I've published my book Britain's Dandelions, A Photographic Guide. It's currently available on Blurb blurb.co.uk/b/12805510-briβ¦
Next week I will be adding additional outlets. #Taraxacum #Botany #Dandelions #BritainsDandelions
Update: A month ago, a massive bloom of rimu berries fueled booming mating calls in NZ's KΔkΔpΕ sanctuaries (bsky.app/profile/heid...). Today, a baby boom: 240 eggs to date; 26 chicks hatched. Females rear chicks alone; each chick needs ~1 lb of berries/day gathered by climbing to the treetops.
73:13 to MV in Romsey (VC11) last night. Best was Carpatolechia decorella. NFY was Early Tooth-striped #teammoth
What a wonderful Tern so pleased I got to see the beauty
Our oldest Monks Wood Marsh Tit has survived his 11th winter, and is singing again on his territory, 40 m from where he was colour-ringed in 2015. He's been widowed again so is advertising for a new female. He's probably in the top 5 oldest Marsh Tits recorded in Britain. #ukbirding #ornithology
Acleris cristana to MV In Romsey (VC11). Photo stacked using Olympus TG-7 #teammoth
A Pine Beauty to MV in Romsey (VC11) last night
Eastbourne: Many thanks to Harvey for turning up this zinger of a Wheatear at Sovereign Harbour today. What a treat and my first EVER in February. Spring is offically here!
Recent research on the Phyllocnistis saligna complex in the Netherlands has shown that saligna is not present there!
Most mines are P.asiatica with P triandricola found in almond willow or rarely on purple willow.
We have both asiatica and triandricola in the UK. Barcoding is going on here.
Must be one the most overdue 1sts for the Isles of Scilly #UKBirding
An interesting discussion of Pacific Diver identification (in English):
marcduquet.com/wp-content/u...
#BirdingScotland
Beaver comeback accelerates with 100 releases scheduled for 2026 www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/B...
Phyllocnistis triandricola Almond Willow Maze-miner
Just published... Phyllocnistis triandricola
(Almond Willow Maze-miner) New UK at Surlingham, Norfolk 14/08/2025 by Seb Buckton (Gen. Det. P. Hall, R. Voith) #teammoth #norfolkmoths norfolkmoths.co.uk/micros.php?b...
Nice write up. Sorry to hear about Andrew Moon. First visited in 1970. Remember many good birds there, especially the summer plumage Grey Phalarope.
So this is an exciting rediscovery
www.birdguides.com/news/rusty-b... and
ebird.org/checklist/S2...
What looks like a dark morph Lapwing seen at #RSPBGreylake #Somerset this morning. It was very aggressive to any other Lapwing that came to close.
Young man sitting in field with plant ID books, recording wild flowers in the sunshine
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Check out the webinars & #WildFlowerID help we've prep'd for you!
One of my favourite books is Wild America, the 1953 trip made by legendary naturalists Roger Tory Peterson (USA) and James Fisher (UK).
Some of it was filmed and RTP took that on tour to theaters across the States. Until today, that was the only opportunity to see it (1/2)
youtu.be/irjm8dxb0xA?...
Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE β¦βͺ MARK RUSKELL MSPβ¬β© β₯οΈThe RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώby emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!
Itβs beginning to feel that the end is in sight. The proofs of the new 'Birds of Fair Isle' book are now being checked by the team of authors. Thatβs more than 400,000 words on 938 pages!
Details on how to order will be announced in the New Year.
www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/bofi
#BirdingScotland
First moth trapping of 2026 in Romsey (VC11) with 96:6 to MV. Spring Ushers dominated with 81. #teammoth
Birders! Opportunity to join BOU Records Committee
#UKBirding #RareBirds
A Eurasian lynx reclines leisurely on a moss-covered rock, surrounded by a forest of tall trees.
Slovenia is smaller and more densely populated than Scotland. But despite its small size and relatively populous countryside, it's home to nearly 1,000 brown bears, over 120 wolves and a growing population of around 50 reintroduced lynx.
Thatβs brilliant!
Boom! π₯ What a way to kick off your birding year! Congrats, Geoff.
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
What a mega day!! Started by twitching Great Shearwater (Norfolk tick) off Winterton. Sooty Shearwater and Snow Buntings from there too. Then I found 8+ Tundra Bean Geese at Horsey. Then, at St. Benet's Abbey, I had great views of Black-winged Kite, Glossy Ibis, Short-eared Owl, and 7 cranes. Wow!
The fragment of ND2 DNA that @tessaroo.bsky.social got from Calshot GT Grackle doesn't tell exactly where it came from but it excludes a USA west coast (nelsoni) origin and puts it in the Panama-Central-USA populations. Orange shape overlaid on map from DaCosta et al., 2008 doi.org/10.1525/cond...
A deep-seated culture of entitlement exists in Great Britainβs landowning class. This enables them and their serfs to indulge in criminal behaviour that the rest of us wouldnβt dream of. That these crimes are wrought against OUR birds is indicative of the contempt in which the rest of us is held.
