I popped the moth trap out for a couple of hours on Friday evening which was about as long as I dared in its current non-weatherproof guise. Despite the short operation window though it still managed to catch one moth in the shape of this intricately patterned Small Phoenix (Ecliptopera Read more…
On Saturday I woke to the calls of several Red Legged Partridge beneath our bedroom window, quickly followed by my sister screeching at frequencies normally only discernible to dogs. Oh yes it was wedding day and for the next few hours the cottage became a swarming mass of women fussing Read more…
Regular readers may recall that upon moving into our current house a couple of years ago, we discovered that the garden was already home to a small population of Cinnabar Moths. By small I mean no more than a couple of caterpillars and even fewer moths. Since then I have Read more…
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve featured our garden on this blog, but after a couple of significant events now seems like the appropriate time to do so once again. Firstly we’ve had some great visiting birds including a male Siskin, our first since the winter, and up to Read more…
It’s been a while since this blog has featured any moths, mainly due to the much promised but seldom progressed moth trap still being in pieces in my garage. That’s not to say they aren’t around though if the constant knocking against my windows each evening is anything to go Read more…
Despite continually promising myself that I would get a proper moth trap together before the end of the summer, I have to admit that I have sadly failed. Never fear though as the tried and tested method of chasing moths around the garden and scooping them off windows at night Read more…
You’ll have to excuse the suitably vague location details in this post, but our prize finds from Sunday are a Schedule 1 protected species and I don’t want to inadvertently jeopardise their breeding success. All I will say is that I was somewhere on the Gower coastline and to my Read more…
I’ve just got back from a very enjoyable late evening walk at Rhossili. The air was alive with the sound of calling Crickets, but the real star was to be found sat on one of the gate posts on the way down to the beach. This is a Convolvulus Hawkmoth Read more…
I am happy to report that my missing moth that I had planned to photograph last Friday reappeared safe and well late last night. Somehow it had managed to travel from upstairs to downstairs and from the front to the back of the house without either of us seeing it. Read more…
I was originally planning on bringing you a couple of photographs of a Yellow Underwing in this post, the latest moth species to pay a visit to my house after dark. Unfortunately it has escaped my clutches and is now hiding somewhere in the spare bedroom so that one will Read more…