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Only!?! Not yet on my garden list, in fact not on any moth list I keep 😔

I'd like a 'standard' Shoulder Stripe in my garden 🙂

Didn't think about FUN lure 🤔😔

Didn't take you long to catch up 👍

Oak Beauty - Bromsgrove 04/03/26

5/3 this morning, four in the trap (3 CQ, 1 Heb Char) and one - Oak Beauty (nfy) - on the fence. VC37 SO96 #teammoth

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Mompha jurassicella - potted at Upton Warren WorcsWT reserve 22/02/26

Mompha jurassicella - potted at Upton Warren WorcsWT reserve 22/02/26

A couple of less than marvellous images of two Mompha jurassicella potted in one of the hides at #uptonwarren Flashes. Seemingly a regular late winter occurrence.

Inside hides has been the go to place for jurasicella at #uptonwarren over the last few years. A couple were found over last weekend.

Small Quaker - Bromsgrove 23/02/26

Hebrew Character - Bromsgrove 23/02/26

Early Grey - Bromsgrove 23/02/26

5/4 this morning, three of which - Small Quaker, Hebrew Character & Early Grey - were nfy. Two CQs, predictably, were the others. It may have been more if I'd turned the light on when I put the trap out 🤦🤷 VC37 SO96 #teammoth

Red-green Carpet - Bromsgrove 22/02/26

This morning's trap produced 2 CQ & a Beautiful Plume, with another Grey Shoulder-knot on a different wall. Friday night's GSK was still in the same place, indeed both were still there when I put the trap out tonight, plus a bonus Red-green Carpet I must have overlooked this a.m. VC37 SO96 #teaamoth

Grey Shoulder-knot - Bromsgrove 21/02/26

Well, at least I had a moth. On the wall opposite the trap, a Grey Shoulder-knot nfy. Presumably too windy 🤔 VC37 SO96 #teammoth

Scarcer than I'd thought 🤔

Hoping for something tonight, but seemed blank an hour ago... 😔

By "this year" I do, of course, mean 2025 🤦

I'd had one or two suspected basaltinella in previous years, but retained a couple this year. Now on my garden list too - not sure how many records for VC37.

Definitely not on my garden list, but firmly on my Upton Warren list 😃 Trap occasionally at UW & a local sports club, so another couple of lists I keep semi-seriously.

I was lucky, a mate found it in a hide so I 'twitched' it 😃

I've managed 7 moths of four species this year so far. 4/2 in the garden & 3/2 at my local reserve. Amazingly, one new one amongst those - Early Moth at my local reserve plus 2 A.heracliana there. Probably missed a few as apathy sets in and I 'forget' to put the trap out on nights that could be OK.

Common Quaker. One of two - Bromsgrove 10/02/26

Two moths again this morning, this time having left the trap out all night. The first two, of what will no doubt become several, Common Quakers VC37 SO96 #teammoth

Pale Brindled Beauty - Bromsgrove 8/2/26

Garden mothing finally up and running for 2026 with 2 Pale Brindled Beautys on the wall next to the trap when I brought it in 10 minutes ago VC37 SO96 #teammoth

Do you mean does anyone in the Worcs & Malvern RSPB group use BlueSky?

Still no garden moths this year (3 blanks) but my 3rd moth of the year at #uptonwarren was nfm - an Early Moth in one of the hides #teammoth Found by Gert, it was still in the hide when I arrived 45 minutes later. Birds less inspiring, but 3 Otters were the most I'd seen at one time on the reserve.

... and I thought it was only people on the telly 🤷

Why do so many people, in the UK at least, pronounce turmeric omitting the first 'r'? @susiedentwords.bsky.social

Juv Goshawk viewable now from Kingfisher Hide #slimbridge Probably also viewable from Zeiss & VdB Hides

My return in VC37 was a big fat zero... & wet egg boxes.

Coal Tit - Upton Warren - Jacobs' Hide feeders

Long-tailed Tit - Upton Warren. Jacobs' Hide feeders

Another damp & grey afternoon @ #uptonwarren Managed a couple of additions to my Upton year-list: Coal Tit around the Jacobs' Hide feeders and Great Crested Grebe on the Sailing Pool. Couple of Goldcrests along the west path at the Moors were the best of the rest.

Forgot the Shelduck, it was on the NM this p.m.

A rather dull & damp p.m. @ Moors #uptonwarren Highlights were a f. Wigeon, 50 Snipe, 7 Pochard & 15+ Siskin in alders opp. Lifestyles.