photos taken with iPhone 4S
Saturday, August 04, 2012
Thursday, July 05, 2012
Gulls, gulls, gulls
I've been up north to Lancashire and Cumbria to help with some gull fieldwork. We're trying to work out what's happening to the declining populations of Herring and Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
photos taken with iPhone 4S
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| Gull colony at Walney Island |
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| Looking for nests |
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| These ones are a bit young :o) |
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| And so are these... |
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| Walney Lighthouse |
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| Ah! A gull that's the right size for ringing |
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| Up in the hills |
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| Feels odd to see 'seagulls' breeding on a moor top |
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| Yes, we got rained on. A lot. |
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| Gull #666... |
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Wednesday's moths
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| Meet the hawkmoths! Left to right: Pine, Elephant, Eyed and Poplar |
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| True Lover's Knot |
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| Green Silver-lines |
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| Nice to catch a green moth |
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| Peppered Moth |
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| Shears |
Full moth list follows, if you enjoy that kind of thing...
Monster from the deep
Though the hawker looked well on the way to its maiden flight at lunchtime, it was still sitting there when I walked past after work...
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Thursday, June 07, 2012
Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Suburban birds
I spent the Jubilee weekend and bank holidays at my parents' house while they were away enjoying themselves in France. Eventually it stopped raining and I did a bit of ringing...
It's pretty difficult to catch Collared Doves in mist nets; being a bigger and faster-flying bird, they tend to bounce out easily or can wriggle their way to freedom. So I was lucky to get my hands on this male.
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| Collared Dove |
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| Male House Sparrow |
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| Juvenile Starling |
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| Adult male Starling |
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| Goldfinch |
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| Juvenile Dunnock |
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| Moulting adult Blue Tit |
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Moths that burn, blush and... look like twigs
Getting out of bed not long after dawn is tiring. But I'm really enjoying going through the contents of the moth trap (I leave the bulb on overnight and get up early before the moths start flying away). I never quite know what's going to be in there...
Treble Lines is making a bid for top spot, with 26 trapped overnight.
also
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| My first-ever Chocolate-tip |
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| The Herald |
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| Eyed Hawkmoth |
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| Burnished Brass |
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| Maiden's Blush |
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| Scorched Wing |
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| Buff-tip |
Treble Lines is making a bid for top spot, with 26 trapped overnight.
also
- Angle Shades
- Buff-tip
- Burnished Brass
- Chocolate-tip
- Cinnabar
- Common Carpet
- Common Swift, 6
- Cream-bordered Green Pea (no photo, sorry)
- Eyed Hawkmoth, 2
- Figure of 80
- Flame Shoulder
- Green Carpet
- Heart & Dart
- Herald
- Large Nutmeg
- Lesser Swallow Prominent
- Light Brocade, 11
- Light Emerald
- Maiden's Blush
- Oak Hook-tip
- Orange Footman, 6
- Pale Oak Beauty
- Pale Prominent
- Pale Tussock
- Pebble Hook-tip
- Poplar Hawkmoth, 7
- Scorched Wing
- Setaceous Hebrew Character
- Shuttle-shaped Dart
- Silver Y, 5
- Spectacle
- White Ermine
- Willow Beauty
Thursday, May 24, 2012
The charge of the Light Brocade
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| Meet the Pale Tussock |
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| Check out the amazing furry legs! |
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| Lime and Poplar Hawkmoths |
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| White Ermine |
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| Brimstone Moth |
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| Coxcomb Prominent |
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| Pale Prominent |
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| Pebble Prominent |
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| The Lychnis |
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| The Miller |
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| Orange Footman |
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| Pebble Hook-tip |
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| Treble Lines |
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| Rustic Shoulder-knot |
Look... I know it's a shocking post title, but I could not resist.
- Brimstone
- Cinnabar, 4
- Common Carpet
- Coxcomb Prominent
- Flame Shoulder, 4
- Green Carpet
- Light Brocade, 3
- Lime Hawkmoth
- Lime-speck Pug
- Lychnis
- Miller
- Muslin Moth
- Orange Footman, 2
- Pale Prominent, 3
- Pale Tussock
- Pebble Hook-tip, 2
- Pebble Prominent, 2
- Peppered Moth
- Poplar Hawkmoth, 4
- Red/Dark-barred Twin-spot Carpet
- Shuttle-shaped Dart, 2
- Spectacle
- White Ermine, 2
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