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Wielding Logic

When I am working in the Catskills, I have a view out the sliding glass doors out to the deck from my computer. This often gives me a good opportunity to see birds out of the corner of my eye, which is always welcome.

Today it was a Brown Creeper with its tongue sticking out, backlit by sunlit fall leaves. My camera was not prepared, so the focus could be better, but the colors are great.

Profile photo of a Brown Creeper with its tongue sticking out, with a yellow and orange background from sunlit fall leaves.
#birds#birding#photography
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hastingsmothman

Pretty quiet on the mothing front last night. Almost full moon, clear and slightly cooler night meant less action (... or maybe more action if you saw my previous Sex Lives of a Cabbage Moth post! 😮 )

Just a handful in the box this morning, but these included four beauties:

1) BLACK ARCHES
2) MARBLED BEAUTY
3) MARBLED GREEN
4) DOUBLE-STRIPED PUG

Overhead shot of a 2.5cm long moth called Black Arches. It is triangular. It has a white background with black markings. The top third has just a few black dots. There is then a thick, black, horizontal, wavy, shark-toothed edged band across the middle. A thinner wavy, shark-toothed line runs close to the bottom edge. It has two large, feathered antennae.
Overhead shot of a 0.5 centimetre moth. It is arrowhead shaped. It has a jigsaw, marbled, green effect, made up of lots of irregular shapes and bands of quite vivid light and dark green, some of the shaped edged in white.
An overhead shot of a 1cm Marbled Green moth. It is arrowhead shaped. It is very similar to the previous marbled beauty moth. However, it is slightly larger and the marbling effect is duller. It is still a jigsaw of random shapes of green creating a marbling effect.
Overhead shot of a Double-striped pug moth, about 1 centimetre wide. Its wings are such that if you imagine a burlesque or Spanish dancer with arms outstretched straight left and right, each hand holding the bottom hem of a flowing skirt, so that the skirt fans out in front. These wings are grey-brown with many thin wavy bands and lines running horizontally across. The bottom edge of the wings if fringed. The moth looks freshly pupated and clearly marked.
#moths#mothing#lepidoptera
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hastingsmothman

As well as larger macro moths, there are thousands of micro moths, some barely perceptible to the eye. Four micros from today's moth box include:

1) yponomeuta evonymella (Bird-cherry ermine) [Top Left]
2) argyresthia brockeella (Gold W) [TR]
3) digitivalva pulicariae (Fleabane Smudge) [BL]
4) caloptilia rufipennella (Rufous Stilt or Small Red Slender) [BR]

Side on shot of micromoth, no bigger than a grain of rice. It is white with lots of black dots,
A side on shot of a micromoth facing left. It is smaller than a grain of rice. Microscopic. It is white with thick bronze coloured bands. The first band is on its own. The other bands are middle to end and are linked forming an M shape or upside down W.
Overhead shot of a microscopic moth smaller than a grain of rice. Its colouring is mottled and rather indistinct, but has ochrous, white elements. Its wings taper to a point at the back
Side on shot of a microscopic moth. It is almost vertical, standing up in its front legs like someone holding two walking sticks. It is a sandy-reddish-brown colour, with no markings. It has very long antennae which stretch down from its hand to the end of its wings.
#moths#MothsMatter#nature
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hastingsmothman

Professional wildlife photographers .... don't you get at me. I am not a photographer myself, I am not blessed with a massive zoom or impressive tripod. But it's not what you've got, it's what you do with it that counts - and I did it from distance with my little snapper poking out the bathroom window! A photo of a Great Spotted Woodpecker ... a rare but welcome visitor to our garden birdfeeder.

A Great Spotted Woodpecker hanging from the bottom of a wire birdfeeder containing peanuts. He is looking right. He has a bright crimson red head edged in black with white cheeks. A black line extends from his beak to his neck where it joins a thicker black band which runs from the back of his head diagonally towards his breast, creating a Y shape below his cheeks. His back and wings are black but he has a white chest. In the background are green leaves of a shrub
Great spotted woodpecker with red head hanging from wire cage bird feeder. He is facing left looking out for danger
#bird#woodpecker#ornithology
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hastingsmothman

Indulged in my two fave hobbies & voted for the Green Party in the #LocalElections all before breakfast!

6.4km #run before checking, cataloguing, photographing and releasing #moths that roosted overnight. This is (rather tatty) CHINESE CHARACTER - so called because the faint silver lines on its wing are said to resemble Chinese character 山. Size of your little finger nail and mimics bird dropping to put off predators.

A small moth which is flat along the bottom, but holds its wings steeply above its abdomen and which slope down towards its ground-level head resembling a speech bubble or a comma on its side. It is white-grey with grey-blue dots running along the rear edge of the wing. The middle of the wing is more grey-brown with dark patches nearby. On the grey-brown patch, a fine silver line resembling a Chinese character for the word mountain. It sits on a terracotta plate. Across the bottom are some running statistics from the morning run. Distance 6.41km, Time 46:41, Pace 7:17 minute kilometres average.
#running#runner#MothsMatter
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