A fancy raspberry-tinged Vestal was amongst 9 Silver Ys and a lone Small Mottled Willow at #salopobs this morning #teammoth #salopmoths

Saved the best for last in the holiday mothtrap with this smart and very localised Black-banded this morning, alongside presumably Ceredigion's 4th L-album Wainscot and an Olive-tree Pearl #teammoth #llangrannog @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

Happy 1st September! Best day of the year, start of meteorological #autumn - we made it through another summer. Season of moths and mellow fruitfulness 🍂🧡

L-album Wainscot is just the third for Ceredigion according to the county recorder, following other coastal records in Sept 2016 and Oct 2018 #teammoth #migrantmothuk

Tom Lowe@saloplarus.bsky.social · 5d ago

Two new wainscots for me in the holiday LED trap in Llangrannog: an absolutely stunning L-album and a tiny Small. Also 2 SMWs, Silver Y, 2 Rush Veneers #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

Two new wainscots for me in the holiday LED trap in Llangrannog: an absolutely stunning L-album and a tiny Small. Also 2 SMWs, Silver Y, 2 Rush Veneers #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

A Bittern flew over #salopobs early on Monday morning, giving seven clear calls over 4mins, a year to the day after the only previous autumn record. Same bird?! Not annual in the county but that's the 7th #nocmig record for the garden 💥 macaulaylibrary.org/asset/663744... #ukbirding

Juvenile waders are some of the best birds, and juvenile Curlew Sands are some of the best juvenile waders. This stunner at Venus Pool today is an excellent #shropshirebirding record #ukbirding

Second eclipse of the month! 🌘 Worth getting up for the 93% partial lunar eclipse this morning in practically the same piece of sky as the solar eclipse #shropshire

Another evening of spectacular skies as thunderstorms passed either side of us again. Structure, lightning, and a whole lot of rumbling #shropshire #stormhour

Always leave the mothtrap on during thunderstorms! What might be the first Evergestis extimalis for the West Mids, along with the county's 6th or 7th Delicate, Vestal, 10 SMWs... #salopmoths #teammoth #vc40 @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

Finally getting in on the storms after dark tonight. Some huge flashes of lightning beyond the Wrekin #shropshire #stormhour

Can anyone ID these bugs please? Photographed on my car tyre, but they were at a similar high density across acres and acres of OSR stubble in Devon today, billions of em!

Awesome rumbling skies from the garden today. Makes a refreshing change from the endless sunshine #stormhour #loveukweather ⛈️

Really pleased to come across a flock of 8 Cattle Egrets with cows by the Ribble at Freckleton this morning to a backdrop of 20 Spoonbills, 2 Great & 30 Little Egrets #lancsbirding #ukbirding

A moth flew into the car whilst I was parked near Fleetwood today. It's 2026, so of course it was a Small Mottled Willow #teammoth

Experimented last night with cheap UV LEDs as described recently by @andysymes.bsky.social - needs work but 150/31 including SMWs back up to 18 and Treble-bar NFY #salopmoths #teammoth #vc40

The rise of Poplarism... still nothing stripey but a handful of Poplar Hawks this morning, a visit from a Hummer as I was going through the trap, and the SMW tally reached 451 (78, 74, 72 the last 3 days) #salopmoths #teammoth #vc40

During yesterday's eclipse, we found a drought-toned Vestal in the garden. After dark there were two on the buddleia, and this morning, six in the mothtrap #salopmoths #teammoth #vc40 #vestalinterest

An impressive 425 macros of 40 spp this morning, including a White-point (only 5 county records on West Mids Moths?), a well-travelled Bordered Straw, 2 Maiden's Blush, 6 Vestals and 💥78💥 SMWs! #salopmoths #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

Well that was a really fun evening, watching the partial solar eclipse from the back garden using the Swaro to project it onto some baking paper #astrophotography

Really pleased for this stunning fella. Two nest failures this year, but one was early (due to wind and rain can you believe it?!) and so replaced, and juvs successfully fledged. He was non-stop all summer, so nice to see him leisurely mooching about today #marshharrier #ukbirding

Finally! After hearing dozens over this amazing summer and thinking I'd missed my chance now that drought and harvest have pushed them further north, I managed to see a #Quail this morning as it shuffled around in the stubble with the Corn Buntings. Brilliant! #yorkshirebirding #ukbirding

Looks like it has finally happened, British breeding #CaspianGull! #takingovertheworld #gulls #ukbirding

How good is this?! A pair of Grey Partridge and their 13 big chicks that I followed down a #lincsbirding lane today 😍 #ukbirding

The 5th Vestal of the week in the trap this morning and a record 33 Small Mottled Willows, bringing the 2026 total to 227 (following 3 last year and 1 in 2015)! #salopmoths #teammoth #vc40 @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

I was surprised how hard I was struck by the contrast and passage of time yesterday. EV 🚗 to drought-stricken Glos farmland to watch the LTS with nobody there except my teenage family couldn't have been more different to the small plane twitch to a damp South Uist in November 2000 #ukbirding

Went to see the Long-tailed Shrike today, after all it's nearly 26 years since I last saw one in the UK. One of my best blockers... Worlds apart, more than half a lifetime ago #ukbirding

3 Vestals this morning! And a very smart Antler Moth +3 SMWs, 4 RDPs, 4 Silver Ys and a Rush Veneer #salopmoths #teammoth #vc40 @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

Wonderfully autumnal this afternoon with wind, rain and a big sea as 5 Arctic Skuas and 31 Manxies raced south past the Fylde coast #lancsbirding #ukbirding #seawatching

Today's highlights included incoming Whimbrel, another juv YLG on the Wyre, and a GBBG family eating a shark alive (looks like a Starry Smooth-hound 🦈) #lancsbirding #ukbirding