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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 10h

Trying to get my records ready for as early submission as possible so forgive me with some checks please... VC61
1 12/6 Small Rivulet ?
2 15/6 Eudonia lcustrata ?
3 15/6 Notocelia trimaculana ?
4 15/6 Scoparia ambigualis ?
@mothiduk.bsky.social any thoughts very welcome #TeamMoth

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Flamborough Bird Observatory @flamboroughbird.bsky.social · 12h

Tomorrow evenings talk is by FBO chair @craigcthomas1.bsky.social
with “Headland Highlights-an alpine melody “ looking back at the many fantastic birds that have graced the headland this year so far.
A few places still available, follow the link to book

flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/events/migwe...

Migweek 2025 - Flamborough Bird Observatory

Saturday 11th – Sunday 19th October 2025 Events Programme The full programme is not yet settled. The events shown below are confirmed but there we are hoping to add further events over the coming week...

flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 14h

Oof that's a beauty

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 14h

#UKBirding #YorkshireBirding

Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 14h

Again @flamboroughbird.bsky.social triumph with todays #Migweek ringing session. Perhaps the 5th year we have returned, at my eldests request (which alone speaks volumes).
Huge thanks to everyone involved. Seeing all ages & levels of interest genuinely engaged is heatwarming.
Ringed under licence.

I'm going to call this a Lesser Redpoll and leave it at that.

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 14h

Again @flamboroughbird.bsky.social triumph with todays #Migweek ringing session. Perhaps the 5th year we have returned, at my eldests request (which alone speaks volumes).
Huge thanks to everyone involved. Seeing all ages & levels of interest genuinely engaged is heatwarming.
Ringed under licence.

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 18h

Interesting...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#YorkshireBirding

Here’s to the birdwatchers! Optimistic, slightly eccentric custodians of wonder and joy and passion and love

At its heart, birdwatching is an act of quiet rebellion, says Natalie Kyriacou. It is the gentle act of noticing – the willingness to see the world around you

www.theguardian.com

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 21h

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 1d

An expected quiet night. 7 of 6 but when that includes NFY in Feathered Thorn and Blair's Shoulder Knot how can I grumble?
VC61 #TeamMoth

Feathered Thorn (Colotois pennaria) male

A orangey-brown moth with Feathered antennae

Blair's Shoulder Knot (Lithophane leautieri)

A narrow grey moth with black streaks.

Green-brindled Crescent (Allophyes oxyacanthae)

A grey-brown moth with hints of shimmering green. Sits on a dew covered leaf.

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Flamborough Bird Observatory @flamboroughbird.bsky.social · 2d

Migweek day 1 is go!!!!!
Nets are open at South Landing and the first birds of migweek are Redpolls!!!

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 2d

Yesterday, IUCN declared the Slender-billed Curlew to be extinct.
How did we let this happen?
What lessons are there for the future?
WaderTales blog based on paper by Graeme Buchanan et al
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l...
#extinction #ornithology

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 2d

Eagerly awaiting the "nets are open" post @flamboroughbird.bsky.social
Have a great and fruitful #Migweek2025 #Migweek ! 😁

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 2d

Just....

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 2d

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Flamborough Bird Observatory @flamboroughbird.bsky.social · 2d

The FBO migration station will be open 9am-1pm in the Living Seas Centre, South Landing.
The evening talk by Mark Pearson (now fully booked) at the Living Seas Centre, doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start.
Sadly the vismigging is cancelled tomorrow.

flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/events/migwe...

Migweek 2025 - Flamborough Bird Observatory

Saturday 11th – Sunday 19th October 2025 Events Programme The full programme is not yet settled. The events shown below are confirmed but there we are hoping to add further events over the coming week...

flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk

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Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) | Goose & Swan Monitoring (GSMP) @webs-gsmp.bsky.social · 2d

This weekend is the October Core Count! Did you know that with WeBS beginning as the National Wildlife Counts, we are continuing a tradition of counting that began in 1947! Learn more about our history here▶️https://www.bto.org/get-involved/volunteer/projects/wetland-bird-survey/about/history-webs

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 3d

Standing in the garden, Dunnock, Great Tit and... flyover Siskin!! I'll just double-check with Merlin and it picks up ... Short-toed Treecreeper 🤔 hmmmm
#YorkshireBirding #Cottingham

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 4d

Good luck! Contemplating turning my phone off all day 🙈🙉🙊

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Flamborough Bird Observatory @flamboroughbird.bsky.social · 4d

What more can be said- White-throated Needletail performed superbly late evening at RSPB Bempton, also Barred Warbler and Yellow-browed Warbler at South Landing, 2 Cetti’s Warbler and 11 Whooper Swans.
Full details here

flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/8t...

8th October 2025 - Flamborough Bird Observatory

Light winds, sunny intervals and a high of 16 degrees C – benign conditions that didn’t raise expectation. However, it is October when the headland’s birding can deliver in spades … … when news broke ...

flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 4d

Not just seen either, look at that chuffin photo!!

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 4d

Delightful !!

Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 4d

So @teamlabouruk.bsky.social your illustrious leader "hates tree huggers" and Rachel Reeves considers pretty much everything else important before the environment. Nothing to see here.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 4d

A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."

Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience

A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.

www.nature.com

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 4d

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Mac @scarpermac.bsky.social · 4d

Short pre-work visit, Swinemoor still looking very dry.
Swinemoor on 08/10/2025, 07:45 - 08:35. View my #BirdTrack list: app.bto.org/birdtrack/pu...
#YorkshireBirding #UKBirding

Share your BirdTrack records with others over social media

app.bto.org

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Joe Solo @joe-solo.bsky.social · 5d

The face of a man who just hobbled 1.8 painful kilometres for MAP as part of the 'Stride For Gaza' campaign.

It's my first attempt at running since slipping a disc last year.

If you can spare a little hard-earned then the l1nk is medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/joe-solo

Thanks everyone x

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Eben Muse @ebenmyrddin.bsky.social · 5d

First of all, 5mm isn't microscopic and you CAN see them.

Second of all, the fact that our Chancellor thinks she can't see these seems to mean she thinks they're not worthy of our consideration.

A hallmark of this government's terminal lack of imagination.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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LDV_NNR @ldvnnr.bsky.social · 5d

👀📺This Sunday on BBC 1 Hamza’s Hidden Wild Isles series is starting, looking at some of the more hidden, elusive & hard to see wildlife - it was a pleasure working with Hamza & the crew earlier in the year to capture footage of some of the more elusive species present in the #LDV.

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