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  1. JWN Andrewes

    May Moths

    A tick this morning, Ochreous Pug. Swallow & Lesser Swallow Prominents, Orange Footman & Small Phoenix al NFY, not a whole lot else, but a rather late and worn out looking Clouded Drabs.
  2. JWN Andrewes

    May Moths

    Streamer at work yesterday
  3. JWN Andrewes

    Moth in Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK

    I think probably Brown House-moth, but micros can be tricky.
  4. JWN Andrewes

    May Moths

    A wander round Panorama Walk early afternoon, a few Common Heaths and a micro tick - Green Longhorn.
  5. JWN Andrewes

    May Moths

    One of these. My second Puss Moth. More would be welcome!
  6. JWN Andrewes

    May Moths

    There's definitely a theme developing here, of low numbers and diversity but some pretty decent individual moths therein. I suspect that I may need a new bulb to increase numbers, I just hope it doesn't jinx the quality. This morning's star was a cracking Puss Moth. The supporting cast? Least...
  7. JWN Andrewes

    Masked Flowerpiercer!

    As to what your Cheshire songster might have been, Masked Flowerpiercer doesn't sound a million miles away from Treecreeper (after a quick check on Xeno Canto).
  8. JWN Andrewes

    May Moths

    Very few moths this morning, but some quality in the form of Muslin Moth & Waved Umber.
  9. JWN Andrewes

    Laughing Falcon on Merlin

    Now there's a bizarre hybrid in the making I thought as I read the thread title....
  10. JWN Andrewes

    Need Father/Son Birding Trip Destination Idea

    Brazil's Atlantic forest is a great shout, some spectacular birds to be seen (Saffron Toucanet springs to mind), and doable from a single base. I'd throw Ibera in north east Argentina into the mix, if not this time then at some point down the road. Not the wealth of species of some other...
  11. JWN Andrewes

    Gull-billed Tern from Camargue

    Looks like Gull-billed to me, especially on the second pic, bill shape and I think I can make out grey on the rump.
  12. JWN Andrewes

    May Moths

    A tick! Mullein! What a corker! A few other nice bits too, Pebble Prominent, Flame Shoulder & July Highflyer amongst the NFY, also a dozen plus Pugs on the back wall which have been photographed for perusal later, but the all looked like Brindled, Oak-tree or aggs thereof.
  13. JWN Andrewes

    Is there such a thing as tagging along a birding tour group for a few days?

    The only time I've done anything remotely like that was in Belize, where I met someone at Crooked Tree being taken round the country by a guide from a lodge near Mountain Pine Ridge (I forget its name). I managed to cadge a day with them as they headed back there, where I then stayed for a few...
  14. JWN Andrewes

    Garden / Yard List 2024

    My Mum loves using it, and has now become familiar with a few of the more common bird songs around her home. She did not for one second, however, believe it when it told her there was a Bittern calling nearby. It was a cow
  15. JWN Andrewes

    How many of the potential raptor species for the U.K have people seen?

    Given some of the wildly unexpected birds that seem to be able to make it here how about - Eastern Honey Buzzard Pallas's Fish-Eagle Pied Harrier Japanese Sparrowhawk Grey-faced Buzzard Broad-winged Hawk Steppe Eagle Sooty Falcon None likely, but all possible?
  16. JWN Andrewes

    How many of the potential raptor species for the U.K have people seen?

    Anyone taking a punt on Mississippi Kite?
  17. JWN Andrewes

    How many of the potential raptor species for the U.K have people seen?

    I don't think more than a couple of people saw the Shetland Long-legged Buzzard, so that might be the pinch point, unless there's been a second.
  18. JWN Andrewes

    Passerine in EVOA, Portugal

    Not something that had ever struck me before but I reckon you're onto something there. I will try and be more aware of it in future. Instructive thread.
  19. JWN Andrewes

    Passerine in EVOA, Portugal

    Yep, I confess it's not at all close to such Cisticolas as I have seen but I must be wrong on this one. More experience required!
  20. JWN Andrewes

    Passerine in EVOA, Portugal

    Looks more like a Grasshopper Warbler to me, eg brown back streaked darker brown rather than buffish streaked blackish, tail looks too long, face pattern not quite right either I find ZC to look more open faced and dark capped than this.
  21. JWN Andrewes

    April Moths

    Moth trapping just lends itself so well to spreadsheets that I think I'd find it almost impossible not to keep track of numbers! Ah, Emperor Moth. Don't know if they come to light, only one I ever saw was on a family holiday to Pembrokeshire one spring back in the eighties.
  22. JWN Andrewes

    April Moths

    Cheers John, always interesting to get that context. I've had a look beyond garden moths, and my UK list currently stands at 420 (345 macros, 75 micros). Next off reservation jaunt will be coastal Suffolk at the end of May. Watch this space.
  23. JWN Andrewes

    April Moths

    Did well last night, in quality at least, with a macro tick no less, Tawny Pinion, along with a Pale for a nice comparison opportunity. Two Powdered Quakers were only my second record (from memory, will check spreadsheets tonight), and a possible Oak-tree Pug.
  24. JWN Andrewes

    April Moths

    I enjoy keeping abreast of everyone's catches, and I'd be interested to know roughly where people are trapping. It's intriguing to see people who seem to have been trapping for some time, longer than me certainly, tickling stuff that I think of as pretty routine (Pale Pinion, Oak Beauty, March...
  25. JWN Andrewes

    Last 3.....I promise. Costa Rica ID's please

    Red-capped for the Manakin.
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