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our local park, teaming with frogs on Friday!

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At last, some moths

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Fabulous moon tonight!

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My last night mothing in Bucks produced this Pale Brindled Beauty, new moth for me.

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March moth and Hebrew Character in Bucks. Brimstone butterflies all over the garden currently and some courting ravens overhead as well as the Red Kites. I think I've died and gone to heaven!!

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Twin-spot quaker used to be common here in south VC59 but now quite unusual. March moth, Hebrew Character, small and common quaker made up the rest. #mothsmatter #blakejules #teammoth

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Muted colours for the Brindles. Brindled Beauty being the only one I’ve seen.. Brindled Small brindled Melanistic (bit of a cop out) pale brindled

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No moths yet but this lovely hawthorn shield bug under the lock for the toilets at my allotment. Lovely surprise.

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A few years ago I used to see the Six-spot burnet regularly and the Forester I’ve only seen once, but a real beauty I’ve never forgotten. So this summer I’ll be Zygaenid hunting on the local common where they like to hang out. #MothMonday #teammoth

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Generative artifical so-called intelligence: plagiarism on a giant scale www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Mandarin duck still in the same spot in Sefton Park yesterday as it has been all week.

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In Merseyside, a landslide takes the vegetation with it, while @jensoilandpen.bsky.social searches for any survivors, in @theguardian.com country diary today. #countrydiary #naturewriting

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#WomensHistory #WomeninPolitics

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A favourite hawk moth for #mothmonday because I’ve got a bad back and unable to finish any paintings at the moment, including this one. So I’m a bit miserable 😞 trying to cheer myself up and desperate for some spring warmth. #teammoth #mothsmatter

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Vital reading for the government with its current obsession with growth at all costs (growth of what and for whom is never spelt out). A commitment to restore nature was conspicuous by its absence from PM’s Plan for Change, launched last month - that urgently needs to change 👇

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These large moths are actually made of gauzy white cotton, wire and floof! Puss Moth - Cerura vinula ☑️ #teammoth

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Pleased to for the second time support this important, practical bill @humanists.uk humanists.uk/2025/02/07/l...

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I’m judging the Plough Poetry Prize this year, deadline 28 March, first prize is £1,000. Send us your best poems! www.theploughartscentre.org.uk/poetry-prize...

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New paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social on seabird wind use and foraging decisions! doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... We estimated wind selectivity in Manx shearwaters and explored how birds handle the trade-off between being wind efficient and targeting known foraging areas @sosbangor.bsky.social

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Other work of the Ladybird artists. Winter Landscape Artist: Rowland Hilder

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Lovely wander around Burton Mere Wetlands a few days ago. Kingfisher showed well and the light was so good that I was happy to sit and watch the Teal and Widgeon.

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Such a weird photo taken from the top of Liverpool's Royal Hospital last week. Taken through glass there are patches of sun in all sorts of weird places. A welcome distraction!

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Funded PhD! Interested in nightjars? Interested in radio tracking and GPS tracking? We are looking for a PhD student to study the movement and cognitive ecology of this enigmatic crepuscular species with me and @dmitrykishkinev.bsky.social Link below - message or email for info. 3 days to apply!

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My allotment yesterday morning. It was inaccessible on Sunday because of the snow and ice. Good to have it back!

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Angle Shades is a very common but exotic looking moth always with legs akimbo. Latest effort- nearly finished…the fourth in this series of large scale moth pics 🩷💚✅ #TeamMoth #WildlifePainting

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Had an unexpected twitch this morning with a birder friend in Widnes. We missed a Ring necked duck at Taylor Park but went on to Victoria park where we found a Drake Mandarin duck on the ice at the edge of pond. Not the best photo as it kept preening and then hiding behind Gulls.

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I am writing a book about soil. I have a chapter on Soil as inspiration and I know this event will inspire me. I shall head southwards. Perhaps you too can be inspired by soil. @chiffchat.bsky.social @britishecolsoc.bsky.social www.somersethouse.org.uk/press/soil-t...

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The Wolf Moon rises tonight... 🌕🐺 Named by Native Americans for wolves howling in the depths of winter, January's full moon was also called the 'Ice Moon' and 'Moon after Yule' in Europe. Look out for Mars glowing close by, its brightest in two years. Moonrise: 15:13*

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Weymouth: A Moth! Only one, but it's a start. A superb Mottled Umber sat on the trap this morning.

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2025 mothing off the mark with a single Winter Moth at our porch light last night. This is a male as the females are flightless and have greatly reduced wings. #teammoth

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Good job my name isn’t Johnny Nice Painter.. Black Rustic. Not an easy job but there are actually 6 different colours in it, init. 🖤✔️ #TeamMoth #WildlifeArt

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Watched the siskins in our local park this morning. Not many people there today for the first time since before Christmas.

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A watercolour painting of Sausage, my friendly local crow. Every morning he flies just over my head to let me know he’s up for a piece of sausage or two. This is how he looks at me. I don’t know if he’s saying thanks, or hurry up and bugger off 😅

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Incredible artwork from Into The Red. 🐦 Remember you can get £5 off this title, along with Red Sixty Seven & Flight Lines, until 31 Dec 2024. Use code BTORBFL2024 at our shop➡️ bit.ly/BTORBFL2024 Artwork🎨 Hen Harrier by Philip Harris Balearic Shearwater by Olivier Leger #Ornithology #art

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Looking through 2024 moths I think this has to be the most striking moth I've caught .............not at home but in Devon. I love travelling with my battery run moth trap. My first Leopard moth.

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I think this, from six years ago, is the tweet I am most proud of. And yes, I did take a pocketful of Lego figures to the beach

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My Dad doesn't get out much at the moment, being a full-time carer for my Mum, so I'm making him a twig identification quiz for Christmas. Each one is numbered and then there's an answer sheet. I just REALLY hope I got the answers right myself!

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Fabulous lichen on this tree! Makes me hopeful........clean air, and also reminds me of an old favourite of mine Arthur Packham.

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The Dorset Moths 2023 Annual Report is out. Get your free PDF download from: www.dorsetmoths.co.uk. As well as a full species listing, we explore the rediscovery of the Speckled Footman on the Dorset Heaths. Huge thanks to all Dorset moth-ers for the 60,000+ records received in 2023. #TeamMoth

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