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Down by So'ton Water at dusk, first Dunlin of the autumn, also Osprey, Whimbrel c100 Curlew, Common Sandpiper, Whimbrel & Common Seal. BirdTrack Bird Aware Solent 🦆 Hampshire Ornithological Society

Day 222 of 2024 and we just passed 4MWh solar generation for the year, 3.5MWh used rest exported. Domestic solar should be standard on suitable new homes.

Bit of a left field moth this morning: unless I'm overlooking something else, all I can make this into is Nodaria nodosalis. Can't find any mention of it having occurred in Britain though. Eeek! Migrant Lepidoptera dave grundy🇪🇺😷 UK Moth Identification

Today, two things I had never seen before. A sunbathing Sparrowhawk, wings and tail spread and then this Adder, caught out in the open, it started moving backwards, immediate reaction was that the head was the tail, assume an anti-predator tactic. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation

Anyone in New Forest area know where I can get some chestnut paling? I would like to buy locally if possible, even 2nd hand would be good.

FLYING COLOURS Zhengze Xu, China Category: Birds in Flight 2023 I took this photo of Red-and-green Macaws in a sinkhole in Brazil’s Bonito area during the breeding season. The rising sun cast a shadow on part of the cliff, creating a dark background.

This was my best shot of what I have identified as likely Bactra furfurana from the night of 7th Aug from my S.Hants garden. British Moths

Hummingbird Hawk-moth & Painted Lady in the garden in the last 20 mins. Few moths o'night but inc Dark Sword grass, Rush Veneer & Silver Y. Some encouragement to keep the lights on. Migrant Lepidoptera

Many hundreds of fish have been killed in the Dane Stream as a result of a massive sewage discharge some 3km upstream.

A few from today Crambus hamella, Heath Potter Wasp and Mottled Grasshopper from the New Forest and a Hummingbird Hawk-moth from the back garden. new forest ranger HBIC

55sp for BirdTrack at #LepeCP this morning, migrants restricted to a few Swallow, Sand Martin and a Grey Wagtail. Heard what I felt sure was Wood Sandpiper, but not certain enough for a site tick. Hampshire Ornithological Society

Visited the site of my first full-time permanent countryside job today. Pleased to say it looked good, Rhododendron almost all gone, Heather widely developed and lots of visitors enjoying the day. c45 yrs between these 2 leaflets. Countryside WSCC

CPRE The countryside charity Biodiverse brownfield land outside of the Green Belt and full of scarce birds, insects and plants (1, 2). Species-poor, agriculturally unproductive, largely inaccessible, horsicultural Green Belt (3). I know which category I'd wish to protect the most.

New species will arrive in Britain as the climate changes, but they will be a non-random selection filtered by the English Channel. Surely our biogeographic status and evolutionary trajectory as an island are fundamental aspects of nature that we should be seeking to conserve?

Could this be Arctosa fulvolineata? Swept from saltmarsh beside Southampton Water today. BAS Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust HBIC

56spp in 110mins for BirdTrack at #LepeCP this morning. House Martins moving E, 2 Wheatear, 2 Gt Egret, Marsh Harrier E, 7 Common Tern W & a Sedge Warbler. Hampshire Ornithological Society

Small Scabious Mining Bee (Andrena marginata) turned up again in the garden today, just one so far after several of both sexes last year. Incentive, if it were needed, to plant Devil's-bit Scabious. HBIC BWARS Buglife #bees #insects

Possible Mompha divisella disturbed from vegetation in the garden this afternoon, landed briefly on a window allowing a picture but evading capture. UK Moth Identification HBIC

Cockspur grass found on the allotment in a break from digging up buried carpet (I don't know why either). HBIC