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Andy Hood @andyhood75.bsky.social · 12h

Oh lawdy...!!!
White-throated Needletail showing a bit well here at Bempton RSPB reserve @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 11h

Chiffchaff 👍

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 17h

Taken the lawnmower way out to the Pilot Path, Dungeness today for its annual mow

This is to help the Autumn Ladies Tresses as there are no sheep or goats to do the munching

Moved a Large Conehead out the way - which is my first of the year

@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@kentfieldclub.bsky.social

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 2d

After a few nights off due to stormy conditions

I ran the double actinic in the Littlestone garden, SE Kent

Small selection of moths with the only scribble I made was my first Clancy’s Rustic of the year

#teammoth

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 3d

Yep

Sheep’s-bit 👍

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 3d

Common Dodder is still clinging on (quite literally) as autumn gallops on.

This flowering plant is on Broom and remains a rare plant in Kent.
Although it is quite widespread across the shingle ridges of Dungeness NNR, SE Kent

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

#wildflowerhour

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 3d

You did….

17 turned up for a free guided walk on Dungeness this afternoon

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 4d

My only thought is - I hope the roof support is strong and well built….

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 4d

I thought all you birders living up North just seawatch from your houses on these windy days 😉😂

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Matthias Huss @matthias-huss.bsky.social · 7d

Like pulling the plug of a bathtub: an incredible mass of #glacier ice disappearing at Griesgletscher (🇨🇭/🇮🇹) in one century.
It felt emotional to visit the exact same spot @swisstopo cartographers chose in 1919. The view was so different.
Simply unbelievable!!
@vaw-glaciology.bsky.social

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 5d

A sense of personal achievement being the first in the seawatch hide, Dungeness and nobody over the boats either this morning…

1 Balearic Shearwater, 2 Arctic Skuas and a Black Tern the highlights

c500 Sandwich Terns, c150 Kittiwakes, 300 Gannets went west but had dried up by 9am

#kentbirding

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 6d

Never happens when I am sitting having a cup of tea with Dave 🤦😂

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 7d

Good set of pics 👍

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 7d

Oak Lutestring is scarce across Dungeness and I think less than 15 records

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 7d

Showing much better on the south side of the garden for the last 30mins to 14.55 at least to a small group of birders…

An improvement from earlier…

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 7d

All relevant….
Dungeness recording area abit bigger than the Kenfig/Sker area as well…

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 7d

Dave Bunney has just found a Red-breasted Flycatcher in his garden(South View), Dungeness lunchtime

View from track/NessCafe trailer

Feeding in base of conifers

#kentbirding
#UKrarebirds

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 7d

The Dungeness wider recording area 2025 total moves up to 231 species by end of September

New birds were Red-necked and Grey Phalarope, Buff-breasted Sandpiper, American Golden Plover, Glossy Ibis, Red-backed Shrikes, Storm and Leach’s Petrels

Keep smiling

#kentbirding

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 7d

The September rainfall total for Littlestone, Romney Marsh, SE Kent was 134mm

It becomes the wettest month so far this year. For comparison

August total - 19.5mm
July total - 130mm

@metjam.co.uk

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 8d

Alan

Bet that was a pleasant surprise 👍

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 9d

Might be my screen grab for my phone this autumn 🤦

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 9d

It was the last day of the last week of the butterfly transect on Dungeness

Numbers of butterflies have declined sharply through Aug and Sep due to drought and then unsettled weather with broods smaller and finishing earlier

Small Coppers remain the most numerous

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 9d

Jacob and Charlotte found a Wryneck this lunchtime along the Teasel Bank, The Desert, Dungeness

I was passing a few mins later and snapped this shot on my phone - a classic Wryneck

#kentbirding
#repostawryneck

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 10d

Sheep’s-bit (Jasione montana) is still flashing its blue flowers across the old vegetated shingle ridges at Dungeness

It is on the Kent Rare Plant Register and is only found across the shingle at Dungeness/Hythe in the County

#wildflowerhour
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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 10d

Red-hemp Nettle (Galeopsis angustifolia) is having a late flush - from the September rain following the summer drought across Dungeness

Some careful scrub works along a path have helped the plant at one of our monitoring sites

#wildflowerhour
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@bsbibotany.bsky.social

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