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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

An excellent morning for lepidoptera: large skipper, red admiral, silver-studded blue, speckled wood and peacock on a short walk round the local heath.

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I'm just back from a short walk in my Dorset neighbourhood and found the same - painted ladies everywhere!

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Come and hear about 17th-century Dorset - tickets available now.

Poster for "From culture wars to conflict: Dorset in the civil war", Dorset History Centre, 9.30-15.15 on Saturday 6 June 2026.

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I was very lucky to catch two birds I rarely see up close this morning - a greenfinch in nest-building mode and a surprisingly quiet chiffchaff.

Female greenfinch with a white feather in her mouth perched on a budding branch.

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

On World Wetlands Day, my local marsh has become more wet than land. Don't think I'll be eating my sarnies on the marooned bench any time soon.

Flooded Stanpit Marsh from Hengistbury Head.

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Very excited to see that a flutter of gorgeous silver-studded blue butterflies has emerged on the same little patch of Dorset heathland as last year.

Male silver-studded blue butterfly clinging to heather stalk

Pair of mating silver-studded blue butterflies on old gorse flowers

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Rather lovely new adornment to the railway bridge this morning.

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Very privileged to have a close encounter with a magnificent heron this morning, a reward for completing my accounts and tax return 😍.

Two pics of a grey heron standing by a mill pond.

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Happy World Wetland Day! A few pics from this morning on the local marsh.

Birds on Stanpit Marsh on World Wetland Day

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

The fungus season continues to produce bounties, including a magical fairy ring in the dark gloom of a wood this morning.

Three picture of fungi and a fairy ring in the woods.

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 05/11/2023

The pigeons are drying out after yesterday's deluge.

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 03/11/2023

My favourite tree was looking freshly washed in the sunshine this morning 😍

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 22/10/2023

An upside to the current sogginess is the abundance of fungi - so difficult to pick my favourites.

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Seems quite late in the year to see a stag beetle.

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Thank you @drrjwarren.bsky.social. Having bought this book last week, I've already enjoyed spotting bees on ivy and learning about the origins of horse chestnuts. I'm looking forward to continuing through the microseasons 🙂.

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Thanks to the Digitithe Hampshire Project, I know that Henry Hubbard leased the land on which my house now stands in 1842, but I'm unhappy to read that his son shot a honey buzzard with "beautiful plumage" here. At least it was sent to "one of the best bird stuffers in his part of the kingdom"!

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Dr Trixie Gadd @trixiegadd.bsky.social · 10/09/2023

I'm supposed to be thinking/writing about early modern clerical families, but the fungi around here are distracting architectural miracles.

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