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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Found this Great silver water beetle ( Hydrophilus piceus ) in our moth trap this morning . It was placed on the lily pads in our garden (wild) pond (Littlestone Kent VC15) to continue its journey as it feels fit . The total length of this beetle was just under 50 mm .

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The last couple of days have seen the traps quieter with the full moon and the cold air but some first for us this year moths turning up . Graham and Nicky

Common slender/Garden stilt Gracillaria Syringella

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Two new moths to my Littlestone s/e Kent Garden. Last night 16/09/26 Orange sallow Tiliacea citrago and Ni moth Tritrichoplusia ni . More common but still very beautiful September thorn and Light emerald .Pleased would be an under statement .

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oops the only image I have of this was taken in the trap (it flew when I put it on the moth board) I would think Blair`s Mocha but diskal ring with pale centre is missing . Shore Wainscott made it to the board as did a rather pale Yellow shell, Satellite and 6 Clancy`s rustic .ALT for Latin names

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Superb day with a Western bonelli`s warbler (found by Tom) that was being somewhat elusive but managed some images .On to the reserve to see the Red-necked Phalarope again back out for a 90 minute sea watch Several Black terns and Arctic Skuas and a very showy Guillemot to end the day very nicely.

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Superb sea watch birding at Dungeness some of the birds were distant but I hope still worth posting !!

Brown Booby (spotted by @neilburt.bsky.social)

Long-tailed Skua (spotted by Jacob Spinks)

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Greenish warbler Dungeness today .This a real treat for me (thanks to Jacob who found it )

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

A good week for Nicky and I when finding good birds has been hard but a little luck and help proved essential 1/Spotted redshank with a 3 spined stickleback 2/Large tortoiseshell butterfly 3/Lesser spotted woodpecker 4/Firecrest 5/1 of the 19 Cattle egrets Dungeness. A Goshawk was seen but no image.

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Images taken from the last month or so that I have been so pleased to have taken but not posted here . Jack snipe Dungeness RSPB (26th Oct) , Red-breasted flycatcher (1st Oct) Dungeness, Hare and Red-backed Shrike (September) Dungeness RSPB .

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Nicky and I have been trapping recording and releasing some of the moths in our Littlestone garden and we have had some pleasant surprises best to date being Small marbled ,Blairs Mocha and last night Marbled fern . A far better start than we could have hoped for .

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Dungeness today .What a superb day !! Montagu`s Harrier appeared in the distance that proceeded to show on and off from afar for the next hour or so a Wryneck, 8 Glossy ibis in the air at one time and that evening on the Dengmarsh track watching a osprey flying over the Dungeness RSPB lakes .

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

A couple of nights away in the new forest gave us some great birds. So many spot fly a pair of distant Goshawks ,fleeting moments of wood warbler and on our return home Galloways Lydd ranges a stunning Zitting Cisticola and Dungeness produced Icterine warbler what a week !!!

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Nicky and I had just returned to the Dungeness RSPB visitor center after a walk round .A man mentioned he had seen Night heron on the reserve Thank you ! We put the word out and Nicky soon re-found the bird that turned out to be very obliging for a Night heron . These images only took 5 hours :-)

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Firstly stunning looking Red-footed Falcon at Dungeness this week next a Fulmar from the Sussex cliffs then a very grumpy Heron mobbed by two Avocets again RSPB Dungeness .The last image a hunting Nightjar that flew very close past Nicky and I as we took a late evening walk through Ashdown forest .

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I am so lucky to have such good birding and birding friends at Dungeness. Yesterday there was a Whiskered Tern on the RSPB reserve. I was late and thought It had left so Imagine my relief when I spotted it on the last place I was going to look Hookers pit. Later it flew high and off the reserve.

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

There are reasons for abnormal white feathers including age , leucism, diet and injury this crow might have suffered from more than one of these? Taken from the footpath at Scotney farm Lydd . Also Common sandpiper, yellow wagtails, yellowhammer, Avocet ,Whimbrel, Marsh harrier and corn buntings

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

A very good day birding Dungeness best of the bunch were 5 Whimbrel 2 Ruff 1 Hobby and 2 black tailed Godwits from the RSPB reserve and best of all a pair of Red crested Pochard (found by Nicky) from the Kerton road gravel pit .

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Another great day birding for Nicky and I .There was a Black-winged stilt reported on the hayfields at Dungeness RSPB that behaved very well for us .Also nice to see Sedge warblers whitethroat and swallows all out in force today .

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Nicky and I had a red letter day today starting at Sissinghurst castle with superb views of Marsh Tits then back to our local patch Dungeness just in time to see one of the 2 Purple Herons. Finished the evening off seeing Black redstart ,Little ringed plover and sedge warbler .

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I could not resist posting another image of yesterdays Iberian Chiff chaff that I took at South view Dungeness . The bird found by Dave Bunney showed well . As the afternoon slipped by the bird called several times and eventually a short but clear song was heard

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Dungeness today seeing the Iberian Chiffchaff at South view and in great company .Hearing it calling several times and singing for a few moments. Viewing is currently being allowed by the home owner so please treat this with respect and only park on the roadside not the gravel drive.

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The Power station Dungeness gave us black redstart & peregrine. The reserve a bittern flying past the viewpoint and 2 bearded tits on the grit tray there .The flooded path to hookers produced 9 bearded tits and 6 white-fronted geese . Dengemarsh hide marsh harriers and a black necked grebe .

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

4 Tundra bean geese Scotney double bends

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