Darren Archer

searching elms for WLHairstreaks Home of lockdown #gardenbirdrace. Also posting to

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

@BirdTrack Lovely thanks I’ll let him know Much appreciated

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

@BirdTrack I know my butterfly records through bird track reach my county recorder But do you know where my mammal records go My county bat recorder doesn’t think he gets them? Thks

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

@pratorum2112 @Stewchat 👏👏

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

Here’s one for birders Noctules are the big bats -size of starling that you will have seen at Dawn and dusk

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

Stupid o’clock train to London after the match rewarded by a singing B Redstart in Holburn 😎

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

@BqEditor @pelagicpublish Yes but the kind you want to pick up and dig into 🥳

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

Wonderful publication from @pelagicpublish

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

@_BCT_ This thread is worth a read as the issue is the same Lack of insects What impact is it having on this years productivity of maternity colonies? @Buzz_dont_tweet

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

Great thread 👇👏

[LowCarbonKev @LowCarbonKev]

Swift declines.
Correlations / causations - "fully updated."

A short thread.

Seeing some heated debate on 'single issue' of swift bricks at moment, with debate of other causes being rejected (how SM works of course).

1/10

[Tara Okon @rivers_disguise]

'Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind.' #moorlandbirds #birds #art #nature

[Alan Davies @AlanDaviesbirds]

Good morning happy 4th July! Please vote today, let’s make it a huge turn out so the country genuinely decides. Let politicians know that the people decide not them. Thank you.#Elections2024 #vote #generalection2024

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

Extinct. No more. That’s it gone.

[Give Bats A Break @GiveBatsABreak]

After four weeks of careful searching, senses on edge as they scoured the island for any sign of this species, they found only one, solitary Pipistrelle. Here is a recording of its final echolocation call before it went eternally silent.
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https://t.co/GOYQTkvaDr

[Dr Cherry Picker @ScarecrowNeste1]

Its vital that we protect the Green Belt on the edge of Sunderland & this is a great collection of fields & hedges which hold LEOwl Redshank Partridge Willow Tit Kestrel, Barn Owl
n Winter this is an important feeding area for Curlew, Woodcock & Jack Snipe
https://t.co/8QvWsBrgPK

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

@Buzz_dont_tweet Yep last year the buzz of bumbles on this R.moyesii could be heard indoors 12m away This year 3-4 bees can’t sing that tune

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

You don’t have to have just wild plants This Rosa moyesii is a real bumble magnet They come for the pollen @Natures_Voice @Buzz_dont_tweet @BumblebeeTrust #springwatch

[Buglife @Buzz_dont_tweet]

Have you noticed a lack of buzzing & flitting?

🌼Flowers lacking the visitors you'd usually expect to see?

#InsectDecline is a real issue & concern; let's find out what's going on & keep bugs on the agenda

🐝 #CitizenScientists needed for #BugsMatter
👇
https://t.co/OcOH9P9xmp

[AndyBloomfield @NHarnser]

He was immortalised in the great Dutch book 'Sinagote' but is this the end of his journey ? Yesterday he looked like he had been in the wars - a gashed flank and a hanging leg. Could any Norfolk birders let me know if they see him @GlobalFlyway @WGLepelaar

[Bat Conservation Trust @_BCT_]

A lot of wildlife relies on insects as their main (or only) food source. All UK bat species eat insects only (some do eat spiders too) so without insects we wouldn't have any bats!
https://t.co/M8IiCXkI2t
#InsectWeek

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

Not your average #Barbastelle habitat in the UK but the only species found in our hotel garden in #Ligure #bats @_BCT_

[Chris van Swaay @chrisvanswaay]

For Small Skipper (T sylvestris) and Essex Sk (T lineola) many try to use the underside of the antennae. However for males the difference in androconidial patch on the forewing is much easier to see: short and parallel to the veins in T lineola, long and not parallel sylvestris.

[Darren Archer @dunnock67]

Male Speckled Wood on perch with Ant #Ligure