Wednesday's moths

Meet the hawkmoths! Left to right: Pine, Elephant, Eyed and Poplar

True Lover's Knot

Green Silver-lines

Nice to catch a green moth

Peppered Moth

Shears

Full moth list follows, if you enjoy that kind of thing...

A tale of three hawk-moths

Hummingbird Hawk-moth at The Lodge


Elephant Hawk-moth


and Privet Hawk-moth - the two highlights of my experimental moth trapping in my garden. These two aside, it's not going very well at the moment. Need bigger, brighter bulb...

photos taken with Canon EOS 30D + EF 300mm f/4L IS USM and Canon Powershot A640

Moth fever continues...

Sorry if you don't really like moths. This might be getting a bit boring for you.

But surely you can appreciate the unique... beauty of the male Drinker moth?

The Drinker. The ALF of the moth world.

It was clear last night and so a bit colder than it has been. I had to put on a fleece when I went outside to attend to the trap (at about 5am). We had our lowest number of Privet Hawkmoths yet - 'only' two!

Privet Hawkmoth

Eyed Hawkmoth

Elephant Hawkmoth numbers were up, to 9

To show it's not all moths for me these days, I found this Barn Owl feather on the lawn. Its owner must have dropped it there overnight

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