Danny Widerscope

Sorry to hear that mate. 🦚🦩

Delayed post, but great weekend with friends on Portland to start the year list off! Fantastic find by Joe with Dusky Warbler! @orioleglen66.bsky.social @joestockwell.bsky.social @slashercutts.bsky.social

Sometimes you find rare birds because you're on the lookout for them, other times they pop up when you least expect them! Todays Dusky Warbler suddenly started calling from a bush behind me while on a routine yeartick expedition. I could only manage a few record shots before it seemingly evaporated!

Dusky Warbler Herbury. Currently lost in one of the three(!) bushes along the stone wall maps.app.goo.gl/NFZnDmxM3uNL...

Just back from a pelagic trip out to the Whittard Canyon area on the continental shelf edge with @scillypelagics.bsky.social @scottinscilly.bsky.social @nomadbirder.bsky.social Madeiran Storm Petrel reclassified from MEGA!!! to scarce summer visitor in one evening with 84 counted last night! 😂

White-tailed Eagle on the Chesil beach between Abbotsbury & Rodden being mobbed by an Osprey, a Red Kite, a Peregrine & 2 Marsh Harriers! @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Black- tailed Godwit on Par Beach pool first light, flushed by dog walkers at 07:15. #CornwallBirds #CBWPS

Caught up with the Grey Phalarope at Siblyback today. 164 for the year 243 for Cornwall. 👀🐧 #UKBirding #cornwallbirding

Grey Phalarope still at Siblyback, near the inlet. #cornwallbirding

Frosted Orange testing it's camouflage on the wall paper, good effort. 🤔 St Austell #teammoth #cornishmoths #ukmoth

A few of today's sightings, no photo of the Hobby chasing a House Martin over the car as I was driving. 🌞🌼 #dawlishwarrennaturereserve #autumnwildflowers #devonnature

Nice to start this week's adventure by getting out the moth trap, rewarded with this ghost-like Olive-tree Pearl (Palpita vitrealis). #teammoth ##cornishmoths

Nice to visit the local Sunflower 🌻 trail yesterday, plenty of #fungi to see. Probably the only one looking at leaf moulds as I went round, 5 species plus some arable weeds. 😁🌼🍄‍🟫 #panspecieslisting #widerscope #sunflowertrail ##mushrooms #leafmould

The second half of August will see the peak period for autumn migration of Tree Pipit. Usually detected when calling in flight, they can occur across a range of habitats on migration #ukbirding

Generally fine dry weather could mean that these migrants don’t concentrate on the coast and turn up further inland/onto the west coast. Classic time for Barred/Icterine Warblers, Red-backed Shrike, Wryneck etc maybe also an Aquatic Warbler on the south coast?

I need that for my Portland list! Is it ringed or wild? 😉👍

I see many species love this at work, I struggle to ID the micros.

A Laughing Gull usually a resident of the Americas currently hanging out at Chyandour, Penzance
#🪶 #🦅 #cornwallbirding #ukbirding #birdphotography

Almost didn't see this Pale Prominent with its twig like appearance, well probably if it had been on a tree trunk. #teammoth #cornishmoths #ukmoth

Amazing to get this close to a Golden Ringed Dragonfly at Breney Common, let me stroke it too. 🤫 #UKWildlife #springwatch #cornishwildlife ##cornwallwildlifetrust #ukdragonflies #odonata #dragonfly

This Giant Lacewing amoung the moths attracted to the lights, was a nice surprise at work this week. #UKWildlife #springwatch #cornishwildlife ##cornwallwildlifetrust

Common Rosefinch on the rise in Switzerland Common Rosefinch reached record breeding numbers in Switzerland in 2023, with 66 territories identified – up from an average of 42 in recent years. While the species remains rare in France and Britain, Switzerland appears to be growing as a stronghold for the species, which continues its westward expansion across Europe.

Switzerland recorded unprecedented numbers of breeding Common Rosefinch in 2023, marking a notable increase in the species' presence in the country:

I found one yesterday, new for me. 😁👍

Hopefully, doing sealife centre and a trip to Peppa pig World. See what I can fit in, staying by Lodmoor. 😉

I'm looking forward to some Dorset exploring next week, need to get to the heaths if I can - weather looks good too! 🦚🐊🦋🐝🪲

Horse Chestnut Leafminer, Large Longhorn Moth and Peppered Moth to the corridors at work this week, note to self - I must put the trap our at home. 😆 #teammoth #ukmoths #cornishmoths ##wildlifeatwork

#cornwallbirding

Just heard a Night Heron call over the garden, St Blazey, Cornwall (heading east)! Well happy with that! 😁 #ukbirds #cornwallbirding @thegibster.bsky.social

3 Sandwich Terns off Par Beach this morning. #cornwallbirding ##ukbirding #birdmigration

Spotted this smart Zebra Jumping Spider at work last week. 🕸 #Spider #cornwallwildlife #ukarachnids