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.
Is this Yellow field-cap perchance? 🍄
November 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Is this Yellow field-cap perchance? 🍄
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 ⬇️
I knew ObsIdentify would be able to help😂😂😂😂😂
October 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I knew ObsIdentify would be able to help😂😂😂😂😂
I like testing ID apps on known examples of difficult taxa.
Tried your pic and Obsidentify comes down heavily in favour of G oppressana…🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Amazing!
Tried your pic and Obsidentify comes down heavily in favour of G oppressana…🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Amazing!
October 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I like testing ID apps on known examples of difficult taxa.
Tried your pic and Obsidentify comes down heavily in favour of G oppressana…🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Amazing!
Tried your pic and Obsidentify comes down heavily in favour of G oppressana…🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Amazing!
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 🔲
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)
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.
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
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?)
Ah… any ideas on this one?
October 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Ah… any ideas on this one?
Cold afternoon dog walk. Another nice winter title flock, today with Siskin.
Gone a bit oaky today with Osk-stump bonnet and a leaf mine. Stigmella, Ectodelia or unable to tell????
Gone a bit oaky today with Osk-stump bonnet and a leaf mine. Stigmella, Ectodelia or unable to tell????
October 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Cold afternoon dog walk. Another nice winter title flock, today with Siskin.
Gone a bit oaky today with Osk-stump bonnet and a leaf mine. Stigmella, Ectodelia or unable to tell????
Gone a bit oaky today with Osk-stump bonnet and a leaf mine. Stigmella, Ectodelia or unable to tell????
BUT don’t buy a pork pie from ⬇️
£2.85 for a small pie that you couldn’t tell where the pastry ended and the meat began. I’ve had some poor ‘growlers’ and this was up there with the worst.
Tasteless rip-off shite.
£2.85 for a small pie that you couldn’t tell where the pastry ended and the meat began. I’ve had some poor ‘growlers’ and this was up there with the worst.
Tasteless rip-off shite.
October 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
BUT don’t buy a pork pie from ⬇️
£2.85 for a small pie that you couldn’t tell where the pastry ended and the meat began. I’ve had some poor ‘growlers’ and this was up there with the worst.
Tasteless rip-off shite.
£2.85 for a small pie that you couldn’t tell where the pastry ended and the meat began. I’ve had some poor ‘growlers’ and this was up there with the worst.
Tasteless rip-off shite.
40+ moths in the traps last night.
Mervs, Bricks and Sattelites were nice, but this fella has me confused? (R-L Quaker?)
🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
#teammoth
Mervs, Bricks and Sattelites were nice, but this fella has me confused? (R-L Quaker?)
🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
#teammoth
October 17, 2025 at 8:01 AM
40+ moths in the traps last night.
Mervs, Bricks and Sattelites were nice, but this fella has me confused? (R-L Quaker?)
🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
#teammoth
Mervs, Bricks and Sattelites were nice, but this fella has me confused? (R-L Quaker?)
🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
#teammoth
A walk from Hartley to Kirkby Stephen and back along the old railway line yesterday. A good place for orchids earlier in the year but currently lots of fungi. A large ‘winter tit flock’ was lovely to see and hear. A few treecreepers too.
Not sure about the petrified ‘wolf’ tho!
Not sure about the petrified ‘wolf’ tho!
October 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
A walk from Hartley to Kirkby Stephen and back along the old railway line yesterday. A good place for orchids earlier in the year but currently lots of fungi. A large ‘winter tit flock’ was lovely to see and hear. A few treecreepers too.
Not sure about the petrified ‘wolf’ tho!
Not sure about the petrified ‘wolf’ tho!
Wainwath Force looking very autumnal for wifey’s ‘Dip-a-day’ swim this morning. Water temperature 9°🥶
October 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Wainwath Force looking very autumnal for wifey’s ‘Dip-a-day’ swim this morning. Water temperature 9°🥶
They keep coming!
2x satellites, The brick, another Merv, Square spot rustic?, Large wainscot, another SS rustic? and a Spruce carpet?
Also included were 2 feathered thorn, 4 red-green carpet, 3 SS dart, and 2 December moths.
Apologies for pix today, camera settings got changed🤦🏻♂️
#teammoth
2x satellites, The brick, another Merv, Square spot rustic?, Large wainscot, another SS rustic? and a Spruce carpet?
Also included were 2 feathered thorn, 4 red-green carpet, 3 SS dart, and 2 December moths.
Apologies for pix today, camera settings got changed🤦🏻♂️
#teammoth
October 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
They keep coming!
2x satellites, The brick, another Merv, Square spot rustic?, Large wainscot, another SS rustic? and a Spruce carpet?
Also included were 2 feathered thorn, 4 red-green carpet, 3 SS dart, and 2 December moths.
Apologies for pix today, camera settings got changed🤦🏻♂️
#teammoth
2x satellites, The brick, another Merv, Square spot rustic?, Large wainscot, another SS rustic? and a Spruce carpet?
Also included were 2 feathered thorn, 4 red-green carpet, 3 SS dart, and 2 December moths.
Apologies for pix today, camera settings got changed🤦🏻♂️
#teammoth