James Lowther

Juvenile green woodpecker in the trees at the edge of the north end of RSPB radipole reserve. It or another very noisy bird has been hanging around here for the last couple of weeks

With the UK’s combined sewage system (foul sewage and rainwater runoff in the same pipe) complete elimination of pollution is essentially impossible. Infrastructure improvements can reduce it but the system’s designed to bypass sewage treatment and discharge directly under heavy rainfall conditions

Thanks a lot that’s reassuring

I need my armour replacing too, do you know if they replace with the new more robust armour?

There are extra complications with hyphens and capitalisation though, e.g. in Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle

The landslip at Seaton in east Devon has huge number of marsh helleborines, I guess similar habitat. Also a few marsh fragrant orchids there

Did I? I didn’t realise if I did 😀

That’s two big “ifs”. No indication Avilist will follow US preferences (at the moment it’s taking IOC English names as default). And no indication that BOU will abandon local vernacular names. At present BOU uses IOC taxonomy but provides IOC English names as alternatives to vernacular names only.

Saw some there last year when the scarlet darters were there

BOU list has always included British English names. This also includes a different type of case where the local name makes no sense globally e.g. wren, blackbird, robin, eider etc see here bou.org.uk/wp-content/u... no reason to think that will change

Avilist hasn’t addressed English names properly yet so I wouldn’t worry too much about what they are currently

Next time!

Well…hate to say it but Manx and/or Balearic were still showing pretty regularly up until 1300 when I left. Mostly pretty distant, beyond the race

Sooty shearwater off Portland Bill 1140-1220 at least, mostly sat on the sea at long range, almost impossible to pick up if you don’t know it’s there. But originally picked up flying around at medium range. Lots of Manx and Balearic milling around too, some showing quite well

Yes Sphaerophoria female

Agree with Geoff, spotted leaves are pro spotted orchid ancestry

Stock dove showing nicely on neighbours roof (phone-binned photo)

Spotted flycatcher north end of radipole RSPB Weymouth

Followed almost immediately by a mating pair of hairy dragonflies (too distant to photograph). Also beautiful and banded demoiselles, blue-tailed and azure damsels, no wonder the hobbies are out in force at radipole at the moment!

This dragonfly in my garden in Weymouth is scarce chaser correct?

Nice views of a perched female hairy dragonfly near the dilapidated bridge at chafey’s lake, Weymouth

Dire wolves remain very extinct Despite what you are being fed, de-extinction is a con, full of gloss, bullshit and ghoulish greed.

HULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES.

Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy.

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Link doesn’t work, second report on this list www.cefas.co.uk/foodborne-vi...

Still extremely rare in Britain. It is also a foodborne infection risk linked to unpasteurised dairy. See section 7 of this report! www.cefas.co.uk/media/fo3jnk...

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Subalpine warbler spp police fields southill

Cuckoo, willow warbler, swallow and house martin all seen at pilsdon pen, west Dorset

Flock of 20 or so sand martin prospecting the nesting bank at radipole RSPB

Reed warbler singing at radipole RSPB, Weymouth, near start of buddleia loop

Red kite overhead two mile coppice Weymouth at around 1210