Peter Jones
@peterdjones.bsky.social
Wildlife watcher.
Rugby League fan
YNWA
Cairn Terrier owner! CORRECTION: Owned by a Cairn terrier!
Rugby League fan
YNWA
Cairn Terrier owner! CORRECTION: Owned by a Cairn terrier!
Parabolic mic, and field recorder packed away in the shed while we have a few days of bad weather. It's still picking up bird calls! #Defiant
October 31, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Parabolic mic, and field recorder packed away in the shed while we have a few days of bad weather. It's still picking up bird calls! #Defiant
Nocturnal Migration looks to have bumped up a notch last night over North Baddesley, with increase in Redwing and Song Thrush numbers. Moorhen a strangely regular occurrence overnight.
#HantsBirds
#HantsBirds
October 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Nocturnal Migration looks to have bumped up a notch last night over North Baddesley, with increase in Redwing and Song Thrush numbers. Moorhen a strangely regular occurrence overnight.
#HantsBirds
#HantsBirds
Hard work around Portland, but a few nice pics. The most ridiculously confiding Raven I will ever encounter! and some decent birds at Lodmoor on the way home.
A couple of days at Portland Bill
Two days at Portland Bill were quite difficult going. Not much in the way of migrants, aside from Wheatear, Blackcap, Chiff-chaffs, and a steady stream of Swallows passing thru. Moth trap told a si…
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October 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Hard work around Portland, but a few nice pics. The most ridiculously confiding Raven I will ever encounter! and some decent birds at Lodmoor on the way home.
A walk around Portland. Pleased with my photos despite the distance/heavy crops and high ISO. I should perhaps keep the ISO high on cloudy days in future, despite the longer post processing time needed for the denoising.
#Olympus #OMSystems
#Olympus #OMSystems
A walk around Portland
A while since I have visited Portland Bill, so after my overnight moth trap I took a walk to the Bird Observatory via a nice footpath thru horse paddocks, and then explored Tout quarry. The previou…
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September 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A walk around Portland. Pleased with my photos despite the distance/heavy crops and high ISO. I should perhaps keep the ISO high on cloudy days in future, despite the longer post processing time needed for the denoising.
#Olympus #OMSystems
#Olympus #OMSystems
Feathered Brindle the highlight of a moth trap on Portland Bill. Weather forecast didn't live up to expectations of Migrants for me on this occasion.
#teammoth
#teammoth
Moth Trapping on Portland Bill
Feathered Brindle was the highlight of a moth trap at Portland on the night of 19th September, 2025. A moth restricted to the South coast, Portland in particular dominating the sightings of this sp…
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September 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Feathered Brindle the highlight of a moth trap on Portland Bill. Weather forecast didn't live up to expectations of Migrants for me on this occasion.
#teammoth
#teammoth
Wheatear made lugging a camera round Pennington marshes worthwhile! Also a Cattle Egret seen briefly.
#HantsBirds
#HantsBirds
Autumn arrives on the coast
An enjoyable morning around Pennington Marshes, with plenty of migration taking place over the marshes, Hundreds of Swallows, and Sand Martins along with a few House Martins and a couple of Swifts …
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September 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Wheatear made lugging a camera round Pennington marshes worthwhile! Also a Cattle Egret seen briefly.
#HantsBirds
#HantsBirds
1 Raspberry Pi, a Zoom H1 and an Audiomoth, and 3 days of cursing.
But I now have a permanent Bird call monitor / bat detector running.
Pretty sure the Sp.Fly is false. It did pick up a bone fide Firecrest though.
Looks like a Noctule slipped past with the Pipistrelle (20khz).
#Bioacoustics
But I now have a permanent Bird call monitor / bat detector running.
Pretty sure the Sp.Fly is false. It did pick up a bone fide Firecrest though.
Looks like a Noctule slipped past with the Pipistrelle (20khz).
#Bioacoustics
September 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
1 Raspberry Pi, a Zoom H1 and an Audiomoth, and 3 days of cursing.
But I now have a permanent Bird call monitor / bat detector running.
Pretty sure the Sp.Fly is false. It did pick up a bone fide Firecrest though.
Looks like a Noctule slipped past with the Pipistrelle (20khz).
#Bioacoustics
But I now have a permanent Bird call monitor / bat detector running.
Pretty sure the Sp.Fly is false. It did pick up a bone fide Firecrest though.
Looks like a Noctule slipped past with the Pipistrelle (20khz).
#Bioacoustics
Scarlet Darter, Lesser Emperor, and Beautiful Yellow-underwing, the highlights of a brief trip to Dorset
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#teammoth #dragonfly
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#teammoth #dragonfly
July 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Scarlet Darter, Lesser Emperor, and Beautiful Yellow-underwing, the highlights of a brief trip to Dorset
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#teammoth #dragonfly
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#teammoth #dragonfly
Breaking news: Hudsonian Godwit being reported, Titchfield Haven. I don't have any further details, or know if it is confirmed etc.
#Hantsbirds
#Hantsbirds
May 16, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Breaking news: Hudsonian Godwit being reported, Titchfield Haven. I don't have any further details, or know if it is confirmed etc.
#Hantsbirds
#Hantsbirds
Loving @capacities.bsky.social as my new Note-taking, Task-managing, Wildlife-finding-target-list app
May 14, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Loving @capacities.bsky.social as my new Note-taking, Task-managing, Wildlife-finding-target-list app
#hantsbirds
A bit of breaking news: a Collared Pratincole is being reported in the County.
I don't have details but looks to be Farlington?
A bit of breaking news: a Collared Pratincole is being reported in the County.
I don't have details but looks to be Farlington?
May 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
#hantsbirds
A bit of breaking news: a Collared Pratincole is being reported in the County.
I don't have details but looks to be Farlington?
A bit of breaking news: a Collared Pratincole is being reported in the County.
I don't have details but looks to be Farlington?
Very little in the moth trap this morning, and the home-made battery LEDs don't seem to be making it until the morning, so no chance of going a little further afield just yet.
A Great Prominent on the house wall is always a fairly impressive sight though
#HampshireNature #Moths
A Great Prominent on the house wall is always a fairly impressive sight though
#HampshireNature #Moths
April 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Very little in the moth trap this morning, and the home-made battery LEDs don't seem to be making it until the morning, so no chance of going a little further afield just yet.
A Great Prominent on the house wall is always a fairly impressive sight though
#HampshireNature #Moths
A Great Prominent on the house wall is always a fairly impressive sight though
#HampshireNature #Moths
Keyhaven and Pennington Marshes this morning. Picked out a Bar-tailed Godwit amongst Black-tailed Godwits. Plenty of Mediterranean Gulls flying East, at least 100. Plus an Osprey overhead flying North with fish. Also, 3 Sanderling.
#HantsBirds
#HantsBirds
April 6, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Keyhaven and Pennington Marshes this morning. Picked out a Bar-tailed Godwit amongst Black-tailed Godwits. Plenty of Mediterranean Gulls flying East, at least 100. Plus an Osprey overhead flying North with fish. Also, 3 Sanderling.
#HantsBirds
#HantsBirds
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Plenty of Common and Soprano Pipistrelles picked up with the detector this evening around North Baddesley, Hants
#Bats
#HampshireWildlife
Plenty of Common and Soprano Pipistrelles picked up with the detector this evening around North Baddesley, Hants
#Bats
#HampshireWildlife
Back to the past!
Batscanner stereo detector It’s been a good many years since I sold my pettersson d230 FD/heterodyne bat detector in favour of detectors capable of recording time expansion, and usb microphon…
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March 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Plenty of Common and Soprano Pipistrelles picked up with the detector this evening around North Baddesley, Hants
#Bats
#HampshireWildlife
Plenty of Common and Soprano Pipistrelles picked up with the detector this evening around North Baddesley, Hants
#Bats
#HampshireWildlife
High on numbers around Pennington, but not much out of the ordinary. The day was highlighted by some very close encounters, first with a Roe Deer just a few metres off the path, then later a Brent Goose on the footpath at Fishtail Lagoon. 9 Spoonbill, and a few Med Gulls flying over.
#HantsBirds
#HantsBirds
March 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
High on numbers around Pennington, but not much out of the ordinary. The day was highlighted by some very close encounters, first with a Roe Deer just a few metres off the path, then later a Brent Goose on the footpath at Fishtail Lagoon. 9 Spoonbill, and a few Med Gulls flying over.
#HantsBirds
#HantsBirds
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🐍
#HampshireWildlife
at Baddesley Common
🐍
#HampshireWildlife
at Baddesley Common
Local Adders emerge in Spring Sunshine
Adder basking in Sunshine, deep within a bramble bush Been a quiet start to the year, with very few wildlife sightings, and even fewer days out! However, the spring sunshine prompted me to go to ou…
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March 9, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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🐍
#HampshireWildlife
at Baddesley Common
🐍
#HampshireWildlife
at Baddesley Common
Alfie, a Cairn Terrier
#terriertuesday
#terriertuesday
February 18, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Alfie, a Cairn Terrier
#terriertuesday
#terriertuesday
My first outing of 2025. Paid too much attention to the weather forecast instead of the tide tables, and missed Slavonian, Red-Necked Grebe and Lesser Yellowlegs in Lymington marsh area!
Did get a few photos of regular winter birds in the area, and my first Winter Heliotrope flower. #HantsBirds
Did get a few photos of regular winter birds in the area, and my first Winter Heliotrope flower. #HantsBirds
January 5, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My first outing of 2025. Paid too much attention to the weather forecast instead of the tide tables, and missed Slavonian, Red-Necked Grebe and Lesser Yellowlegs in Lymington marsh area!
Did get a few photos of regular winter birds in the area, and my first Winter Heliotrope flower. #HantsBirds
Did get a few photos of regular winter birds in the area, and my first Winter Heliotrope flower. #HantsBirds