David Bradley

Fellow moth-ers, have you seen Nocturnes? Is it available to stream without having to subscribe to Prime and then pay more to watch the film? #teamMoth www.sandboxfilms.org/films/noctur...

It was 16C here in Cambs when I lit up...only dropped to 13C min, but was wet later. 7 of 6 #teamMoth First Rosy Tabby for a month. That species only just made it into double figures in summer sessions

Just a handful for #teamMoth last night 2x Black Rustic, a Clancy's Rustic, a White-point, and first Palpita vitrealis since August. There was also a micro I'm yet to ID, probably just a Blastobasis of some sort, didn't get a great photo of that

@mothiduk.bsky.social Rubbish phone photo, but any chance of an ID? Blastobasis of some kind? Many thanks

I see we have a Nutcracker in the UK now...fingers crossed for a bit more of an irruption. Back in '68 there were apparently 315 that turned up www.sciencebase.com/science-blog... (Edited public domain photo from Andrew Agafonoff)

Despite there being a Vine's Rustic on an egg tray and a Black Rusic near the trap at bedtime last night, I'm going to declare a visit from Terry as I think they were leftovers from the previous night #teamMoth #Wogan

All these sites still dark* while they fix their PHP? The host I spoke to about this said they implemented patches two days ago, didn't seem to be such a big deal *To be honest, I've not noticed any

You get to a certain age, and it seems everything pushed in front of you from will services and funeral ads is about your imminent demise.. Even the nature recording apps are at it...sheesh... Well, if you can't beat 'em: www.sciencebase.com/science-blog...

@imsepidemiology.bsky.social Proud to be a participant in the Fenland Study since January 2012. I'm now in a cohort beta testing their remote health monitoring programme with a Pixel 2 watch and an obligation as my month in that test comes to an end to annotate my heartbeat records!

With all this PHP vulnerability talk, it was time to fix an old side-site stuck on ver 7.4 because a plugin was colliding with newer PHP and crashing it. Gemini spotted a dodgy pair of curly brackets where there should've been braces. I swapped those and it's now fine!

Meanwhile, shopping substitute on Tesco delivery. They sent a pizza wheel instead of a metal sieve. Now, both kitchen items, yes, but not in the same clade. I'd understand it if they'd sent a tea strainer or a collander, but a pizza wheel would be a sub for scissors or a knife, surely?

Three days of supplies will not see anyone through the post-apocalyptic winter, I'm afraid, Wes www.sciencebase.com/science-blog...

Silence of the seals The majority of harbour seal pups at the Tees Estuary are dying, year on year. Why you aren’t being told what’s going on northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

18 of 10 #teamMoth wet and 9C min in Cambs. Satellite with the orange markings (they were deeper orange even than the ones in this archive photo)

11 days left to vote, National Trust members

Quite a decent turnout last night #teamMoth 40 moths of 16 species, including an ab capucina Green-brindled Crescent and a non-ab. The Cypress Carpet I mentioned last night was joined by two Spruce Carpet and two Least Carpet (none of these moths eat carpets!)

@observation.org Is it a little insider joke that you throw in Woolly Mammoth as an occasional ID? I had a photo of a Large Wainscot moth, which was given 28% certainty that it was a Woolly Mammoth, and 10% that it was a Eurasian Beaver!!! www.sciencebase.com/science-blog...

4/4 again last night #teamMoth, Black Rus and Merv again, but other two different from previous session - White-point and Large Wainscot. I knew it was Lge W, but did an ObsID, which reckoned it was actually a Woolly Mammoth, but only with 28% certainty...or 10% certainty that it's a beaver

Why does the SD slot on my Zeiss trailcam have to be backwards, so it's almost impossible to remove OR why don't SD card manufacturers put the nail groove on both sides of their cards so it doesn't matter?

4/4 #teamMoth Merv, Black Rustic, Red-line, LgeYU

One final sprint to save a landscape - £28m secured, £2m to go! Donation matching until the end of the month - the Wildlife Trusts are so close to buying the largest chunk of the UK offered for sale in 30 yrs. Landscape-scale protection, to hold a 40-mile wide nature corridor together for wildlife.

Rock Pipits on the bank of the River Orwell just down from the docks at Felixstowe #UKBirding

Can't wait for the self-replicant AI bots to infect my toaster, they might help it pop up when the toast's actually ready rather than when it's vaguely tepid and a bit dried out... @cyberphilosohack.bsky.social

30 of 14 in 7C Cambs last night #teamMoth #green was the theme First Green-brindled Crescent of the year, 2 Merveille du Jour, and a Red-Green Carpet, as well as the usual suspects (Black Rustic, LBAM, Lunar Underwing etc)

At dusk, there are almost always a few (sometimes lots) of Corn Buntings on the overhead cables on local farmland. The RSPB says this species has been known (rather unkindly, I'd say) as the "fat bird of the barley". Its song is like a metal curling sliding down a sheet of wet glass...

Little bit of a spike last night for #teamMoth 41 of 19. Double numbers from previous session. Including The Satellite's return, first for over a month

#BirdOfTheDay #blue European Roller

Ooh, there's a Red-green out there...first since May #teamMoth

Always great to see Stonechat. This one posed on the reeds about 10m from the footpath at RSPB "Earith" #UKBirding

21 of 9 last night, temps dropping...don't think the moths were excited by the aurora. Six of #teamMoth were Black Rustic

Missed the aurora last night... And this is what the app showed me this morning

'The University of Manchester is seeking alternative funding sources to keep scientific work at Jodrell Bank going after hearing that lost UK Research and Innovation funding would not be restored despite interventions by the prime minister.'

First appearance of Merveille du Jour this season #MothFaceFriday #teamMoth

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Marvel of the Day #teamMoth

Just 21 of 9 last night, but it did get down to around 7C here in Cambs #teamMoth Nothing more exciting than a White-point