So chuffed to hear a hobby in my Wimborne patch today, also saw lots of swallow fledglings, clouded yellows, kingfisher, kestrel and Cetti’s warblers. #birds #dorsetbirds

Dingy mocha in a friends house in Colehill yesterday. Not the best pic as didn’t have my camera to hand, but encouraging to see one here, I’m guessing probably from the nearby Cannon hill plantation or Holt Heath? @dorsetmoths.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social #teammoth

Nut-tree tussock from the garden the other day. Too cute not to post #teammoth #moths

Is this a rufous pearl? The house seems to be attracting more good moths than the trap! #teammoth @dorsetmoths.bsky.social

Did my first moth trap last night and was happy with these pics of a smoky wainscot on buddleia. Not too many moths but am still learning!! #teammoth

Chuffed to see a hummingbird hawk moth laying eggs on my bedstraw, was well worth planting!! #teammoth

Small ranunculus? In my bathroom, wimborne #teammoth

New data on insect pollinators show a dramatic decline in hoverflies across Great Britain between 2017–2024. 📉 Around one third reduction in abundance & number of hoverfly species recorded as part of @pomscheme.bsky.social www.ceh.ac.uk/press/new-da... 1/ @jncc.bsky.social 🧪

Must be at least 35 swifts above and around my house in wimborne at the moment, amazing scenes and lots of screaming #dorsetbirds

Amazing numbers of silver studded blue at Morden bog today, must have been in the hundreds! Also painted ladies, small heath, meadow browns, and several fast flying fritillaries unable to id #butterflies @savebutterflies.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

A very rewarding trip to Morden bog this morning, highlights were singing tree pipits, woodlark, yellowhammer, cuckoo, with 2+ redstarts and many dartford warblers and fledged stonechats. #dorsetbirds #birds @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

This afternoon North Yorkshire Police announced the suspicious disappearance of young male White-tailed Eagle G834, the first to fledge from Dorset in centuries. This eagle was special for multiple reasons, not only his historic status but also wowing visitors & school children around Poole Harbour

Please don’t put out hair for bird nests. Chicks get entangled in hair balls. Just had to cut hair strands that were tying 3 blue tit chicks together, and wrapped round the throat of one skinny chick that couldn’t swallow food. Hopefully saved in time 🤞

Today I spoke in Parliament to congratulate Dorset Wildlife Trust and local people on their incredible efforts to secure Upton Heath. I asked the Prime Minister to demonstrate his commitment to nature and to legislate to extinguish historic planning consents.

Beautiful bluebells in Wimborne this afternoon. #bluebells #wildflowers

Of course!

Bluethroat is still at Swineham! Gave us a shock when it landed on the path in front of us #ukbirding @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social

Nursery web spider in my garden today. Enjoying the lovely weather! #spiders #ukspiders #ukwildlife

🚨 SAVE UPTON HEATH 🚨 Dorset Wildlife Trust is urgently raising funds to protect vital internationally important heathland at risk. ⚠️ Home to rare species such as smooth snake and Dartford warbler, this special place could be lost. Donate and share 💚👉 bit.ly/4mbKIqQ ~ Jack

3 eagles circling low at kimmeridge yesterday, unfortunately not the best light for photos but still the first time I’ve been able to photograph them with my camera! From what i could see they all looked like juveniles #dorsetbirds #ukbirding

Very windy at dawlish warren today, the highlights were at least 5 wheatear and 2 beautifully plumaged little grebes on the pond. Also 10+ sandwich terns, single red throated diver, reed buntings, curlews, stonechats. Feels like spring despite the wind! #devonbirds #ukbirds

BBC headline utterly failing. ‘The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos’ It’s not the rail line that “keeps causing travel chaos” its the shifting climate with more prolonged and intense rainfall and more frequent storms leading to landslips and the sea wall being washed out.

Andrew Sissons@acjsissons.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Dawlish - Teignmouth railway line feels like the absolute front line of climate adaptation in Britain (a test we are not passing so far). And yet somehow, somehow, this article manages to go in-depth on the problems with the line without mentioning the climate once. The sea is literally higher!

Just seen at least 3 white tailed eagles over the river in Blandford #dorsetbirds #ukbirding

FOURTH White-tailed Eagle disappears - RSPB offers reward for information leading to a conviction for this one or any of the other three. New blog ⬇️⬇️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...

Fourth White-tailed Eagle ‘disappears’ & RSPB offers £10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction

Following the appalling news over the last couple of days about the highly suspicious, and almost certainly criminal, disappearance of three satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles here, here and here…

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Rainy bowling green marsh this morning - c150 avocet, blackwits, redshanks, curlews, lapwings, snipe, dunlin, kestrel, 1 barwit, 6 greenshank, 1 spot red #devonbirds

Great to see some velvet scoters at Dawlish warren today, a tick for me. Also a spoonbill flyover and at least 7 common scoter #devonbirds

Was lovely to see the Hamworthy snow bunting so close earlier! #dorsetbirds #birds @harbourbirds.bsky.social