A lovely Large Emerald moth doing its best impression of a butterfly today in North Suffolk @suffolkmoths.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social #MothsMatter
Antony Wren
@beachhutbirder.bsky.social
Birder, moth recorder and natural nerd. Based in Suffolk
In July 2024, 3 mystery moths appeared in my moth trap. They turned out to be the UK's first Grapholita delineana. In June 2025 I was very pleased to find another in my trap followed by several more in July. Yesterday I spotted 2 at rest on the garden Hop @BritishMoths
Purple Hairstreak, Coastal Suffolk. Apologies, my last post included a photo which wasn't mine... It was auto saved from a WhatsApp group. This one is mine from the Suffolk coast! @bc-suffolk.bsky.social
Beach survey today. This Avocet always does an elaborate "broken wing" dance before settling back onto the nest. Also, one of 4 Ringed Plover chicks so far.
Really having fun with the Dwarf Lab D3 from my Suffolk garden
Lowestoft Life 15th-30th September 2025 A birding relict, Norfolk shrikes and some late September mothage. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/lowe... @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #SuffolkBirds #NorfolkBirding @suffolkmoths.bsky.social
#Estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 3rd October 2025 A morning at Spithami watching the waves before the forests gave up some of their secrets as the sun set. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto... @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2025
#estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 4th October 2025 We made our way towards Saaremaa & memories of a frozen landscape 14 years ago came flooding back but were soon to be eclipsed by 300 bugling Cranes @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2025 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto...
#estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 5th October 2025 A day on the Sõrve Peninsular watching migration happen all around us. A notch up on Puise and a taste of things to come. @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto...
#Estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 6 Oct '25 In 3h15m on the Sõrve peninsular we counted a staggering 27,576 Tits & 8331 Finches along with 595 Goldcrests. The mind was truly boggled and the flabber gasted. @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto...
#Lowestoft Life - 7th -12th October 2025 Back to Blighty with a touch of an eastern Autumn and some garden mothing. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/lowe... @suffolkmoths.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social
Join me (& @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social of course) in #Estonia next March with @oriolebirding.bsky.social to experience Steller's Eiders, northern Owls, Woodpeckers & hopefully big forest mammals too www.oriolebirding.com/tour/estonia... Hawk Owl from the last trip @jonathanfarooqi.bsky.social
After Grapholita delineana started turning up in my Suffolk garden last July, it was confirmed as new to the UK. Another arrived at the weekend with no other British records that I know of. Perhaps I have the only breeding Grapholita delineana in Britain? suffolkmoths.co.uk/micros.php?b...
Lowestoft Life - 24th-27th June 2025 Squeezing in some moth time before I disappear again! blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/06/lowe... @beachhutbirder.bsky.social took most of the pictures in this blog post
Back home from Landguard now so a couple of pics of the Speckled Footman from my home trap in Felixstowe @neilsmothman.bsky.social @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
Wasp Spiderlings hatched today in my Lowestoft garden
Time to head home after our adventure for @bwntours.bsky.social to Japan. It ended with furry Sea Otters, a full on Pacific gullfest & of all the birds for me to find; a drake Canvasback. I will be back. Sincere thanks to the marvellous @mr-shortwing.bsky.social for his most excellent company
M42, Orion Nebula and the Pleiades from last week. No clear skies since
Pleiades this evening just before the Moon made it tricky.
#CostaRica for Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours - Day 14 - 17th November 2024 El Copal and Hotel Quelitales - what more could you want from a final full day? blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2024/12/cost... Chestnut-capped Warbler - one of many highlights #birds
#MothsSeenIn2024 In October 2021 I found Suffolk's 5th Musotima nitidalis, Marbled Fern. In just 3 years we now have nearly 650 in the database. This year I had my first 2 garden records and saw several in Dunwich Forest #TeamMoth @suffolkmoths.bsky.social
Still plenty of Cosmopterix pulchrimella larvae around Lowestoft. Almost every plant around the High Street had larvae present yesterday. @suffolkmoths.bsky.social #TeamMoth
#MothsSeenIn2024 Radford's Flame Shoulder has traditionally been a rare migrant to the UK with most records occurring in South and Southwest of the UK. 2024 turned out to be an exceptional year for them with lots of inland and new county records. I managed to catch 5 in one week! #TeamMoth
#CostaRica for Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours - Day 7 - 10th November 2024 A full day around La Selva Biological Station. Many birds, much rain. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2024/12/cost... #Birds Rufous Motmot
#MothsSeenIn2024 Crimson Speckled is one of those "Holy Grail" moths which I dreamt of seeing from the moment I saw a picture of one when I was a child. Amazingly it's on my garden list for 2018 but this year I caught up with them in Greece. #TeamMoth
