stephenroughle3.bsky.social
Coding chemist, Scouser, amateur cornet/trumpet player, @CSDBrass, moths, uses same handle on xwitter. For stuff about KNIME see @DrKnimeNode http://mastodon.world/@SawstonMoth
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Happy birthday!
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100+ Common Quaker I think is nearer my annual catch. Will have to crunch some numbers later
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That's quite a pint. I'm sure I read that a beer with Parrot in the name, brewed in Sheffield at about 14.5% was the strongest beer, but that was probably 30 years ago
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The more I read up on the the worse my understanding gets 🤔
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One in South Wales somewhere last night I think I saw on @migrantmothuk.bsky.social earlier
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I remember the first time I saw one of these on Mull - went on a walk up a valley with two quite small kids at the time and kept looking up at birds of prey in the sky and thinking "is that...?" - then we say one... no questions. It went dark for a few minutes as it flew over...
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Had one about a week ago which was my earliest by 5 days, but have had them right through to mid-April
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I can strongly advise against breaking your foot... #boot #crutches #pain
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That's a 'like' in a not liking it at all sort of way. Congratulations (though gritted teeth) your team showed up for it and wanted it. Mine didn't
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That had its moments (not least when I was slowly waking up to it one Saturday morning only to hear a colleague's voice on there 😳😆)
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Ah the late John Peel. Used to love his broadcasts
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Indeed. One word: Sewage
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I'm not sure that's the level of encouragement he was hoping for!
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Crazy! Never seen an orange underwing even fleetingly up in the sky let alone in the trap!
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Nice. Very nice!
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Almost invariably the first species I record each year. Yet to see one this year. I don't believe for a minute they've been eradicated!
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Had the pleasure of playing her suite for brass band, The Unfortunate Traveller, recently - one of her early compositions that languished for many years unplayed after its initial performances
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Let me see if I can dig out the instructions I sent to someone a while back...
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I've had some joy with my own hand-crafted LED combo - 3x 3W LEDs - one each of UV, emerald green and royal blue run off a power bank, or 2 sets of 3 run off a mains-powered LED driver. There a right pain to solder though because they come pre-mounted on a small heat sink
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That one looks like Beautiful Plume
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3x Brimstone, a probable Small Tortoiseshell (I'm rubbish at the orange/brown butterflies!) and 1x Pammene giganteana to FUN lure here in South Cambs
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I was just about to say that's high up my wanted list
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If only there was an edit post option...
That is, of course, St. Andrew's Church. No Steve involved (except for the one taking the photos!)
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Wow. Have to admit that was a bit of a wild guess, as it must be at least 10 years since I last went there
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Beautiful! Wondering where it is - Paxton Pits? Fen Drayton? Somewhere on the Ouse washes?
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If it's not too rude to ask, would you mind sending me a copy? (Feel free to tell me to £&@#!* off, I won't be offended!)
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Good effort. I tried a few Oligia and November aggs last year with a hand lens as they're supposed to be easy. The first couple took some reconstructing to figure what I was even looking for 😳🥺😂
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I suspect my actual day-job lab coat which was last seen by me sometime pre-pandemic has by now been either washed or incinerated (although I am now wondering what happened to the clean spares that were on my desk when I cleared it when everyone else went back to office)
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Follow me and see who I follow - most of that is moth-related (or super-nerdy (or occasionally both!))
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Might try rearing some this year. Plenty of mines the last couple of years on the planes in the local parish churchyard
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And finally, Pale brindled Beauty - the first photo seemed heavily marked to me but but I can't make it anything else (and it's a bit early, if we still believe in phenology!)
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Also, an Agonopterix alstromeriana being a bit of a prima donna. This early in my mothing obsession became one of my favourites - mainly because they're relatively easy to identify and have a cheeky bit of colour when you look closely...
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OK, my bets are:
Earlier one - dC
Later one - DC