MartinWW
@swaledalebirds.bsky.social
Birds, moths, flowers and everything else to do with the natural world.
Records on iNaturalist as ‘martinww’
Land manager living in a “world of wounds”. VC65
Partner in renaturing project heggscastlecluster.org
Waldgenga. Nephophile. Absurdist.
Records on iNaturalist as ‘martinww’
Land manager living in a “world of wounds”. VC65
Partner in renaturing project heggscastlecluster.org
Waldgenga. Nephophile. Absurdist.
A coppice Oak, a ‘phoenix’ Holly and two Cherry Galls from Tees Bank Wood upstream of Barnard Castle yesterday.
A lovely wood well worth exploring!
A lovely wood well worth exploring!
November 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
A coppice Oak, a ‘phoenix’ Holly and two Cherry Galls from Tees Bank Wood upstream of Barnard Castle yesterday.
A lovely wood well worth exploring!
A lovely wood well worth exploring!
Brilliant day at South Gare today… wasn’t the case sadly. And only about an hour. Scenery etc was up to scratch tho, as was weather, with heavy showers!
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Brilliant day at South Gare today… wasn’t the case sadly. And only about an hour. Scenery etc was up to scratch tho, as was weather, with heavy showers!
Is this Yellow field-cap perchance? 🍄
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Is this Yellow field-cap perchance? 🍄
Decided to retire the moth traps for this year (probably).
First trap 9/3, last 9/11
37 nights (we were away a lot of mid-summer), 15 NF🔲 (SE09) and 1NF🔲 (SE19), a fair more NFM and only Wogan was when I left all my outside lights on😂😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Need to find some leaf-mines now… (quickly😂)
#teammoth
First trap 9/3, last 9/11
37 nights (we were away a lot of mid-summer), 15 NF🔲 (SE09) and 1NF🔲 (SE19), a fair more NFM and only Wogan was when I left all my outside lights on😂😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Need to find some leaf-mines now… (quickly😂)
#teammoth
November 16, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Decided to retire the moth traps for this year (probably).
First trap 9/3, last 9/11
37 nights (we were away a lot of mid-summer), 15 NF🔲 (SE09) and 1NF🔲 (SE19), a fair more NFM and only Wogan was when I left all my outside lights on😂😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Need to find some leaf-mines now… (quickly😂)
#teammoth
First trap 9/3, last 9/11
37 nights (we were away a lot of mid-summer), 15 NF🔲 (SE09) and 1NF🔲 (SE19), a fair more NFM and only Wogan was when I left all my outside lights on😂😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Need to find some leaf-mines now… (quickly😂)
#teammoth
Anyone any idea what’s growing on this Wolf’s milk?
(From correspondence on the ‘other side’)
#mushrooms #fungi 🍄 🍄🟫
(From correspondence on the ‘other side’)
#mushrooms #fungi 🍄 🍄🟫
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Anyone any idea what’s growing on this Wolf’s milk?
(From correspondence on the ‘other side’)
#mushrooms #fungi 🍄 🍄🟫
(From correspondence on the ‘other side’)
#mushrooms #fungi 🍄 🍄🟫
1 1/2” of rain in 3 hrs have left Swaledale a tad damp this morning!
And yes the Mini and the “highways maintenance” truck have f**ked it😂😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
And yes the Mini and the “highways maintenance” truck have f**ked it😂😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
1 1/2” of rain in 3 hrs have left Swaledale a tad damp this morning!
And yes the Mini and the “highways maintenance” truck have f**ked it😂😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
And yes the Mini and the “highways maintenance” truck have f**ked it😂😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
A bit of wild swimming this evening. Sadly I had to take pix whilst wifey n cohorts enjoyed some chillin’ swimmin’ 😂😂😂🥶🥶🥶
November 8, 2025 at 7:21 PM
A bit of wild swimming this evening. Sadly I had to take pix whilst wifey n cohorts enjoyed some chillin’ swimmin’ 😂😂😂🥶🥶🥶
Sat in a wet Wales for the weekend due to wifey attending the British Canoe Symposium.
The most interesting bit so far was ⬇️
The most interesting bit so far was ⬇️
October 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Sat in a wet Wales for the weekend due to wifey attending the British Canoe Symposium.
The most interesting bit so far was ⬇️
The most interesting bit so far was ⬇️
Turns out to be 54/21 with 14 Y-L Q’s.
Away sadly for a few days. Could be the last trap of the season but ending on a high with two newbies for me (and the 🔲).
Started similarly with Oak beauty (NFM & 🔲)
Mebs quit whilst I’m ahead? 😂😂😂
#teammoth
Away sadly for a few days. Could be the last trap of the season but ending on a high with two newbies for me (and the 🔲).
Started similarly with Oak beauty (NFM & 🔲)
Mebs quit whilst I’m ahead? 😂😂😂
#teammoth
Over 50 moths this morning including 13 Yellow-line Quakers (my record). A late Snout was a surprise as were two more new for the 🔲, Mottled Umber and Acleris rhombana.
#teammoth
#teammoth
October 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Turns out to be 54/21 with 14 Y-L Q’s.
Away sadly for a few days. Could be the last trap of the season but ending on a high with two newbies for me (and the 🔲).
Started similarly with Oak beauty (NFM & 🔲)
Mebs quit whilst I’m ahead? 😂😂😂
#teammoth
Away sadly for a few days. Could be the last trap of the season but ending on a high with two newbies for me (and the 🔲).
Started similarly with Oak beauty (NFM & 🔲)
Mebs quit whilst I’m ahead? 😂😂😂
#teammoth
Can’t understand why I’m suddenly getting so many moths, 50+ last night for instance.
My last two traps in May (I was away a lot of the summer) produced only 20+ each night (decent weather too).
Btw I’m 200m up a hillside surrounded by pasture in the N Pennines.
#teammoth
(Not complaining) 😂
My last two traps in May (I was away a lot of the summer) produced only 20+ each night (decent weather too).
Btw I’m 200m up a hillside surrounded by pasture in the N Pennines.
#teammoth
(Not complaining) 😂
a little girl wearing a pink jacket is sitting at a table
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October 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Can’t understand why I’m suddenly getting so many moths, 50+ last night for instance.
My last two traps in May (I was away a lot of the summer) produced only 20+ each night (decent weather too).
Btw I’m 200m up a hillside surrounded by pasture in the N Pennines.
#teammoth
(Not complaining) 😂
My last two traps in May (I was away a lot of the summer) produced only 20+ each night (decent weather too).
Btw I’m 200m up a hillside surrounded by pasture in the N Pennines.
#teammoth
(Not complaining) 😂
Over 50 moths this morning including 13 Yellow-line Quakers (my record). A late Snout was a surprise as were two more new for the 🔲, Mottled Umber and Acleris rhombana.
#teammoth
#teammoth
October 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Over 50 moths this morning including 13 Yellow-line Quakers (my record). A late Snout was a surprise as were two more new for the 🔲, Mottled Umber and Acleris rhombana.
#teammoth
#teammoth
A quieter night due to the heavy rain early on. 15/7
Highlight being Pale-mottled willow. Second for me and the 🔲
Highlight being Pale-mottled willow. Second for me and the 🔲
October 20, 2025 at 10:30 AM
A quieter night due to the heavy rain early on. 15/7
Highlight being Pale-mottled willow. Second for me and the 🔲
Highlight being Pale-mottled willow. Second for me and the 🔲
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Sunday was a fungi sort of day!
If the purple one is indeed a Lilac Fibrecap, it doesn’t appear to have been recorded in Swaledale previously 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ (NBN Atlas)
If the purple one is indeed a Lilac Fibrecap, it doesn’t appear to have been recorded in Swaledale previously 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ (NBN Atlas)
October 20, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Sunday was a fungi sort of day!
If the purple one is indeed a Lilac Fibrecap, it doesn’t appear to have been recorded in Swaledale previously 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ (NBN Atlas)
If the purple one is indeed a Lilac Fibrecap, it doesn’t appear to have been recorded in Swaledale previously 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ (NBN Atlas)
October 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Sunday was a fungi sort of day!
If the purple one is indeed a Lilac Fibrecap, it doesn’t appear to have been recorded in Swaledale previously 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ (NBN Atlas)
If the purple one is indeed a Lilac Fibrecap, it doesn’t appear to have been recorded in Swaledale previously 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ (NBN Atlas)
October 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A few hours at a grey and cold @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social yesterday.
A few goldies, a few pinks, one reddy, one shely, and a cettis (golden plover, pink-footed geese, redwing and shelduck😂).
Highlight of the day tho was a large flock (4/500) of fieldfare on the moors on the drive over.
A few goldies, a few pinks, one reddy, one shely, and a cettis (golden plover, pink-footed geese, redwing and shelduck😂).
Highlight of the day tho was a large flock (4/500) of fieldfare on the moors on the drive over.
October 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A few hours at a grey and cold @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social yesterday.
A few goldies, a few pinks, one reddy, one shely, and a cettis (golden plover, pink-footed geese, redwing and shelduck😂).
Highlight of the day tho was a large flock (4/500) of fieldfare on the moors on the drive over.
A few goldies, a few pinks, one reddy, one shely, and a cettis (golden plover, pink-footed geese, redwing and shelduck😂).
Highlight of the day tho was a large flock (4/500) of fieldfare on the moors on the drive over.
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112 acres of biodiverse land in the Devon dairy-belt needs saving. Only £10k short now. Can you chip in or share this skeet? Thanks!
Save Beer Mill For Nature
YouTube video by Rewilding Coombeshead
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October 15, 2025 at 4:05 PM
112 acres of biodiverse land in the Devon dairy-belt needs saving. Only £10k short now. Can you chip in or share this skeet? Thanks!
38/14 last night.
Pearly underwing NF🔲 (and not VC65😂), Acleris hyemana NF🔲, Pink-barred sallow, 2 Large wainscot, Spruce carpet, Brick, 3 Red-sword grass, 2 Mervs, 7 R-G carpet and 9 Y-L Quakers.
#teammoth
Pearly underwing NF🔲 (and not VC65😂), Acleris hyemana NF🔲, Pink-barred sallow, 2 Large wainscot, Spruce carpet, Brick, 3 Red-sword grass, 2 Mervs, 7 R-G carpet and 9 Y-L Quakers.
#teammoth
October 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
38/14 last night.
Pearly underwing NF🔲 (and not VC65😂), Acleris hyemana NF🔲, Pink-barred sallow, 2 Large wainscot, Spruce carpet, Brick, 3 Red-sword grass, 2 Mervs, 7 R-G carpet and 9 Y-L Quakers.
#teammoth
Pearly underwing NF🔲 (and not VC65😂), Acleris hyemana NF🔲, Pink-barred sallow, 2 Large wainscot, Spruce carpet, Brick, 3 Red-sword grass, 2 Mervs, 7 R-G carpet and 9 Y-L Quakers.
#teammoth
Not a first. Silly Martin misread a quote which I didn’t realise was from 1989 😂😂😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Hope this is a Pearly underwing.
If so a VC first I think (unless any have been caught earlier this year?)
If so a VC first I think (unless any have been caught earlier this year?)
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Not a first. Silly Martin misread a quote which I didn’t realise was from 1989 😂😂😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Hope this is a Pearly underwing.
If so a VC first I think (unless any have been caught earlier this year?)
If so a VC first I think (unless any have been caught earlier this year?)
October 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Hope this is a Pearly underwing.
If so a VC first I think (unless any have been caught earlier this year?)
If so a VC first I think (unless any have been caught earlier this year?)
October 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Hope this is a Pearly underwing.
If so a VC first I think (unless any have been caught earlier this year?)
If so a VC first I think (unless any have been caught earlier this year?)