Mike Hetherington

Orcas, Steller’s Sea-lion and Humpback Whale. Just a typical afternoon in the Johnstone Strait, Bc, 🇨🇦

Female Grizzly Bear on a rocky shoreline with a small bear cub peering out behind her.

Boat into Knight Inlet, Great Bear Rainforest BC 🇨🇦. Two Grizzly Bear mums with cubs, watched from a respectful distance. Magical. #biodiversity

Cedar Waxwing may be a common resident species on Vancouver Island BC 🇨🇦, but it’s an exciting bird to see for a visiting UK birder.
#BirdsofCanada

Kinney Lake, Mount Robson Provincial Park, BC, Canada 🇨🇦

Worth the hike.

Great images.

My first Bee Wolf (Philanthus triangulum), filmed entombing its latest bee victim near heathland at @rspb.bsky.social Arne, Dorset UK today. Previously a rarity in England, its range has expanded significantly.
#Buglife
(Apologies to
@davegoulson.bsky.social!)

Worth crossing the border for!

Double Line, very much a moth of SW England’s woodlands, was the highlight of trapping at Killerton, Devon @nationaltrust.org.uk on Friday night.
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Great photo!

I'd be tempted just to record it as janthe if you're not going to investigate the 'wing thing'. But it depends on the view of your CMR I guess.

Yep!

Small Marbled | UKmoths

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There’s nothing ‘potential’ about your Small Marbled!

Pearly Underwing

Small Mottled Willow

A small migrant #moth arrival here in W Dorset UK last night (28/6) with Pearly Underwing new for the year, Small Mottled Willow (3), Diamond-back Moth (3), Rusty-dot Pearl (5), Olive-tree Pearl (2) and Silver Y (1)
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Another good night for moths in W Dorset, UK with 111 species and much wandering. New for the site were Sulphur Pearl (mainly grasslands), Silky and Brown-veined Wainscots (both wetland species) and Lunar-spotted Pinion.
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Nice one!

Some stunning local moths turned up last night here in West Dorset, UK: Scarlet Tiger, Gothic, Lappet & Beautiful Golden Y. The last three have declined over the last 30 years (so good to see), but Scarlet Tiger numbers are up 🙂. #teammoth
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Striped Hawkmoth - Hyles Livonia

Olive-tree Pearl - Palpita vitrealis

Bordered Straw - Heliothis peters

Great night for migrant #moths here in West Dorset UK. Highlights were Striped Hawk-moth (first for the site), Olive-tree Pearl and Bordered Straw.
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Fabulous day. We’ve been meaning to climb Foinaven for years.

Starry Saxifrage - Saxifraga stellaris (love this plant)

Cyphel - Minuartia sedoides

Alpine Mouse-ear - Cerastium alpinum

View NE from summit ridge of Foinaven. Ben Hope in the distance.

Botanising on Foinaven, NW Highlands #Scotland at ~800m. A wet flush containing Starry Saxifrage (❤️), Cyphel and Alpine Mouse-ear was a great excuse to get my breath back on the steep climb
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Shaded Pug

Pine Shoot Moth

Olive-tree Pearl

Common Lutestring

77 #moth species last night (W Dorset, UK), including two new for the site: Shaded Pug and Pine Shoot Moth (Rhyacionia buoliana). Many more were new for the year including Olive-tree Pearl (Palpita vitrealis) and Common Lutestring.
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Dorset Moths The Moths of Dorset.

The Dorset Moths website www.dorsetmoths.co.uk maps have now been updated to include records up and including 2023. Micro-moth data is coming this autumn.

Get full site access by donating £25: this goes to direct Lepidoptera UK and helps cover website costs. (Other subscriptions are available.)

Magpie moth

Barred Yellow

Beautiful Hook-tip - not in fact in the Hook-tip family (Drepanidae)

Rush Veneer - a common immigrant moth, but the first here this year.

A nice selection of #moth firsts for the year last night (West Dorset, VC9) including Magpie, Barred Yellow, Beautiful Hook-tip and a single migrant Rush Veneer.
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Pristine Five-spot Burnet #moth on Bird's-foot Trefoil at @savebutterflies.bsky.social Lankham Bottom reserve yesterday. Plenty of Six-spots around too, plus a single (camera shy) Wood Tiger.
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Common Dodder Cuscuta epithymum, a colourful, creeping parasitic tangle of a plant, at @rspb.bsky.social Arne on the Dorset heathlands yesterday.
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Comparing impacts of fragmentation on bird functional and phylogenetic diversity in primary and secondary rainforests We show that compensatory patterns of species introduction fail to account for the loss of ecosystem functions due to the decline of forest-dependent birds. As such, conservation policies should be t...

Apologies...hopefully this one does: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Great, thanks 👍

Link doesn’t work, I’m afraid ☹️

Excellent stuff. John gave us lectures on plant ecology at Edinburgh more years ago than I (or he, I guess) would care to remember. An inspiring teacher. 🌱

Excited to see a new moth for the garden (West Dorset, UK) - this Yellow Belle, a grassland species that doesn't usually stray far from the coast. He's a male: check out the feathered antennae!
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