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Two hardy souls braved the wet and windy conditions at CMO.
A December Moth and a
Large Wainscot…my luck is still holding firm 😂
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Large Wainscot December Moth
November 29, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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Mothing never sleeps...
Two Winter Moths so far tonight and that's likely going to be it, but a result is a result!
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November 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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The Day of the Grackle.

Time for some midweek entertainment on the south coast where the Boat-tailed Grackle was doing its thing in Holbury. Part corvid, part wagtail, part peacock too with his swagger & strut. A bird made for Category S 😎
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November 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Boaty McBoatface...

*I liked Grackatak as well, 'specially for the 80s pop-jazz-funk fans out there...

Boat-tailed Grackle
Holbury, Hampshire
November 19 2025
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November 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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We've had 2 species of Grackles alighting near ports in the last 2 years. Discussions need to happen re: Brown Thrasher, Spotted Towhee, Northern Mockingbird, various Sparrows (Lark, Song & White-throated for starters), House Finch & Evening Grosbeak maybe & that's just for starters.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Really enjoyed a couple of days down south w/the Edgellers, where L & I took in the fun'n'funky Boat-tailed Grackle. It's arrival prompted renewed debate regarding the British List & categorisation of what are undoubteldy wild birds (but w/low to minimal *actual* vagrancy potential).
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November 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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...and here's this one for all the Turnip fans out there...
A fairly standard looking one side-by-side with the pale grey loner.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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A few more from the last few days ~ I really liked our pallid Turnip (a very striking looking individual) + a smart Chestnut, a white-spotted Satellite (we get more orange spots) & our latest-ever Dark Arches.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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markgolley.bsky.social The White Falcon @markgolley.bsky.social · 8d
Things winding down a little at CMO HQ this last few days ~ the weather hasn't been conducive to a burst of last-minute, end-of-year moth action. That said, the Sprawler has landed! One of the last NFYs we've been expecting & v. smart it was too.
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November 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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A couple more Cley sky views from this morning & some wind-blown Eiders...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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So many stunning skyscapes at Cley today as showers rolled in & around us as the north wind blew. Offshore, well, it wasn't stellar this morning ~ a nice movement of Eider, 15 Little Gulls, a Bonxie, a couple of RB Mergansers, a few C Scoters.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Anterton Hill is the best set of trees in village. I'd already said to folks at Walsey that it was my last roll of the dice & there had to be one here because I had seen one 25 years ago...!
Ten yards up lane, a tit flock.
Oooo...
Ten yards later, SPRITE!
Scenes!!!
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I really didn't want to be distracted by phone grabs of the Pallas's as I wanted to savour the moment. It was such a special moment ~ a Pallas's Warbler on the patch. The patch we do, pretty much, every day. It's not a BB rarity any more, not a county rarity either but when you've hit the wall and running on empty...yup, special moments 😊 It was so close at one point that I did weaken and try and get something just with the phone (no way of following it). There's been frame fillers all weekend of them, so here's the polar opposite 😅 It's in here as well, honest. Arse on, white dot above the main sun burst...
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Here's the antithesis of all those gorgeous shots of Pallas's Warblers from the weekend! Buzzing to find another on the patch, think that's four now, including two here on Anterton Hill, albeit 25 years apart...
The "first view" magic when finding a Pallas's never fades 💚💛
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November 16, 2025 at 8:39 PM
linnetincley.bsky.social
12/8 at CMO
Diamond-back x 1
Turnip x 1, RDP x 7
Silver Y x 1
Phyllonorycter messaniella.
A December Moth for
#MothFaceFriday
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November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Another breezy but mild night at CMO HQ & a respectable 21/14 including migrant Rusty Dot Pearls & a Diamond-back. Moth of the night, by a considerable margin, was this gorgeous Mottled Umber ~ not sure we've ever had a smarter one👌
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November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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One of the nicest sights y'day was watching a local Barn Owls quartering meadows along the edge of the valley. This is a species that still seems to be struggling to return to numbers seen in previous years. One step forward, two steps back...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Last night's roost tallies of Cley egrets ended up with 16 Little & 24 Cattle (flocks of 9 & 15) ~ numbers actually a little lower than expected. Both species show very nicely when they have a pre-roost wash & feed on the scrapes.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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I'm getting the word - "jowl".
No bird does a jowl better than Cattle Egret. I remember reading about the CE jowl back in the day (A Twitcher's Diary maybe?) & it stuck. This was one of nine that we saw tonight on Pat's (& the Freshes earlier).
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November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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Stigmella tityrella on Beech in the lane today, I believe? We have also had the adult moth in the trap previously, confirmed by gen det.
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A green island on a beech leaf. Evidence of the leaf miner moth Stigmella tityrella.
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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It was, for my Heath Robinson method of capturing shots, a total nightmare. I don't know what I thought I'd achieve with bins/phone or 'scope/phone (bar the awfulness below). So today I've much admiration for the likes of Mike Edgecombe & his lensmanship.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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The End of the Pier show...
...y'day's shopping/recycling trip coincided w/rain & a double bill of Swift sp. at West Runton. Today a lone bird (new?) was found there by Simon Chidwick & this one was a doozy of a Pallid, looked ace along the undercliff...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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...the American Goldie was the warm-up act ahead of the main attraction ~ the gull roost! Maybe 250 more birds than Cley's roost last night: 4 Caspian Gulls (x3 1w, x1 2w) & 3 Yellow-legged Gulls (x2 ad, x1 1w) played 2nd fiddle to the bird of the day...
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November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Highlights galore today. A wander along Meadow Lane offered up nice views of a sometimes showy Siberian Chiffchaff (no call heard, but looked the part) but a random 45 minute westerly movement of 15 to 20 Red Kites absolutely stole the show.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Red Kites over Meadow Lane, Salthouse this morning, each one looking sensational in the low autumn sun & each one in immaculate condition, the deep rusted tones intensified against the bright blue sky.
Really beautiful birds...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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...abysmal effort at trying to get a shot of the furtive Siberian Chiffchaff along Meadow Lane this morning. I'd say this was...atmospheric 😅
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November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM