I found these two #sawflies at Bintree Wood in May and have now identified them as Aneugmenus fuerstenbergensis (both males) which is apparently new for Norfolk. Thanks to @andymus.bsky.social for confirming.
This bug was in my garden moth trap on Sat night and I think it's Brachyarthrum limitatum.
AI suggested Orthonotus rufifrons but seems to have been trained on a couple of photos purporting to be rufifrons which I believe are actually misidentified limitatum. #Hemiptera @arcanelove.bsky.social
Dave Appleton
Dave Appleton
An amazing find in Perthshire- an adult Robin repeatedly feeding a recently-fledged Dipper! Interspecific feeding is recorded from time-to-time, but it's rare and a phenomenal thing to witness first-hand. Huge thanks to James Clements for reporting it. #BirdingScotland
#BirdHybrid Brown Booby x Masked Booby!
They aren’t #BirdHybrids but they’re trying…
Highlights from the #TeamMoth trap so far this week: Lime Hawk-moth, only my third here in 11 years, and last night an unexpected addition to the garden list, perhaps carried here from the Brecks on the SW breeze: Thisanotia chrysonuchella (Powdered Grass-moth). #NorfolkMoths
Waiting for a train yesterday evening, sitting on the Canalside Green Steps at London's Coal Drop Yard, my wife noticed moths flitting around the ivy at the edge of the steps. I went over and found several pairs of the recent colonist Clepsis dumicolana (Banded Ivy Tortrix). #LondonMoths #TeamMoth
Last night I think the White Ermines may have been suffering from an inferiority complex. Here is one dwarfed by a Puss Moth and one being quite literally trampled on by a Poplar Hawk-moth. Or may be the hawk-moth was just trying to give it a cuddle? #TeamMoth #NorfolkMoths
This hand-held video won’t win any cinematography awards but was just taken using only my phone while I’m sitting at my desk in my study: an unexpected garden tick in the form of a very vocal Spotted Flycatcher right outside my window. Nice start to the day. youtube.com/shorts/De2ah... #NorfolkBirds
How is a man meant to work with all this activity going on just outside his window. First Spotted Flycatcher and now this handsome Swallow having a sing-song (and 3 Oystercatchers noisily chasing each other over the houses as I type this). #NorfolkBirding 🪶 youtu.be/RMbooI1qZdo?...
Masked Booby has recently been documented breeding on Ilha Brava, Cape Verde, with adults observed in Brown Booby colonies and apparent Brown × Masked Booby hybrids photographed:
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Sam Viles reports on a surprising discovery from Cape Verde, where at least one Masked Booby has been found nesting in a Brown Booby colony and apparent hybrids photographed.
The UK’s strangest avian couple at the Long Nanny, Northumberland this morning - the female American Black Tern with the same male Arctic Tern she bred (unsuccessfully) with in 2024. A small nest scrape but no eggs as yet. #NEbirding #rarebirdsUK
