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Recent content by Farnboro John

  1. Farnboro John

    May Moths

    Ran the trap overnight and Maz woke me up at 0520 to tell me it was raining, so I scooted downstairs and brought it into a hastily isolated kitchen to examine the contents in the dry. There were four moths, none new for the year: Knot Grass, Flame Shoulder, Oak-tree Pug and Hebrew Character...
  2. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Overdue garden tick Osprey, South a bit West of our position and then five minutes later back North straight over the top. A good reward for a three-hour sit in a plastic chair looking up. Garden list now stands at 106 spp. 56. Osprey John
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Oh what a Circus..... John
  4. Farnboro John

    May Moths

    The forecast was for warm early but temperature dropping through the night so you might have a microclimate issue. Four is not many moths in my trap! John
  5. Farnboro John

    May Moths

    Few moths again this morning but further change in the catch with NFY White Ermine and Shuttle-shaped Dart: the only two other moths were both micros that had already turned up this year, Tachystola acroxantha and Epinotia immundana. The T. acroxantha has very little left of its diagnostic...
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    New Spurn bus service (71E)

    Yes, so it wasn't a single day thing. Now that would mean out first thing Saturday back sometime Sunday (bearing in mind not everyone can be on the last bus!) or there for a week. Anyway, for the odd individual prepared to have a short day out and with no driving birder friends to share company...
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    New Spurn bus service (71E)

    But who's going to use it? Hull birders will already have their systems set up to enable (a) much longer birding hours in the Spurn area and (b) movement around the really quite large area relevant to Spurn birding. Do the trains from the rest of Yorkshire connect with the bus service (in...
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    Garden / Yard List 2024

    For instance: https://www.birdforum.net/threads/odd-bop-neast-london.410554/post-4199290 https://www.birdforum.net/threads/garden-yard-list-2020.384988/post-4005614 Have a nice day John
  9. Farnboro John

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    Having seen some of your previous claims that you did image, all of which showed identifiable Red Kites, this isn't even a case of an unfair records committee when I say that you may not claim Black Kite without a full-frame sharp photo in good light. 65. John
  10. Farnboro John

    What Bird can you hear just now?

    Greylags over while I was brushing my teeth: Chiffchaff and Blackcap both singing while I went through the moth trap. John
  11. Farnboro John

    May Moths

    I know not everybody thinks (perhaps only I do) last night was May but I checked my trap this morning - May 1 - and I don't know what time the moths flew in, so to me they are May moths. That out of the way, it was a good night, not big numbers but ringing the changes on content. Two Brindled...
  12. Farnboro John

    Bear I.D

    I'm also no expert though I have seen both bear species. This one doesn't seem to have much of a shoulder hump which is supposed to be a good feature for Grizzly. It's not that Black Bears don't have shoulders, but on a Grizzly the hump should be prominent in any pose. My guess is cinnamon...
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    April Moths

    Pix this morning. John
  14. Farnboro John

    What Bird can you hear just now?

    Blackcap, Chiffchaff and Goldcrest singing this morning plus calls from an invisible Kingfisher flashing along the brook (I mean, going quickly, not exposing itself). John
  15. Farnboro John

    April Moths

    Trapped last night out of sheer frustration and caught three moths!!! (Mind you if I was so minded I could count about 10 adult and 100+ pupae of Case-bearing Clothes Moth in recent days, all ended up dead one way or another and hopefully we might be on top of it for a bit....) Anyway, the crop...
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