Monday 7 January 2008

Seeing the Changes 61






Saw the first moth of 2008 by the door-light in Loughor. Unremarkably, it was a male Winter moth (Operophtera brumata). Lichens are doing well at the WWT Llanelli and the Moorhens (Gallinula chloropus) are fighting and the male Eider duck (Somateria mollissima mollissima) displaying.

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