The moon, not an easy subject to photograph.
However, during last years thread; Tonight's Moon 2019; share your photos here, there were some very good photos taken and shared, so to continue the theme, I've started the 2020 thread.
https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/photography/200488/tonight-s-moon-2019-share-your-photos-here/1269266#pifragment-4285=1
Earlier tonight, the cloud was for once particularly thin, allowing the evening moon to shine through for me to grab a photo.
The full moon, which is around 10th January, and known as the Wolf Moon, the name given to the first full moon of the year, mainly because wolves are supposed to howl more with it being the mating season. Incidentally, foxes tend to be more vocal December to January, for the same reason, so I'm inclined to believe the same for wolves.
Mike
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2013 photos & vids here
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Lovely photos folks.
May’s Full Moon is known as the "Flower Moon" because of the may flowers that bloom during the month of May.
May's full moon can also be known as the Corn Moon because corn will often have been planted during this month, along with Hare's Moon, because hares are supposed to be busy mating, and an old Anglo-Saxon name is the Milk Moon
May's full moon will be around 11:45 am on 7 May 2020, which will be interesting from a photographic perspective, weather permitting....
From last night...
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
This was last night 6th May 2020
Last nights from me in Bonny Scotland
These are from tonight 7th May 2020 The tree got in the way of one of them but its different ?
Flower Moon, with a bit of dew on the petals....
Perhaps I should say, this mornings moon, taken early Tues 12th May.
June’s Full Moon, on 5th June around 20:20; is named after the wild strawberries that start to ripen during this month. According to some sources, a European name for this early summer month was Rose Moon, and another was Hot Moon, for the beginning of the summer heat. Other sources quote Mead Moon as the Anglo-Saxon name because this was the time for mowing the meads, or meadows.
Yesterday's daytime moon, with contrail below it...
There are several different kinds of wild strawberries. The native North American type is the Virginia strawberry (Fragaria virginiana), also known as Mountain strawberry or Common strawberry. It grows naturally in the United States, including Alaska, and Canada. It has also been exported; one popular variety, which was imported to Great Britain in the early 1900s, is called Little Scarlet.
It was an accidental cross of Fragaria virginiana and the South American Fragaria chiloensis, also known as Sand or Beach strawberry, with larger fruit, which resulted in the modern strawberry grown commercially and in gardens, the Fragaria ananassa.
Europe has its own native wild strawberry; the Alpine strawberry (Fragaria vesca), also called European strawberry, Woodland strawberry, or fraisier des bois.
Info via https://www.timeanddate.com/
Friday evening