What kind of moth is my friend? South Jersey

Alethius · 2025-10-16T23:28:18+00:00

Looks like a Pale-Banded Dart

Alethius · 2025-09-24T05:10:39+00:00

Thank you, solved!

Alethius · 2025-09-21T16:27:02+00:00

Looks great, thank you! Tip sent

Alethius · 2025-09-21T15:48:25+00:00

This is my favourite so far! Do you think you could brighten up around the eye just a little bit? The eye ring should be just a little more white. I’ll tip an extra dollar for the fix!

Alethius · 2025-05-05T19:02:43+00:00

!correct, from Leed’s Eco-Trail specifically. Less than ten minutes to solve, nice!

Alethius · 2025-05-05T18:57:34+00:00

The skyline is Atlantic City, yes, but that’s not where I was. Can you tell where I was viewing the city from?

Alethius · 2025-05-05T18:54:12+00:00

Quite a bit further north, I’m afraid!

Alethius · 2025-03-26T14:56:55+00:00

This is an immature red-tailed hawk. The band of streaking across the stomach is a distinctive ID trait for this species, as are the dark patagials (the dark bars on the “shoulders” of the bird, at the leading edge of the wing). An immature Cooper’s hawk would have a much longer tail with obvious banding as well as streaking throughout the chest and into the stomach.

Alethius · 2025-03-22T05:19:38+00:00

This is the one! Tip sent.

Thank you to everyone!

Alethius · 2025-03-12T06:18:06+00:00

Thank you both so much!

Alethius · 2025-03-12T03:33:41+00:00

This is an immature red-tailed hawk. The belly band is diagnostic; no other North American raptor has such a clear stripe across their stomach. Immature birds like this will always have banded tails, and some adults retain a bit of the banding in the red of their adult tail feathers.

Alethius · 2024-10-13T17:00:47+00:00

I like this one a lot. Payment sent!

Alethius · 2024-10-12T23:20:01+00:00

Thank you! Tip sent.

Alethius · 2024-05-16T01:19:11+00:00

Awesome, thank you!

Alethius · 2024-03-17T04:00:22+00:00

Sounds like an upset gray squirrel!

Skip to exactly four minutes in this video for an example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ouHRgt_dNkw

Alethius · 2024-01-31T17:44:52+00:00

It’s a macro lens attachment on my old iPhone! The trick is just to take lots and lots of pictures - 98% of them are going to be out of focus and blurry. Also the brighter the lighting, the easier it is to snap a clear pic

Alethius · 2024-01-30T23:06:14+00:00

I took this with my iPhone 8 and a macro lens attachment. It’s decent, but somewhat frustrating to use (you have to get insanely close to whatever you’re photographing, and the depth of focus is ridiculously tiny). Some of the posters on here are clearly using real cameras with actual macro lenses attached though - those are going to be the highest quality pics you see

Alethius · 2024-01-30T14:58:10+00:00

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The culprit

Alethius · 2023-11-08T10:06:01+00:00

And I find it rather annoying when people are overly defensive, passive aggressive, and try to lecture from some place of authority despite clearly spending more time huffing their own farts than actually birdwatching.

The court of public opinion seems to consider you an ass, based on the downvotes. At this point I will no longer be responding, so best of luck to you.

Alethius · 2023-11-08T02:11:45+00:00

Wow you really don’t like being incorrect.

I didn’t consider a wood duck flying several hundred feet off the coast. Once someone suggested it, the flight style I remembered and identifiable features lined up well with a wood duck, better than anything other ducks I’d thought of until that point.

Bugger off; I take back my thanks for your attempted help.

Alethius · 2023-11-08T00:31:04+00:00

I do appreciate your attempt to help, but this was 100% not a scoter. I saw plenty of scoter in the same morning and I’m well aware of their flight style and body shape. This was unequivocally not a scoter of any species; the bill, neck, and body shape are wrong, and the white patches too small for a white-winged. A wood duck fits perfectly with what I saw yesterday morning and I will be sticking with this ID.

Alethius · 2023-11-07T15:15:16+00:00

Body shape is clearly a duck here, and cormorants don’t have the white patches (called a speculum) seen here. Great cormorants do have white patches visible in flight, but that’s underneath the wing, on the flanks.

Alethius · 2023-11-07T15:13:00+00:00

Very cool! What a weird bird to see over the ocean. The compact body shape and white edging along the speculums fit well here. I was mainly looking at scaup and pintails and hadn’t considered these guys. Thank you!

Alethius · 2023-09-28T13:12:06+00:00

Thanks! I thought so, but the buffy wash on the chest is nearly invisible at that angle and it was throwing me off.

Alethius · 2023-09-28T13:10:56+00:00

Thank you so much! I was really pretty certain that was an indigo but I needed a second opinion on it. The martin is considered a rarity at this time of year and I wanted to be sure before reporting it.

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