Summer Migrant

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[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms."

And all of it, all of it now entering the food chain. When does it stop? How long before we demand it stops? What next?

https://t.co/hn61kr7kMi

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

Went on a wild ibis chase about the howe of Fife, but didn't find it; ruff as a consolation. But the morning had my first garden mistle thrush for a couple of years, singing chiffchaffs, and a blackcap with subsong, plus a treecreeper. So it was a good day.

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

I was wondering what the angle shades like moth with the funny wings was. Eventually it dawned on me what was happening, and I went back out to find it fully emerged. #TeamMoth #Fife

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

Crossing from Belfast to Cairnryan last night and watching the Manx shearwaters. Then in amongst them, way out to sea was something half their size skipping over the water a little like a swallow. A petrel? Too far out to be sure.

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

Meanwhile, in London last week a Jersey tiger #teammoth

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

In the garden today a couple of riband waves, and out in the countryside a sloe bug #Fife #teammoth

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

A really bright yellow siskin in the garden this morning. Always a garden rarity, one in July is unheard of, usually a Dec-Mar occasional visitor. #Fife

[Bruce Taylor @barrabirder]

Violet Sea Snails were pushed ashore on Barra's west coast by brisk westerly winds today. We counted 35 in just over a mile at Traigh Eais among hundreds, possibly thousands of By-The-Wind Sailors.

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

Polytunnel moths... garden pebble, mother of pearl and white plume. #teammoth

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

@SwanwatchUk Ah, now I did count them, but haven't noted it down. 5 or 6.

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

Clissold Park was doing well in the sunshine. Lots of (common blue) damselflies around the meres, like flying electricity. A speckled wood butterfly, a whole gang of cygnets and I do like an Egyptian gosling, invasive or not.

[BirdGuides @BirdGuides]

Swift Awareness Week, which aims to highlight the plight of the UK's declining Common Swifts, runs from 28 June-6 July. Find out more: https://t.co/dy9eWWFV1u

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

And some garden moths, snout and a yellow moth that I'm not sure about. Any suggestions, a very yellow yellow shell, perhaps? #TeamMoth #fife

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

Fledgling blackcaps and bullfinches in the garden this morning #Fife

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

Fledgling goldcrests this morning, and both parent blackcaps feeding with vigour. A peregrine rising on a thermal to remind us that other things like the fledglings too. #Fife

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

I don't know the purpose of this, but if the idea is to produce a small plot of nature, and given the adjacent copse, surely fencing it off and allowing it to develop is the thing to do? There would be a wood there soon enough.

[john lindsell @jonnycaribouthe]

Truly horrendous scene on the A14 near the Brampton hut.I estimate there are around 8,000 saplings here ,all of which died A graveyard of plastic is all that's left.Surely it would have been better to have let nature take it's course than this atrocity!

[john lindsell @jonnycaribouthe]

Truly horrendous scene on the A14 near the Brampton hut.I estimate there are around 8,000 saplings here ,all of which died A graveyard of plastic is all that's left.Surely it would have been better to have let nature take it's course than this atrocity!

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

Fledgling chiffchaffs in the garden, which is very good to see. #Fife

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

More outbuilding moths. Common pug(?) in a shed and dwarf pug(?) in the greenhouse. Plus completely unidentified beastie. #Fife

[Summer Migrant @summerMigrant]

Greenhouse moth action. Brindled pug, perhaps?