Thank you Andy. Hopefully a better year health wise for you and me.
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Thank you Andy. Hopefully a better year health wise for you and me.
Thinking of you.💙
Sorry to hear that. As I also lay here in a Hospital bed at Dorchester County Hospital, contemplating the future. 😏
Sorry that was a bit confusing. I used my personal account to reply. I'm also one of the co-founders of FoPL.
He's certainly dedicated. That's for sure.
He has. There have been up to two at times this year. See friendsofpriorsleelake.blogspot.com
Well they always say, expect the unexpected. And nearly standing on a Woodcock along Wakeham Railway cuttings @ 12:05 was just that.
Within seconds of it realising I was next to it, it flew up and headed east over Glen Caravan Park.
It was definitely worth the soaking!!
Nice shot Mark. You can just about make out my accommodation on the far left when I visited RAF Gibraltar many years ago. Fantastic birding on the Rock.
News from local residents of 2 Yellow-browed Warblers this morning in a private garden at Wakeham
Pallas's Warbler just trapped in the Crown Estate Field
still happily munching through seed
Crimson Speckled currently settled in the Crown Estate Field
The east cliffs Snow Bunting
Yellow-browed Warbler along Wakeham Railway Cuttings, Portland
Late afternoon/early evening along Wakeham Railway Cuttings my first Yellow-browed Warbler for this Autumn.
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Snow Bunting in the East Cliff Quarries near Southwell per Mark Eggleton - best to walk down from the pumping station, turn right at the cliffs and it's 100m or so from there along the cliff top
From the Isle of Mull, brilliant wildlife seen, but can someone identify the caterpillar for me please
A Broom moth I believe.
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Wakeham/Mermaid area bursting with birds in sheltered spots. Could only dig out 2 Firecrest but stacks of Chiffchaffs!
Avalanche Road hump this morning and the Red-breasted Flycatcher gave birders there, really good views.
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Around Wakeham today.
Highlights: 2 Meadow Pipit, 1 Grey Wagtail, 1 Fieldfare, 5 Redwing, 2 Blackcap, 25+ Chiffchaff and 4 Goldcrest.
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The Wryneck was very obliging today.
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Wryneck still at end of Barleycrates lane. 2;25pm
Thank you Tom. I'll let Ed know.👍
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
Photo from Mark Cutts
Four-spotted Footman (Lithosia quadra)
Four-spotted Footman (Lithosia quadra)
Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella)
Wakeham - A lot of escapees from the moth trap this morning when one of the sides lifted in the wind. Ended up with 45 moths of 21 species, including 2 firsts for me on Portland, a Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella) and a Four-spotted Footman (Lithosia quadra)
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Late morning at Chesil Cove - 2 Common Sandpiper and these 2 Sanderlings on the beach opposite Quiddles.
Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi)
Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi)
And now two female Wasp Spiders (Argiope bruennichi) in Wakeham.
