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Dorset birds and garden moths

[John Down @JohnDown18]

Me and my girls on Chesil just now

[Christopher Teague @ChristopherTea1]

Managed to see the Long-tailed Blue at Seaton this afternoon, landed a few times only briefly. @savebutterflies

[John Down @JohnDown18]

@Sam_jess2003 @Worzelwally It's going to be La Rochelle, I reckon. They can't get above Quins

[Paul Chapman @ClevedonMoths]

In olden days, a glimpse of hindwing was looked on as something shocking, now heaven knows, anything goes... 21 years after Minsmere Crimson Underwing & 11 years after Oak Yellow Underwing, Catocala nymphaea became my 8th British Catocala courtesy of Dave Foot at Wyke Regis. 😀

[Elgan Evan Alderman @ElganTimes]

The team sheet here shows how Quins were numbered. Famously, their opponents Bath didn’t have a No13 📖https://t.co/ebzqXp7p0p

[andrew sheridan @radio_sheri]

Excited to be behind the 🎙️ for @bbcbristolsport 📻 for todays final European 1/4 final contest of the weekend a local derby between @BathRugby and arch rivals @gloucesterrugby the prize for the victors an away semi final against @EdinburghRugby in the Challenge Cup.

[John Down @JohnDown18]

Dorchester Yellow browed still at STW @BirdGuides

[John Down @JohnDown18]

Foresters Tern back on mud at Shipstal @BirdGuides

[John Down @JohnDown18]

Yellow browed still at Dorchester STW this evening @BirdGuides @DorsetBirdClub

[John Down @JohnDown18]

@PortlandBirdObs Good move Martin, lot's of locals have signed up today @DorsetBirdClub

[John Down @JohnDown18]

First seawatch of the season on Chesil this morning 06.30 to 08.00. ENE and cold. Nice migrating flocks of gulls; 47 BHG, 11 Common Gull, 8 Scoter, 3 RTDiver, 2 Shelduck and a Mipit in off. 3 Bottle nosed Dolphin also offshore.

[John Down @JohnDown18]

Yellow browed still Dorchester STW @BirdGuides @DorsetBirdClub

[John Down @JohnDown18]

@JulianThomas19 It was seen today eating a small bird whole - the leg was poking out of its bill but nobody saw which species it was.

[John Down @JohnDown18]

Great Grey Shrike still present NW of Woolsbarrow. It is ringed so the bird from Lytchett presumably. @DorsetBirdClub @BirdGuides

[John Down @JohnDown18]

Yellow browed still at Dorchester STW @BirdGuides @DorsetBirdClub

[Jol Mitchell @JolMitchell]

@BirdTrack Dorset Green Woodpecker reporting rate for 2018 and 2023

[John Down @JohnDown18]

@Joe_stockwell @james_lidster @Ben_Sheldon_EGI @PeterMo03067857 There were 100 or so nr Woodsford about 1996 but only occasional small groups since then.

[John Down @JohnDown18]

@debbyseamist Still there just off the black pipe along the beach.

[John Down @JohnDown18]

@DorsetBirdClub @slashercutts @PortlandBirdObs Retrapped and released Obs front garden 2.30

[John Down @JohnDown18]

@NatTrustArch @southeastNT @surreyarch There was a motorised version of Spirograph in the 60s call Design-o-graph, which would fit.

[Iolo Williams @IoloWilliams2]

This tickled me!