David Cousins

Keeping Twitter now for non-nature stuff, and keeping nature stuff elsewhere.

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

@lizardschwartz Yup, I'd agree.

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

@JonnyWHU I’ve had both of those before (ice cream and fern)! Wish I was there!

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

@xAlexTHFC Wunderbar

[Tottenham Hotspur @SpursOfficial]

Moments that will live forever 🏆

[James Bashford @wrenandbee]

My popular science book is due out this November 🥳 🍾

It’s called Nature Within

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And it’s all about the value of engaging with the natural world and protecting the biodiversity around us.

https://t.co/dXx4BwWI73

[Ron Cousins @CousinsRon]

Great weekend in the South West with @dcousins85 and family.
Got lucky with the Booted Eagle and saw it as we arrived. Great scope views but a bit distant for anything other than record shots.

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

@AdrianH70799541 And to you Ade

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

5 lifers this year, but a net gain of 3. No mega twitches this year with 2 American passerines bookending the year within an hour(ish) of home. Waterthrush, Alpine Accentor, Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, Desert Warbler and Yellow Warbler my roll call for 2025. Happy New Year!

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

@wrenandbee Never had one in nearly 8 years trapping now. Possibly my most wanted macro.

[jonnywhu 💙 🇺🇦 🇯🇵 @JonnyWHU]

Death’s-head Hawk-moth on St Mary’s today. Thanks to Chris Lewis. ⁦@MigrantMothUK⁩

[Ron Cousins @CousinsRon]

Only one moth on the garden trap last night but it was a Merveille du Jour!
Super moth.

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

Pale-legged Leaf Warbler last weekend, Asian Desert Warbler today. My wife’s comment: surely you’ve seen all of the warblers by now… not quite! 😂

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

@AdrianH70799541 Good to see you mate

[jonnywhu 💙 🇺🇦 🇯🇵 @JonnyWHU]

Jersey Mocha (male) has now been confirmed by @dcousins85 by GD. Only the second record for Essex. It showed how tricky second generation moths can be! @MigrantMothUK Photo by David Cousins.

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

@philiphorsnail I am also catching far higher numbers of Leopards this year than ever previously. Not quite as many as 15 but 5-7 pretty much every time I trap even though I'm releasing them a long way from the garden.

[James Bashford @wrenandbee]

Not just one nationally scarce Orange Beauty (Commophila aeneana)…

…but two! ♥️

Found yesterday lunchtime on my local patch in Stansted, Essex.

#NatureBeauty #MothsMatter @savebutterflies #Springwatch

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

Delighted to find good numbers of Greater Streaked Shieldbug on Sunday at Sandwich Bay with @wjrpbp and of course the amazing Lizard Orchids and Bedstraw Broomrape. Earlier we had been to Samphire Hoe, and saw the brilliant Trichius gallicus chafers.

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

A nice surprise from my Scottish trip was this Pammene obscurana. My first and a good record for north of the border as far as I can tell. A lucky find, it was sitting inside the Viewpoint hide at Insh Marshes RSPB reserve.

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

@WheatersDave They’re mostly moorland species so I think they can be found anywhere with upland moors including Wales and the North of England. Micropterix aureatella is apparently common in Scotland but not really elsewhere. I found 3 without having to work too hard so that seems legitimate.

[David Cousins @dcousins85]

Spent a week in the Highlands last week with my family. Lit up every night at the cottage in Tomintoul, once on the moors and once by a stream among some birches. Also netted by day where possible. Plenty of new moths for me, and a few midge bites! IDs in captions.