Clipped a few protruding branches from the #cherryplum hedge on Monday, now opened and enhancing the kitchen with some early indoor #hanami

Culiseta annulata (banded #mosquito) also back in business - likely in numbers after such a wet and mild winter

Yesterday afternoon the garden trap, stimulated by mild temperatures, emerged from winter hibernation in the garage: 7x march moth, 4x hebrew character and 3 each of clouded drab and common quaker. Pretty good for my location in late Feb! #teammoth

This mild spell has led to the first primroses and lesser celandines now flowering in the garden #wildflowers

#Blackcap singing in the park this morning! Nice to hear. No doubt an over-wintering bird.

Daffy-down-dilly. My garden’s first in 2026 this afternoon

Cycling + black ice = four broken ribs + pneumothorax and five days in hospital. Home now. Disturbingly, chest drain fluids not unlike my wip #kimchi

Earlier this morning: ‘Dawn from the N&N, with UAV’

After Proof of Concept experiments with different simple recipes in three batches through the last two years (all acceptable, one delicious), it’s time to pretend that I know what I’m doing with attempting full-fat pogi #kimchi🤞🏻

Decided to stay in…

Happy New Year, everyone, and I hope that you have much to look forward to this coming year. Sunset from home this evening.

There are seven accessible giant #sequoias within walking distance of my home - thought I’d inspect them yesterday. Merry Christmas #teammoth and everyone else!

On a walk this afternoon, mostly Silver #Birch throughout the local woods, but with some clumps of mature #Downy in the damper areas #trees

Chilly start to this morning ❄️

The exhibition all finished. There’s a bit of sadness when selling paintings, as well as the pleasure, having lived with these moffs for a while. They looked good in their vintage frames though. All in all a successful exhibition and lots of people learned more about moths! #teammoth #sciArt

On the Heath this afternoon, gorse & bell heather still soldiering-on despite the frosts & hail; and in the woods, spectacular eruptions of crimped gill #wildflowers #fungi

Late, fresh but strangely washed-out red clover this afternoon #wildflowers

Wood blewit, butter cap (with a suillia fly) and I think clouded funnel in the woods this afternoon #fungi

November tomorrow, but summer hasn’t quite given up in the park this morning #wildflowers

Bay and red-cracking boletes locally. I wouldn’t, but hey… #fungi

Where we were in October '22 with a pond suffocated by Crassula & Parrot's Feather & where we are today after 3 years' work! @themarshtit.bsky.social @ajaytegala.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @avalanchechris.bsky.social @steffanaquarone.bsky.social @robertbohan.bsky.social

Guardian front page this afternoon #dissonance #lefthandrighthand

Purplepore bracket (I think!), and hoof fungus #fungi

Unexpected late #ichneumon yesterday - much smaller than amblyjoppa, but uniformly black apart from white antennae bands and thorax spot

Storm Benjamin => premature #ochiba 😠

Veiled oyster, black bonnet, humpback brittlegill and butter cap yesterday afternoon #fungi

Perhaps two more #greenhouse #tomato harvests after today’s from the hanging baskets and border toms - most of latter now removed to avoid blight. Unripe green tomatoes = spicy autumn dishes!

Tonight’s moth shenanigans #teammoth

Artist’s bracket, sulphur tuft, velvet shank and honey fungus - latter having so far killed in my garden a victoria plum, greengage, (admittedly old) silver birch, and is busily killing a privet hedge 😠

After more book and online agonising, shaggy parosol, tawny funnel, the disparagingly-named and often unnoticed ugly milk cap, and what seems to be false death cap. Might be wrong! #fungi

Today’s only moderately ludicrous culinary project: having deliberately dessicated chestnut mushrooms in the fridge’s ‘crisper’ draw for weeks, now slicing them into an empty spice jar as a reserve when I (it happens 🙄) run out of mushrooms. Must say, they smell great!

Common plume in the garden this afternoon, on the inside of a greenhouse roof pane in need of rainwater sluicing on the outside #littlethings #teammoth

.. and baby frogs, of all things!

(2/2) Puffballs, Common Bonnet, Tawny Grisette and the inevitable Fly Agaric, among dozens of other species #fungi

Golden Scalycap, Bay Bolete, Oyster and Candlesnuff in the woods this afternoon #fungi (1/2)

... this is an inexcusable abrogation of corporate responsibility, and mocks MS’s claimed ‘green’ credentials. These are carefully engineered products filled with rare-earth minerals and capable of service for many years - if MS was actually interested in sustainability rather than new products.

I have two perfectly functional (2007 & 2015 vintages, with SSD replacements) Windows 10 laptops. Excellent for browsing, writing, obsessing over garden wildlife species lists, etc. Tomorrow, in an ongoing celebration of our shallow consumerist society, Windows 10 support will be withdrawn ...

Flipping through a supermarket’s leaflet, wooden toys endorsing a crap diet #Adli #monetisingobesity #letsplayatgettingfat

November / Eppirata spec in garden this morning was new for the year 🎉 #teammoth

Time was, the annual meadow cut would be Aug/Sep, but with these climate crisis extended seasons I’ve been cutting my garden #wildflower #mini-meadow in mid-Oct. Almost everything is still growing, but only autumn hawkbit is now flowering and it can only get wetter… strimmer-time

Good conditions in the garden overnight: mild, still and heavily overcast. 37/17, including red-green and grey pine carpets, white-point and a lightly chewed barred sallow #teammoth

Non-native, but hey - already garden momiji 😍

Abrupt changes on the heath last night as clouds dispersed, temps plummeted and the hunter’s moon looked magnificent. Chestnuts, many Marvels and Oak Longhorns. No wasps, funny that 😉 #teammoth

Few moths in the garden trap overnight despite mild conditions, but including a crisp red-green carpet, a narrow-winged grey and a worn garden rose tortrix #teammoth

In this windy storm today, here’s a silver birch seed, blown into a web on the back door. The nearest mature birch is 60m away. A pioneer species. This seed is more likely goldfinch food, but it illustrates the regeneration potential in our depleted natural environment if we let that happen 🌱

(Don’t mean to be a*sey, but did anyone else notice that Guardian’s Saturday Country Diary featured Small Coppers on Yarrow, not Ragwort? Just sayin’ 🤫)

specked window yearning after long confined inside shed door opened wide #commonplume #haiku #teammoth

A couple of little watercolour studies : Food plant, Larvae and Moth #teammoth #illustration

Today’s entire #greenhouse harvest - slim pickings in late September. But hey, still lots of green fruits for spicy autumn cookings 😋 #tomatoes