@andrewlipczynski.bsky.social
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.
Really sorry to hear that Roger.
04.03.2026 16:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
While on Fuerteventura kept an eye out for day-flyers. Masses of Banded Sable (Spoladea recurvalis) plus Silver-Y, Scarce Bordered Straw, Striped Hawkmoth & Crimson Speckled. Best find were eggs & larvae of Polytela cliens making short work of the bloom of Brown Bells, Dipcadi serotinum. #teammoth
04.03.2026 10:21 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Amen to that!
04.03.2026 09:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#KentBirding
03.03.2026 14:10 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A pair of Sahara Bluetails, Ischnura saharensis, in tandem. But it wasn't just the inverts making merry. We saw Spectacled Warblers, Fuerteventura Stonechats and Cream-coloured Coursers with young on the @mariposanature.bsky.social tour - as well as these Spanish Sparrows - mamá y los dos niños.😀
28.02.2026 09:42 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Another pierid from Africa that colonised Fuerteventura & Lanzarote is Greenish Black-tip, Euchloe charlonia. Previous @mariposanature.bsky.social tours struggled to see it but no worries this spring. They were 'everywhere' although as wind picked up they favoured sheltered areas - they're not daft!
28.02.2026 06:50 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Last year I thought was lucky to see a single Corsican Dappled White, Euchloe insularis, on Sardinia. This year with @mariposanature.bsky.social we've been knee-deep (almost) in the related (same genus) endemic Fuerteventura Green-striped White, E. hesperidum. Very active so a challenge for the 📷.
26.02.2026 22:00 — 👍 28 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Another Island, another Bluetail. This time it's Fuerteventura with @mariposanature.bsky.social. A once-in-a-decade green spring has resulted in an explosion of invertebrates - first up the Sahara Bluetail, Ischnura saharensis, an African species that has colonised most of the Canaries. Espléndido!
25.02.2026 06:54 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Lucky you!😀
18.02.2026 20:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A charming family party on Worth Marshes in Kent in January - we call 'em Granada Geese down here...
18.02.2026 18:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A young person is holding a bird in their hand. Wording below reads: young bird observatory visitors programme. bto.org/ybov.
Apply for our Young Bird Observatory Visitors Programme grant ➡️ www.bto.org/ybov
Each year the BTO provide a number of grants of up to £250, to support young people looking to visit one of the accredited British and Irish Bird Observatories.
Closing date: Sunday 1 March. #UKBirding
I don't think it definitive/diagnostic but any photos / video grabs of the spread tail Martin? - t6 looks very clean and white
17.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Thank you - appreciated!
16.02.2026 20:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@britishdragonflies.bsky.social #KentNature
16.02.2026 20:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly, Ischnura pumilio, immature female ‘aurantiaca’, Dragonfly Pond, Sandwich Bay, 16th May, 2025. First breeding record for Kent
Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly, Ischnura pumilio, immature female ‘aurantiaca’, Dragonfly Pond, Sandwich Bay, 17th July 2025. Second wave emergence.
Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly, Ischnura pumilio, mature female, Sandwich Bay, 11th August 2025.
Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly, Ischnura pumilio, mature male, Sandwich Bay, last of the year, 19th September 2025
Bad weather so cracking on with 2025 Sandwich Bay Dragonfly report. 30 sp & Zygoptera section done. Scarce Blue-tailed Damselfly breeding confirmed; a surreal experience of surveying pumilio thru 'swarms' of Dainty Damselflies - a scenario inconceivable 2 years ago. 🤯@britishdragonflies.bsky.social
16.02.2026 20:12 — 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
KOS Site of the month – February
The Ancient Highway running between Deal and Sandwich Bay allows viewing over Worth Marsh which has been a goose hot spot this winter with at least six species there. Look out as well for partridge and wintering wildfowl and waders. #kentbirding
3rd time lucky? Another trip down to Scotney and thanks to directions from @dungenessowen.bsky.social a distant view of the baldpate aka ♂️American Wigeon in torrential rain and gloom and then lost. Perhaps time to revisit (yet again) the i.d. of this ♀️on Worth Marshes 04/03/24 #KentBirding
12.02.2026 22:09 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please don't tell me that was yesterday / Monday morning Nige? I've only dipped twice so far 😬
10.02.2026 14:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sedge Warbler ringed at Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory on 10/08/2025 was recovered 163 days later and 2603 miles away in Djoudj National Bird Park, Senegal. See...
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Hi Paul, best to see attached..
28.01.2026 10:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Christmas came a little late this year but came it did. Volume I of Vadim Tshikolovets' Butterflies of the Western Palaearctic.
To misquote Captain Oates, "I am just going inside and may be some time"
©Lan Grayling, many thanks. 👍🏻
This 1st winter was present for seven days at Gorie, Bressay, Shetland from the 4th - 10th October 2023 - ©Penny Clarke - many thanks. 👍🏻
January 24th: UK FIRST RECORDS: 🥇
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER
Vermivora chrysoptera
An adult male from January 24th to April 10th 1989 at Larkfield, Maidstone, Kent.
WHITE'S THRUSH
Zoothera aurea
January 24th 1828 at Heron Court, Christchurch, Dorset.
#UKrares
#rarebirdsUK
#UKbirding
I tend to steer well clear of politics on this feed but if you need to see true leadership and an alternative more positive view away from Trump's/Putin's/Xi Jinping's 'new world order' listen/watch Mark Carney's speech at Davos. Go Canada / Allez Canada. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDMy...
22.01.2026 13:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Worth (west side) WeBS: yet to compare results from the guys working the east side but certainly all go this morning on the marshes. c6000 Lapwing, c2500 Wigeon, 250+ White-fronted with 8 Pink-footed Geese all over the shop this morning. Cream-crackered & feeling my age by the end 😮💨🥵. #Kentbirding
18.01.2026 20:06 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yep Adrian, I met dear Dennis when I first visited the Bay after moving down to Sandwich. I learned a lot - birds, butterflies, dragonflies, etc - record everything / write it down. We used to have a commemorative 'Dennis Day' when we all went out birding in jacket, tie and brogues. Happy days!
17.01.2026 19:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Time and Tide Brewing, Felderland Lane, between Worth and Eastry - but can no longer see it on their website? ☹️
16.01.2026 22:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Crockham Red-flanked Bluetail prompted a trip down memory lane. Record shot of the King George V Park Ramsgate bird 2/11/08. Closer to home, the juv. ♂️at Sandwich on 20/10/15. Harassed continually by Robins it remained until the 25th. 1st for the Bay 28/10/56 was taken by a weasel 😬 #Kentbirding
16.01.2026 20:45 — 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Always great to get proper wild geese on your WeBS count, even if nearby & then as 'fly-overs'. 27 Tundra Beans in the field between @kentwildlife.bsky.social Ham Fen NR and Updown Road, Ham. 6 Jack Snipe & 5 Woodcock were nice bonuses. There really was only one way to celebrate 🍺. #Kentbirding
16.01.2026 19:55 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yep - that’s where they’re usual are but they have favourite bushes/trees in the middle of the marsh where they gather
15.01.2026 15:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The Central Asian Lesser Whitethroat, Sylvia curruca halimodendri, Sandwich Bay Bird Obs, 4th October 2024 confirmed by DNA
14.01.2026 20:28 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0