6T7 at play today on this afternoons visitor experience at Careys @harbourbirds.bsky.social @ukoi.bsky.social

6T7 & maybe 6T6 together over the viewing platform at Careys @harbourbirds.bsky.social @humphrey-keeper.bsky.social @ukoi.bsky.social

Visited Collard Hill on my way back from Pembrokeshire last month. Sadly I didn't run into any Large Blues, but I was fortunate enough to see my first ever Hornet Robberfly hunting over some dung. It caught this dung beetle after a couple of attempts! #UKWildlife

Anyone know what this tiny crab might be? Three of them on a compass jellyfish on the Pembrokeshire coast a few weeks ago.

Shocked to see this monster while swimming at Manorbier Beach in Pembs today. A huge Barrel Jellyfish that proved popular with the other beach-goers! #UKWildlife

A childhood dream fulfilled for me last night with a short feature on Springwatch! Thanks to Jo and Josh for making it such a cracking segment! And everyone who came along on the night @finleyhutchins2.bsky.social @sibthorpia.bsky.social @jamesdrage.bsky.social @leelachanner.bsky.social #teammoth

Finally found my first nudibranch yesterday after 7 years of abject failure in the rock pools of Falmouth. This Orange-clubbed Sea Slug (Limacia clavigera) was hiding beneath some kelp. With @leelachanner.bsky.social

Polycera quadrilineata in Falmouth yesterday, with @humphrey-keeper.bsky.social. Spotted floating on the surface at the edge of the rocks, and seemed to be using the tide to move between different areas of seaweed. Time for some research...

An incredible night's mothing at Pendennis Castle yesterday resulted in migrants galore! 13(!) Eastern Bordered Straw were the highlight, with good numbers of lots of other migrants too. With @finleyhutchins2.bsky.social @leelachanner.bsky.social #teammoth

A fantastic puffin and seabird cruise with @harbourbirds.bsky.social! Plenty of auks, including the sought-after puffins; common and sandwich terns hunting; a couple of gannets; and a beautiful sunset by the Old Harry Rocks. Thanks for the suggestion @humphrey-keeper.bsky.social

Incredibly exciting news, one of our newly returned 2-year old Ospreys, male 5R0 has just briefly landed on a harbour nest platform with Scottish ringed female 6J8, a 2024 female from the Tweed Valley & was recently seen in the Usk Valley @careyssecretgarden.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Busy weekend with seabird cruise on Sat eve, then back-to-back spring and sunset safaris y'day & today! Seabird highlights - 3 Pom Skua, 3 Puffin, stacks of Guillemot + great views of Kittiwake & Razorbill Harbour highlights - Osprey hunting, sum-plum sanderling, Grey Plover, hunting Hobby & more

Springwatch is back tonight folks, 8pm, BBC2! I've got a feeling it's going to be a corker 👀 !

A nice walk to Ham Common at lunch delivered plenty of good inverts. The highlights being my vote for Britain's Favourite Butterfly (vote at britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk ), a Sawfly (Strongylogaster sp.), and what I think is Ptychoptera contaminata? @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

It ain't easy being green 🟢🟩💚 The Hairstreaks are being done unbelievably dirty by the main illustrations only being upperwing :( Go and vote for your favourite UK butterfly! britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/butterfly/gr... britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk

Green Hairstreak - Britain’s Favourite Butterfly

The Green Hairstreak is one of the 60 beautiful butterflies found across the UK. Will it be Britain's Favourite Butterfly?

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BLOG ALERT: It has been a while since I have shared a blog post, mostly because this one took me so long to write. This a little bit about my trip to Uganda with @leelachanner.bsky.social . Trigger warning for an image of a dead animal! single-handed-naturalist.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-...

The Link Bus from Kampala to Kasese and Other Stories

For the past three years, my partner, Leela, has been regularly travelling to a peninsula in the far West of Uganda to carry out her PhD res...

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Are you aged 11–17 and do you love nature? There's still time to apply for our brilliant BTO Bird Camp in Dorset, 17–19 July, kindly supported by @harbourbirds.bsky.social Applications by Sunday at 23.59 please! www.bto.org/our-work/you... 📷 BTO England Bird Camp staff in 2023, BTO Youth

I had an eventful morning helping out on our Osprey Recovery tour with @harbourbirds.bsky.social . I was scanning the trees over Carey's when I picked out a funny looking kite. A few seconds of checking it confirmed it as a Black Kite!!!! My rarest find ever, and Dorset gets better and better!

Looking forward to this next weekend! Now open to under 30s too 🪶🤩 Book for free here: www.bto.org/our-work/eve... @btobirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Osprey soaring over Wareham Channel by Arne viewed from Ham Common Viewpoint. Spent a while circling low over Shipstal before being lost to view at 4:55. @harbourbirds.bsky.social

This month's main paper in British Birds: Observations on the use of a solar park by Corn Buntings in southern England Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... 📸Thom Shannon

The Swineham Red-Spotted Bluethroat showed briefly this morning at 9:49. My second lifer this week after seeing the Forster's Tern on Brownsea Lagoon on Friday. Dorset seems to have some pretty good birds! @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Brilliant Spring Safari this AM: 5 WT Eagle, 1 Osprey, 3 Spoonbill, 1 Common Sand, 2 Whimbrel, 2 Marsh Harrier, c50 Avocet, 20+ Swallow, c20 Dunlin, c10 Common Tern, 1 FORSTER’S TERN (Brownsea Lagoon), 1 Red Kite, c300 Blackwit, 2 Greenshank @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Interloper at Lytchett Bay @humphrey-keeper.bsky.social proved to be a good birding (and more importantly butterfly) companion this afternoon. Looks like you have another good un @harbourbirds.bsky.social (although we didn’t find any of his target birds, so may be a Jonah…!)

It was good to see my first few Orange-Tips of the year today at Lytchett Bay, as well as my first Bearded Reedling in Dorset at Swineham. With @mick666.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

Excited to have moved down to Poole to start working with @harbourbirds.bsky.social ! Also excited to be exploring a new patch, Ham Common looks to be a treat and I can't wait to be visiting regularly throughout the summer!

Was incredible to see this movement of spotless policemen skipper butterflies on the Mweya Peninsula in Uganda yesterday evening! Fortunately @leelachanner.bsky.social had seen it before, and shared this paper about the phenomenon doi.org/10.4314/met....

Dynamic balance of plants and megafauna on the geological time scales and not a succession👇 "Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪 ⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #Macroecology

Revisiting Europe's temperate forests: Palaeoecological evidence for an herbivory-driven woodland-grassland mosaic biome

Understanding the pre-Homo sapiens baseline of the temperate forest biome is crucial for interpreting present-day biodiversity patterns, ecosystem fun…

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More blogged birding exploits. This time from a little trip to Norfolk with @joesn.bsky.social #UKBirding single-handed-naturalist.blogspot.com/2026/02/trip...

Trip to East Norfolk and Suffolk with Joe

Intro Something I didn’t mention in my last blog entry is that during my time in the Pyrenees, I discovered that my friends back home in Eng...

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My blog about a couple of days of very enjoyable January birding. Thanks for reading and reposting. #ukbirding #birds

Shore Lark, Bufflehead, Surf Scoter, Lesser Yellowlegs, American Wigeon... January 2026 birding gets good

Saturday 10th January was nothing less than a bloody brilliant day out.  Setting off at 6am and heading west along the north Wales coast Kri...

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