David Bradley
@sciencebase.com
UK-based wildlife photographer, moth-er, birder, singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, chorister, author, allotmenteer, pondlifer, wild gardener, husband, father, oh and 36y+ a science writer #music #science #teamMoth #UKBirding Nature Matters
The mythical presence of the late, great Sir Michael Terence Wogan was felt in our Cambs garden last night, after many days, no weeks, nay months of awaiting his arrival #teamMoth
The current Mrs Sciencebase was not in the slightest bit surprised given that it persisted down all night
The current Mrs Sciencebase was not in the slightest bit surprised given that it persisted down all night
a man in a suit and tie is holding a wand with a star on it
Alt: Sir Terry Wogan flying moth-like through the Blankety Blank set
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November 19, 2025 at 7:41 AM
The mythical presence of the late, great Sir Michael Terence Wogan was felt in our Cambs garden last night, after many days, no weeks, nay months of awaiting his arrival #teamMoth
The current Mrs Sciencebase was not in the slightest bit surprised given that it persisted down all night
The current Mrs Sciencebase was not in the slightest bit surprised given that it persisted down all night
To be honest, the only sites I noticed as being down were my site, Cloudflare itself, and the sites I used to try and check whether a phone number was legit
November 18, 2025 at 5:11 PM
To be honest, the only sites I noticed as being down were my site, Cloudflare itself, and the sites I used to try and check whether a phone number was legit
Disabled Cloudflare on my site hours ago...could be I'm the only live website right now...
November 18, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Disabled Cloudflare on my site hours ago...could be I'm the only live website right now...
November 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Sorry...not sorry...I had to use an LLM to write a plugin for a fairly complicated process I needed to run on my website. It worked first time. Maybe there was a shortcode or a plugin out there already, but I couldn't find it. Amazing that these sophisticated autocomplete tools can generate machines
November 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Sorry...not sorry...I had to use an LLM to write a plugin for a fairly complicated process I needed to run on my website. It worked first time. Maybe there was a shortcode or a plugin out there already, but I couldn't find it. Amazing that these sophisticated autocomplete tools can generate machines
It's quite hard searching for a science friend online whose forename is Grant...he might as well be called Peers Review
November 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It's quite hard searching for a science friend online whose forename is Grant...he might as well be called Peers Review
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 PM
At this time of year, there's almost always someone who'll post a photo of a murmuration where the starlings are flocking and it looks a bit like a big bird in flight...
There are about 1000 birds in this flock, there were easily a couple of dozen such flocks on the patch we watched this evening
There are about 1000 birds in this flock, there were easily a couple of dozen such flocks on the patch we watched this evening
November 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
At this time of year, there's almost always someone who'll post a photo of a murmuration where the starlings are flocking and it looks a bit like a big bird in flight...
There are about 1000 birds in this flock, there were easily a couple of dozen such flocks on the patch we watched this evening
There are about 1000 birds in this flock, there were easily a couple of dozen such flocks on the patch we watched this evening
I was going to do another themed gallery for #teamMoth taking astronomy as a focus, but The Satellite aside, it's just a load of lunar things. Star-wort sort of
Lunar Double-stripe, Lunar Hornet Moth, Lunar Marbled Brown, Lunar Thorn, Lunar Underwing, Lunar Yellow Underwing, Lunar-spotted Pinion
Lunar Double-stripe, Lunar Hornet Moth, Lunar Marbled Brown, Lunar Thorn, Lunar Underwing, Lunar Yellow Underwing, Lunar-spotted Pinion
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I was going to do another themed gallery for #teamMoth taking astronomy as a focus, but The Satellite aside, it's just a load of lunar things. Star-wort sort of
Lunar Double-stripe, Lunar Hornet Moth, Lunar Marbled Brown, Lunar Thorn, Lunar Underwing, Lunar Yellow Underwing, Lunar-spotted Pinion
Lunar Double-stripe, Lunar Hornet Moth, Lunar Marbled Brown, Lunar Thorn, Lunar Underwing, Lunar Yellow Underwing, Lunar-spotted Pinion
Still no Wogan #teamMoth VC29 9C, dry
In fact, far better, an NFG last night - Scarce Umber. Almost missed it as it was resting on the conservatory window frame behind the trap and I only spotted it when I resetting the trap.
In fact, far better, an NFG last night - Scarce Umber. Almost missed it as it was resting on the conservatory window frame behind the trap and I only spotted it when I resetting the trap.
November 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Still no Wogan #teamMoth VC29 9C, dry
In fact, far better, an NFG last night - Scarce Umber. Almost missed it as it was resting on the conservatory window frame behind the trap and I only spotted it when I resetting the trap.
In fact, far better, an NFG last night - Scarce Umber. Almost missed it as it was resting on the conservatory window frame behind the trap and I only spotted it when I resetting the trap.
I occasionally put the phrase "wannabe rock god" in my social media bios...well to that end, this evening I will be rehearsing 1999, In the Navy, Everybody Wants to be a Cat, and Love is an Open Door with the panto pit band 🤘
November 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I occasionally put the phrase "wannabe rock god" in my social media bios...well to that end, this evening I will be rehearsing 1999, In the Navy, Everybody Wants to be a Cat, and Love is an Open Door with the panto pit band 🤘
For our sins, we just ordered a new dishwasher. The one we used for 13 years gave up the ghost a couple of years ago and has sat dormant in the kitchen while we did the washing up in the sink ever since. The new one has Zeolith drying technology...
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
For our sins, we just ordered a new dishwasher. The one we used for 13 years gave up the ghost a couple of years ago and has sat dormant in the kitchen while we did the washing up in the sink ever since. The new one has Zeolith drying technology...
It was ridiculously wet here last night, as it presumably was almost everywhere...but didn't get below 10C
Still, I lit up #teamMoth 5 of 8 including a Brick and an Epirrita sp.
Still, I lit up #teamMoth 5 of 8 including a Brick and an Epirrita sp.
November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It was ridiculously wet here last night, as it presumably was almost everywhere...but didn't get below 10C
Still, I lit up #teamMoth 5 of 8 including a Brick and an Epirrita sp.
Still, I lit up #teamMoth 5 of 8 including a Brick and an Epirrita sp.
Not all ducks quack, some do Frankie Howerd impressions #UKBirding Seahouses, Northumberland May 2022, for what it's worth
I tried to upload here, but it's failing to process
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I tried to upload here, but it's failing to process
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Not all ducks quack, some of them do a Frankie Howerd impression #UKBirding There seem to be an awful lot of eider duck videos around with people expressing surprise at the sound they make, even on US...
TikTok video by Dave Bradley
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November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Not all ducks quack, some do Frankie Howerd impressions #UKBirding Seahouses, Northumberland May 2022, for what it's worth
I tried to upload here, but it's failing to process
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I tried to upload here, but it's failing to process
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Grey Shoulder-knot was 40th new for garden of 391 total species this year for me; previously I've only seen it in Hayley Wood, west of Cambridge in 2023 #teamMoth
November 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Grey Shoulder-knot was 40th new for garden of 391 total species this year for me; previously I've only seen it in Hayley Wood, west of Cambridge in 2023 #teamMoth
I think I've finally memorised the chord changes for "Everybody wants to be a cat" for #panto but, of course, they'll go awry once we're rolling with it with keys and drums...they're nothing hard and they go to the expected places, there are just quite a few
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I think I've finally memorised the chord changes for "Everybody wants to be a cat" for #panto but, of course, they'll go awry once we're rolling with it with keys and drums...they're nothing hard and they go to the expected places, there are just quite a few
Lots of reports of dead swans and more on our local patches from the birding chatgroups. Not good. #UKBirding
There are idiots out there with shotguns still wildfowling too, not only causing putatively infected birds to disperse, but potentally handling and even cooking birds carrying the disease
There are idiots out there with shotguns still wildfowling too, not only causing putatively infected birds to disperse, but potentally handling and even cooking birds carrying the disease
November 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Lots of reports of dead swans and more on our local patches from the birding chatgroups. Not good. #UKBirding
There are idiots out there with shotguns still wildfowling too, not only causing putatively infected birds to disperse, but potentally handling and even cooking birds carrying the disease
There are idiots out there with shotguns still wildfowling too, not only causing putatively infected birds to disperse, but potentally handling and even cooking birds carrying the disease
Still no Wogan...but then it's perhaps too warm for him, 12C here in Cambs for me.
390th species of the year - Black-spotted Rustic
Also, a bunch of the usual reprobates: Large Wainscot,
LBAM, Least Carpet, Red-green Carpet, Turnip Moth #teamMoth
390th species of the year - Black-spotted Rustic
Also, a bunch of the usual reprobates: Large Wainscot,
LBAM, Least Carpet, Red-green Carpet, Turnip Moth #teamMoth
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Still no Wogan...but then it's perhaps too warm for him, 12C here in Cambs for me.
390th species of the year - Black-spotted Rustic
Also, a bunch of the usual reprobates: Large Wainscot,
LBAM, Least Carpet, Red-green Carpet, Turnip Moth #teamMoth
390th species of the year - Black-spotted Rustic
Also, a bunch of the usual reprobates: Large Wainscot,
LBAM, Least Carpet, Red-green Carpet, Turnip Moth #teamMoth
I'm sure I could look it up, but what's the etiquette on kilt wearing, if you're only 1/8 Scottish?
November 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
I'm sure I could look it up, but what's the etiquette on kilt wearing, if you're only 1/8 Scottish?
After 18 years singing with a community choir with the same leader and pianist, it was quite an odd feeling going to rehearsals today with a new MD and accompanist at the Saffron wing...lots of old friends there, of course, from the old massed choir, enjoyable session, but still an odd feeling
November 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM
After 18 years singing with a community choir with the same leader and pianist, it was quite an odd feeling going to rehearsals today with a new MD and accompanist at the Saffron wing...lots of old friends there, of course, from the old massed choir, enjoyable session, but still an odd feeling
The Sprawler turned up last night, great moth #teamMoth It was on the fence near the trap
I seem to have it in my April records, twice, this year, which seems odd...it's an October-December flyer, isn't it?
I seem to have it in my April records, twice, this year, which seems odd...it's an October-December flyer, isn't it?
November 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The Sprawler turned up last night, great moth #teamMoth It was on the fence near the trap
I seem to have it in my April records, twice, this year, which seems odd...it's an October-December flyer, isn't it?
I seem to have it in my April records, twice, this year, which seems odd...it's an October-December flyer, isn't it?