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[GillH🇺🇦 @gholly2]

@BlaenavonNature @BMcCloskey_98 @BirdGuides I remember! A good day.

[Dungeness Bird Observatory @DungenessBO]

A generally quieter day apart from a good increase in out to sea passage of Sand Martin with 174 recorded. There is still plenty of insects to look at, with at least six Red-veined Darter on one pool as well as lots of butterflies, including a few more fresh Painted Lady today.

[Dungeness Bird Observatory @DungenessBO]

Have you seen that we are running our #moth event again over the night of 3rd July and the following morning? Last year over 200 species were seen during the event!

The best of last nights catch were singles of Purple Marbled (new for the Observatory traps) and Small Marbled!

[GillH🇺🇦 @gholly2]

@kalanoros Odd looking clock face?

[GillH🇺🇦 @gholly2]

A lovely Beautiful Golden Y on the trap last night

[Dungeness Bird Observatory @DungenessBO]

Have you seen that we are running our annual moth event again this July?! Last year's event, over two hundred species of moth were seen!

Why not come along? We already have people booked on for both the evening and morning sessions of this year's event!

[GillH🇺🇦 @gholly2]

Hoopoe just flown over Tenterden!!

[GillH🇺🇦 @gholly2]

@_khkmagduru_ 68

[Dungeness Bird Observatory @DungenessBO]

We are running our #moth event again this summer! Join us for the night of 3rd July and the morning after, to see a host of local specialities.

Stay at the Observatory for £20 per night (£15 for friends) or just come down for the event (£5 an adult, U16s free).

See you there!

[Jonathan Dodds @_jdbirder]

Fantastic weekend at @DungenessBO where the record-breaking Little Gull movement was clearly the highlight of some quality seawatching!

[Dungeness Bird Observatory @DungenessBO]

745 Bar-tailed Godwits and 70 Whimbrel flew east past the seawatching hide this afternoon once the wind had swung round a bit. Hopefully the forecasted north-easterly winds during the next week will bring some more offshore passage. Come and join us by staying at the Observatory!

[GillH🇺🇦 @gholly2]

@WiseBirding Wow, so lucky!! 👏

[GillH🇺🇦 @gholly2]

@Cairo_xprsk 127

[GillH🇺🇦 @gholly2]

@WiseBirding A great start! Very envious, maybe next year! 😃

[The Royal Family @RoyalFamily]

"You allow us to experience life through another's eyes, you encourage us, you make us laugh, you make us cry, you take us on magical journeys and you create a community of book lovers that transcends almost any barrier."

📕 This year marks five years of The Queen's Reading Room, and last night Her Majesty hosted a reception at Clarence House to celebrate the charity's work and present the inaugural Queen's Reading Room Medals.

The evening brought together some of the literary world's most celebrated voices whose commitment has helped the charity reach book lovers in more than 180 countries.

🏅 Her Majesty presented the inaugural medals to two outstanding Reading Heroes. The National Reading Hero Medal was awarded to Selina Brown, founder of the Black British Book Festival — Europe's largest celebration of Black literature. The Local Reading Hero Medal was awarded to Liz Waterland, in recognition of her dedication to Deepings Community Library in Lincolnshire.

Their Majesties also met finalists whose work reflects the remarkable breadth of effort to make reading accessible to all.

[Dungeness Bird Observatory @DungenessBO]

After a year, we finally managed to read the ring on the female Peregrine that holds territory on the Power Station. This identified her as hatching at Kingston upon Thames, London in 2022.

The following day we saw her eating a Water Rail she had caught, presumably that night!

[Dungeness Bird Observatory @DungenessBO]

Stay at the Observatory this spring with the season being well underway with plenty of offshore passage the last couple of days! Theres plenty of availability and for a very reasonable price of £15 per night for friends, and £20 per night for others! Come see migration in action!

[GillH🇺🇦 @gholly2]

@qatarairways Please advise how to contact you about replacement flights from Delhi? No contact since the cancellation!!!

[GillH🇺🇦 @gholly2]

We are currently stuck in Delhi, due to Qatar airways cancelling our flight on Sunday. So far we have had NO contact, info or support. We have had to arrange our own hotels, and still have no idea if/when we might get home! Not good enough Qatar airways @qatarairways

[GillH🇺🇦 @gholly2]

@SmalePerry It’s not rocket science in this day and age to just contact stranded passengers.

[GillH🇺🇦 @gholly2]

Qatar airways, we have had no direct contact from you re our cancelled flights. I have spent over 3 hours on the phone getting nowhere, the help lines don’t reply. What is happening?? How will you get us home?
We have had to book our own hotel for the night. Support is appaling!