Liam Andrews

Entomologist, birder, C-ringer, pseudoscorpion man. Also @PseudoscorpUK

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

Finished the @gibpoint day list with 120 sp! Brilliant day with 2 lifers, 3 year ticks and 14 Gib ticks. Highlights included barred wabler, several Y-B wabler, Snow Bunting and even better veiws of Jack snipe (x2) Birds Observatories Bird Race @lincsbirders @Lincsbirding

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

@ivysuckle Spot on!!! This is an impressive m²!!!

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

@ivysuckle @BritishSpiders Highly likely Roncus lubricus then! Nice work!

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

@BritishSpiders @ivysuckle I agree with Chthonius ischnocheles! Lovely find!!!

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

@SmalePerry @Vaasetter I think the current system is, ship assisted birds are accepted so long as they CAN make it hear under it's own power. Which obviously begs the big question of exactly which could make it hear under it's own power!

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

@SmalePerry @Vaasetter Bobolink and Alder flycatcher also same area, and two REV on Lundy... Suprised the ship didn't sink 😂

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

@Vaasetter Has anyone ever published an analysis on the likelihood of different species arriving near ports? Couldn't find anything on a quick surch of BB. Would maybe give some insight although not on indervidual records.

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

@Vaasetter If we open that can of worms I think all American passerines could be seen as suspect... Britain's only Canada warbler close to a shipping lane not far from a presumably ship assisted Grackle? Geuss the problem is for most species it's purely geusswork if it arived by boat.

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

@Vaasetter I agree with a distinction between ship assisted and escaped but wouldn't it be easier to sort in cat D rather than E?
D1: a bird in which there is doubt it's a genuine wild bird.
D2: a bird which is doubtless wild but likely transported by ship.

Or something similer.

[Toby Carter @_TCartz]

Another day, another bold wader. This juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper was quite content feeding on the excess of invertebrates along the shoreline around us.

https://t.co/HnTKUkJ96T

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

Couldn't resist a post work twitch for the Walberswick Zitting Cisticola this evening and it showed better than expected!

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

@ChrisEdley4 @OwenBeaumont1 It was at Whitbarrow. Along the footpath beyond "The Rooms @ Rawsons" but we also had one close to the car park there. The Butterfly Conservation Cumbria website has good sightings info with grid references if your planning a trip.

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

Great weekend in Cumbria with @OwenBeaumont1 the big highlight being High-brown Fritillary! The last British butterfly* I needed to see! And at least a dozen showing amazingly well!

*out of the resident extant breeding species. Still need vagrants!

[Owen Beaumont @OwenBeaumont1]

An inadvertently well-timed trip to Cumbria over the weekend meant we were there bang on for High Brown Fritillary. After a failed search in the heat of the day on Saturday, an earlier visit on Sunday led to some excellent views @pseudoliam

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

E6 lives on! The geriatric Avocet at Frampton again today. Rings not getting any easier to read!

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

@SBOmad @RSPBFrampton @OwenBeaumont1 @InstaBirders @Lincsbirding Yes, the Frampton list must be crazy by now!

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

Frampton Marsh wader sp #44! Collared Pratincole. Showed decently well although hardly moved the whole time!

[Owen Beaumont @OwenBeaumont1]

Collared Pratincole at a breezy @RSPBFrampton this afternoon @RareBirdAlertUK

[Liam Andrews @pseudoliam]

American Golden Plover showing amazingly at @RSPBFrampton. My 43rd wader sp on the site!

[Owen Beaumont @OwenBeaumont1]

I returned home yesterday after a week on Lesvos with the gang 🇬🇷 Some brilliant birding and arguably even better scenery. A collective 188 species recorded throughout the week and around 25 lifers personally. Bring on the next one!