Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Thanks Martin, is the mudwort scopable from anywhere or too distant? Desperate times for botanical ticks! 110
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Don’t suppose either of these are viewable from the hides Martin? 200
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Hi Alan, dark bush-cricket for me, I get the odd one in the trap here in Wilts as they live in the garden. 110
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026@niallmachin1.bsky.social note request for Box Moth photos, if you get one too can you pap please! 010
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I'm afraid not, did catch an adult last night and happy to pose one if I catch another, but no Box near me as far as I know (possibly in part due to said beasts). 100
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Excellent, thanks Fran. I have seen the nodding bur-marigold before, but not the golden dock so will keep an eye out for that! 110
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Thanks Fran, I visit Slimbridge quite often and totally missed this. Any other good plants at WWT? Might be there on Friday. 210
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Mild night in VC7 (West Wilts) brought some variety. Tatty but welcome second graden record of red underwing, large wainscot and a Crocidosema plebejana. #teammoth 0140
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 04/10/2026One light emerald here too in West Wilts last night too, and a late mottled rustic. 010
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Still plugging away at garden mothing here in West Wilts (VC7). First Merveille du jour, 6 white point, black rustic, beaded chestnut, few turnips, rush veneer. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #teammoth 061
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026@wwtsightings.bsky.social Merlin from kingfisher hide, in off estuary and past Zeiss at 1015. 020
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Some decent late September variety here in West Wilts last night. Small mottled willow, worn L-album wainscot, 2 white point, 2 turnip, angle shades, first black rustic of the year. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #teammoth 0202
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Nice, no BSK here yet and any trap with a vestal in it is worthwhile here in darkest Wilts! 010
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 18/09/2026First dark sword grass of the autumn here in West Wilts (VC7). A couple of turnip moths the only other possible migrants. Lunar underwings having an amazing year here, over 50 this morning, overtaking LYUs. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #teammoth 0150
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Variable cockroach an unexpected addition from the moth trap this morning in West Wilts (VC7). Also Ypsolopha sequella NFG a bit of a looker. Second delicate of the year too. #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social 0341
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Indeed, big increase here in last couple of nights. Beaded chestnut is the one that catches me out amongst the flurry of lunar underwings a bit later on. 110
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Distinctly fresh autumnal morning here in West Wilts (VC7). White point, barred sallow, rosy rustic all NFY. Big increase in lunar underwings (17). A few summers hangers on continuing. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #teammoth 020
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Clifden nonpareil from the garden trap last night in West Wilts (VC7). Our second record and first since 2020. Also a Nephopterix angustella (spindle knot-horn) perhaps of note. Zero migrants! #teammoth 0131
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I’m planning on doing the same Richard. Bought the laundry basket, assumed a funnel of some sort needed though, am I wrong? @andymus.bsky.social what did you use? 100
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Autumn moth interest this morning a bit limited in VC7, but maiden’s blush and centre-barred sallow are nice things. Migrant interest just from turnip and rush veneer. #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social 0251
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Our second garden delicate the highlight this morning, and first lunar underwing a sign of an advancing year. Flounced rustic still a major component of the catch in VC7. #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social 0210
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026One turnip and one SMW at mine just up the hill the only migs. Small emerald perhaps of note. 010
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Of course, thanks Steve, also VC7 not VC9 so double fail... 120
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Dewick’s plusia a very welcome addition to the garden list in VC9, plus silver y for comparison, another small mottled willow and an oak hook-tip which are having a good year here. Unthinkable a few years ago! #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social 2422
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Are the water shrews being seen regularly Dot? Never seen a live one! 110
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Some nice moths in our VC7 garden, even without a striped hawk…yet. Evergestis limbata, vestal and scarce bordered straw, plus a broad bordered v LBBYU duo. #teammoth 2151
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Hi Fran, was this in BoA or Trowbridge please - any chance of a location as I don't think I've ever seen it either! Autumn urban plants might be a struggle this year... 100
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Small marbled in the garden trap in Wiltshire this morning, a garden first and a decent migrant at last. Also 4 small mottled willows, 3 rush veneers and 2 European corn borers. #teammoth @savebutterflies.bsky.social @migrantmothuk.bsky.social 0221
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Long-tailed blues this morning on Portsdown Hill, Hants before the mercury sailed towards a hundred. Brilliant to finally catch up with this species, surely trying its best to colonise the UK. @savebutterflies.bsky.social 020
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 08/08/2026That’ll be us next weekend, let us know the damage I’m in for… 100
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Queen of Spain fritillary today in Hampshire. At least three in an arable margin, with clouded yellows, painted lady, vestal and hummingbird hawk-moth. @savebutterflies.bsky.social 1372
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Some decent micros from the garden this morning, with three NFG here in darkest Wiltshire. Archips xylosteana, Scythropia crataegella (hawthorn moth), Mompha ochraceella, plus Homoeosoma sinuella that only appeared here last year. 000
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Not in the league of others, but two small mottled willow were new for our garden last night, part of the big influx. Other nice bits of late like grass rivulet, clay triple lines and small waved umber. 020
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Cracking morning on Salisbury Plain. Singing grasshopper warbler, 5 stone curlew and 5 bustards,4 grey partridge, pair of breeding curlew, singing whinchats and masses of new in whitethroats. Corn buntings a plenty thankfully. 060
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 21/03/2026There several in the ploughed field from the viewpoint a couple of weeks ago Glenn. Scope job as distant. 000
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 06/02/2026A very damp Slimbridge today. Sanderling on the Tack Piece, 2 wild barnacles with 119 white fronts, 16 beans still and the 2 whoopers on the Rushy, 3 grey plover, 2 ruff etc. 74 sp. @slimbridge-wild.bsky.social 050
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Nice work Matt, tawnies in the open are always a treat. 000
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Splendid day at Slimbridge, 84sp. Best a flyover great northern diver, the Temminck’s plus a little stint, 10 returning WFs with fresh juvs, pink-foot, merlin, 2 barwit, 3 spotshank, 4 sanderling, 1000+ goldies etc 000
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Looks like a Saker to me, and in Hungary you'd have no doubt. But over here I guess you can never be sure. Another late autumn one too, seems to be a bit of a pattern? 120
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 25/10/2025First dip back into the rockpools in SE Cornwall today, nice to see some old friends. Blue-rayed limpet, cushion starfish, gem anemone and shore rockling. 000
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Only 5 moths in the trap this morning, but Merveille du jour the obvious star. A bit more quality from recent days, green-brindled crescent, red-line quaker, barred sallow. West Wilts. #teammoth 1332
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 18/10/2025A few autumnal moths from the garden trap in West Wilts this week . Satellite and grey shoulder-knot NFG. White points frequent now. Feathered thorn a sign of the advancing season. #teammoth 0150
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Well done! And still time yet for more eastern (or western?) goodies. 010
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Curlew sandpiper in the flying flock too. @bristolbirding.bsky.social 151
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Somerset reservoirs in fine fettle now. Looked at Cheddar & Chew today. Combined totals 36+ glossy ibis, 13 curlew sands, little stint, 32 GWEs at Cheddar alone, osprey, white-tailed eagle, 25 black terns, 4 greenshank, 2 ruff, 2 hobby, 2 marsh harrier, returning duck numbers building. #ukbirding 071
Paul Clack @paulclack.bsky.social · 30/08/2025This Pandemis cinnamomeana was species 1000 for our small suburban garden. Barred hook-tip was 1001, would have been a nicer milestone. Species breakdown for anyone vaguely interested. #panspecieslisting @graemelyons.bsky.social 181
