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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

A lovely Large Emerald moth doing its best impression of a butterfly today in North Suffolk @suffolkmoths.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social #MothsMatter

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

In July 2024, 3 mystery moths appeared in my moth trap. They turned out to be the UK's first Grapholita delineana. In June 2025 I was very pleased to find another in my trap followed by several more in July. Yesterday I spotted 2 at rest on the garden Hop @BritishMoths

The Hemp Tortrix. A small brownish moth in its typical 'bum up' resting position on Hop

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Purple Hairstreak, Coastal Suffolk. Apologies, my last post included a photo which wasn't mine... It was auto saved from a WhatsApp group. This one is mine from the Suffolk coast! @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Beach survey today. This Avocet always does an elaborate "broken wing" dance before settling back onto the nest. Also, one of 4 Ringed Plover chicks so far.

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Really having fun with the Dwarf Lab D3 from my Suffolk garden

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Lowestoft Life 15th-30th September 2025 A birding relict, Norfolk shrikes and some late September mothage. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/lowe... @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #SuffolkBirds #NorfolkBirding @suffolkmoths.bsky.social

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

#Estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 3rd October 2025 A morning at Spithami watching the waves before the forests gave up some of their secrets as the sun set. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto... @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2025

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

#estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 4th October 2025 We made our way towards Saaremaa & memories of a frozen landscape 14 years ago came flooding back but were soon to be eclipsed by 300 bugling Cranes @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2025 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto...

Red Kite - one of two - a scarce Estonian bird

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 5th October 2025 A day on the Sõrve Peninsular watching migration happen all around us. A notch up on Puise and a taste of things to come. @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto...

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

#Estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 6 Oct '25 In 3h15m on the Sõrve peninsular we counted a staggering 27,576 Tits & 8331 Finches along with 595 Goldcrests. The mind was truly boggled and the flabber gasted. @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto...

Northern Long Tailed Tit stopping for a rest

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

#Lowestoft Life - 7th -12th October 2025 Back to Blighty with a touch of an eastern Autumn and some garden mothing. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/lowe... @suffolkmoths.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Join me (& @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social of course) in #Estonia next March with @oriolebirding.bsky.social to experience Steller's Eiders, northern Owls, Woodpeckers & hopefully big forest mammals too www.oriolebirding.com/tour/estonia... Hawk Owl from the last trip @jonathanfarooqi.bsky.social

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

After Grapholita delineana started turning up in my Suffolk garden last July, it was confirmed as new to the UK. Another arrived at the weekend with no other British records that I know of. Perhaps I have the only breeding Grapholita delineana in Britain? suffolkmoths.co.uk/micros.php?b...

Boring little brown moth that lives in my garden and nowhere else in the UK!

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Lowestoft Life - 24th-27th June 2025 Squeezing in some moth time before I disappear again! blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/06/lowe... @beachhutbirder.bsky.social took most of the pictures in this blog post

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William Brame @landguardbirder.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Back home from Landguard now so a couple of pics of the Speckled Footman from my home trap in Felixstowe @neilsmothman.bsky.social @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Some Little Terns from the Suffolk coast today

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Wasp Spiderlings hatched today in my Lowestoft garden

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A splendid Emperor in Dunwich Forest yesterday

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Barnard 33, Horsehead and Flame Nebulae

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Time to head home after our adventure for @bwntours.bsky.social to Japan. It ended with furry Sea Otters, a full on Pacific gullfest & of all the birds for me to find; a drake Canvasback. I will be back. Sincere thanks to the marvellous @mr-shortwing.bsky.social for his most excellent company

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Andromeda M31 from my Suffolk garden

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

M42, Orion Nebula and the Pleiades from last week. No clear skies since

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Pleiades this evening just before the Moon made it tricky.

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

#CostaRica for Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours - Day 14 - 17th November 2024 El Copal and Hotel Quelitales - what more could you want from a final full day? blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2024/12/cost... Chestnut-capped Warbler - one of many highlights #birds

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 In October 2021 I found Suffolk's 5th Musotima nitidalis, Marbled Fern. In just 3 years we now have nearly 650 in the database. This year I had my first 2 garden records and saw several in Dunwich Forest #TeamMoth @suffolkmoths.bsky.social

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Still plenty of Cosmopterix pulchrimella larvae around Lowestoft. Almost every plant around the High Street had larvae present yesterday. @suffolkmoths.bsky.social #TeamMoth

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 Radford's Flame Shoulder has traditionally been a rare migrant to the UK with most records occurring in South and Southwest of the UK. 2024 turned out to be an exceptional year for them with lots of inland and new county records. I managed to catch 5 in one week! #TeamMoth

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

#CostaRica for Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours - Day 7 - 10th November 2024 A full day around La Selva Biological Station. Many birds, much rain. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2024/12/cost... #Birds Rufous Motmot

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 Crimson Speckled is one of those "Holy Grail" moths which I dreamt of seeing from the moment I saw a picture of one when I was a child. Amazingly it's on my garden list for 2018 but this year I caught up with them in Greece. #TeamMoth

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 Gold Spot Plusia festucae used to be far more regular in my garden but in the last 5 years I've only seen 2. Has anyone else seen this downward trend in numbers? @suffolkmoths.bsky.social #TeamMoth

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linnetincley.bsky.social @linnetincley.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Just a few records in Norfolk this year. Contender for “Moth of the Year” at Cley Moff Obs. Another OMG moment when we saw this in the trap. Stunning pic by @markgolley.bsky.social

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 Beautiful Marbled Eublemma purpurina is a stunning Migrant moth which I have recorded just twice. This year I caught one on a cliff top in Kessingland. Not many in Suffolk this year; what about elsewhere? #TeamMoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @suffolkmoths.bsky.social

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

#CostaRica for Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours - Day 5 - 8th November 2024 The journey to Caño Negro and a very wet Medio Guesso blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2024/12/cost... Green Kingfisher with umbrella...

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 2024 has been phenomenal for Palpita vitrealis, Olive-tree Pearl. From 2017 to 2023 I recorded 42 individuals in my Lowestoft garden. This year I have recorded 73! Several local moth-ers have seen it for the first time this year. Anyone else seen good numbers? #TeamMoth

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 Four-spotted Footman is a regular but never common visitor to my garden; usually in the Autumn and probably migrants. Only the females have the four spots that give them their name #TeamMoth @suffolkmoths.bsky.social

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

One of my favourite wildlife experiences ever... This Grey Phalarope was playing hard to get so I went to the opposite side of the pool, lay flat on the wet sand by the waters edge and waited.... 20 mins later a photographer flushed it and this happened. Magic!

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 Euchromius ocellea is a snazzy migrant that appeared for many moth-ers in September and not just on the coast...there were some great inland records too. #TeamMoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @suffolkmoths.bsky.social

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

#BirdsSeenIn2024 My favourite Suffolk bird of the year was this obliging Black-necked Grebe at Kessingland in the Autumn

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 It would be fair to say that 2024 has been a poor year for moths in general but for Hawk-moths it's been disastrous. This was the only Pine Hawk to visit my garden this year. Always a pleasure to see #TeamMoth @SuffolkMoths

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 The Catocala family are amongst the most wanted moths around the UK. Rarities such as Rosy and Light Crimson are still real possibilities however Oak Yellow would be a mega with Minsmere Red Underwing simply legendary. This one is a Dark Crimson Underwing from August 24 #TeamMoth

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Just booked our next trip to Lesvos. Magical island full of incredible wildlife. Can't wait! #Lesvos #Greece @jet2holidays.bsky.social

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 Last year I was taken to a clifftop location near Scarborough where Gold Spangle, Autographa bractea, was the main Target. We did catch one but this year I caught my very own whilst on a family holiday near Scalby, Yorkshire. What a stunner! #TeamMoth #Yorkshire

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 Back on the wonderful island of Lesvos for the 2nd time for a family holiday. The moths were wonderful and none more so than this Eteobalea isabellella; an absolute gem of a micro and one of the stand-out moths of the trip #TeamMoth

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 This Isophrictis didn't seem quite right for striatella...a rare moth found in Tansy. I sought the opinion of a local expert who determined that it was, in fact, Isophrictis anthemidella; possibly only the 3rd or4th British record.

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 Rhyacionia buoliana is a gorgeous micro that turned up in my garden for the first time last year. So pleased they were back again this year. It is probably breeding in the Pines in the local cemetery #TeamMoth

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 The brindled beauty (Lycia hirtaria) was absent for years in my garden but from 2021 to 2023 I recorded 9 of them at home. It was, again, absent this year from my garden but I managed to catch up with this one on a visit to Surrey. Anyone else missing them this year? #TeamMoth

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 Feathered Ranunculus, Polymixis lichenea, is a moth of the Autumn with an official flight period of August to October. This one, however, made a surprise appearance on 23rd May! So early it took me a few moments to work out what I was looking at #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

#MothsSeenIn2024 Spring and Autumn are when the Bloxworth Snout appears in my garden. Numbers of this once rare migrant have rapidly increased as it has colonised parts of the UK. My garden records are: 2021 - 1 2022 - 4 2023 - 6 2024 - 17 I wonder how many I will see in 2025! #TeamMoth

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Greetings. Somehow I managed to get home from Costa Rica last night (via Bogata!) after a successful adventure leading for Bird's Wildlife & Nature. I will post links to my blog in the coming days but as ever it was epic, if slightly damp this time!

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