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Persistence pays off
Hello everyone.
I ran my trap on three consecutive nights from Saturday night to Monday night, something I don't do very often this time of year.
I think it is the reports of scarce migrants that have been reported up and down the Country recently and not always at coastal sites either.
Saturday night's catch featured no Macro moths at all, a trap rarity in itself! and Sunday night wasn't much better either....just two moths again.
And then last night it all went a bit weird and there were actually some moths to count (and write down) for starter's I had to rescue the moths from a puddle at the bottom of my trap and because our patio isn't quite level, the water wells up in one corner typically, in this puddle I found three Caloptilia's and a Tortrix of somekind reminiscent of Zeiraphera isertana, but it wasn't this species it was a first for me Crocidosema plebejana! now that was worth running the trap for.
I believe there are very few records of this typical coastal moth and I am only aware of John Murray's record this year. Obviously a wanderer from a coastal population or a primary immigrant.
Another moth of note was a form of Acleris hastiana that I have never recorded before.
Catch Report - 14/11/15 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap
Macro Moths
None recorded!
Micro Moths
2x Epiphyas postvittana
Catch Report - 15/11/15 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap
Macro Moths
1x Brick
Micro Moths
1x Acleris notana/ferrugana
Catch Report - 16/11/15 - Back Garden - Stevenage - 1x 125w MV Robinson Trap
Macro Moths
1x Brick
1x Mottled Umber
1x Yellow-line Quaker
Micro Moths
1x Crocidosema plebejana [NEW!]
1x Scrobipalpa costella [NFY]
2x Caloptilia rufipennella [NFY]
1x Acleris hastiana
2x Caloptilia semifascia
2x Epiphyas postvittana
The petunia that never gives up. December in Calgary, all the other flowers died off a month and a half ago.
Carol Wallace, author of Leaving Van Gogh, read at the Sunday Best Reading Series on May 1, 2011 as part of the Persistence of Dreams program.
Walls of Jericho - Persistence Tour
Bataclan - Paris - 30.01.2012
Nicolas Gaire
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Persistence or madness? It has taken more than a decade, much more than a decade. At my fifth attempt over many years, yesterday I finally found one of Britain's rarest breeding damselflies. This is a male Southern Damselfly (Coenagrion mercurial) living on the extreme north western fringe of its European range and it is uncommon there too!
I have searched before in its very specific habitat of runnels and tiny streams of acid heathland before without any success. Even yesterday it was a very close call. After two hours of 30C blazing New Forest heathland sun it was time to call it a day. Fortunately at that moment, another local enthusiast turned up at the site and kindly re-directed me about 300 metres away from where I had been searching. Bingo! On a tiny runnel that frankly looked identical to the one I had just been looking on, there they were, several dozen of them!!
6 LEDs setup like this: flickr.com/photos/randomskk/2158769361/
They flash on and off at high speed, so when waved about produce a message.
This new version has a little switch on the breadboard, when pressed it flashes the message once. This allows me to just have the message go by on the correct swing direction, and also makes it a LOT easier to get a good photograph.
I'm looking at using an accelerometer to do the same, but it would be able to automatically detect direction and speed and hopefully compensate to get a 'perfect' display.
Novelist Carol Wallace talks to audience members prior to the start of the Persistence of Dreams program on May 1, 2011. (Sunday Best Reading Series).
Carol Wallace, author of Leaving Van Gogh, read at the Sunday Best Reading Series on May 1, 2011 as part of the Persistence of Dreams program.
"push pin" persistence of memory [tribute to salvador dali]
perhaps the greatest painting of the 20th century certainly the painting that launched the highly influential surrealist movement. the "in" joke is "don't you mean persistence of vision" which is one of the fine artists most important tools. by relying on "persistence of vision" and the brain's desire to make sense of an image artists are able to realize incredible effects including unbelievable realism and romanticism like renoir or bold statements like andy warhol. just love dali's great painting. big surprise. it's actually a small 7x7 canvas with a lot of diagonal lines and false perspective. it is "gibralter" and not some nameless presqu'il. the "pig skin" is an unbelievable counterpoint to the otherworldly landscape and images. the "twig" is yet again the only rational element yet burned to death. perspective continues ad nauseum. the experience is beyond belief. "is that really a painting"?
The only sure way to succeed is to try try again.
Every time you fall down, you can always get up and try again - literally and figuratively. We must never lose hope in anything, especially ourselves. Keep on trying.
In my life, I fail every day, but as long as I keep trying, I eventually succeed.
This is my friend Mike. He must've tried for four hours, plus a large chunk of the previous day to ride this unicycle. He kept falling down again, and again, and sometimes he would run into me, and then fall down. But now, he can go for a ridiculous distance, and is pretty much ridiculously amazing at it.
This is true for virtually anything and everything in life. Just try one more time
(personally, I'm still learning this concept, because it's definitely harder to carry out than it is to say. But persist in your persistence, and it will pay off!)
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After two restful days at the Wyoming High Country Lodge we circled back to Devil's Tower, also known as Bear's Den or Bear's Tipi, in northeastern Wyoming. It was very cloudy and wet, but in all very awe inspiring.
Carol Wallace, author of Leaving Van Gogh, read at the Sunday Best Reading Series on May 1, 2011 as part of the Persistence of Dreams program.
Prints For Sale Here: jay-spectre.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3hnw3z I shot this at the Cincinnati Zoo on Saturday , May 28. It was a hot day and I had worn my hoodie with a very tight white shirt underneath. I wanted to take off the hoodie, but I was afraid of giving onlookers a free wet t-shirt contest. This elephant looks sad and tired here, but at the same time very solid and persistent. I think the persistence wins out.
Novelist Carol Wallace talks to audience members prior to the start of the Persistence of Dreams program on May 1, 2011. (Sunday Best Reading Series).
I noticed this flower, yesterday, growing outside my dentist's office in Rensselaer, New York, USA. In these uncertain political times, we can still "bloom where we are planted!"
Persistence and the good fortune to be able to travel widely in the UK and abroad will ensure that I remain a major contributor to CRWDP and similar sites. Today, I am posting five pictures from the Brighton area.
Red Cottage Chinese Restaurant in Queens Road, Brighton was undergoing refurbishment at the time of this photograph. The website address and the upper window reveal a former identity of Lee Cottage.
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Flickering candlelight barely outlines the deep tunnels you seem compelled to tread. Like a sleepwalker, some ill conceived compulsion takes you deeper into the labyrinth of memory.
Suddenly a barred door appears by the guttering candle. Nameless dread at what lies beyond overwhelms you as you hear a rustling scrape from beyond the crusted, long unopened gate...
Taken deep in the subconscious with a Nikon D200...
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When I first realized what was going on I simply could not believe my eyes. I quickly grabbed my camera and, fumbling for the power button, tried to find a good place to shoot without being seen. I pointed and shot.
This woman is probably in her seventies, wearing flip-flops, heavy-duty gloves and a kerchief over her flowing white hair. In her hands are a box which she is folding up, ready to toss it into her burlap bag which sits comfortably on its two-wheel hand truck waiting to be carried off.
There is an amazing lesson to be discovered here. This old woman probably has joint pain, muscle pain, all sorts of pain. She isn't skinny and that probably doesn't help. But this woman's got bills to pay, and despite her old age and tired body, she's got to make the best of things. I would have never thought that manual labour was the ideal labour for an older woman but now I see that anything is possible, as long as you put your mind to it. I learn persistence from this old woman on the busy streets of Istanbul.