Steve Lister

@leicesterllama.bsky.social

For any bird recorders who want to easily convert eBird data into a more recorder friendly format

#teammoths #VC55moths

Cypress Pug

Feathered Thorn

Rustic or Uncertain?

Just 10 moths of nine sp in my garden trap today but Cypress Pug is a lifer and Feathered Thorn is NFY. Also what looks like a 2nd brood Uncertain or Rustic.

Only five moths for me this morning but three of them a bit late now - Swallow-tailed, Square-spot Rustic and Tachystola acroxantha #teammoths #VC55Moths

Beaded Chestnut

Red-line Quaker

Only 13 moths this morning but two NFY - Beaded Chestnut and Red-line Quaker. Also a second brood Swallow-tailed.

I'm in my 21st year of trapping here and have never had Clifden Nonpareil or Pink-barred Sallow.

Sallow

Barred Sallow

Frosted Orange

Brindled Green

Just 19 of 10 for my Lufbra garden (VC55) this morning but a lifer Sallow, thee NFY in Barred Sallow, Frosted Orange and Brindled Green, and my second Rusty-dot Pearl of the year so not bad. #teammoth #VC55Moths

I paid out over £5000 for a commercial tour which supposedly targetted Hooded Grebe but never saw it.

I found that one. Jan/Feb 1993, and not really a 'spanking' male, a bit scruffy. It took a while to be confirmed as people then were not really au fait with the species.

My mothing/birding mate Tony greeted me with an apology this morning. He knows I've never caught the Big Bue CP but he was about to show me one he had caught, just three days after he had shown me another on Friday. He lives hardly more than a mile away too.

Tony Plummer showed me what he thinks is another, from his Quorn garden this morning. Along with a very gripping Clifden Nonpareil.

How much?

So the over the sea route looks more likely than following the coast.

What is the direct distance Spurn to Weybourne? Any other Motus sites along the coast on between?

One of the @ldvnnr.bsky.social reintroduced Corncrakes has pinged our MOTUS Tower! On 24th August at 21:32 it was picked up migrating over Spurn for 6 minutes! Amazingly, the same bird was detected just 90 minutes later at Weybourne, Norfolk! More info here www.facebook.com/share/p/1Arw...

Do you know if most of them were long range like your PG birds?

My home patch is on fire at present - not literally. Birds and moths - Glossy Ibis Friday, Scarce Bordered Straw Saturday, Rusty Dot Pearl Sunday and Turnstone today. Plus 4 Greenshanks, 4 Blackwits, Spotted Redshank all locally rare. #PWC2025

I've just seen that someone has had to abandon a planned holiday on Islay due to a cancelled ferry and no space on the next few so hopefully the Scillonian will be OK for you. Have a great week.

Rusty-dot Pearl, Udea ferrugalis, caught overnight in Loughborougj garden.

Not as impressive as yesterday's SBS but still an uncommon migrant round here, Rusty-dot Pearl #teammoth #VC55Moths

Andy Mackay kindly dissected this and it was a male SHC, but an oddly marked one.

I never think to look at moths from below but just happens I have a SBS in the fridge from this morning....

Great news and real dedication from the team.

#teammoth #VC55Moths

After a good morning's birding it was nice to get a decent moth last night - my first ever Scarce Bordered Straw. Old Lady, Straw Underwing and Beautiful Plume all NFY too.

eBird Checklist - 5 Sep 2025 - Swithland Reservoir - 46 species Submitted by Steve Lister.

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A great morning on patch. My first self-found Glossy Ibis (6 pts for #PWC2025) plus caught up a couple if scarce waders mates had yesterday.

Farage on Dorries.

And propelled or repelled?

Not a worn Heath Rustic?

An overdue couple for the year this morning, Orange Swift and Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing. #teammoth