Wildlife mid 2009

[mark smyth]

I can advise you how to close them out but I'm not licensed for Scotland. Your local bat group will advise you. They are based in Aberdeen http://www.nesbats.co.uk/

[Ragged Robin]

Maggi, I can't believe it! - thanks to your suggestion for 'Moth Recovery' First Aid and Anthony's 'how-to' - the lovely Jersey Tiger had a honey drink and was very grateful ...these photos tonight say it all 

Thank you both so much 

[Maggi Young]

Oh, wow, that is such a delight! He is really enjoying that..... I'm SO pleased!!
Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?!! 

[Ragged Robin]

Unbelievable - I am so pleased and relieved as he/she is so lovely and quite at home with us warming up on the lamp over the table after supper which I decided was better dimmed

Imagine the experience is like eating chocolate when your blood sugar levels are down 

[Maggi Young]

 Yes!! It's little triumphs like this that make life worthwhile, isn't it?  
 
The variety of "looks" this moth has... from a camouflage aircraft when the wings are closed to this exotic dandy with the wings spread.... and I think the finishing touch of the row of black "buttons" down the middle of its back are just the thing to turns heads in Paris or Milan..... that might have been an outfit bought from the swanky boutique in Diane's thread... St Anton in Arlberg!  

[Roma]

The bats are pipistrelles as far as I know.  I usually hear quite a bit of scuffling before they go out at night.  When I went outside tonight I could hear them chirping away as they decided who was going out first.  

[Anthony Darby]

Maggi, I can't believe it! - thanks to your suggestion for 'Moth Recovery' First Aid and Anthony's 'how-to' - the lovely Jersey Tiger had a honey drink and was very grateful ...these photos tonight say it all 

Thank you both so much 

Well done Robin. It would be grinning from ear to ear, except that its ears are probably on its legs or some other such ridiculous place!

[Ragged Robin]

So glad you've seen the result, Anthony, this is the internet rescue at its best! 

[Lesley Cox]

So glad you've seen the result, Anthony, this is the internet rescue at its best! 

Those who are tee totallers now know how it feels to consume a really good gin and tonic after a period of prolonged drought.

[Rogan]

"...the row of black "buttons" down the middle of its back..."

Is that the "quadripunctaria" part Anthony?

[Anthony Darby]

Must be Rogan? I've often wondered, but your quote solves that puzzle!

[Ragged Robin]

So glad you've seen the result, Anthony, this is the internet rescue at its best! 

Those who are tee totallers now know how it feels to consume a really good gin and tonic after a period of prolonged drought.

The perfect tonic Lesley!  If your G & T had a similar effect, I imagine you are refreshed in the parts tea never reaches!
So glad you are feeling more bubbly 

[Stephenb]

Anthony some moth news from Portland Bird Observatory http://www.portlandbirdobs.org.uk/aa_latestnews.htm

I notice the influx of diamond back moths at Portland - the most damaging pest on brassicas in my garden, more or less annually and can occur in enormous numbers. As I understand it, they don't survive the winter in the north, but each year they invade from the south (oil rape fields in Europe?) - it's difficult to conceive that such a tiny moth could migrate over such large distances, but I guess they're blown north with the winds. I've seen them in the Norwegian mountains far from any brassicas.  Have they become an important pest on brassicas in the UK. It doesn't seem to be mentioned in my old UK vegetable gardening books.

Enjoying the alpine moth rescue mission pictures...

[Ragged Robin]

Just to let everyone know JT haas made a full recovery and is hanging out by my computer on the curtain 

Glad you're enjoying the rescue mission Stephen!

[Maggi Young]

"...the row of black "buttons" down the middle of its back..."

Is that the "quadripunctaria" part Anthony?

 See, there IS often a clue..... and look in Robin's most recent photo.... he has more "buttons" down the side as well... it must take him an age to get dressed in the mornings