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Always nice to find a soft and comfortable place to rest on a warm day! A lovely Small Heath butterfly pauses for just a moment on a beautiful Carline Thistle seed head. 🫶🧡🌿📷

Happy new month!

#Butterflies #InsectThursday #Invert #Photography #UKWildlife #Nature #NativePlants #WildflowerHour #ECK

The long-staying North American Buff-breasted Sandpiper at Eshaness. One of at least seven individuals to have made landfall here in Shetland so far this autumn. #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife

Little grebe (lifer) seen on my first visit to at Trottick Ponds in Dundee last week. I thought it was a juvenile moorhen until I read @dundeebirding.bsky.social's recent blog about their visit a few days earlier! 📷📸🎞️🪶 #birds #ukwildlife

A male ichneumonid seen on my first visit to Trottick Ponds in Dundee last week. No ovipositor and about 2-3 cm long so quite large for the family? I was hoping to identify it but it seems that's almost impossible for males like this! 📷📸🎞️ #bugs #ukwildlife

Common Sandpiper and Curlews at Pennington and Keyhaven on Saturday. #WaderWednesday #UKWildlife #Birds

Last day of September still a reasonable number of Common Lizards out at Slievenacloy in the Belfast Hills (4 adults & 5 juveniles seen). Most were keeping low in the vegetation but a couple did venture onto a fence post as the wind eased a little. @argroupsuk.bsky.social #ukwildlife #hsi #reptiles

Little Egret at RSPB Ham Wall, Somerset. I quite enjoyed watching these - in the shallow water, they were sometimes quite excitable, chasing after small fish. (21.09.26) #somersetbirding #ukwildlife #birds

My first Brambling from Hartlepool Headland, as well as a Curlew from Seal Sands this afternoon.

#birds #ukbirding #ukwildlife #birdphotography #naturephotography

Wall Brown butterflies at Roydon Common this evening. I can't help but think they've left it a bit late in the year for this kind of romantic activity #ukwildlife #butterflies #ukbutterflies

Another Yellow-browed Warbler from Girdle Ness today.
#Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

Broad-bodied Chaser. #WildWebsWednesday #ukwildlife

In July, @puzzlewild.bsky.social and I went to Galloway for Scottish Photography Hides. We rented the Pine Marten/Tawny Owl hide. After a buzzard then a sparrowhawk, we saw pine martens.

The hides are great. We’ll definitely go back!
#ukwildlife 🦊 #pinemarten #scotland

Animal & Plant Health Agency staff are using mini-transmitters to track invasive Asian Hornets to hidden nests near Rye. You can report sightings on an app www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/... or via iRecord. This Asian Hornet was next to a trap down our lane just now.
#UKwildlife
#insects
#AsianHornets

5 Kingfisher for the day
River Arrow
River Stour
River Rea
2 Bourn Brook
One dazzling in early morning light before it flew from roost
Great!
#birds #wildlife #ukbirding #ukwildlife #ukbirds #birding #nature #wmbirds

My morning trudge round Girdle Ness wasn't a total waste of time, as I found this lovely Rustic Bunting near the Battery. My first record here.
#Birds #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK #PatchBirding #UKWildlife

I tested out the 960fps mode on my new toy (a GoPro Mission 1 ILS) at a Hornet's nest. Came out pretty well I think!
#ukwildlife #nature #wildlife #insects

@royentsoc.bsky.social @amentsoc.bsky.social

First Leaf-blower of the season. It's a winter visitor, invasive & a threat to resident species.
It's found in parks & large gardens.
It's call is a loud, monotonous roar.
It feeds on some gardeners' obsession with pointless motorised tools.
#UKwildlife
#birds
#gardening
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social