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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

Well you have the food plant! Hop, obviously... Not the 'other one' 🤣

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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

I think it must have come in with imported Thrift... My garden is full of it!

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

Imagine my surprise when this one turned up in my east Suffolk garden a few years ago!

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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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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Excellent work! Really satisfying to see the results. Thanks for the credit!

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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 · 10/01/2025

I have this one by MoveShootMove... Really nice piece of kit. It has a three-way adjustment for swapping between phone lenses easier

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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 · 17/12/2024

Feels a bit windy but definitely mild...

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Looks like my local beach in Suffolk

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Well it's taken light 4000 years to get to the telescope... That's quite some distance!

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Antony Wren @beachhutbirder.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

And yes, I still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea

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

And here's a larva on Hart's-tongue Fern

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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

Yes indeed... I've always had an interest in plants so that bit is easy for me. It grows along all the paths and old walls where I live

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

This photo took ages. I have since found out that they settle nicely on Pellitory leaves. I've noticed that several micros can be real posers on their food plants. Makes it easier to photograph

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

Here's the beautiful adult Cosmopterix pulchrimella

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

I'm currently reading Meetings with Moths... It's good but I much preferred Much ado about Mothing

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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 · 09/12/2024

I heard that moon images are AI generated on Samsung... Is that true?

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