@aceaton.bsky.social
Gardening & nature in Kessingland Suffolk, mainly moths, birds, hedychiums & salvias
A bit more lively with an overcast sky last night, Convolvulus HM, Feathered Brindle, 5 Clancy's Rustic & the new normal Buff footman & LBBYUw also Red Underwing, Palpita vitrealis, 5 N noctuella, 2 L album W, U ferrugalis & 5 P xylostella #teammoth
08.10.2025 15:23 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
🌱 Some Hedychiums out in the garden today, marginatum, Luna moth, maximum (smelling gorgeous) & griffithianum (with Fuchsia boliviana)
08.10.2025 13:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A new nectar plant for Convolvulus Hawk-moth tonight, Kniphofia caulescens
30.09.2025 21:05 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some floral beauties in my garden today, Nerine & Amarines, Pseudogynoxys chenopodioides (was easier to say when it was Senecio confusus!), Fuchsia denticulata & Hedychium flavum (smells as good as it looks) 🌱
10.09.2025 16:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Glad they were confirmed thought it may have been a hallucination ! (only seen for c5 secs between houses & trees) , strange they took over an hour to get from W. to Kessingland (must have stopped somewhere)
07.09.2025 06:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0c20 Glossy ibis over Kessingland Beach heading north @lowestoftlizards.bsky.social
06.09.2025 16:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
life's tough for Hummingbird & Convolvulus Hawkmoths in a 30mph wind today in Kessingland
03.09.2025 20:43 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Last night produced Convolvulus Hawk NFY, Clancy's Rustic NFY, a standard issue Pearly Underwing & an Ethmia bipunctella (something I don't see every year) also a bit of a Scarce Bordered Straw surge (5)
28.08.2025 16:45 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Coast Dart
Some common migrants last night included this nicely marked Pearly Underwing, Four-spotted Footman, Scarce Bordered Straw, Dark Sword-grass, 12 Palpita vitrealis & 5 Delicate. Also a small, pale Coast Dart, Ancylosis oblitella & 2 Clay Triple-lines NFG (no local Beech) #teammoth
27.08.2025 12:27 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
My 1st Delicate of the year last night & only my 2nd Caloptilia fidella ever + always lovely to see Oncocera semirubella & Star-wort, also Coast dart, Jersey Tiger & Ancylosis oblitella #teammoth
15.08.2025 22:00 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A 1st for the garden today in Kessingland, Clouded Yellow
10.08.2025 20:39 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0used to get double figures 10 years ago, easy to dismiss as faded Bee moth, my last (2 years ago) was a melanistic!
30.06.2025 21:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Kessingland Suffolk
30.06.2025 21:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
zelleri seem to be having a bumper year, thought they were dying out here (max of 1 per year) but 8 on sat night!
30.06.2025 21:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hi Rob, its Kessingland sluice😉 pedants rule!
25.02.2025 21:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0& so, like many modern vegetables they are less nutritious & bland
21.02.2025 10:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0?, Fly enjoying some Gaillardia flower
15.02.2025 11:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0? looks a bit Pallid
13.02.2025 16:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hypena rostralis (Buttoned Snout) here in the UK, not so scabby but more nosey
13.02.2025 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A very uncooperative D. boleti to light in my garden (best of 10 snaps!)
13.02.2025 13:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Or Megascops choliba
09.02.2025 23:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Is that a Zappa quote?, not a little owl, one of the Scops owls (maybe Otus scops?)
09.02.2025 23:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
