Up and down Snowdon this morning via Rhyd Dhu in 4hrs 45 mins 🤪, some nice birds seen also including 4 Ring Ouzel, Whinchat, Stonechats, Raven and 2 Wheatear, with 3 Cuckoo and a singing male Grasshopper Warbler near Rhyd Dhu station.

Garden rockery looking good in the sunshine today, especially the red Rock-rose. Marton, Lincolnshire BBC Gardeners World Garden News BBC Gardeners' World Mag

Four #speedwell species seen in flower this weekend for wildflowerhour challenge: Germander, Slender, Wall and Thyme-leaved. LNU Lincs Wildlife Trust Plantlife BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #wildflowerhour

23 of 14 moth species at Marton last night. 5 new for year: Large Nutmeg, Marbled Minor, Flame Shoulder, Turnip and Depressaria radiella. Also a Spectacle British Moths LNU Lincs Wildlife Trust Butterfly Conservation 🦋 #mothsmatter

Patch GOLD. Cattle Egrets on the cow field this afternoon. #PWC2025 104/113. I have waited for many years and then I find 2, twenty minutes later another 2 dropped in! Lincsbirding Lincsbirders.org Patchwork Challenge BTO Lincolnshire Lincs Wildlife Trust LNU

Nice pre-brekkie wander this morning along part of the Watkin path to Snowdon, saw some lovely birds being seen including 2 singing male Wood Warbler, 8 singing male Pied Flycatcher, 3 singing male Redstart, 2 Spotted Fly and a singing and displaying male Tree Pipit 😍

The number of Temminck’s Stints at Cley NWT has been slowly building over the past week, with ten or more present yesterday and today. This one came a little closer than the others, presenting a rare opportunity not to be missed.

Mating Pearl Bordered Fritillaries. Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Butterfly Conservation Yorkshire

Stonechats showing well at Cavenham Heath NNR recently. A fantastic reserve for all sorts of wildlife. Natural England SuffolkWildlifeTrust

Spent a great morning on Hornoya island, Norway getting incredible views of the nesting seabirds, Brunnich’s Guillemots being the star birds. We then got a message to say this Ross’s Gull had been found in the harbour at Vardo, right opposite our hotel. What a stunner🔥

Just before the reserve closed the godwit gave this lovely fly by. A nice reward after spending 8 hours on site.

Decent daytime selection of moths found during LNU field meeting to Stenigot yesterday incl. mating Buff-tips, Micropterix calthella, Cauchas rufimitrella and Orange Footman Butterfly Conservation 🦋 #mothsmatter Buglife

51 of 17 this morning with 6 nfy including this fine Privet Hawkmoth. British Moths LNU Ben Sale Paul Chapman Dave Roberts Brian Hedley

Another movement of Common Sandpipers along the River Trent at Trent Port, Marton, this morning. Had three together and probably a separate one upstream. Lincs Wildlife Trust Lincsbirding Notts Birdwatchers BTO

About 115 of 35moth species in garden last night here at Marton. 13 were new for year incl. Pine Hawk, Purple Bar, Sandy Carpet, Small Dusty Wave, Poplar Hawk, Coxcomb Prominent, Light Emerald, Straw Dot Butterfly Conservation 🦋 LNU BNA science Buglife #mothsmatter

Also In Derbyshire yesterday Pied Flycatchers, Redstarts, Ring Ouzels & Tree Pipits. With Phil Espin & Roger Hugh Labbett Derbyshire Ornithological Society (DOS)

Trent Port, Marton, Patchwork Challenge this AM. 43spp incl. 2 Raven, Cuckoo, Kingfisher, 2 Shelduck, Bullfinch, both Grey and Red-legged Partridges, Bullfinch, 2 L.Egret, 2 Sand Martin, Gadwall Lincsbirding Lincs Wildlife Trust LNU

One of our hardest Umbellifers to photo, given their liking for dark shaded areas of Calcareous Ancient Woodland, are the Beautiful starry flowers of Sanicle, Sanicula europaea. Thankfully conditions were just right here at Cloud Wood! BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour #wildflowerhour

The impressive Rose Sawfly (Arge orchropus) I believe. In the garden here at Marton (Lincs) today. LNU Lincs Wildlife Trust Buglife BWARS BNA science

Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens) and Ox-eye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) giving a #WildflowerShow this week for wildflowerhour #wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Plantlife LNU Lincs Wildlife Trust BNA science