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The original intention was to use fewer colours to avoid overthinking but I have to stay true to my desire to use.... many colour.......

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@rose-grimm-spirit-does-dumb-shit submitted: Found this little guy in my room last night while on call w/ my QPP! Thought it’d be cool to show ‘em off and perhaps ask if they can be identified?

I’m in the Uk, Buckinghamshire’s the County and I’m near [removed] {Can we REDACT the specific town if that’s chill?}

Yep I can redact any part of the location people want! Anyhoo this friend is very fashionable. They appear to be a small magpie moth, Anania hortulata.

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06/06/22-Peregrines and more in Winchester and photos at home

I took my bridge camera in my work bag for a general day of this I like to do twice a month today, and was glad I did as to my surprise given it was a week earlier than predicted I could see from the webcam that a Peregrine Falcon chick was sat on the ledge of the cathedral north tower so if I was there I would see it. I got down there at lunch time and this was still the case, so I had an amazing few minutes watching this gorgeous caramel coloured beauty. I loved taking in this sight in person, my first glimpse of one of this pair of youngsters and was amazed and slightly nervous given they are known to fall at this stage to see it trying out its wings and having a flap. It was nice to regularly hear calls from the Peregrines too. A magical natural moment. As I went over to next door Abbey Gardens to eat lunch I witnessed something astonishing when an adult Peregrine mobbed a Buzzard that was flying over. I imagine they thought this large raptor might have been a threat so had to noisily see it off. An epic piece of behaviour to witness as two of my favourite birds tussled with one another. I had another look at the cathedral tonight in the rain before going to the railway station and saw the other youngster which had looked comfy in the gully still on the webcam earlier so this was great to see. It really has been a young bird bonanza for me the past few days, spearheaded by the Peregrines and the Great Crested Grebes of Lakeside. I did a post about them as the two birds gearing up to nesting I followed regularly early in the spring and it strikes me how the Peregrines were the main family of birds I would personally follow in 2018, 2019 and going into 2020 with full time working in the office and then with working from home me following Great Crested Grebe families more with walks at Lakeside every day they took over. But now with the hybrid system I get to enjoy them both personally as well as on the webcam for the Peregrines which is amazing and I feel so lucky!

I took the first two pictures in this photoset of the first young one I saw at lunch time. I felt incredibly lucky to get these pictures anyway, but even more so as after this the battery in my bridge camera went. I knew it was low and I’m surprised it was still going after how much I used it for the Great Crested Grebes at Lakeside and moon from home over the long weekend and last Wednesday on a bonus bridge camera in work bag visit capturing I believe the male Peregrine as well as a Great Crested Grebe that night, but this was the one time when knowing it was low I didn’t put my spare battery in my work bag! So I might have taken more photos if it wasn’t for that, but one thing I was hoping to avoid was not seeing a chick today but finding out they were on the ledge between getting home tonight and Wednesday as this Wednesday slightly more normally my evening means I don’t have much time to process photos so didn’t want to bring my camera on Wednesday. So it would have been frustrating and given me quite the dilemma of did I try and fit it in had I seen them and not been able to take a photo, it is so addictive when I see the young ones to get photos of them. I was anticipating it would be more next week anyway the young Peregrines are visible so I plan another bridge camera visit then. With these two photos which I am pleased with under my belt for young Peregrine photos in 2022 I am not looking to bring the bridge camera this Wednesday and instead I shall hopefully have some each week when they are perhaps taking up different positions on the ledge on the day I am in the office next week that I chose to take the bridge camera and more grown up of course.

Elsewhere in Winchester today I enjoyed seeing Swifts and Blackbird very well in Abbey Gardens where I ate lunch, with roses looking nice here again too. I also loved seeing my first ever Small Magpie moth which caught my eye on the side of a stair at Winchester railway station this morning, a stunning and colourful moth which is the 60th identified moth I have ever seen. I took the fourth picture in this photoset of this moth. Wood avens looked nice alongside other flowers today. I enjoyed the House Sparrows in the buddleia bush in a nice little group which I took the third picture in this photoset of at home this morning.

I used the unexpectedly few photos taken with the bridge camera as even if I hadn’t seen the young Peregrine I would have taken a fair few photos I imagine to take some photos from home of the surroundings tonight, I took the fifth and eighth pictures in this photoset of views out the back the latter of the buddleia bush, sixth and seventh of green views out the front and ninth and tenth pictures in this photoset of a smashing selection of colourful flowers on the balcony including both new ones and a nice yellow one that has just come out. I also loved seeing the steeplebush in the sun tonight showing hints of its pink colour coming out and alongside the neighbouring rose bush bits of the purple buddleia just starting to come out too which is exciting its a wonderful time of year when the butterfly bush comes out. And I did see a white butterfly probably a Small White flying on the green out the front tonight I loved seeing the green carpeted by stunning swathes of white clover too.

April 1, 2021 - Small Magpie (Anania hortulata)

Found in gardens, hedgerows, weedy areas, and other habitats in northern Eurasia, Small Magpies have been introduced to parts of the northern United States and Canada. When young, they feed on a variety of plants, including common nettle, woundworts, mint, horehounds, and bindweeds, usually while staying hidden in a rolled leaf. The adults are mostly seen flying in June and July.

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