{"id":1422,"date":"2009-06-27T23:06:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T22:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1422"},"modified":"2013-11-13T22:44:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:44:10","slug":"a-flurry-of-moths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-flurry-of-moths\/","title":{"rendered":"A flurry of moths"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

We headed back to the site where we saw the young kestrels a couple of weeks ago, but the nesting box was deserted. I presume they've fledged and moved into the more natural cover of the woods. One kestrel did fly overhead (as indeed did a Spitfire… it must be airshow season again), but the outstanding feature today was the countless burnet moths.<\/p>\n

These are daytime moths which exude a toxin to deter predators. They're not the most elegant of moths in flight, despite their extremely rapid wing beat. I think these are 5-spot burnets (happy as always to be corrected).
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On the garden front, the vixen is generally appearing quite late (occasionally with a cub) which has meant fewer photos, but the hedgehogs are around as is the wood mouse. The badgers have been back as well, and I've even managed another terrible photo… this time of the badger heading away from me to the back of the garden. At least this time it was moving at a sedate pace.
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To make up for the near impossibility of gaining any impression of a badger from that picture, I've put together the trailcam footage from the same night (Thursday\/Friday).<\/p>\n

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Camera note: the moth shots were taken with either the EF 400mm f\/5.6L USM (distant shots) or the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro (close-ups), both mounted on a Manfrotto 458B Neotec tripod.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[994,251],"tags":[160,1162],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-badger-wildlife","category-moth","tag-badger-2","tag-moth","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t