Jackie Hull

Good to catch up with the super Red-rumped Swallow over the River Wey now after first going to The Fleet for the Long-tailed Duck, 2 good year ✔️

Passing Wareham Common on the by-pass the Glossy Ibis were still there middle of the common. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social

It’s a useful guide and does help you with maps etc and provides a lot of information but you must be keen to get a lot out of it. But for example Lesser Butterfly Orchid does not give you specific places due to its rarity

We have the second edition it was published 2017 so not that old though I don’t use it often

First blog for 2026, January birding @lytchettbirder.bsky.social twoowlsbirding.blogspot.com/2026/02/

December 2025 December is a time when you always go through your list and see what is missing and are they still a possibility.  One glaring miss to our y...

Last post for 2025 birding & mothing @lytchettbirder.bsky.social twoowlsbirding.blogspot.com/2026/01/dece...

Popped into Waddock Cross cress beds and 10 Glossy Ibis, Green Sandpipers.

I found an enjoyable and interesting read 👍

Welcome to the club, Happy Birthday 🥳 and have a wonderfully bird filled new year

And to you, hope your patch delivers lots of good wildlife watching in 2026

November blog with @lytchettbirder.bsky.social twoowlsbirding.blogspot.com/2025/12/

Front cover of the Dorset Bird Report 2024, showing a 1st winter 'Isabelline' Shrike perched on the top of a narrow branch, set against a blurred green. The report's title is in large white font in the top left of the image, & the club's logo (a Hoopoe overlaid on an outline of the county boundary) is in the bottom right.

Screengrab from the Dorset Bird Club website explaining the Christmas membership offer, with a photograph of a Hoopoe and the club name forming a narrow banner at the bottom of the image.

Support your county bird club! Dorset Bird Club is a fantastic organisation that funds conservation initiatives, collates ornithological data from across the county, & provides a social & focal hub for local birders. If you're not one already, DBC have a fab new membership offer for the next... 1/n

Jackie and I took a trip down Wyke Regis today and caught up with the very obliging Desert Wheatear. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Thanks for letting me know

Visit to Shapwick Heath and Decoy Hide was fairly quiet but 2 drake Ring-necked duck showed very nicely & very actively feeding @somersetwildlands.bsky.social

Good raptor day at Lodmoor this am, quite prolonged views of an adult White-tailed Eagle, 2 Marsh Harrier & a Sparrowhawk all in the air & showing well at the same time, later added Kestrel. 136 Golden Plover, 1/2 Great egrets and just 1 Dunlin in with some Lapwing @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Petition: Make it an offence to carry a catapult in public without lawful defence Change the law so catapult possession in public is an offence. Currently, police must prove intent or use to cause harm. We propose it becomes an absolute offence, like air rifles, without lawful…

Please do add your name to this petition for the sake of wildlife!

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Lucy McRobert: outdoor irritants From drones and dogs to birders without binoculars, Lucy McRobert vents her pet peeves when it comes to outdoor annoyances.

Outdoor irritants

From drones and dogs to birders without binoculars, Lucy McRobert vents her pet peeves when it comes to outdoor annoyances:

Sensitive Species in Winter #CornwallBirds #BirdsInCornwall #CBWPS #Bird #Birds #Birdwatching #ConnectWithNature #BeautyAndWonderOfNature #Nature #Wildlife #WildlifeMatters #WildIsles #BritishWildlife #WildCornwall #ILoveCornwall #Cornwall #Kernow #UK

Patch excitement plus September began very wet and the first chance I had to get out was on the 5th to do a reptile survey with Terry.  Whilst walking through som...

September birding @lytchettbirder.bsky.social twoowlsbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/patc...

Pleasant hour at RLV, Lytchett Bay high tide am good to see Wigeon back, juv & male ad Marsh Harrier, Green Sandpiper flyby. Also an unseen but calling Grey Plover over, plus a Kingfisher zipped through @narwhalsh.bsky.social @ianballam.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social

August moths & birding catch-up twoowlsbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/
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Along Soldiers Road, Hartland Moor at Stud farm 1 Hobby put up a small flock of Meadow Pipit, Yellow Wags, 3 Wheatear, further up Redstart & Hobby best @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Madness from @naturescot.bsky.social
Pls sign petition
The practice dates from when locals were forced to survive by any means. Now they can go to a supermarket & do NOT need to kill Gannets for the fun of eating them. Some traditions just need to be stopped for good @naturescot.bsky.social

No More Beewashing! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. YouTube video by Dave Goulson

No more Beewashing please! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. Pls RT if you agree.
youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU

New for the Garden Scarce and Rare Moths I was going to end the previous blog with a summary of the month's moths which have been rather good if I say it myself so I changed my mi...

Moth blog for June @lytchettbirder.bsky.social twoowlsbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-...

June's Wildlife Mix June is I think an odd month in that spring migration has finished and all the birds have settled on territories with some young fledged and...

Wildlife birding in June blog twoowlsbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/june... @lytchettbirder.bsky.social

It must be flying ants coming out in the front garden. Black-headed Gulls are swooping around our front garden really low quite an amazing sight.

Purbeck NNR Heathland survey this am with @lytchettbirder.bsky.social Stonechats and Linnets busy with their families, Tree Pipit, a single Woodlark, singing Redstart and a gorgeous showy pair of Spotted Flycatchers. @harbourbirds.bsky.social
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Home and Away in East Riding of Yorkshire May birding started for us on the 3rd, at home whilst doing home chores and taking it easy to allow my injured calf muscle to heal we were m...

Catch-up on our May birding at home and East Yorkshire @lytchettbirder.bsky.social twoowlsbirding.blogspot.com/2025/06/home...