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2025

November 2025

Nov 13th

Purfleet-on-Thames

Holly Blue (3rd generation) & Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) still flying.

September 2025

Sep 21st

Rainham Marshes

Clouded Yellow (2). Aveley Bay TQ 536791.

Sep 7th

Ferry Lane Industrial Estate, Rainham

Great Green Bush-cricket stridulating TQ 512810.

Sep 6th

Tilbury

Migrant Hawker along Dock Road TQ 633767.

Sep 5th

Tilbury

Hummingbird Hawkmoth on Buddleia TQ 638763.

August 2025

Aug 31st

Rainham landfill

House Cricket (2) stridulating TQ 516796.

Aug 25th

Cray, Perth & Kinross

Speckled Wood NO 145633.

Aug 23rd

Loch Lee, Angus

Dark Green Fritillary, Adder (3), Common Hawker (2) NO 423798.

Aug 12th

The String Road, Isle of Arran, Argyll

Scotch Argus (20+).

Common Green Grasshopper - widespread around entire coast road.

July 2025

Jul 28th

Essex

Painted Lady, Tilbury Town station TQ 636763.

Jul 7th

London

Painted Lady flying through Bedford Sqaure, Bloomsbury TQ 298816.

Jul 5th

Essex

Great Green Bush-crickets common around outskirts of Tilbury.

June 2025

Jun 27th

Keele Services, Staffordshire

Small Skipper (3). Still a few on the Butterfly Bank 33 years since I first saw them here.

Small Emerald (Hemistola chrysoprasaria) � Fraser Simpson Six-belted Clearwing (Bembecia ichneumoniformis) � Fraser Simpson

Small Emerald (Hemistola chrysoprasaria) & Six-belted Clearwing (Bembecia ichneumoniformis), Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England, June 2025

Cricket-bat Orbweaver (Mangora acalypha) � Fraser Simpson Cinnamon Bug (Corizus hyoscyami) � Fraser Simpson

Cricket-bat Orbweaver (Mangora acalypha) & Cinnamon Bug (Corizus hyoscyami), Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex, England, May 2025

Jun 15th

Purfleet-on-Thames]

Marbled White (2) in browngield site TQ 553779. Speckled Bush-cricket nymphs found with sweep net.

Jun 6-14th

Blencathra FSC, Cumbria [Trip Report]

Little Owl, Ring Ouzel, Redstart, Dipper, Tree Pipit, Wheatear, Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher, Grasshopper Warbler. Garden Warbler, Tree Sparrow, Yellowhammer, Nuthatch, Raven, Golden-ringed Dragonfly (Cordulegaster boltonii), Bilberry Bumblebee (Bombus monticola), Common Green Grasshopper (Omocestus viridulus), Pebble Hook-tip (Drepana falcataria), Beautiful Snout (Hypena crassalis), Common Marble (Celypha lacunana), Red Twin-spot Carpet (Xanthorhoe spadicearia), The Engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia).

Beautiful Snout�Hypena crassalis) � Fraser Simpson

Pebble Hook-tip (Drepana falcataria) & Beautiful Snout (Hypena crassalis), Blencathra FSC, Cumbria, England, June 2025

Red Twin-spot Carpet (-Xanthorhoe spadicearia) � Fraser Simpson The Engrailed�(Ectropis crepuscularia) � Fraser Simpson

Red Twin-spot Carpet (Xanthorhoe spadicearia) & The Engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia), Blencathra FSC, Cumbria, England, June 2025

Common Marble (Celypha lacunana) � Fraser Simpson Oak Eggar (Lasiocampa quercus) larvae � Fraser Simpson

Common Marble (Celypha lacunana) & Oak Eggar (Lasiocampa quercus) larvae, Blencathra FSC, Cumbria, England, June 2025

Jun 1st

Rainham landfill

House Cricket (2) stridulating - early!

� River Thames, Purfleet, Essex (observations from my window)

Jun 28th

Shelduck (6), Stock Dove (1), Avocet (3), Oystercatcher (2), Mediterranean Gull (ad), Yellow-legged Gull (ad), Great Black-backed Gull (4). The last session from the balcony. They think it's all over... it is now.

Jun 25th

Shelduck (2), Oysatercatcher (1), Yellow-legged Gull (1), Grey Heron (1).

Jun 24th

Egyptian Goose (pr + juv), Shelduck (4), Gadwall (f), Swift (6), Oystercatcher (1), Common Tern (6).

Jun 23rd

Shelduck (4), Common Tern (2), Little Egret (2), Buzzard (1), House Martin (2).

Jun 22nd

Egyptian Goose (pr + juv), Swift (5), Lapwing (1), Whimbrel (1), Yellow-legged Gull (1), Common Tern (2), Marsh Harrier (f), Kestrel (1).

Jun 5th

Shelduck (3), Swift (2), Avocet (1), Oystercatcher (1), Redshank (2), Yellow-legged Gull (ad), Common Tern (3), Kestrel (1).

Jun 3rd

Shelduck (3), Swift (76), Avocet (6), Oystercatcher (1), Lapwing (13), Redshank (3), Yellow-legged Gyll (1), Common Tern (1), Buzzard (1).

Jun 2nd

Shelduck (3 prs), Swift (4), Avocet (4), Oystercatcher (1), Common Tern (1), Great Crested Grebe (1), Starling (46).

Jun 1st

Egyptian Goose (pr), Shelduck (2), Stock Dove (1), Cuckoo (singing m), Avocet (7), Oystercatcher (3), Mediterranean Gull (1), Yellow-legged Gull (1), Little Egret (2), Buzzard (1), Kestrel (1), Whitethroat (singing m).

May 2025

May 1st

RSPB Rainham Marshes

Broad-bodied Chaser TQ 547787.

� River Thames, Purfleet, Essex (observations from my window)

May 31st

Egyptian Goose (pr), Shelduck (5), Stock Dove (2), Cuckoo (singing m), Avocet (10), Oystercatcher (pr), Yellow-legged Gull (1), Common Tern (6), Little Egret (3), Marsh Harrier (f), Buzzard (1), Cetti's Warbler (singing m), Chaffinch (singing m).

May 27th

Shelduck (2), Gadwall (m), Pochard (2mm/2ff), Swift (2), Oystercatcher (1), Lapwing (2), Common Tern (1).

May 26th

Shelduck (3), Swift (2), Avocet (2), Oystercatcher (1), Lapwing (6), Redshank (3), Buzzard (1), Skylark (singing m).

May 25th

Shelduck (pr+1), Lapwing (1), Mediterranean Gull (ad), Common Tern (1), Grey Heron (1).

May 24th

Shelduck (4), Shoveler (m), Gadwall (pr), Avocet (2), Oystercatcher (1), Ringed Plover (1), Lapwing (1), Redshank (1), Sanderling (16), Dunlin (1), Yellow-legged Gull (1), Roseate Tern (1 downriver).

April 2025

Apr 9th-10th, 22nd-23rd

Return Interrail trip Purfleet > London > Paris > Perpignan > Barcelona > Madrid > Malaga

Black Kite, Kestrel, Buzzard, Jackdaw, Montagu's Harrier, House Sparrow, Greater Flamingo, Mute Swan, Red-legged Partridge, Great Egret, Yellow-legged Gull, Sandwich Tern, Spoonbill, Avocet, Cattle Egret, Black-winged Stilt, Greenfinch, Crested Lark, Spotless Starling, Goldfinch, Turtle Dove, White Stork, Raven, Woodchat Shrike, Griffon Vulture, Hoopoe, Cormorant, House Martin, Barn Swallow, Short-toed Eagle, Red-rumped Swallow, Booted Eagle, Calandra Lark, Pallid Swift, Monk Parakeet, Sardinian Warbler, Serin, Black-crowned Night Heron, White Wagtail, Alpine Swift, Grey Heron, Common Swift, Whiskered Tern, Sand Martin, Slender-billed Gull, Red Kite, Mediterranean Gull.

Apr 10th-22nd

Costa de la Luz, C�diz, Andaluc�a, Spain Great Egret, Spoonbill, Northern Bald Ibis, Glossy Ibis, Red-rumped Swallow, Montagu's Harrier, Bee-eater, Western Bonelli's Warbler, Iberian Chiffchaff, Short-toed Treecreeper, Spanish Festoon, Provence Orange-tip, Three-toed Skink, Iberian Mantis, Large Psammodromas, Woodchat Shrike, Black Kite, Iberian Water Frog, Orobanche densiflora, Clouded Yellow, Melodious Warbler, Green-striped White, Alpine Swift, Pallid Swift, Iberian Wall Lizard, Monarch, Calandra Lark, Chlorophorus trifasciatus (wasp beetle), Barbary Nut, Tawny Pipit, Thekla Lark, Cirl Bunting, Southern Scarce Swallowtail, Cleopatra, Queen of Spain Fritillary, Audouin's Gull, Blue Rock Thrush, Spiny-footed Lizard, Greater Flamingo, Collared Pratincole, Black-winged Stilt, Greater Short-toed Lark, Griffon Vulture, Little Tern, Hoopoe, Lesser Kestrel, Vagrant Emperor, Caspian Tern, Slender-billed Gull, Subalpine Warbler, Short-toed Eagle, Booted Eagle, Crimson Speckled (Utetheisa pulchella), Tabanus barbarus (horse fly), Common Digging Grasshopper (Acrotylus insubricus), Slender Burrowing Grasshopper (Acrotylus patruelis), Desert Sand Grasshopper (Sphingonotus rubescens), Shady Grasshopper (Morphacris fasciata), Broad Green-winged Grasshopper (Aiolopus strepens), Puissant's Green-winged Grasshopper (Aiolopus puissanti), Egyptian Grasshopper (Anacridium aegyptium), White-banded Grasshopper (Eyprepocnemis plorans), Earthling Stone Grasshopper (Euryparyphes terrulentus), Garden Locust (Acanthacris ruficornis), Orange-butted Grasshopper (Chorthippus apicalis), Common Maquis Grasshopper (Pezotettix giornae), Iberian Wingless Groundhoppper (Tetrix nodulosa), European Field Cricket (Gryllus campestris), Mediterranean Field Cricket (Gryllus bimaculatus), White-faced Bush-cricket (Decticus albifrons), Smooth Striped Bush-cricket (Odontura glabricauda), Spade-cricket sp. (Sciobia sp.), Mediterranean Banded Centipede (Scolopendra cingulata), Red-striped Oil Beetle (Berberomeloe payoyo), Spanish Dung Beetle (Copris hispanus).

Crimson Speckled (Utetheisa pulchella), Atlanterra, Spain, 30 April 2025

Earthling Stone Grasshopper (Euryparyphes terrulentus), Valle de Oj�n & Raymond's Grasshopper (Omocestus raymondi), Atlanterra, Spain, April 2025

Common Stick Grasshopper (Oyrgomorpha conica), La Bre�a de Barbate, Andaluc�a & Iberian Wingless Groundhopper (Tetrix nodulosa), Valle de Oj�n, Spain, April 2025

Andalucian Wall Lizard (Podarcis vaucheri) � Fraser Simpson Iberian Grass Snake (Natrix astreptophora) � Fraser Simpson

Andalucian Wall Lizard (Podarcis vaucheri) & Iberian Grass Snake (Natrix astreptophora), Valle de Oj�n, Spain, April 2025

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