Dr Keith Walker @SteelFolk@social.cleverlibre.org

@sciencebase Around here the Blackcaps always seem to be imitating another sort of bird but it's not very convincing!

@sciencebase "Be there or be square".

@sciencebase I think I see now I've looked at some pictures but most I've seen called that seemed to have round spots. Maybe it's hard to see well at night at a Moth & Bat night like I was at.

@freemo I think 'stellae' is better than 'astra' here. #fauxsmartarse

@sciencebase What's the story behind the name of 'squares' when they aren't?

@sciencebase She is ridiculously cute.

@sciencebase There must be be which has tusks, surely.

@sciencebase Our cat was scared by a patterned towel when it was hung out to dry. We never saw why but she did.

@sciencebase Grans seeing pictures in the fire.

@sciencebase I looked up pareidolia but is it different from camouflage?

@sciencebase My tussocks are not tussock grasses, which is disappointing. I think they are where something has relieved itself. Probably not a moth, though.

@sciencebase The tussocks in my garden are all green and make it hard to walk on the grass without spilling my pint. Is its name connected with them?

@sciencebase I find these I think but they are usually a lot paler, almost ash grey. Or is it something else do you think?

@sciencebase You mean turn my camera off 'auto' and tell it what to do. A daunting prospect. Hours of fun there, but I have got a tripod.

@sciencebase They like the one with a fungus associated with it but it's an odd looking orchid. I can't remember its name and I don't much like it but it is rare. I'll let the Env Manager know about the BOs. Be a good story for the local paper if they turn out to be of interest.

@sciencebase You know this scene: dark outside, moth on the inside of window. How do you take its photo? No flash - it doesn't show up, or flash and you get, er, a flash.

@sciencebase I will do. There are botanists from Leeds come quite often to look at ones with a symbiotic affair with a fungus. The BOs like it near the ore beds and the whole site is on chalk.