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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A male Orange Tip butterfly posing nicely on my white Narcissus Thalia today. #UKWildlife #Butterflies #UKButterflies

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Melecta albifrons, Common Mourning Bee, first sighting of the year in my garden near Faversham. #bees

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

My first Dotted Bee-fly, Bombylius discolor, of the year, a male, in my garden near Faversham, Kent. #BeeFlyWatch

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A male Hairy-footed Flower-bee, Anthophora plumipes in my garden today. #UKWildlife #Bees

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A slightly scruffy Peacock butterfly on a Hyacinth in my garden today.

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

A Tawny mining bee, Andrena fulva, on a Kilmarnock willow in my garden yesterday.

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A Dark-edged Bee-fly, Bombylius major, in my garden near Faversham, Kent today. #BeeFlyWatch

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I have my first female Hairy-footed Flower-bee, Anthophora plumipes, of the year in my garden today. The males have been about for a couple of weeks. #UKWildlife #Bees

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

A Queen Garden Bumblebee, Bombus hortorum, heading for Red Deadnettle. #UKWildlife #Bees

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

A male Hairy-footed Flower bee, Anthophora plumipes, on Pulmonaria in my garden yesterday. #UKWildlife #Bees

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A Small Tortoiseshell butterfly in my garden today. Near Faversham, Kent. #UKWildlife #Butterflies

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

The first Tawny mining bee (Andrena fulva) of the year. A female on Cherry plum blossom in my garden today, near Faversham, Kent #UKWildlife

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

First Bee-fly of the year! A male Bombylius major in my garden near Faversham, Kent. A week earlier than last year. #BeeFlyWatch #UKWildlife

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A Brimstone butterfly on Pulmonaria in my garden yesterday. #ukwildlife #ukbutterflies

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

First Bombus pratorum, Early bumblebee queens of the year in my garden today. Two seen. #ukwildlife

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A Bombus terrestris, Buff tailed bumblebee worker collecting lots of pollen from Winter Honeysuckle in my garden this morning. #ukwildlife #bees

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

My first Hairy-footed flower bees, Anthophora plumipes of 2025 in my garden today. I saw two males buzzing about. They are a couple of weeks later than last year. #ukwildlife #bees

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I found this piece of beeswax today. It had just fallen off a branch where a swarm of honeybees stayed for a few days last July. Old photo of the swarm too!

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A male Blackcap has made several visits to my sunflower heart feeders today. I often see them in the garden in warmer months but not seen them using the feeders in winter before. I’m in Kent. #ukwildlife #Birds

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I saw my first butterflies of the year today as it was sunny and much milder than of late. A Red Admiral resting on a window frame and then looking for nectar on Wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox). I also saw a Brimstone but it didn’t sit still for a photo.

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

A Jay collecting peanuts in my garden this afternoon.

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I topped up and made new sections of dead hedge today with Elder and buddleja prunings. It makes a nice habitat for all sorts of creatures.

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Jelly ears and Yellow brain fungus today on old decaying stumps.

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Long-tailed tits on the suet balls in my garden today. There’s a little group of 7 that visit several times a day. #ukwildlife #birds

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

There were 4 Queen Bombus terrestris, Buff tailed bumblebees on this Mahonia today. One collecting pollen so has a winter active nest. Temp was about 5 or 6 degrees, sunny but with frost still on the ground. Kent.

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

A beautiful female Tawny mining bee, Andrena fulva in my Kent garden today. #UKWildlife #Bees

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

My first Andrena species this year in my Kent garden. It was bedraggled but dried off in a few mins (1st pic). I was thinking maybe Andrena nigroaenea but could be way off and it may not be poss. to id from photos. It has a stylops. Any thoughts please @ianbeavis.bsky.social or @rdimond.bsky.social

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Four Bumblebee species in my garden yesterday, all Queens. Bombus terrestris (Buff tailed), hortorum (Garden) hypnorum (Tree) and pratorum (Early).

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 17/02/2024

Red Admiral butterfly on Cherry plum blossom in my garden yesterday.

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

First Hairy-footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes of the year in my garden today 🥳 #ukwildlife

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Queen Bombus terrestris collecting pollen from Camellia flowers today. There were 3 Queens and 2 were collecting pollen so must have active nests. In Kent and it was about 6 degrees C. #ukwildlife #bees #bumblebee

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 01/01/2024

A male Chaffinch just outside my back door today. Photo taken through the glass. #UKWildlife

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

For #wildflowerhour and the #NewYearPlantHunt I found 12 species today. A dismal total and only the usual suspects! Daisy, Red and White deadnettles, Annual meadow grass, Petty spurge, Shepherd’s purse, Groundsel, Feaverfew, Annual mercury, Winter heliotrope, Dandelion and Ivy leaved toadflax.

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 31/12/2023

Scarlet Waxcap #fungi growing on the village cricket pitch today 🍄 #FungiFriends

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Teasels left for the birds but the seeds have started germinating. #vivipary

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Several little 🐞 7 spot ladybird huddles on one smallish Rosemary plant. I counted at least 30 individuals plus a few Rosemary beetles. #UKwildlife

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

I found a large blob of Witches’ Butter / Yellow Brain Fungus today. I think it had fallen off a dead branch in an Oak tree. #FungiFriends #Fungi 🍄

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

Spindle berries. Euonymus europaeus.

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

Mahonia just coming into flower. It’s a great source of nectar throughout winter for Queen Bumblebees that stir from hibernation on milder days.

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

I found these galls on a fallen oak leaf today and I think they might be Cherry Galls made by the gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii.

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Claire Lampard @lampsie.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

For my first post on here, a couple of pics of Blue Tits checking out one of my nest boxes today. I don’t know whether they were looking for a nest site, a warmish roosting spot or spiders to eat.

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