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02.09.2025
Doesn't get much better than these two in the same trap. Also 2 Scarce-bordered Straws, 7 Rush Veneer, 3 Rusty-dots, Olive-tree Pearl, Dark...
28.08.2025
We spent the last four days on the Isle of Wight on the last of our family trips this summer holiday. It's not actually far from here- only ...
25.08.2025
The heatwave continues and the moth migration is picking up. In the trap this morning was my first Toadflax Pearl, Antigastra catalaunalis, ...
A wonderful weekend in the Malverns for my sister Angie's 50th birthday. Lovely to see all the family together for a weekend of live music, ...
We are in the midst of another moth migration wave (it really has been an exceptional year) and last night was pretty fantastic with the fir...
Finally catching up after being away. The last week has been pretty busy, more so as it's school holidays. After getting back home last Wedn...
Mike Bailey and Derek Lee have very kindly completed all the dissections from Little Oak Lodge for June and July. The results are very inter...
Finally managed to get in a birding session yesterday evening, Ebird list HERE . Highlights included 3 Green Sandpiper on Mill Pond Marsh, ...
10.08.2025
We decided to stretch out the journey back home so after checking out of Le Moulin de Pensol we headed to an AirBnB at Lemere near Chinnon f...
08.08.2025
We had a fantastic five night stay at Le Moulin de Pensol HERE which is a magical 20 acre re-wilding project in the Perigold-Limousin Natu...
03.08.2025
We left Portsmouth yesterday morning (29th July) and caught the ferry to Caen and then made our way to our overnight at Camping de Marcilly ...
29.07.2025
My dad visited this week and we also had an urgent situation with Isaac so the only naturalising I've been able to do is from the garden. Bi...
This weekend Jaffa, Helen, Lee, Rachel and Sue came down to visit. We did a couple of sessions at Pagham Harbour with a visit to east side o...
Walked from Easton Lane Car park to the Stilt Pool and then onto the Breach along the beach. 60 species of nearly 1200 individuals, highligh...
The highlight of this weekend was the first good autumn seawatch at Selsey Bill with 13 Balearic Shearwaters (now called Mediterranean Shear...
We've got more guests again this weekend (mates this time) so have spent all day completing the jobs-to- do-list around the garden. There we...
Finally caught up with the Roseate Tern at Church Norton yesterday evening thanks to Marc Read who was at Pagham Spit and picked it up from ...
15.07.2025
Trying to get back into the routine of spending Monday in the field now that autumn is picking up. After doing the moths I checked out Ferry...
14.07.2025
A bit of an artery hardening weekend with mainly shopping yesterday, chores this morning and then a school choir concert this afternoon. Man...
12.07.2025
I managed to get out birding a couple of times this week locally. The highlights have been the booming tern and gull colony at Church Norton...
10.07.2025
I finally got the chance to visit Knepp Wilding yesterday. I drive past it on my way to and from London but rarely have the time but I finis...
08.07.2025
Mike Bailey has kindly and expertly got through the latest batch of moths I collected for dissection in June from Little Oak Lodge. The resu...
07.07.2025
There was a surprise pulse of moth migration on Friday night in a westerly wind with the third Striped Hawkmoth this summer, a Dewick's Plus...
05.07.2025
Justin Atkinson recently published the Selsey Bill Spring Birding Review HERE which is a great little write up on what, by the sounds of ...
04.07.2025
I finally found the time and will to do a proper local birding session. After a few big moth nights I thought no harm in not doing a full pr...
03.07.2025
Its been up to 29-30 C here over the last couple of days with night temperatures in the high teens with a cold front and showers moving in l...
01.07.2025
Holly's AirBnB Hippy-chic Caravan is now up and running with lots of bookings. All are welcome to book. Bring the moth trap and a great plac...
A weekend around the Lodge again. Isaac and I did a walk to Mill Lane Marsh and back on Saturday- just a Blackwit and a couple of Teals ther...
28.06.2025
About 300 moths last night of approx 78 species with a nice little haul of migrants. As hoped for, the migrants that arrived in the south w...
Another night of moth migration, presumably insects which arrived in the south west and now being pushed east. The suite of migrants was the...
26.06.2025
It's been a steady few days mostly confined to the Lodge. The weekend heat wave gave way to a south westerly airflow by Monday but there was...
22.06.2025
With temperatures up to around 30 C by day and 18 C by night with a south easterly wind and the Summer Solstice too, this weekend has, as ho...
21.06.2025
Matt came over yesterday and we spent the day doing the garden and as usual discussing the head of the snake of the western world as you do ...
19.06.2025
I was hoping to get some work done today and over the summer doldrums but things as usual didn't go to plan. This time it wasn't due to one ...
18.06.2025
Another good migrant last night- Vagrant China-mark. 67 species of approx 200 individuals with a few garden ticks taking the garden moth lis...
16.06.2025
Big global news this week. The first unified global taxonomy of birds has been published - AviList, which is a consolidation of existing lea...
After a quiet night yesterday it seems the moth mgiration picked up again last night with Small Mottled Willow, 5 Four-spotted Footman, Deli...
15.06.2025
It's been a busy working week after getting back from Bulgaria, couldn't get out in the field but I managed to keep up the moth trapping and...
12.06.2025
This week marks the first anniversary of us moving into our new home. The garden bird list is now on 107 HERE with highlights including S...
09.06.2025
The moth trap was pretty good all week with about 70 species a night of about 120-150 individuals. Observations HERE . The project lep list...