it and we got some reasonable pictures. We found out that the larva feed on honeysuckle and the adults mine the leaves so they should be right at home! It’s surprising how few micros we are trapping considering how many we are finding around the house.
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Moth trapping 25/04/2019
We didn’t get a huge number of moths in the trap last night but it was quite a varied catch. 5 Hebrew Character 3 Clouded Drab 1 Common Quaker 1 Powdered Quaker Total 9 moths of 4 species
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Moth trapping 22/04/2019
We had our largest and most interesting catch last night with the following totals: 14 Hebrew Character 6 Clouded Drab 6 Common Quaker 1 Powdered Quaker 2 Early Grey 2 Brindled Pug (NFG) 1 Red Chestnut 1 Chestnut (NFG) 1 Streamer (NFG) Total 34 moths of 9 species. 3 NFG
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Norbriggs Gropper
This morning we were up early and out ringing at Norbriggs Flash in Staveley. We got 3 nets up, one singular and two joined together. These two nets were set at a dog leg and we could hear at least 2 male Grasshopper Warblers reeling nearby so we quickly put a tape on and after a few minutes one flew straight in! I had the privilege to process the bird. My first Grasshopper Warbler I’ve ever seen, and in the hand as well! Also my first ringing tick of 2019. We only got a total of 7 other birds made up of 1 Whitethroat, and 1 Willow Warbler.
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Bempton Cliffs
In the Easter Holidays, we had a trip up to Bempton Cliffs on the Yorkshire Coast. After looking at recent sightings and a recommendation from my ringing trainer Geoff we thought it would be worth a visit having not been to many seabird colonies previously. Tree Sparrows were nice to see around the visitor centre and cafe and there were lots of Linnet around in the many gorse bushes. Despite this the definite songbird highlight was a singing male Corn Bunting. It was singing from one of five posts, the first one having an unidentified chat, the second with the Corn Bunting, third and fourth each with a Meadow…
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Moth trapping 15/04/2019
On Monday night we put the moth trap out and we had our second best catch so far. 13 Hebrew Character 6 Clouded Drab 1 Common Quaker 1 Small Quaker (NFG) Total 21 moths of 4 species. 1 NFG
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Moth trapping 09/04/2019
Still not getting very high numbers and hopefully we’ll see more variety soon. Here’s the totals 14 Hebrew Character 2 Clouded Drab 2 Common Quaker Total 18 moths of 3 species
