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Geoff Busby

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Carmarthenshire (ex Leicestershire) Birder mainly with a love for all things in the natural world.

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Mottled Umber & 4 December Moths from a rare nights trapping after a crazy wet few weeks Carmarthenshire 10/12/25 #teammoth

11.12.2025 09:12 — 👍 20    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Satellite
(Eupsilia transversa)
only 2 but new for garden
Carmarthenshire 05/11/25
#teammoth

06.11.2025 07:44 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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December Moth
(Poecilocampa populi)
new for our garden
Carmarthenshire 02/11/25
#teammoth

03.11.2025 10:06 — 👍 30    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Feathered Thorn
(Colotois pennaria)
new for our garden resting on the trap vanes after a wet night.
Carms 28/10/25
#teammoth

29.10.2025 14:50 — 👍 33    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Common Buzzard
(Buteo buteo)
River Towy Bridge, Dryslwyn
Carmarthenshire 27/10/25

27.10.2025 15:27 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hooded Crow (Corvus cornix)
South Gower RFC, Bishopston
Glamorgan 21/10/25
#BirdingWales

21.10.2025 17:57 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra)
River Towy, Carmarthenshire
20/10/25

20.10.2025 18:32 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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3 x Merveille du Jour
(Griposia aprilina)
the most I've trapped yet
17/10/25 Carmarthenshire
#teammoth

18.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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You lookin' at me?
male Vapourer
(Orgyia antiqua) nfg
Carmarthenshire 17/10/25
#teammoth

18.10.2025 08:58 — 👍 36    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Clouded Yellow
(Colias croceus)
Rhossili, Gower
17/10/25

17.10.2025 16:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Engrailed
(Ectropis crepuscularia)
Carmarthenshire 13/10/25
#teammoth

15.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 25    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Flounced Chestnut
(Anchoscelis helvola)
nfg Carmarthenshire 14/10/25
#teammoth

15.10.2025 07:48 — 👍 28    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Chestnut (Conistra vaccinii)
new for garden Carmarthenshire 13/10/25
#teammoth

14.10.2025 09:46 — 👍 23    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Merveille du Jour
(Griposia aprilina)
potted of the trap vanes
Carmarthenshire 13/10/25
#teammoth

13.10.2025 20:42 — 👍 42    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Black Rustic
(Aporophyla nigra)
Carmarthenshire 11/10/25
Nfg #teammoth

13.10.2025 07:21 — 👍 25    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Large Wainscot
(Rhizedra lutosa)
new for me 11/10/25
Carmarthenshire #teammoth

12.10.2025 07:34 — 👍 33    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Red-line Quaker (left)
Yellow-line Quaker (right)
both in same trap
Carmarthenshire 10/10/25
#teammoth

11.10.2025 18:15 — 👍 24    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Brown Shrike (Lanius cristatus)
St David's, Pembrokeshire
feeding on Wasps
1st for Wales Twitched 09/10/25
#BirdingWales

11.10.2025 08:03 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Red-line Quaker
(Leptologia lota)
new for garden
Carmarthenshire 10/10/25
#teammoth

11.10.2025 07:52 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Seawatch at Strumble Head this am gave 5 Arctic Skuas, 3 Leach's Petrels, 6 Manx Shearwaters, Gannets, Kittiwakes and Auks. 5 Chough and 6+ Common Dolphins.

05.10.2025 15:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Red-green Carpet
(Chloroclysta siterata)
new for garden
Carmarthenshire 01/10/25
#teammoth

02.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 26    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Double-striped Tabby
(Hypsopygia glaucinalis)
Carmarthenshire 01/10/25
#teammoth

02.10.2025 12:52 — 👍 17    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Yellow-line Quaker
(Agrochola macilenta)
new for me
Carmarthenshire 01/10/25
#teammoth

02.10.2025 08:30 — 👍 29    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lunar Underwing
(Anchoscelis lunosa) x2
nfg Carmarthenshire 29/09/25
#teammoth

30.09.2025 08:00 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#birdingwales

29.09.2025 06:57 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Turtle Dove
(Streptopelia turtur)
feeding along cycle track near North Dock, Llanelli 27/09/25

27.09.2025 16:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Mottled Umber
(Erannis defoliaria)
another new for garden
Carmarthenshire 26/09/25 looking as if it too has had a brush with a spider's web.
#teammoth

27.09.2025 11:31 — 👍 18    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Frosted Orange
(Gortyna flavago)
new for garden unless I count the spider cocooned one last weekend.
Carmarthenshire 26/09/25
#teammoth

27.09.2025 11:12 — 👍 21    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Autumn Green Carpet (Chloroclysta miata)
new for me 26/09/25
Carmarthenshire #teammoth

27.09.2025 07:32 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0