Chris Green
@chrisbirder.bsky.social
Londoner in Scotland via Gloucestershire
Birder and wildlife gardener.
Birder and wildlife gardener.
Guardians of the countryside, part 1:
Although Lauder Moor is, in various parts, sheep-wrecked, muirburned, encroached by coniferous forestry and plagued with off-lead pooches, Black Grouse miraculously hang on. Climate change may end that, but renewable infrastructure is the problem, apparently.
Although Lauder Moor is, in various parts, sheep-wrecked, muirburned, encroached by coniferous forestry and plagued with off-lead pooches, Black Grouse miraculously hang on. Climate change may end that, but renewable infrastructure is the problem, apparently.
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Guardians of the countryside, part 1:
Although Lauder Moor is, in various parts, sheep-wrecked, muirburned, encroached by coniferous forestry and plagued with off-lead pooches, Black Grouse miraculously hang on. Climate change may end that, but renewable infrastructure is the problem, apparently.
Although Lauder Moor is, in various parts, sheep-wrecked, muirburned, encroached by coniferous forestry and plagued with off-lead pooches, Black Grouse miraculously hang on. Climate change may end that, but renewable infrastructure is the problem, apparently.
#teammoth
2 of 6 Scarce Umber from the garden on 7th Nov. Surprised to find so much variation - I had the plain, slightly smaller one down as possibly an out-of-season Dotted Border but my mentor put me right!
2 of 6 Scarce Umber from the garden on 7th Nov. Surprised to find so much variation - I had the plain, slightly smaller one down as possibly an out-of-season Dotted Border but my mentor put me right!
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
#teammoth
2 of 6 Scarce Umber from the garden on 7th Nov. Surprised to find so much variation - I had the plain, slightly smaller one down as possibly an out-of-season Dotted Border but my mentor put me right!
2 of 6 Scarce Umber from the garden on 7th Nov. Surprised to find so much variation - I had the plain, slightly smaller one down as possibly an out-of-season Dotted Border but my mentor put me right!
#TeamMoth
Two species NFG today - Horse-chestnut Leaf Miner and Laburnum Leaf Miner - we've only 2 Horse-chestnuts and 4 Laburnums, so didn't take long. Looking forward to more leaf-mining moths in our near-2 acres of woodland, meadow and ornamental garden.
A large frog hopped away at the lawn edge.
Two species NFG today - Horse-chestnut Leaf Miner and Laburnum Leaf Miner - we've only 2 Horse-chestnuts and 4 Laburnums, so didn't take long. Looking forward to more leaf-mining moths in our near-2 acres of woodland, meadow and ornamental garden.
A large frog hopped away at the lawn edge.
October 23, 2025 at 10:15 PM
#TeamMoth
Two species NFG today - Horse-chestnut Leaf Miner and Laburnum Leaf Miner - we've only 2 Horse-chestnuts and 4 Laburnums, so didn't take long. Looking forward to more leaf-mining moths in our near-2 acres of woodland, meadow and ornamental garden.
A large frog hopped away at the lawn edge.
Two species NFG today - Horse-chestnut Leaf Miner and Laburnum Leaf Miner - we've only 2 Horse-chestnuts and 4 Laburnums, so didn't take long. Looking forward to more leaf-mining moths in our near-2 acres of woodland, meadow and ornamental garden.
A large frog hopped away at the lawn edge.
#TeamMoth
Quieter in VC80 last night, 28/9
9 Dark Chestnut
1 Chestnut
3 Feathered Thorn
7 Nov. agg.
2 Green-brindled Cres.
1 Satellite
2 Angle Shades
1 Red-green Carpet
2 Y-line Quaker
D. Chestnut/Chestnut images from earlier in month.
Quieter in VC80 last night, 28/9
9 Dark Chestnut
1 Chestnut
3 Feathered Thorn
7 Nov. agg.
2 Green-brindled Cres.
1 Satellite
2 Angle Shades
1 Red-green Carpet
2 Y-line Quaker
D. Chestnut/Chestnut images from earlier in month.
October 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
#TeamMoth
Quieter in VC80 last night, 28/9
9 Dark Chestnut
1 Chestnut
3 Feathered Thorn
7 Nov. agg.
2 Green-brindled Cres.
1 Satellite
2 Angle Shades
1 Red-green Carpet
2 Y-line Quaker
D. Chestnut/Chestnut images from earlier in month.
Quieter in VC80 last night, 28/9
9 Dark Chestnut
1 Chestnut
3 Feathered Thorn
7 Nov. agg.
2 Green-brindled Cres.
1 Satellite
2 Angle Shades
1 Red-green Carpet
2 Y-line Quaker
D. Chestnut/Chestnut images from earlier in month.
#TeamMoth
Friday night VC80 produced 52/11, including 30 November agg. and several carpets, Spruce, Red-green and the brownish one I've yet to identify - probably obvious, but any ideas?
Friday night VC80 produced 52/11, including 30 November agg. and several carpets, Spruce, Red-green and the brownish one I've yet to identify - probably obvious, but any ideas?
October 19, 2025 at 10:49 AM
#TeamMoth
Friday night VC80 produced 52/11, including 30 November agg. and several carpets, Spruce, Red-green and the brownish one I've yet to identify - probably obvious, but any ideas?
Friday night VC80 produced 52/11, including 30 November agg. and several carpets, Spruce, Red-green and the brownish one I've yet to identify - probably obvious, but any ideas?
Me (2nd from right) having just received a certificate from the Mayor of Hackney (3rd from left), no idea why he was looking so surprised!
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c1973
October 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Me (2nd from right) having just received a certificate from the Mayor of Hackney (3rd from left), no idea why he was looking so surprised!
c1973
c1973
@carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social
6 or 7 of these on a road-kill Red Grouse on Dewar Hill (NT34N) Borders on 09/05/2024. What species, please?
6 or 7 of these on a road-kill Red Grouse on Dewar Hill (NT34N) Borders on 09/05/2024. What species, please?
March 30, 2025 at 11:19 PM
@carrionbeetlesuk.bsky.social
6 or 7 of these on a road-kill Red Grouse on Dewar Hill (NT34N) Borders on 09/05/2024. What species, please?
6 or 7 of these on a road-kill Red Grouse on Dewar Hill (NT34N) Borders on 09/05/2024. What species, please?
This is what became a pair of disembodied eyeballs!
March 30, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is what became a pair of disembodied eyeballs!
Put my glasses on the arm of my chair, glanced down, and shat myself!
March 30, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Put my glasses on the arm of my chair, glanced down, and shat myself!
#BirdingScotland A European White-fronted Goose at 600m through scope today, Kalemouth, Borders. Been around since early Feb.
Further away, the bone-dry red-sandstone soil being stripped off by the vicious wind.
Flying Green Sandpiper, Eckford Haugh (thought House Martin for a milli-second!).
Further away, the bone-dry red-sandstone soil being stripped off by the vicious wind.
Flying Green Sandpiper, Eckford Haugh (thought House Martin for a milli-second!).
March 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#BirdingScotland A European White-fronted Goose at 600m through scope today, Kalemouth, Borders. Been around since early Feb.
Further away, the bone-dry red-sandstone soil being stripped off by the vicious wind.
Flying Green Sandpiper, Eckford Haugh (thought House Martin for a milli-second!).
Further away, the bone-dry red-sandstone soil being stripped off by the vicious wind.
Flying Green Sandpiper, Eckford Haugh (thought House Martin for a milli-second!).
Anti wildlife, anti green infrastructure, anti trans, pro 'field sports', pro the future installation of proven-to-be-polluting wood-burners, pro development if it makes her fellow business chaps wealthier - if that's what you want, keep voting Tory in Borders.
March 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Anti wildlife, anti green infrastructure, anti trans, pro 'field sports', pro the future installation of proven-to-be-polluting wood-burners, pro development if it makes her fellow business chaps wealthier - if that's what you want, keep voting Tory in Borders.
Petticoat Lane, London, c1963.
Me, my brother, and two monkeys.
You can work it out.
A couple of years earlier, my brother had briefly been abducted by an escaped chimp in a back road in Finsbury Park!
Me, my brother, and two monkeys.
You can work it out.
A couple of years earlier, my brother had briefly been abducted by an escaped chimp in a back road in Finsbury Park!
February 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Petticoat Lane, London, c1963.
Me, my brother, and two monkeys.
You can work it out.
A couple of years earlier, my brother had briefly been abducted by an escaped chimp in a back road in Finsbury Park!
Me, my brother, and two monkeys.
You can work it out.
A couple of years earlier, my brother had briefly been abducted by an escaped chimp in a back road in Finsbury Park!
Heading home across the Teviot bridge, saw my first Oystercatchers of the year back on their breeding ground - then a large white bird flying past the distant kirk. It alighted in a ditch - 3rd ever @birdtrack.bsky.social Great White Egret record for this important wetland site. #BirdingScotland
February 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Heading home across the Teviot bridge, saw my first Oystercatchers of the year back on their breeding ground - then a large white bird flying past the distant kirk. It alighted in a ditch - 3rd ever @birdtrack.bsky.social Great White Egret record for this important wetland site. #BirdingScotland
Folly Loch - dropped in on way back from train station, so no extra miles driven for this birding session. A serene pair of Shelduck had their day ruined by the arrival of 2 more - instant fighting! 90+ Whoopers, 20 Mute Swans grazed on the brassicas, pr. Stonechat my 1st for here. #BirdingScotland
February 16, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Folly Loch - dropped in on way back from train station, so no extra miles driven for this birding session. A serene pair of Shelduck had their day ruined by the arrival of 2 more - instant fighting! 90+ Whoopers, 20 Mute Swans grazed on the brassicas, pr. Stonechat my 1st for here. #BirdingScotland
Lamberton Beach today - Fulmar on ledges, a Buzzard far out at sea, Eiders & Cormorants in breeding plumage. 2 sheep have made it down to escape the abattoir.
Looking forward to arrival of the cliff-nesting House Martins.
Best bird - 1st Green Sandpiper of the year, by the Tweed, on the way here.
Looking forward to arrival of the cliff-nesting House Martins.
Best bird - 1st Green Sandpiper of the year, by the Tweed, on the way here.
February 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Lamberton Beach today - Fulmar on ledges, a Buzzard far out at sea, Eiders & Cormorants in breeding plumage. 2 sheep have made it down to escape the abattoir.
Looking forward to arrival of the cliff-nesting House Martins.
Best bird - 1st Green Sandpiper of the year, by the Tweed, on the way here.
Looking forward to arrival of the cliff-nesting House Martins.
Best bird - 1st Green Sandpiper of the year, by the Tweed, on the way here.