Carl Cornish

Suffolk coast exile in Newark, Notts. Part-time birder, full-time beardy. Nowadays more often looking at trees than the birds in them.

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

Dozens of Adonis and Chalkhill Blues and Silver-spotted Skippers at Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve last Sunday (10 August 2025). Plus a Clouded Yellow and Dingy Skipper. A beautiful chalk grassland site

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

Excellent views of 3 female Brown Hairstreaks at @RSPBotmoor yesterday. One in car park and 2 feeding on blackberries along Roman Way. Phone photo

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

@Vinnymosleyliv1 Scarlet Tiger, indeed a lovely moth

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

Brilliant start to a site visit to Cemex Denge Quarry for work finding this Hoopoe this morning.

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

Visit to RSPB Nene Washes, Eldernell this afternoon. 12 Cranes, 4+ Great, 4+ Little & 3 Cattle Egrets, 10+ Marsh Harriers, 1 Peregrine, 1 Sparrowhawk, several Buzzards & Red Kites, 2 Barn & a Tawny Owl, c200 Black-tailed Godwits & 3 Stonechats #worldwetlandsday2025

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

@LWTWildNews Also a Short-eared Owl & pair of Stonechats earlier

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

@James4Nature @davidjenkins55 @RSPBLangford @ShorelarkHolmes @NottsBirders It gets top marks for hiding out of sight when I was there looking with Mark! Still, got my shopping done 😅 Pleased you all got to see it

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

@MOTHIDUK Thank you for your help

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

@MOTHIDUK Is this a worn Yellow-line Quaker with the dark spot by the wing base and faint straight line before leading edge?

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

Should say a new moth for me

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

Several Musotima nitidalis (Marbled Fern) moths flying around Bracken at Staverton Park, Suffolk on visit with @AncientTreesATF A moth for me and thanks for @MOTHIDUK for confirming. Just phone photos

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

@MOTHIDUK Thank you for your help, much appreciated

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

@MOTHIDUK are these both Musotima nitidalis (Marbled Fern)? Several disturbed from Bracken at wood pasture site in East Suffolk today. Not a species I've seen before

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

@treesnwildlife @StevenFalk1 @Buzz_dont_tweet @BumblebeeTrust @DaveGoulson @JeffOllerton @RichardComont @FWAGAssoc @RSPBScience @CFEonline @DefraNature I can. Mowing the entire width in one go will be seen as easier. No inspections to enforce so can get away with doing it.

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

@TBeetles You meanie!

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

@MOTHIDUK Thanks. Pleased I got the correct genus! I've measured where I photographed it and would be c8 mm long

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

@MOTHIDUK Is this Coleophora trifolii?

[Carl Cornish @cornishca]

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