Paul Bowyer

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5000th of a second shutter speed was used to take this Hummingbird Hawkmoth on Sand Point this AM @wildlife_uk

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@MartineFenn @bristolbirding Yes.

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Thousands of ladybirds in Weston-super-Mare today, similar numbers to 1995. Westerly movement over the garden currently, too many to count.

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@Severnsidebirds @bristolbirding I was finding loads of larvae during the spring so wondered if this might happen.

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M4 not M5

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Nightingale singing in Reading Services, M5 westbound at 5am this morning.

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2 Waxwings in Weston-super-Mare in trees at the entrance to Hutton Moor Sports Centre @bristolbirding

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@Gowermoss @LondonMoths @BritishMoths Have a look at Gelechia senticetella and Psoricoptera gibbosella

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@MikeFRobinson Found some this morning in my local park. I believe they are Byturus ochraceus

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@MWeites Yes, seen a couple of reports late October. Apparently there is a third generation southern europe/ North Africa so perhaps a migrant or just an odd emergence.

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Holly Blue today at Sand Point (12/11/22) plus a couple of Painted Lady.

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@CubanMule Hi Graham, sorry for late reply. Looks like Privet Hawkmoth.

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Sand Point vismig by 9:30am: 510 Mipit, 230 Goldfinch, 40 Linnet, 11 alba wagtail, 140 Woodpigeon, 2 Stock dove + 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Wheatear, 1 Sand Martin

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Male Wheatear at east end of Middle Hope this afternoon.

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Sand Point: 2 Sand Martin off St Thomas's Head, 7 Chiffchaff (5 singing). Vismig 68 Mipit, 4 Grey Wag, 9 Goldfinch, 8 Chaffinch, 17 alba wag @somersetbirds

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@FlyinginFordham @MothIDUK @dgcountryside @MigrantMothUK @davenevitt Thanks Ben. Seems quite obvious now but it's taken nearly a month to get to Autophila (thanks to an iNaturalist member).

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Photographed at Brean Down, Somerset on 26th January appears to be Autophila anaphanes or cataphanes but also Large Tabby suggested. Wonder what twitter people think? @MothIDUK @dgcountryside @MigrantMothUK @davenevitt

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@davidjgibbs6 @MothIDUK @dgcountryside @MigrantMothUK @davenevitt That's interesting thanks Dave. Several have been named in iNaturalist so could be possible to do to some degree without dissection.

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@davenevitt @MothIDUK @dgcountryside @MigrantMothUK Great thanks Dave.

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1w Little Gull in Sand Bay on shoreline with BHGs @bristolbirding