Photo Of The Day.

[RobStubbs]

Ah that's what they were. We had loads of them in the garden yesterday as we were doing a bbq. For some reason they took a fancy to me and kept landing on my head or on my shorts. We also had a pair of moths mating on the wall - I'll post up a pic and see if I can identify them.

 

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And here's the moths, I think they're a variety of Hawk moth.

 

Rob.

Edited May 26, 2009 by RobStubbs

[severus]

Wow, very impressive. How big are those moths?

 

This chipmunk has been helping himself to the bird food lately.

 

[Clifftop]

nice pic, does he sing

 

 

i'll get me coat

Edited May 28, 2009 by Clifftop

[RobStubbs]

Wow, very impressive. How big are those moths?

 

The male must have been about an inch, inch and a half, the female about an inch head to tail. In the picture you can just the bottom of the brick so head to tail - tail to head spans the width of one house brick. I'm guessing the wingspan would have been about 2 1/2 inches for the male. Shame the light was pretty much direct and of course they're pretty well camouflaged.

 

A bit more searching reveals it's a poplar hawk moth

 

UK Moths

 

Rob.

[nursejudy]

[Janet]

 

[Snatcher]

Love the latest batches of photos put on team Just come back from the Mull of Galloway for the grandbairns birthday. Here are some shots I took around the place

 

A deer I photographed from the caravan veranda

 

 

Birdlife on the cliffs

 

 

The cafe on the end of the Mull

 

 

Me near the end of the Mull

 

 

John

[RobStubbs]

One from a few days ago.

 

 

 

And another, taken in my lunchhour at work

 

 

Rob.

Edited June 6, 2009 by RobStubbs

[andy-g]

my baby

 

[Clifftop]

she is going to cause trouble for the boys when shes older.

 

Those eyes just draw you in.

 

well done