Scarce Prominent Odontosia carmelita Howick 26/04/25  I began moth trapping when we moved in here in 2009.  Over the years, the garden lis...

 Last time, I mentioned the possibility that we were experiencing a ‘false spring’, however, it has continued until this post too. In m...

 The last few weeks have been mainly dry with cool sunny spells. Overall the winter here has been much better than last year when it se...

 It appears that spring came and went within a week, now we are back to winter weather. Around my village patch things are slowly moving upw...

 After a self enforced sojourn from mothing since early September last year, the weather was mild enough last night to expect more than a lo...

 During the hard winter of  2010,  on 3rd December I had an adult Ross's Goose drop into the field behind the Bathing House ( the White ...

 I've mentioned before my new found use of the eBird app and site online. If nothing else it is a good way to focus the mind, parti...

 Been keeping local recently after the flurry of county twitches earlier in the year. As you can imagine, it has quietened off some...

 Happy New Year folks and thanks for the concerned comments. After my last sickly post it still took another week or 10 days to get bac...

 I usually take a pride in my sickness record. It is a very rare thing indeed to see me off work, maybe once in 7 or 8 years, if that, but f...

  I don't know whether it is just an age thing but I feel change in the air. Not just in relation to the wintry weather we had around St...

 November starts in autumn and ends in winter. Our old county winter atlas surveys began on 13th of the month, so I tend to think of that pe...