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5000th of a second shutter speed was used to take this Hummingbird Hawkmoth on Sand Point this AM @wildlife_uk
Thousands of ladybirds in Weston-super-Mare today, similar numbers to 1995. Westerly movement over the garden currently, too many to count.
2 Waxwings in Weston-super-Mare in trees at the entrance to Hutton Moor Sports Centre @bristolbirding
Sand Point vismig by 9:30am: 510 Mipit, 230 Goldfinch, 40 Linnet, 11 alba wagtail, 140 Woodpigeon, 2 Stock dove + 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Wheatear, 1 Sand Martin
Sand Point: 2 Sand Martin off St Thomas's Head, 7 Chiffchaff (5 singing). Vismig 68 Mipit, 4 Grey Wag, 9 Goldfinch, 8 Chaffinch, 17 alba wag @somersetbirds
Photographed at Brean Down, Somerset on 26th January appears to be Autophila anaphanes or cataphanes but also Large Tabby suggested. Wonder what twitter people think? @MothIDUK @dgcountryside @MigrantMothUK @davenevitt
Anchor Head this AM: 5,300 Dunlin down, 300 BHG up, 1 Golden Plover down. No sea birds. @bristolbirding
Black Redstart, 2 (m+f) Pintail and a Ring Ouzel at Brean Down this morning @somersetbirds
Sand Point: A Shag hung around for a few minutes before flying out towards Steep Holm, 10 Grey Plover down channel and a female Common Scoter with Teal and Wigeon in Woodspring Bay @bristolbirding
Sand Point: 1,500+ Dunlin flying up and down mid channel for several minutes before heading out, 13 Grey Plover down channel. 17 Avocet swimming in Woodspring Bay then flew towards the Yeo.
A well attended moth meeting at Lord's Wood last night. Fortunately there were more moths than moth'ers.
Cloaked Carpet in the garden trap last night plus Chrysoesthia drurella mines and The Nutmeg larva on Chenopodium album around Weston today.
All found on Mugwort yesterday: Presumed Angle-barred Pug, Coleophora artemisicolella, Macrosiphoniella artemisiae and Dichrorampha simpliciana.
Leaf mines from around Weston in the last week: Chrysoesthia sexgutella on Atriplex, Ectoedemia atricollis on Hawthorn, Callisto denticulella on Apple and Ectoedemia louisella on Field Maple seed.
