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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

BOC of Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler at Gib Pt today. Starting our trip north with a goodie. And the new camera set-up already proving its worth. #ukbirding

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This lovely Autumnal Rustic was new for our Norwich garden last night. Not many records around the fine city - and I think the first I have seen in Norfolk. #MuchAdoAboutMothing

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And there’s me, over on the right, sniffing goat

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Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

There are also a mouthwatering array of itineraries to more distant destination in the @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social 2027 brochure, including Botswana, Bhutan, Tasmania, Svalbard, the Drakensberg, the Danube delta, Colombia, the Kalahari, & Brazil wildlife-travel.co.uk/wp-content/u...

An array of Tasmanian scenery and wildlife. Images taken directly from the Wildlife Travel 2027 brochure.

An array of scenery and wildlife from the Drakensberg. Images taken directly from the Wildlife Travel 2027 brochure.

An array of Colombian birds and butterflies. Images taken directly from the Wildlife Travel 2027 brochure.

An array of scenery and wildlife from Bhutan. Images taken directly from the Wildlife Travel 2027 brochure.

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Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

@wildlifetraveller.bsky.social are again offering a range of no-fly holiday destinations in 2027, including a return to the sublime Vercors, the stunning Cevennes & Grand Causses, and the wonderful wetlands of La Brenne wildlife-travel.co.uk/wp-content/u...

Close of a a bright pink and white Military Orchid flower spike, against a blurred green backdrop.

Close of a bright yellow and magenta Lady's-slipper orchid flower, silhouetted against its broad green leaves.

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Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

As the ONLY natural history travel company donating ALL of its profits to nature conservation, & having provided expert guided holidays for nearly 40 years, it's great to see the @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social 2027 brochure up on the website wildlife-travel.co.uk/wp-content/u... Do take a look.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

And here's the sound-recording. Bird audible towards start, but mainly worth a listen for the panicky crashing about as I get out of the car and try and find my binoculars in the boot... soundcloud.com/james-lowen-...

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European Bee-eater recording, Brightwell Lakes, Martlesham, Suffolk, 09h41, 24Sep26

Sound-recording of European Bee-eater flying north over Brightwell Lakes, with observer crashing around trying to get his binoculars out of the boot of his car...

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 24/09/2026

“And don’t give me that ‘I’m only bird-watching’ line.”

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Well, things have perked up further. Have just had a European Bee-eater high north 0942, calling - over Brightwell Lakes estate, Martlesham. Got eyes on and sound-recorded.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Enduring a 12h traffic survey in Suffolk today. (The things writers have to do to put bread on the table.) But already buoyed by a pre-dawn Polecat on the A140 roadside in S Norfolk, and a two displaying Woodlarks constantly audible at the survey site.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Always stay alert… Walking past some ivy on a southeast London street. My subconscious discerns a micromoth fizzing. Turns out to be Clepsis dumicolana. Turns out there are a dozen. Relatively recent, ivy-feeding colonist. And new for me.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Drake ferruginous duck, rollesby broad, from benches by main road, still 12h14.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Osprey on my survey in the Broads today. Pleasingly close, if displeasingly brief.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Presumed Royal Leaf-miner Phyllonorycter pastorella from a friend's house in Norwich yesterday: he lives beside abundant willows. Looks like it might be only the 3rd adult recorded in Norfolk - of a species whose 1st UK record came from Buckingham Palace, hence its common name! #MuchAdoAboutMothing

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Some good immigrant-moth action in my Norwich garden last night. The star was the garden's first Ni Moth (long awaited, to MV below lure). Plus Vestal, 5 Silver Y, 2 Rush Veneer, Delicate. Generated a big smile in the early-morning rain. #MigrantMoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #MuchAdoAboutMothing

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Heaving garden #mothtraps in Norwich with 675/73. Goodies/possible immigrants inc Antler (2nd record), 2 Scarce Bordered Straw, Delicate, 3 Rush Veneer, Small Mottled Willow, Diamond-back, 3 Clancy’s Rustic. Was hoping for Loxostege, mind…

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

NEW BLOG: RFF. Red-footed Falcon showing daftly well in Suffolk. www.jameslowen.com/blog-7-sep-2... (And no, I didn't see Egyptian Nightjar this weekend.) #UKBirding

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Adam Vaughan @adamvaughan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The UK is loaning £400m to the TFFF, Brazil's pioneering fund to fight deforestation of rainforests. Make of this what you will, but this got go-ahead under Burnham less than two months after he became PM. Under Starmer, it was deemed bad optics to loan £400m for trees ahead of the autumn budget.

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

East of a line from the Humber to The Solent, there are more Zitting Cisticolas living & breeding than there are Willow Tits (now effectively zero).

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nice to find this eclipse drake Ferruginous Duck at Filby Broad, Norfolk, early afternoon today. Doubtless the regular bird returning for another winter. #ukbirding

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The ghostpond team are proper conservation heroes

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Has any #moth-er heard LYU make clicking noises? How? What? Why? #mothing

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

NEW BLOG: Point taken. www.jameslowen.com/blog-27-aug-... Realising that Norfolk's Blakeney Point really can offer enjoyable birding, even if the day after walking 35K steps is rather painful...

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BLOG 27 Aug 2026 Point taken

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some images of yesterday's Melodious Warbler on Blakeney Point (roughly Norfolk's 7th). Although I didn't find it (well done Andy Stoddart), sadly, I might be the first person to have seen Icterine and Melodious warblers in Norfolk in the same morning!

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Melodious warbler blakeney point, found by andy stoddart

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Icterine warbler, wryneck, pied fly, garden warbler, 5 whinchat, 7 wheatear, 2 willow warbler so far - from cley coastguards to the hood. promising - and today’s arrivals yet to come

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The day ahead makes me think back. At 7pm one Sep day 25 years ago, I phoned my girlfriend to admit that I was going to be late for that evening’s dinner party in Brixton. Because, erm, I was watching a Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler on Blakeney Point. I finally reached the dinner party at 2345. Ahem.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

NEW BLOG: Cornwall. Some wildlife highlights from earlier this month in SW England. Birds, moths, dragonflies, butterflies and robberflies, many of them migrants! www.jameslowen.com/blog-25-aug-...

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Two further new-for-garden moths this week: the rather sweet Ptocheuusa paupella (actually new for me too; it is rare in Norfolk) and the fabulously shaped Acleris emargana.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Immense #gardenmothing in Norwich: 1,308/120 (biggest catch ever) inc 330 beet moth, 40 white-point, 24 angle shades, 12 silver y, Palpita, amplana, 2 smw, bordered straw, C. honoratella type plus 2nd garden records of A. tumidana, A. oblitella, E. quadrimaculana, Y. alpella. Lie-down before work?

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In Norwich last night, #gardenmothing last night delivered a smattering of migrant species: 3 Palpita, 3 Silver Y, RDP, SMW. Also 2 Euro Corn-borer, 77 Beet Moth and a garden record of 12 copper underwing agg. among 609/88.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Good garden #mothing in Norwich last night inc *Chrysoesthia drurella nfg, *Vestal, Delicate, 6 Small Mottled Willow, 2 *Cydia amplana, Dewick’s plusia, 2 Euro Cornborer, 7 Silver y, an explosion of 8 Latticed Heath, 4 RDP, 4 Diamond-backs, 51 Beet Moth. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Garden #mothing in Norwich smashed the site record for Small Mottled Willow (7, compared to 4 total ever!), plus 3 Palpita, Cydia amplana, 7 Silver Y and Rush Veneer. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Travelling back east yesterday enabled us to call in on the Glos Long-tailed Shrike. Somewhat better views than I got of the Fife bird!

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I had three hopes for my short Cornish trip (my reward for taking teenagers to Boardmasters): find a Wilson’s Storm-petrel, catch a Striped Hawk-moth & other migrants lepidopterans, and lure a Slender Burnished Brass. A departing gift at dawn today sealed the triumvirate. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Although numbers/diversity were down on Fri night (N vs ESE wind?), last night’s St Buryan (sw #Cornwall) #migrantmothing wd still be a remarkable Norfolk night! Striped Hawk-moth, Palpita, Scarce Bordered Straw, 9 Rush Veneer, 11 Silver Y, 5 Dark Sword-grass, 12 Small Mottled Willow, 2 Vestal

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Delighted to find an Ortolan at Porthgwarra this pm (thanks, easterlies) but utterly entranced by migrant lepidoptera. Clouded Yellows everywhere, Ladies and Admirals by the fieldful, Rush Veneers, Silver Ys and RDPs everywhere plus Vestal. Of nonmigrants, impressed by Hornet Robberflies!

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Running 2 #moth traps in a garden nr St Buryan, Cornwall, last night produced good #migrantmoths: (pic) Striped Hawk-moth 2, (pic) Cosmopolitan 2, (pic) Scarce Bordered Straw 2, Dark Sword-grass 9, (pic) Palpita vitrealis 5, Four-spotted Footman, Rush Ve 3, Silver Y 9, Small MW 10, RDP 3, DB 3

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Two Devonshire Wainscots were the highlight of an evening mothing on The Lizard but a gargantuan Striped Hawk-moth elicited the gasps (all the ones I have trapped in the Med have been teeny). Also Square-spot Dart, Hoary Footman, Agonopterix bipunctuosa. Thanks Nick, @windmillfarm.bsky.social, Paul

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Wilson’s Stormies bookended the day, which was splendid. And followed by mothing a new place - tonight, The Lizard - which is always exciting. Hurry up, nightfall!

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Neither are particulary rare but I bet not many people have seen Gypsy Moth (Norwich garden trap at dawn) and half a dozen Cory’s Shearwaters (Pendeen, this evening) in the same day…

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New guidance from the eBird Team - summarising - don't use AI tools to edit your bird photos! ebird.org/news/threat-... link to original paper: rdcu.be/ftx6h #Ornithology #UKBirding 🧪🌎

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From Truth to Fake: The Threat of AI to Media Archives - eBird

As AI becomes commonplace, what you see in a photograph may no longer represent reality. Learn about how this impacts eBird and what you can do to help.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Although I found a rare bird at Breydon Water on Friday evening, the real star there was the sunset. This image is almost straight off the camera - just a little sharpening but otherwise nothing altered.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Marsh Sandpiper mid-estuary Breydon Water, Norfolk, 1955-2045 at least, feeding actively on its own. viewed distantly looking n/nnw from South Wall, from c500m west of rugby club. Sorry for late news. Will be looked for early Sat @lowestoftlizards.bsky.social

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Norwich garden mothing: hoped last night’s heavy rain (repeat: heavy. rain.) might drop some interest. In the event, despite four traps, everything good was on the outside of the MV: Jersey tiger nfg (not unexpected), saltmarsh plume (2fg), clay triple-lines, Palpita, rush veneer, 5 silver y, 2db.

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Norwich garden #mothing. I am starting to think that Marbled Cliver now breeds in my garden: these seven caught over the past two nights, following several in the previous week. Cydia amplana (nfg only last week!) must also have colonised a nearby big oak: here are 8 of the 9 in the past 3 nights

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James Lowen Wildlife @jameslowenwild.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Some decent moths among last night’s Norwich garden trap, inc 3 Cydia amplana (new for garden only last week), another couple of Marbled Clover (surely breeding close to Norwich now, rather than dispersing from Brecks/coast) and an extrovert male Gypsy Moth. #MuchAdoAbourMothing #mothing

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