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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A nice surprise with 6 Corn Buntings seen well in the farmland between Dunbridge and Carter's Clay. I'm pretty sure these are the furthest south along the Test Valley, by quite a few miles. Saw 2 there a couple of winters back. No pics, but Spotted Medick was a new one for me. #Hantsbirds

Spotted Medick, clover like leaves with a dark spot in the centre. Didn't realise at the time, but it has yellow flowers lurking under the leaves, which seems to be a typical feature of it. Two flashes of yellow are visible under the leaves in the picture

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

2 Little Gulls close to the shore at Calshot this lunchtime. First an Adult Winter, which had gone by the time I grabbed camera. Fortunately, I then found a 1st winter resting on the sea which eventually flew close. Found 3 in Hants in a week now (also Pennington last weekend) #HantsBirds #UKBirding

1st winterLittle Gull flying over sea. Black "w" pattern of wings and grey Secondaries line visible

1st Winter Little Gull. underside as it banks close to photographer

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Badminston, near Calshot, the latest of my favourite Hampshire birding walks to be converted into a tree tunnel with visibility of about 10cm in places! I think the landowners are goading people into crossing the fence onto the private land, which has a relatively panoramic view.. dare me;)

Footpath less than metre wide, skirted by dense gorse

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

A noticeable increase in Redwing calls over my garden today in SW Hampshire. Previously getting singles during daylight hours. (Ignore the Hooded Crow false pos.!) #birding #hantsbirds

A chart showing the species detected by remote bird call monitoring over my garden today

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Parabolic mic, and field recorder packed away in the shed while we have a few days of bad weather. It's still picking up bird calls! #Defiant

Daily summary of bird calls recorded by parabolic microphone

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Nocturnal Migration looks to have bumped up a notch last night over North Baddesley, with increase in Redwing and Song Thrush numbers. Moorhen a strangely regular occurrence overnight. #HantsBirds

Summary of overnight bird flight calls over house in Hampshire UK. 105 Redwing, 41 Song Thrush, 1 Moorhen recorded

Photo of parabolic reflector in garden, pointing towards clear view of sky

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

1 Raspberry Pi, a Zoom H1 and an Audiomoth, and 3 days of cursing. But I now have a permanent Bird call monitor / bat detector running. Pretty sure the Sp.Fly is false. It did pick up a bone fide Firecrest though. Looks like a Noctule slipped past with the Pipistrelle (20khz). #Bioacoustics

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Scarlet Darter, Lesser Emperor, and Beautiful Yellow-underwing, the highlights of a brief trip to Dorset pdjwildlife.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/a... #teammoth #dragonfly

Beautiful Yellow Underwing. A Chestnut brown, amber, and white strikingly marked moth, on a fern

Scarlet Darter, recently colonising a few lakes in southern England. All scarlet, perched on a stem

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Loving @capacities.bsky.social as my new Note-taking, Task-managing, Wildlife-finding-target-list app

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Very little in the moth trap this morning, and the home-made battery LEDs don't seem to be making it until the morning, so no chance of going a little further afield just yet. A Great Prominent on the house wall is always a fairly impressive sight though #HampshireNature #Moths

A Great Prominent moth, well camouflaged against brickwall

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Keyhaven and Pennington Marshes this morning. Picked out a Bar-tailed Godwit amongst Black-tailed Godwits. Plenty of Mediterranean Gulls flying East, at least 100. Plus an Osprey overhead flying North with fish. Also, 3 Sanderling. #HantsBirds

Bar-Tailed Godwit. A fairly large Wader with long straight bill. In summer plumage with brick red underparts.

Mediterranean Gulls flying overhead, black hoods of breeding adults visible along with white wingtips

An Osprey flying away with large fish in talons. Pursued by a Herring Gull

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Also a Pintail and Mediterranean Gull, #Hantsbirds

Adult Summer Mediterranean Gull in flight

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

High on numbers around Pennington, but not much out of the ordinary. The day was highlighted by some very close encounters, first with a Roe Deer just a few metres off the path, then later a Brent Goose on the footpath at Fishtail Lagoon. 9 Spoonbill, and a few Med Gulls flying over. #HantsBirds

Avocet, a black and white wader with upturned bill, wading thru a lagoon with reflection in water

Dark Bellied Brent Goose very close to footpath

Female Roe Deer, very close to footpath, amongst flowering Gorse.

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

My first outing of 2025. Paid too much attention to the weather forecast instead of the tide tables, and missed Slavonian, Red-Necked Grebe and Lesser Yellowlegs in Lymington marsh area! Did get a few photos of regular winter birds in the area, and my first Winter Heliotrope flower. #HantsBirds

Part of a large flock of Dark-Bellied Brent Geese grazing in a field

Winter Heliotrope flower heads. Hairy stem with small white petals just starting to emerge.

Winter Plumage Spotted Redshank. Long bill with red base and downturned tip. White Supercilium standing out in front of the eye.

Male Stonechat perched very close to me, showing all feather details on back and wings

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Farmland birding near Dunbridge, Test Valley. The area had a good spell last winter with Corn Bunting, Brambling, and Goosander, but my weekend walk was low on quality. Yellowhammers seen briefly and a flock of 28 Skylark was ok. Managed pics of Linnets, Raven, and Reed Bunting. #Hantsbirds

Linnets, small brown finches flying across a stubble field

A Raven, huge crow, with wedge shaped tail gliding over grassland

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

#SouthernWater water outage affecting 70k people for 2 days now. Luckily just 2 of us home, and we had a small supply of bottled water. Watering cans filled from the nearby stream for toilet flushing purposes. Where is the resilience? 1 failure should not wipe out water to 70k people.

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Too much cloud in TestValley. Tried Michelmersh and Danebury! But something going on behind the clouds for sure last night. #Aurora #Hampshire

purple colour in the night sky indicating aurora borealis, but very cloudy

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

Radford's Flame Shoulder the highlight of a moth trap set up at the coast near New Milton Hampshire, on Friday 4th October, 2024. Not a lot else, but this was high on my "most wanted list"! #teammoth

Radford's Flame Shoulder. A continental moth, migrating to UK shores on suitable Autumn winds.

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 08/10/2024

A nice morning getting closer photos of some of the Ringed Plovers roosting at Calshot. Involved crawling over shingle, but no birds were flushed. Until a walker passed thru the flock a few minutes later. Oh well. #HantsBirds #UKBirding

2 Ringed Plovers roosting on shingle beach

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

Still relatively quiet around Keyhaven, Pennington and Normandy. Nothing really noteworthy, but a nice bright morning for photos. #Hantsbirds #UKBirding

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

The feeds seem to be getting a lot of this over the last day or so

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Strange little insect visited the office yesterday: A Pond Olive Mayfly. #Macro

Pond Olive Mayfly, tiny little insect less than 1cm excluding the long streamers from its tail

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 31/08/2024

Everything's Gone Green! RSPB Pagham Harbour earlier this week, with Green Woodpecker and Emperor Dragonfly the most photogenic subjects. A Firecrest and Spotted Fly in the churchyard were more elusive, while Med Gull and Whimbrel were more distant. #UKBirding

Emperor Dragonfly hovering briefly at Pagham Harbour Nature Reserve

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 28/08/2024

The "Code" for the HantsBirds feed on skyfeed

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

Bright and sunny bank holiday on the Hampshire coast. Just the routine species around, but some showing well for pics, in particular Dunlin, Little Egret and Spoonbill. (OM-1 and 100-400mm) #HantsBirds #UKBirding

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

The most intricate, beautiful patterns of a Greenshank, and it's on the underwing where we rarely see it! This one at Keyhaven, Hampshire #ukbirding #HantsBirds

Greenshank in flight showing intricate detail in underwing feathers

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

Great White Egrets the highlight at Fishlake Meadows, Romsey this evening. Osprey still around but not showing very well from the screens. #HantsBirds

Great White Egret, stalking the edge of the reed beds.

Great White Egret in flight with large Orange dagger like beak, and long trailing black legs

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

Devon Carpet, captured last night with UV LEDs in local woods just outside Southampton. Quite a few records locally this year. I believe they get very scarce further East of me #Teammoth

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Swallow, Sand Martin, and Black-tailed Godwits passed close by me, with the afternoon sun behind me for a change! at Lymington. (Om-1, 100-400mm) #Hantsbirds #UKBirding

Young swallow perched on twig waiting for parents to feed

part of a flock of Black-tailed Godwits flying over me

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 03/08/2024

Four-spotted Footman to my trap in Hampshire last night. My only other record was a single last year. #teammoth #macrophotography

Male Four-spotted Footman moth, with yellow head, and grey body. A flash of metallic blue along it's side, exaggerated by the camera flash.

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

Meal Moth caught in my garden last night, Hampshire, UK. Focus stacking and flash just about kept the moth in focus to the wing tips. #macro #macrophotography

Meal Moth, a tiny brown, black and white moth, with a beady green eye!

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 21/07/2024

OM1, 90mm Macro, and godox Flash, Focus stacked. Got there in the end! #macro #macrophotography

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

Purple Thorn was good practise for my new flashgun. #teammoth

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

Left my Bat detector running overnight on the coast, near New Milton, Hampshire. Surprised how many Nathusius Pipistrelle calls were picked up. A lake and canal are nearby which may explain so many hits. Common and Soprano Pip in good numbers too, plus a couple of Daubenten's Bats #bioacoustics

Sonogram, and power spectrum graphs of a Nathusius Pipistrelle, with peak frequency below 40KHz

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 30/06/2024

Sandwich Tern at Pennington Marshes, carrying a interesting looking food item! #Hantsbirds #ukbirding

Sandwich Tern, carrying food that looks like a squid?!

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 25/05/2024

Quite happy with this, fairly extreme, post-processing of Scented Orchid and Tongue Orchid pics, taken in Croatia. Gives them a Victorian Watercolour feel to it. #WildFlowers #flowers

Tongue Orchid photo with background completely blurred out

Scented Orchid photo with background completely blurred out

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

Moth highlights from a few days around Dubrovnik. Also saw Rosy Marbled, Passenger, and Drab Looper. #Teammoth

Rhodostrophia calabra, a cream moth with pink stripes, seen a few times in daylight, on Hillsides in South Croatia

Speckled Yellow Moth seen in woodland in Southern Croatia

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

I might have been quiet on BlueSky, but I've made a small ripple on iNaturalist, had some good fun with a new camera and macro lens, and enjoyed a return flight to Dubrovnik! #inat #wildlife

Inaturalist league tables for May, showing me at no.3!

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

5 minutes on Photoscape X (including 2 minutes to download and install!) is time well spent. Although there is a limit to what could be done with this pic!

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 01/04/2024

A super looking Ad. Summer Little Gull over Fishtail Lagoon, today. Complete with a pink flush when the sun caught the breast. Lots of joy in the New Forest too, with Hawfinch, Crossbill, Firecrest, Woodlark, Dartford and Redstart. 90 species, 315 steps per species = pain! #UKBirding #HantsBirds

Adult Summer Little Gull over Fishtail Lagoon, Keyhaven, Hampshire

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Well hello Ministry of crap design! the tripod thread situated next to the batteries, so it's not possible to change batteries without dismantling. Just a couple more millimetres was all I needed!

Back of zoom h1e field recorder showing the tripod thread annoyingly close to the battery compartment

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Love mine with this watch face. Connected to my Garmin tempe sensor, has tide tables, tracks walks. Battery lasts weeks

Garmin instinct crossover watchface with barometer, battery, steps, notifications, and time!

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

We need something like this, in decreasing KHz, for a lot more species I think! #UKBirding #NocMig

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

Closer to 20minutes, but a lot of repetition throughout, Hampshire, UK. All species have been seen in the last few days #tenminutemerlin

List of birds recorded by Merlin sound in my garden

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 12/02/2024

8.5 miles, who says birders aren't athletes?!

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

pdjwildlife.wordpress.com/2023/12/09/t... Blog entry for my recent wildlife watching trip to Northern Thailand. #birds

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Peter Jones @peterdjones.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Well done for creating a vibrant feed. #herps A Smooth Snake under artificial refugia from a licensed survey in the New Forest, Hampshire,

Smooth Snake with characteristic butterfly pattern on back of head

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