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Anna Hughes

@diybirder.bsky.social
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Leftie birder retired Brit lives rural France Do Euro butterflies and moths also an artist. Cycling follower. Please don't follow unless naturalist or personal friend as I really do BLOCK strangers

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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Ploddingbirder @ploddingbirder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I found this gorgeous Beautiful Marbled resting on the rim of my VC15 trap this morning. #Kentmoths @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @trapsite.bsky.social
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Brindled Green and Southern Brindled Green roboris together at Crouttes Orne Normandy
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A patio near me in the sun production September in the Sun. Techniques developed from Reinventing the Familiar course taken during Covid from Bridge House Art Ullapool
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dumeril’s Rustic here today Normandy . Neat . #teammoth
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Not common here but not our first loxostege Stricticalis Normandy #teammoth
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Photo of violet dropwing I seem to have missed posting
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Amazed to find violet dropwing on the River Dropt in SW France where apparently they have been spreading from Africa! #teamdragonflies
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Looks like we’ve got a purple marbled here in Normandy sent to recorder for confirmation any opinions welcome. Small like a rusty dot pearl. #teammoth
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Star of today’s show here in Normandy The Passenger #teammoth
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This crawled up from a bucket I’d just emptied of rainwater (!)And into the plant that’s only the second time we’ve seen one in this Normandy Garden. #mantis
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Caloptilia hemidactylella confirmed by gent exam by recorder our first rare in UK , a few days back #teammoth
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One of French puppeteer Raphaël Gromy’s most recognizable performances features a puppet painting real artworks on canvas, blending puppetry, live performance, and visual art into a unique theatrical experience. 😊 IG: @artistsuniversum @raphael_gromy
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A Latin this morning a stunning moth. #teammoth
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Help with this please which one ? #teammoth
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The next time a climate change denier comes at you with that excuse:
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Having a stall yesterday at a local cider farm I photographed these on their pond Surprised to see broad scarlet and amazed by the endless all day non stop energy of the Emperor Normandy #dragonflies
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Rosy Marbled here in Normandy not annual #teammoth
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The pundits last night on BBC were excitable and gabbled . I have hearing problems and barely got a word. But well played Spain.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Appalling: Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030 @wildcard.land have run a noble campaign trying to get the CofE to see sense But this demonstrates exactly why Ministers can't rely on landowners to voluntarily support 30by30: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030
Campaigners criticise C of E for failing to show moral leadership as one of country’s biggest landowners
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
So back after 14 days butterflying in Spain sometimes in impossible heat. Just two new species but great numbers almost everywhere and many reminders of hardly ever seen before species Showers of marbled white and Iberian MW
mountain Alcon Blue and Purple Shot CopperCatalonian Furry Blue

dusky large blue
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
At the end of the most difficult butterfly holiday to Picos and Pyrenees ever due to temperatures up to 40 degrees here are a couple of pictures the second one is male Ripart’s anomalous blue
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
A slender broomrape from Normandy. In a wood retained by hunters in middle of agricultural fields. #flowers
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Today a handsome plum lappet in the moth trap in Normandy France #teammoth
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Brexit was an act of “sabotage” that has made Britain up to £30bn a year worse off, former foreign secretary David Miliband has claimed. He said the loss of income caused by leaving the EU is equivalent to imposing “a punishing taxevery day” on the UK. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Brexit ‘sabotage’ has cost Britain up to £30bn every year, says David Miliband
Exclusive: ‘We are suffering a punishing Brexit tax every day’ says former foreign secretary in withering assessment of decision to leave the bloc
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
A favorite arrived here yesterday and is active in the garden. the Spotted Flycatcher pray they stay #birding
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Our nest site search for protection harriers is under way .this guy has a late and we watch . Montagus harrier Normandy
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Three moths from near empty trap Aspen lappet tawny prom and giant peacock Normandy #teamoth
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
(My little) Duke of Burgundy s are at last out in the sun in the chasseurs wood. Butterflies #Europe
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
SWIFT….I always shout at the first!
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
A near three week trip to Spain. Four years trying for Iberian Lynx. Yes now two seen . Some of the 140 or so great Bustards near Benevente. #birding
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
A new miscellany from the signs of Spring outside. #Art
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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
It’s a fabulous issue too
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Just wondering how many birders and orchid hunters etc are stuck somewhere and how they are managing to use the time #ukbirds
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Do not let this carrot near your children nor your enemies nor your church nor your government
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
🚨When we go to hospital, it’s rarely for something easy. But patients and their families are being immediately met with fees just to park their cars. And these charges are going up! I’ve just signed the petition to Scrap hospital parking charges now act.38degrees.org.uk/act/parking-...
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Scrap hospital parking charges now!
Need to visit the hospital? Patients, families and NHS staff are being met with rising fees just to park their cars. Join me and sign this petition from 38 Degrees to demand these unfair charges are s...
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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
It’s a damn fine issue of #NeotropicalBirding. If you ever go birding in South or Central America, or the Caribbean, you need to subscribe.
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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Our friend the Betic Midwife Toad lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of southern Spain! Like other midwife toads, males collect fertilized eggs and wrap them around their hind legs to keep them safe until they are ready to hatch! (photo by Víctor González García)
A grey toad with mottled greenish brown markings! They have large eyes with vertical pupils! They have a clutch of eggs between their hind legs!
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“Imagine if we had to follow the law”
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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
They got so so much wrong. And we are all paying the price.
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A week of painting to prepare some more submissions for the lovely Scilly Review. This was the last #ukbirding#art
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Am I correct To want Greenland for routes means you don’t deny climate change.
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Evening thought . Voting for Brexit was the most deeply unpatriotic thing a British person could do. Even less patriotic was setting up the referendum.
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The irony of it ! powerful demented Criminal breaks law to kidnap another one.
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Come on you know who make mine a wonderful Christmas and go to Prison for ever #politics
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I have next to zilch following on here but it’s a good platform so Happy Christmas and I’ll try to find a nice picture yes here’s a lovely migratory Pied Fly from August in the Massif Central #birdinguk
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Scillonians permanent and temporary may recognise what Im trying to do here on this bit of printed cloth. Have a nice Christmas everyone #art#birds#Scilly
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Anna Hughes @diybirder.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Remember Reading Week ? I’ve given myself one but spoilt it by doing my UK tax form .So some artwork mono print on cloth with collage #art then Wolf Hall hopefully
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