Drake Scaup (right!) with Tufties at Brookland Lake, New Hythe, today. It needs another visit from me when the sun is shining⦠@kentishplover.bsky.social #kentbirding #ukbirding
22.11.2025 16:31 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Possible Xylaria cinerea #fungi at Ranscombe Farm, Kent, @plantlifeuk.bsky.social this afternoon. Would be interested in ID comments please. @kentfieldclub.bsky.social #fungifriend #kentnature
16.11.2025 17:18 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
That Green Elf Cap looks fun! Looks like it would show up nicely with a UV torch.
09.11.2025 20:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Dusky Warbler at Westgate, Kent, this afternoon - calling frequently and showing well occasionally. #KentBirding #RareBirdsUK
08.11.2025 14:28 β π 38 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Yellow-necked Mouse at East Malling today - had found dead ones in local buildings, so nice to get a live one! #KentNature #ukmammals @kentfieldclub.bsky.social
28.10.2025 20:54 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Baird's Sandpiper currently in residence at Rutland Water - a superb little performer which, although not actually aggressive, does approach cameras with little hestitation...! #RareBirdsUK #UKbirding #Waders
14.10.2025 14:03 β π 24 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Turkestan Shrike at Dunwich Heath NR - a stunning wee chap! #RareBirdsUK #SuffolkBirding
05.10.2025 17:57 β π 44 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Whinchat at East Malling Resaerch Station this lunchtime - has been knocking about with a few Stonechats this week. #KentBirding @kentishplover.bsky.social #birding
03.10.2025 13:23 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Red-breasted Fly showed well, but briefly, in South View garden at Dungeness this lunchtime. #KentBirding #RareBirdsUK
02.10.2025 13:05 β π 39 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Clouded Yellow (F) and Common Blue at East Malling this week - enjoying some wildflower-smothered headlands. Best we enjoy them for last few weeks we have them! #KentNature #UKButterflies
01.10.2025 17:33 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Lesser Grey Shrike (Winterton) and Lesser Yellowlegs (Etton Maxey) - a great double-act in the sun today. #RareBirdsUK
28.09.2025 22:17 β π 25 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Nice alula you got there Rachel.
23.09.2025 07:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Kentish Plover found by @seasalterbirder.bsky.social - distant by the time I got to it... #KentBirding
20.09.2025 18:59 β π 19 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Lovely Grey Phalarope at Mercer CP, Surrey, after the office today. Hopefully itβll reorientate back out to the open ocean. @rarebirder.bsky.social #UKBirding
18.09.2025 18:11 β π 28 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Male Red-footed Falcon at Elmley NNR this lunchtime - a stunning little performer! #RareBirdsUK #kentbirding @rarebirder.bsky.social #UKBirding
16.09.2025 14:30 β π 54 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
Any thoughts on who would be interested in the specimen?
12.09.2025 08:26 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
#KentNature
11.09.2025 17:46 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Tiny (3mm) Ant on the office desk this afternoon (East Malling). ObsIdentify comes up with Crematogaster scutellaris (mainly). Possibly rare: probably imported. @ianbeavis.bsky.social @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social @kentfieldclub.bsky.social
11.09.2025 17:42 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 3 π 0
Queen of Spain Fritillary butterfly at Pantlife's lovely Ranscombe Farm reserve, this afternoon (14:05). @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #KentNature
10.08.2025 14:11 β π 28 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
A black beetle with distinctive orange shoulders, on a brick wall that has holes in the mortar. (Sitaris muralis.)
Foreground shows at least 3 black beetles with orange shoulders in a big pile. They all have weird reduced elytra that don't fully cover the wings or abdomen. Background shows another beetle. All are on concrete with sandy surface.
A very distended S. muralis in a glass tube. Abdomen is dark brown, rest of beetle is black apart from distinctive yellow-orange shoulders. Beetle is right way up but legs scrunched under it as dead.
A hole in brickwork/mortar with spider webbing forming a tunnel, in which a large dark coloured spider sits among at least 2 dead Sitaris muralis beetles.
A particular feature of the site is that is has a population of Sitaris muralis that was first noted by @baldbirder.bsky.social in 2024 and was back in force this year. The beetles parasitise nests of Anthophora plumipes. [2/]
03.08.2025 19:07 β π 12 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Fun arenβt they!
02.08.2025 19:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A very nice find Sarah! #kentnature
07.07.2025 09:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Nice one!
30.06.2025 09:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Lovely stuff!
26.06.2025 22:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Lots of lovely fun and a darn sight better than the juvvy βPink Stinksβ that occur more commonly in Autumn. Worth a quick evening tripβ¦
11.06.2025 22:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Stunning Rose-coloured Starling at @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social this evening - one of two great finds today by Jacob at the Obs (other being Bee-eater). #KentBirding #RareBirdsUK
11.06.2025 19:40 β π 38 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
Slightly late to the Hudsonian Godwit party at Titchfield Haven NNR this afternoon - ten years after my first. Very smart adult female bird that had the decency to lift her wings on a few occasions... @rarebirder.bsky.social @gnhbirder66.bsky.social #RareBirdsUK #UKBirding
18.05.2025 17:48 β π 30 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Whiskered Tern on Hookers Pit, RSPB Dungeness, this evening. A super little performer! #KentBirding #RareBirdsUK @rspb.bsky.social
13.05.2025 20:34 β π 39 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Senior Conservation Scientist at RSPB | Obsessed with #seabirds and islands | Likes to be outside π³π²πββοΈ | Views are my own | she/her
A daily review of BOU/ BBRC accepted records of rare birds in Britain.
The most recent addition is BOOTED EAGLE and the list currently stands at 641.
Some Western P stuff from time to time.
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Surrey-based naturalist on the edge of Greater London with a particular interest in bird migration, lepidoptera and botany. A liking for searching the under-recorded parts of the North Downs.
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Enjoying the search for visible biodiversity.
Freelance entomologist specialising in reserve management, conservation grazing, rewilding & farming. 2nd place pan-species listing. Spiders. Bugs. Grew up below poverty line. AuDHD. Writing this https://pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan-species-listing
Life-long passionate learner (and woeful photographer) of all things wild & wonderful!
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βI was so much older then, Iβm younger than that now!β And birding in Alnmouth, the county of Northumberland and beyond, is my game.
Kent-based naturalist, with a particular affection for plants, Orthopterans, aculeates, birds. Retired after a career in conservation. I'm here for wildlife, but can't promise not to repost the occasional political piece.
British and Irish orchids, with occasional orchid posts from other areas.
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Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory, Sandwich Monks Wall Nature Reserve, RSPB, BTO, Kent Ornithological Society, Kent Moth Group, Kent Wildlife Trust, Butterfly Conservation UK/Europe, British Dragonfly Society, Western Palearctic pan-lister. UNICEF, MSF.
Lydd on Sea resident, now happily Retired, enthusiastic observer of Birds, Moths, Butterflies, Dragonflies & some plants plus photography, usually found in the Dungeness area or close by.
Collect Hobbies of which Birding is the most time consuming.
Birds, bonsai, brewing and moths. East Kent VC15
Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecologist at the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology. Expect science, wildlife pictures and bike stuff (but not in that particular order).
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