Ecologist, birder and naturalist. Mostly sharing moth pictures and random bits of local wildlife of interest to virtually no-one.
West Wiltshire
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Cracking morning on Salisbury Plain. Singing grasshopper warbler, 5 stone curlew and 5 bustards,4 grey partridge, pair of breeding curlew, singing whinchats and masses of new in whitethroats. Corn buntings a plenty thankfully.
A very damp @WWTSlimbridge today. Sanderling on the Tack Piece, 2 wild barnacles with 119 white fronts, 16 beans still and the 2 whoopers on the Rushy, 3 grey plover, 2 ruff etc. 74 sp. @slimbridge_wild @GlosterBirder
Splendid day at @WWTSlimbridge, 84sp. Best a flyover great northern diver, the Temminck’s plus a little stint, 10 returning WFs with fresh juvs, pink-foot, merlin, 2 barwit, 3 spotshank, 4 sanderling, 1000+ goldies etc @TimJukes4 @slimbridge_wild
First dip back into the rockpools in SE Cornwall today, nice to see some old friends. Blue-rayed limpet, cushion starfish, gem anemone and shore rockling. @CornishRockPool
Somerset reservoirs in fine fettle. Cheddar & Chew today. Combined totals 36+ glossy ibis, 13 curlew sands, little stint, 32 GWEs @ Cheddar alone, osprey, white-tailed eagle, 25 black terns, 4 greenshank, 2 ruff, 2 hobby, 2 marsh harrier, returning ducks building. #ukbirding
Nice morning @WWTSlimbridge today. Best were 9 shags (and a cormorant, honest) upriver at 1130. Also 2 knot on the river, wheatear on the Dumbles, redstart in the hedge nearby, 3 spoonbill, 20 odd ruff, 3 green sands etc. @slimbridge_wild @GlosterBirder
Nice late pm wander at @wessexwater lovely Charlecombe Bottom. Plenty to see, the tortrix Lathronympha strigana was new to me, smart false blister beetle Ischnomera cyanea, marbled white spot moth & escapee Rosa multiflora across the hedges. #teammoth
June always throughs up interest in our little garden. White-legged damselfly new for the year, ornate-tailed digger wasp (Cerceris rybyensis) on self sown ox-eye daisies, welted thistle a surprise garden tick & our mini-meadow looking ok after some rain. #ukwildlife
Good new years bash around @WWTSlimbridge yesterday, 79 sp, including spoonbill, whooper swan, GW teal, little stint, 5 cattle egret, ruff, kingfisher, peregrine, M harrier, WF geese, Bewicks etc. Coal tit a reserve tick too. @slimbridge_wild
Slimbridge today. Cattle egret over car park, spoonbill flew into South Lake. 4 returning Bewicks, smashing pintail (Rushy). Juv goshawk causing mayhem on Dumbles, ca. 14 whitefronts back, 2 DB brents, lots of fieldfare & redwing moving. 72 sp. @slimbridge_wild @GlosterBirder
A dark sword-grass and a silver Y here in West Wilts last night were as good as it got. A late LYU and a sleepy Eristalis pertinax best of the rest. 12 moths in total, most until next March? @MigrantMothUK #migrantmoths #teammoth
The sprawler an overdue new moth for me last night from the garden trap, couple of nice feathered thorn and Acleris sparsana (NFG). #teammoth
An impressive 60 of 25 species to the 20w actinic in Talland Bay. Delicate, pearly underwing, scarce bordered straw, diamond back, dark sword-grass, 4 Radfords, 6 RDP the migrants. @MigrantMothUK
40 moths of 18 species in Talland Bay last night. Four-spotted footman, 2 dark sword-grass, rush veneer, 3 RDP, 4 Radfords the migrants. Also 2 feathered thorn. @MigrantMothUK
Four Radford’s flame shoulder here in Talland Bay, SE Cornwall last night, along with singles of vestal and rush veneer. 3 more rusty dot pearl the only other migrants. 35 of 13 species. @MigrantMothUK
As well as migrants, resident moths well represented last night here in SE Cornwall. Black rustic, green brindled crescent, a very late buff footman and feathered ranunculus. #teammoth
Surprisingly productive first trap from our Talland Bay (SE Cornwall) holiday cottage. 40 of 19sp. to 20w actinic. Radford’s flame shoulder, Palpita vitrealis, 2 scarce bordered straw, 7 RDP the migrants. @MigrantMothUK
Foggy start at Arne, fogbow then finally cleared. Perched up goshawk, great views of osprey, 4 Dartfords, jays, 70 avocet, 6 sika etc. Dirty twitch of the Longham Lakes velvet scoter on way back. @DorsetBirdClub @harbourbirds @RSPBDorset
Milk hill ticked off today, Wiltshire’s county top. Quiet bird wise, bar kites, few wandering jays and chiffchaffs. Last of the small scabious & pleated inkcaps. 15 grey partridge on the north of the plain, with 200 GPs, 5 corn bunting, 5 stonechat, 8 red kite etc @WiltsBirdNews
