alan lewis wildlife stuff

General wildlife stuff, mainly birds, plants including bryophytes, fungi in season! unfollows political tweeters

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@MSFT365Status Cannot save any work - absolute jokers - sort it out

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@markhows Actually might be Pale Shoulder

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@markhows That third one must be same genus as Pale Shoulder

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@DeansMatthew Fab shot that Matthew!

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Phonescope vid of the Merlin

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An afternoon on Hurst Spit produced no rare Wheatears or Pacific Goldies, but the regular Merlin was perched up, also 3 female Common Scoter and a late Curlew Sand with Dunlin flock - could it winter?

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@jarpartridge mint

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A few birds seen in the hand this morning @PortlandBirdObs - Ring Ouzel and (Lesser) Redpoll before a hasty return to Hampshire to look for Pacific Golden Plover (not seen!):

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A total of 3 Red-headed Chestnuts seen today
@portlandbirdobs -thanks to MC and JH; dark and light forms pictured along with Grey Shoulder-knot - an amazing number of moths in the obs traps today given the low overnight temperatures. I think the moths were warmer in the fridge!

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Nutcracker, Mundesley, Norfolk - 25/10/26 - a few more images:

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@BeidaiheBirder Cheers Mark, missed the killer shot which was where it sailed right over the field to catch a wasp, against a blue sky! Someone may have got it…

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Nutcracker - Mundesley, Norfolk - 25/10/26. I spent about 4 hours with it, which just means (many) more photos to come!

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Ist W male Desert Wheatear at Cley 25/10/26 - trying to find whatever shelter it could find in the howling westerlies and like the Nutcracker seen in the morning, entirely unafraid of the crowds:

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Nutcracker at Mundesley, Norfolk 25/10/26 - 41 years after I saw the one at Westleton, Suffolk, great to see one of these in Britain again. A spectacular performer although totally obsessed with catching wasps and ignoring offers of hazelnuts, peanuts and sultanas!

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@FlyinginFordham Other hobbies?! Surely not! 🤣

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@CleyBirds 18 - that’s insane! Have you missed any?!

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@DeansMatthew @Bawdsey_Hall @MigrantMothUK @BC_Suffolk Very well marked that one!

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@JLowenWildlife @PortlandBirdObs @MigrantMothUK I'd think anywhere in the south is worth running an ORI lure now; I had 3 traps up on 14/10 at Portland for nothing; then only bothered with 1 trap last night and got 2! Strong winds /rain are fine, all 5 I have trapped myself definitely arrived after 00.00...

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Freshwater Bay @PortlandBirdObs overnight 15/16 Oct. with 2 MV, 1 Lepi-LED, 1 ORI lure - highlights were 2 Slender Burnished Brass (to ORI) and my second E. ocellea in two weeks; also 4 Vestal, 4 SBS, 1 White-speck, 2 Pearly Underwing, 3 P. vitrealis
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@PortlandBirdObs @MigrantMothUK Shocking maths - 3 near Helston last weekend, 2 Freshwater Bay and one at PBO - 6!

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As always, @PortlandBirdObs delivered some good scarcities during 14-16/10 with a remarkably well marked Porter's Rustic, the gangly Toadflax Pearl (A. catalaunalis) and Slender Burnished Brass (to ORI, two days prior) - my fifth of this stunner in a week!
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Too busy in calls and workshops for any real birding but managed to jam the Siberian Chiffchaff being rung on 15/10 and then 2 Yellow-browed Warblers (one much yellow than the other) early this morning 16/10 @PortlandBirdObs , thanks to MC, JH and the whole team: