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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Visited the wonderful long-tailed shrike in Gloucs. It was in specular fresh plumage and was very obliging. Thanks to the landowner. #birds

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes Masses of yellow underwing that seem to like laying dead. Bit of my colour from last night in Bath

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A few highlights from garden moth trap last nights in our Bath garden.

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Recently created my first garden moth trap, very inexpensive bulb and outdoor cable setup, with the rest bits from around the house. Three sessions and already recorded 2 dozen species. This particularly fine small emerald had me accused of using AI...

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Heath spotted orchid ? Mwnt Wales yesterday #bsbi #wildflowerhour Apologies late and not a climber...but lovely nevertheless.

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Mummy badger has been visiting our urban garden for many weeks and it was obvious that she was suckling a cub(s). Last night we had a new visitor...really rather cute #springwatch #nature #ukwildlife

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Male blackcap on the Somerset Levels yesterday. Billions of mozzies, along with warblers, esp garden, sedge and reed, cuckoos, bitterns, egrets, marsh harriers, bitterns calling, swifts. Dragonflies and damsels downed by the torrential rain.

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

After 5 years of hard graft to make local council land into a nature reserve and place for people to enjoy our notice board glass was smashes by vandals...shame

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The usual crew visiting our garden last night. Haven't seen the hedgegog again though. #wildlife #garden #springwatch

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Southern Marsh orchid on coastal landslide in south Devon today #wildflowerhour +2, plus sanicle in nearby damp woodland

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Before, during and after repair. Wonderful work on a drystone wall on the edge of Bath today

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Very late #wildflowerhour hedgerows. Yellow archangel, ramsoms, bluebell and wood melick in Bath. Orange tip on cuckoo flower, where more grassy, making an appearance. Good year for butterflies so far.

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Not very original for #cabbagefamily #wildflowerhour but lovely cuckoo flower nevertheless

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

A wonderful week at the @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social. Thanks to Martin and Jodie, and Mark Cutts. New sightings included curlew sandpipers and a whinchat. Lots of wheatears, warblers and bountiful sea life on the Bill. 100s of linnets & a wall butterfly. Enjoyed meeting the palmate newts too!

Curlew sandpipers at the tip of Portland Bill

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Fox and badger visited our garden last night again...but certainly not intentionally together

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Female kingfisher at Shapwick Heath NNR in Somerset today

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

An explosion of biting insects this arvo at Hall Wall RSPB NNR Somerset...sounded like small planes flying over. Good for the birds. First hobby and dragonfly seen...the latter saved from the loo...

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Simply stunning.... #Exmoor in North Devon yesterday.

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

My favourite too. Some blackthorn

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Watched through sitting room window yesterday - this woodmouse was on a mission to collect red berries and hoard them in its nest/store.

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

As its not on today's theme, I'm going early with #bsbi #wildflowerhour. These are completely native daffs in a small reserve in Gloucestershire in the golden triangle, which was stunning yesterday. One person seeing this was nearly in tears...

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

One of Bath's long closed graveyards with amazing display of daffs and primroses...possibly both native varieties #wildflowerhour

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Great shot. Very flooded there isn't it. Here's my kestrel from the same area I think

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Somerset Levels were hugely flooded today, leaving very little grassland for this kestrel. Cattle egrets, lapwings and starlings scattered in large flocks amongst muddy cattle grazed fields. A firecrest was another highlight. #birds

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Found when moving the patio pots around...frog

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Two lifers for me today, both at Shapwick Heath NNR in Somerset: a penduline tit and an American wigeon. The PT was distant. Also an accommodating stonechat kept me company @naturalengland.bsky.social

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Rather handsome chap from last weekend at WWT Langford Lakes...a ring-necked duck I believe.

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Parasol mushroom in the New Forest yesterday

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Some more fantastic fungi from the New Forest yesterday

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Lots of wonderful fungi in the New Forest. Especially rich in Boletus...blue staining.

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Purple is the colour of the moment Purple loosetrife #wildflowerhour

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Wonderful swifts screaming around Exford and I think trying to coax out the nestlings

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

What better on a stinking hot Saturday than a walk in the woods...Horner Wood in Somerset - temperate rainforest with lots of bilberry to sustain us, common cow-wheat and masses of heath fritillary butterflies #wildflowerhour

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Peter McSweeney @petermcsweeney.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

On #nationalmeadowsday congratulations to Friends of Lyncombe Hill Fields on the last 5 years of effort to manage a little part of Bath and do our bit for diversity