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Nick Green

@shadoxhurstman.bsky.social
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Owner, custodian of Alex farm pastures 15 acre SSSI, Shadoxhurst, Kent

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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Falling off the Kent Weald, dropping onto Romney Marsh, the channel in sight, a dark morph juvenile Honey Buzzard heads south. (white ring - letter ‘A’). Nicely spotted by Jamie. @jamiepartridge.bsky.social
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Clare Gillatt @normanbynature.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Delighted to have our first Large Yellow-face bee ( Hylaeus signatus) in the garden on its preferred plant Weld - not sure if it’s unusual for N Lincs @lincswildlife.bsky.social
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Orlestone forest: A phone vid of a teneral Downy Emerald Dragonfly. Its brown eyes will change colour to apple green as it matures. DE dragonflies seem to me to be more numerous than a decade or so ago.
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Dungeness, Wednesday evening. At the tail end of migration, in between storms a small group of Kittiwakes loiter inoffshore.
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Lovely seawatch at Dungeness tonight 5-7 pm: 1 G Skua, 1 Pomarine Skua, 7 Arctic Squa, 1 BT Diver, 46 BT Godwits, 9 Whimbrel, 16 C Scoters, 1 Guillemot, 7 Kittiwakes, 4 Med Gulls. @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Since mid March, I’ve idled away time watching the secretive Sallow Longhorn (Adela cuprella). They stay out of sight in the highest catkins of scrubby sallows. The males display together in sun, and when they land, they disappear into foliage—not to be seen again until the next flight show begins.
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Alex Pastures, Kent, Probably our earliest ever Nightingale singing away this afternoon. Let me know if you heard an early one too!
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Barry Yates @rxnature.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
2 seeds of Sea Purslane and 2 bio-beads. Ducks filter out the saltmarsh seeds, so let's hope they can recognise the Southern Water bio-beads as not being food! #biobeads
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Dropping off the Kent Weald onwards to the East Sussex coast 2 female Honey Buzzards departing this morning.
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A second Osprey sighting over Orlestone for me this afternoon. Same bird as yesterday.. ..or just coincidence? Best wait for more sightings to answer that!
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I don't see many of these over Orlestone! In fact my first ever, an Osprey flys high across the forest and then on towards the Rye / Camber area.
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Osprey drifting away over Orlestone towards Rye presently.
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Attention Honey Buzzard watchers; A distant but distinct bird over SE Kent today. Looks to have a number of secondaries missing and might be a bird that someone may have been surveying.
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Clare Gillatt @normanbynature.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
We’ve just found a juv Black-winged Pratincole - Nebraska farm, Kirton in Lindsey #lincsbirding
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It’s a breakthrough year for Purple Emperors along the woodland edges of Alex farm Pastures, Kent. This week, our first 2 sightings (plus a bonus L. Tortoiseshell too). Frustratingly hard to get a record, but luckily this male made an accidental fly-past whilst filming Purple Hairstreaks.
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Common Cranes skirting Hamstreet, Kent and heading North this a.m. I wonder what their story is? Probably they've channel-hopped on a slowed migration.. and likely a loyal bird is staying with a lame mate - for better or for worse!
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Nick Green @shadoxhurstman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
From Saturday, with winter tasks over at Alexs, time for some raptor watching. This unlikely and lucky group gathering started with local Buzzards and Ravens escorting a migrating Marsh Harrier over, which in turn aroused the interest of a Goshawk with the Peregrine not far behind.
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