Jack Levene

Glossy Ibis (Plegadis falcinellus)

This Glossy Ibis on the River Stour near Flatford was a welcome addition to my Local Patch list. #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

09.10.2025 22:44 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Red-tailed Shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides)

Red-tailed Shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides) with wasp

Red-tailed Shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides) with bumblebee in larder. see extreme left.

The Red-tailed (Turkestan) Shrike (Lanius phoenicuroides) at Dunwich Heath gave wonderful, prolonged views. The bird was feeding actively, the majority of prey items were wasps but was also catching spiders and bumblebees which it was also storing in a larder for later (see LH side of third photo)

07.10.2025 17:22 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just finished converting the Wildlife Recorder species IOC taxonomy to AviList. There are a lot of lumps, my World list of 3061 species lost 19 to lumps e.g Carrion and Hooded Crow are lumped and are now groups in a single species. Update is now available to Wildlife Recorder users

03.10.2025 09:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Dusky-lemon Sallow (Cirrhia gilvago)

Merveille-Du-jour (Griposia aprilina)

Last nights trap 106 moths of 24 species including a 2nd very worn Clifden Nonpareil and a garden record 12 Clancey's Rustic. NFY were Merveille du Jour and Dusky-lemon Sallow only the 3rd record here in 25 years of recording.
#teammoth #suffolkmoths

02.10.2025 23:35 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Scarce Silver-lines

Clifden Nonpareil

A distinct autumnal feel to the moth trap last night with 94 moths of 25 species, 23 were Lunar Underwings. Highlights were a splendid Clifden Nonpareil, Pearly Underwing, 4 Clancey's Rustic and a very late Scarce-Silverlines.
#teammoth #suffolkmoths

30.09.2025 23:00 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Eurasian Wryneck (Jynx torquilla torquilla)

Eurasian Wryneck (Jynx torquilla torquilla)

Eurasian Wryneck (Jynx torquilla torquilla)

A morning visit to Landguard produced brief, un-photographable views of the Hoopoe but excellent close views of the Wryneck. Nice to bump into @nickburfield.bsky.social at the Hoopoe site.

14.09.2025 16:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Clancy's Rustic (Caradrina kadenii)

Beet Moth (Scrobipalpa ocellatella)

Cypress Pug (Eupithecia phoeniceata)

A coldish night with bright skies was not the best time to put out the MV trap so only 27 of 14 species were trapped.
Of note , for my garden, were 1 Clancy's Rustic, I Cypress Pug and 1 Beet moth.

14.09.2025 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks

29.08.2025 09:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mating pair of Common Blue butterflies.

Male Common Blue

A walk around Landguard Common yesterday produced a few migrant birds including Common Whitethroat, Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler. Good number of Common Blue butterflies still about, many very fresh, and at least one pair mating. Also a few Small Heath, Small Coppers and Whites.

28.08.2025 15:12 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rosy Knot-horn (Oncocera semirubella)

173 of 51 species in my VC25 garden MV trapincluded the second Clancy's Rustic (Caradrina kadenii) of the year. Possible migrants include 2 Rush Veneer (Nomophila noctuella), 1 Delicate (Mythimna vitellina) and 1 Rosy Knot-horn (Oncocera semirubella), only the 3rd record for my garden.
#teammoth

28.08.2025 15:03 — 👍 34    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Male Zitting Cisticola

Zitting Cisticola

Four Zitting Cisticolas are visible in this shot

This is the best I could manage of the Walberswick Zitting Cistocolas. Even using a doubler and the built in teleconverter on my lens they were always just a bit too distant. In the third shot four of the Cisticolas can be seen.

27.08.2025 08:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Marbled Clover (Heliothis viriplaca)

Just 1 week after the first Marbled Clover (Heliothis viriplaca) for my garden another was present in my MV trap.
#teammoth #suffolkmoths

06.08.2025 12:13 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

634 including micros

01.08.2025 19:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Juvenile Black Stork

Juvenile Black Stork catching a water snail

The Black Stork at Boyton showed extremely well and was feeding up on a mixture of small fish, invertebrates and water snails.

01.08.2025 17:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Male, Black Darter (Sympetrum danae)

Female, Black Darter (Sympetrum danae)

Black Darter (Sympetrum danae) pair

Keeled Skimmer (Orthetrum coerulescens)

A visit to Dersingham Bog in Norfolk last week produced excellent views of several Black Darters and Keeled Skimmers .

01.08.2025 17:47 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Crescent (Helotropha leucostigma)

Marbled Clover (Heliothis viriplaca)

Star-wort (Cucullia asteris)

I have been trapping moths in my garden since 2001 so it is not often I get any new macros. Three new species in the last few weeks is a nice surprise.
#teammoth

01.08.2025 17:34 — 👍 24    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dark Green Fritillary, Grantown-on-Spey

Northern Brown Argus, Grantown-On-Spey

Northern Brown Argus, Grantown-On-Spey

Northern Damselfly, Loch Garten

... on Speyside Northern Damselflies were plentiful at the usual pond near Loch Garten. At a new site, for me, near Grantown there were plenty of Northern Brown Argus and Dark Green Fritillary.

01.08.2025 15:14 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brilliant Emerald, Loch Bran

White-faced Darter

Northern Emerald, Beinn Eighe

Azure Hawker, Beinn Eighe

Just finished processing my shots from this years Scotland trip from end June to early July. All target dragonflies seen well but Azure Hawker was difficult with only one individual seen in 5 days searching ...

01.08.2025 15:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

35 years ago on this day in 1990 I photographed this Pallas's Sandgrouse at Loch of Hillwell, Mainland Shetland.

29.05.2025 18:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Small Blue

Small Blue

Small Blue

Adonis Blue

Yesterday had a successful trip into Cambridgeshire for Small Blue and Adonis Blue. Small Blue was easy to find at Magog Down and present in good numbers. Adonis Blue at Newmarket Devil's Dyke was more of an effort to find in breezy and mostly overcast conditions but eventually I found at least 3.

24.05.2025 22:25 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Green-veined White

Small White, Green-veined White and Peacock on the wing at Alton Water, Suffolk today.

08.04.2025 21:38 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Oak Beauty

March Moth

First moth trapping session in my garden this year produced 20 moths of 9 species.

09.03.2025 12:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

European Greenfinch (Chloris Chloris)

Formerly a common daily visitor to my garden feeders this Greenfinch, photographed yesterday, is the first in the garden this year.

09.03.2025 12:52 — 👍 21    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

On this day in 1990 I made a second visit to see this Naumann's Thrush in Chingford Essex. This photo was taken on my first visit in February

05.03.2025 19:12 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I do!

22.02.2025 21:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0