johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 22/09/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social More Norfolk autumn colour. Deep brown dart Nfg, Sallow NFY but also pine carpet, black rustic, cypress pug and silver Y showing nicely. #teammoth 0230
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 21/09/2026@norfolkmoths. Nice set of autumn moths last night. 3 Autumn rustic nfg, beautiful hook-tip (after a few weeks absence), 2 brindled green, 3 pink- barred sallows and mallow NFY, 2nd cypress pug. #teammoth #norfolkmoths 0180
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 14/09/2026@rspbtitchwellsnett.bsky.social Plenty out craking today but I spent most of my time watching a curlew sandpiper and some active juvenile bearded tits. #norfolkbirding 0274
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 14/09/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social Slim pickings again last night but brindled green NFY, an unspectacular pale mottled willow NFG and the 6th Clancy’s rustic this year. #teammoth #norfolkmoths 0170
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I had a bit of a ramble at Wells Woods and North Point. Autumn calling via a greenshank on the pools and marsh harriers and buzzards overhead. A hare sat, ears sloped , eyes bulging, saw me and ran. 010
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 12/09/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social An almost identical trap to two nights ago. A vestal, two Clancy’s rustics, oak hook tip, small bloodvein and LYUnderwings like a cloud of flaked bark. #teammoth #norfolkmoths 0171
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 10/09/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social A few more of the cypress pug, vestal and Clancey’s rustic, plus autumnal dusky thorn and oak hook tip. #teammoth 0170
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 10/09/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social small in number but high in quality in last night’s trap. Second (pristine) vestal and Clancey’s rustic and NFG cypress pug. Also rush veneer (nfg) and dusky thorn (NFY). 080
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 07/09/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social Quiet again last night but an autumnal palette. 2 Centre-barred sallow and frosted orange NFY, two weeks later and two weeks earlier respectively than last year, and an engaging Chinese character, which I find the hardest moths to get in focus! #teammoth #norfolkmoths 0180
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 07/09/2026A new poem on my blog - JGG500.blogspot.com - in response to the fires of this summer, taking things to a more dystopian conclusion. One was close to home on Syderstone Common. 010
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 05/09/2026@rspbtitchwellsnett.bsky.social The spotted crake showed very well this afternoon. 020
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 05/09/2026A few more of the convolvulus hawk moth and a clancy’s rustic. The rest of the trap, three evergestis limbata apart, was a small churn of flounced rustics and large yellow underwings. 020
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 05/09/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social A convolvulus hawk moth flew in last night. #teammoth 0171
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Pitiful 35/19 in last night’s trap. A bit of repetition (pale eggar and delicate), a spruce carpet was 2nd FY but you know the catch is flagging when the social media focus turns to the beauty of another burnished brass and an egg box search for *any* micros. 060
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 31/08/2026@norfolknats.bsky.social Pleased to get a photo of the West Runton wryneck projecting his tongue to hoover up ants. Amazing stuff! 1162
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 30/08/2026@rspbtitchwellsnett.bsky.social An elusive spotted crake in challenging light. ‘Showing well’ for this bird is relative but well worth the wait. 020
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 28/08/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social What seemed like a fairly average trap was redeemed by only the second campion of the year (a big drop-off from 2025), the third oak hook-tip and especially the two new moths, the delicate and the dotted footman. #teammoth #norfolkmoths 0140
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 27/08/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social @davidnorgate.bsky.social I think this might be a dotted footman? If so, only the third for VC28? 290
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Easterlies bringing the first real push of autumn migration today. The first wheatears and pied flycatchers in Burnham Overy Dunes. 010
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 24/08/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social Cooler, autumnal morning. Only 42/19. M&f orange swift, NFY pale eggar (a day later than last year) and burnished brass. #teammoth #norfolkmoths 0170
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 22/08/2026New post on my blog JGG500 on superb birding highlights filleted out of a family holiday to Mallorca in May. See bio for blog details. 000
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 20/08/2026@ormesbykev81.bsky.social Lovely picture of the orange swift on Norfolkmoths. Superb colours. 210
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 19/08/2026@debalmer.bsky.social Scientific research lets us see the life of one tiny bird-aSanderling-photographed amongst thousands on a Norfolk beach.It is a bird ringed in NE Greenland (75.13422, -19.63354) on 14/7/2024 while this adult was incubating 4 eggs (nest hatched 17/7). Truly amazing. 0171
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 16/08/2026@norfolknats.bsky.social common darters facing up to themselves on a still, blue Holkham morning. 082
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 16/08/2026@jamesrmccallum1.bsky.social I liked this snap as it reminded me of that alchemy of birds, light and water in your paintings, especially at migration time. 130
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 16/08/2026@rspb.bsky.social Snettisham high tide and the knot and godwits start to throw some shapes. 030
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 14/08/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social The busiest trap for months- maybe 300+. NFG clay triple lines, the 3rd tawny wave, the first swallow prominent for a while and an oddly timed scorched wing. #teammoth #norfolkmoths 1210
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 13/08/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social 94/30 last night. NFY: wax moth and tree lichen beauty. Also, a treble lines which looked smaller but couldn’t be identified as lesser, a knot grass for the patterning and a light emerald because it offered some colour! #teammoth #norfolkmoths 0100
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 13/08/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social @mothiduk.bsky.social @davidnorgate.bsky.social Any chance this might be a lesser treble bar? 350
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 13/08/2026@norwichbirder.bsky.social ObsID tells me this is the fat-palped tachina and is a relatively rare insect? In my Syderstone garden today. 140
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 10/08/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social Many more moths last night but largely acres of turnips and flights of darts. Pick of the trap were: NFG tawny barred angle, NFY vestal, dark spinach and coronet. #teammoth 0220
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 07/08/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social Earlier this week,same story of numbers well down but interesting arrivals.NFG narrow-winged pug, NFY poplar grey and yellow-barred brindle.Only second (off the top of my head) yellow shell this year.Mind you,we are the parish never to have recorded garden tiger. #teammoth 0150
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 05/08/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social On 2/8 another low count: 43/18. Best were NFY iron prominent (always sounds like an official title in Game of Thrones)and straw underwing, NFG roseate marble and 7th scorched carpet of the year. 0100
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 04/08/2026@norfolknats.bsky.social Clouded yellows at NWT Ringstead Downs. 0153
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 04/08/2026@norfolknats.bsky.social Apparently fewer than 400 UK records of the Queen of Spain fritillary in 300 years. One today at NWT Ringstead Downs. There have been up to three. 1433
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 02/08/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social Slim pickings in the trap again last night. Canary-shouldered thorn the only NFY. 0141
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 02/08/2026@norwichbirder.bsky.social Chalkhill blues out in force today. 020
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 30/07/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social After none in the trap since 17/7, four species on 28th: currant, double-striped, tawny speckled and wormwood. #teammoth #norfolkmoths 0240
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 29/07/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social Three traps this last week. Not vintage. Favourites: 2nd tawny wave, NFY orange swift, smartest silver Y by a country mile (4th), treble bar (2nd?). #teammoth 0241
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Pretty sure this common plume is practising the ‘crane’ from Karate Kid. #teammoth 191
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 29/07/2026@norfolkmoths In a drought, pale prominent only lives up to the first part of its name. #teammoth 191
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Bloomers and I went twitching into Suffolk today. Hudsonian Godwit at Cattawade. Long way from home - all of us! 030
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The long-staying crane at Beetley striding through the dry grass. 051
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 27/07/2026@norwichbirder.bsky.social A red-backed shrike at NWT Roydon Common today. 1183
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 25/07/2026A goldfinch bathing in our pond. Shapes and colours and water. 010
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 25/07/2026@norfolknats.bsky.social Black darters and keeled skimmers at Dersingham Bog. 071
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 24/07/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social @davidnorgate.bsky.social @mothiduk.bsky.social Help, please. This comes up as hoary footman on ObsID. Scarce? Thank you. The photos could be two moths, one in the trap and one (jarred) seen later on vegetation. 261
johngolding.bsky.social @johngolding.bsky.social · 22/07/2026@norfolkmoths.bsky.social A meagre haul last night again. 36/20. Pebble hook-tip NFG. 050
