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Birdingprof
@birdingprof.bsky.social
Actual Birder, sometime Twitcher, nascent Moth-er.

2025 Garden Bird yearlist 1️⃣1️⃣0️⃣
2026 Garden Moth yearlist 0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣
VC 26 - West Suffolk.
TL77C - Where Breckland meets Fenland.
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December 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I’ll have another look, and a poke, tomorrow. Stay tuned…
December 7, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I’ll have a closer look tomorrow, although if it’s a slime mould it may move off somewhere during the night. 😉
December 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
It looks like the choices on Gorse are very limited. And this fits like a glove.

I can see a patch of Gorse from my garden, but I can’t get to it. Damn!
December 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I had a singing bird in Kenwith, Devon 10/04/95 that had wintered.
December 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Obsidentify, iNaturalist, Apple and Google have given me at least 18 different suggestions! A reverse image search gave me Wolf’s Milk, and that’s what it looks like.

What is the Fungal option?
December 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I won’t say I haven’t thought about it. 😅😂
December 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
No. I believe they have been seen.
December 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
So good. I’m itching to start next years list. I’ve got no.1 already lined up in a pot. 😅
December 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Just picking stuff off of walls, by light fittings, so very haphazard really. Didn’t start till mid-summer, so I must have missed all the early stuff.
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A bit cheeky, but 174 NFG for me in about half a year. But that was starting from 0. I set myself a target of 150, not really knowing what to expect.

I’m ordering my 1st trap next week, and setting a target of 126 NFG next year. I’m quietly (hopefully) confident. 😚
December 5, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Thanks
December 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Shocking! Are they really pink, as compared to invasive dark ones, or is that variable?

I have seen the remains of a pink one in our millstream some years ago.
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM