This is the slow version of our courtyard story: no voice, no music, just rustling leaves and fifteen seconds of dusk.
A common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) circles the wall lamp. Common pipistrelles usually leave their roost about twenty minutes after sunset and feed mainly on small flies, midges and mosquitoes. The Bat Conservation Trust calls it the bat you are most likely to see around your garden in the UK.
Under the lamp sits someone who hardly moves: a large yellow underwing (Noctua pronuba), a common moth with yellow hindwings and a narrow black band. The adults come to light in large numbers, which makes an outdoor lamp one of the easiest places to look for moths.
Slow pieces like this one are for viewers who want nature without noise. They belong to our pilot of short stories set where young people already are, and they end with the same invitation as every story: go outside, and take someone with you.
Found in this clip
- Common pipistrellePipistrellus pipistrellus
- Large yellow underwing (moth)Noctua pronubahidden in the clip
Try it outside
On a mild evening, go out about twenty minutes after sunset with someone from your family or a friend, and sit near a lamp in a park, a courtyard or a garden. Watch the air above the lamp for fast, fluttering shapes, and the wall beneath it for moths sitting still. Look, don't touch, and bring a jacket, not a torch.
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