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2022
December 2022 Dec 12th-16th Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Short-eared Owl, Woodcock, Jack Snipe, Golden Plover, Avocet, Black-tailed Godwit, Pintail, Marsh Harrier, Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Water Pipit, Cetti's Warbler, Stonechat.
Birding by bike to work, Oct-Dec 2022
October 2022
Oct 3rd-7th Center Parcs Elveden Forest, Suffolk [Trip Report] Oak Bush-cricket, Southern Oak Bush-cricket, Beaded Chestnut, Black Rustic, Brindled Flat-body, Broad-brodered Yellow Underwing, Deep-brown Dart, Grey Pine Carpet, Grey Poplar Bell, Large Yellow Underwing, Lesser Yellow Underwing, Lunar Underwing, Pine Carpet, Red-green Carpet, Sallow, Spruce Carpet, Vine's Rustic, Eyed Ladybird, Tree Damsel Bug, Woodlark, Crossbill, Marsh Tit, Nuthatch, Green Woodpecker, Treecreeper, Siskin, Goldcrest, Stonechat, Jay, Tawny Owl, Great Crested Grebe, Little Grebe.
The Sallow (Cirrhia icteritia), Black Rustic (Aporophyla nigra), Spruce Carpet (Thera britannica), Beaded Chestnut (Agrochola lychnidis)
Oct 3rd & 7th Return train journey: Purfleet > Cambridge > Thetford | Thetford > Norwich > Ipswich > Purfleet 34 species recorded: Lesser Black-backed Gulll, Blackbird, Robin, Carrion Crow, Magpie, Herring Gull, Collared Dove, Wood Pigeon, Coot, Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Marsh Harrier, Starling, Feral Pigeon, Canada Goose, Grey Heron, Great Crested Grebe, Moorhen, Mallard, Blue Tit, Pheasant, Rook, Jackdaw, Stock Dove, Black-headed Gull, Buzzard, Mute Swan, Kestrel, Corn Bunting, House Sparrow, Pheasant, Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Brent Goose.
September 2022 Sep 20th-23rd Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Redstart, Yellow Wagtail, Whinchat, Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Marsh Harrier, Barn Owl, Avocet, Cetti's Warbler, House Cricket, Long-winged Conehead, Short-winged Conehead, Southern Oak Bush-cricket, Speckled Bush-cricket, Roesel's Bush-cricket, Dark Bush-cricket, Lesser Marsh Grasshopper, Migrant Hawker.
Sep 1st-13th Moth Trap, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex Brimstone Moth, Broad-bodied Yellow Underwing, Clancy's Rustic, Common Plume, Diamond-backed Moth, Double-striped Pug, Dusky Thorn, Elbow-stripe Grass-veneer, European Corn Borer, Flounced Rustic, Garden Carpet, Gold Spot, Holly Tortrix, Large Yellow Underwing, Lesser Broad-bodied Yellow Underwing, Lesser Yellow Underwing, Light Brown Apple Moth, Light Emerald, Lime-speck Pug, Maiden's Blush, Meal Moth, Mottled Rustic, Old Lady, L-album Wainscot, Orange Sallow, Pale Mottled Willow, Rosy Rustic, Ruddy Streak, Rush Veneer, Rusty Dot Pearl, Saltmarsh Knot-horn, Satin Wave, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Small Dusty Wave, Square-spot Rustic, Straw Conch, Straw Underwing, Treble-bar, Vestal, Vine's Rustic, Wax Moth, Willow Beauty.
Sep 11th Purfleet, Essex Hibernating lepidoptera in old MoD bunker: Herald, Old Lady, Buttoned Snout, Peacock. Inconspicuous ladybirds in ivy: Four-spotted Nephus (Nephus quadrimaculatus), Forestier's Ladybird (Rhyzobius forestieri), Round-keeled Rhyzobius (Rhyzobius chrysomeloides), Red-flanked Scymnus (Scymnus interruptus), Dot Ladybird (Stethorus pusillus).
Sep 5th-9th Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Wryneck, Whinchat, Cattle Egret, Little Egret, Green Sandpiper, Turnstone, Ringed Plover, Curlew.
August 2022 Aug 29th Benfleet Creek/Hadleigh Country Park, Essex Great Green Bush-cricket (100+ stridulating), Speckled Bush-cricket, Lesser Marsh Grasshopper, Short-winged Conehead, Long-winged Conehead, Roesel's Bush-cricket, Meadow Grasshopper, Field Grasshopper, Southern Hawker, Migrant Hawker, Common Darter, Little Egret, Cattle Egret, Black-tailed Godwit, Greenshank, Green Woodpecker.
Aug 28th River Thames: Purfleet to Grays, Essex House Cricket, Dark Bush-cricket, Speckled Bush-cricket, Lesser Marsh Grasshopper, Short-winged Conehead, Long-winged Conehead, Roesel's Bush-cricket, Meadow Grasshopper, Field Grasshopper, Clouded Yellow, Brown Argus, Migrant Hawker, Southern Hawker, Redstart (3).
Aug 27th Epping Forest, Essex Speckled Bush-cricket, Cream-spot Ladybird, 22-spot Ladybird, Clay Triple-lines.
Aug 26th Purfleet, Essex House Cricket, Speckled Bush-cricket, Dark-bush Cricket.
Aug 24th Rainham-Purfleet NCN Route 13/136, Essex House Cricket (50+ singing males, mainly around landfill)
Jul 26th-Aug 16th Ayrshire [Trip Report] Common Groundhopper, Mottled Grasshopper, Common Green Grasshopper, Field Grasshopper, Migrant Hawker, Common Hawker, Comma, Holly Blue, Speckled Wood, Scotch Argus, Dark Green Fritillary, Large Skipper, Grayling, Antler Moth, Azalea Leaf Miner, Bird-cherry Ermine, Brimstone Moth, Brown House-moth, Burnished Brass, Cabbage Moth, Chinese Character, Cinnabar, Cloaked Minor, Clouded Border, Common Carpet, Common Grass-veneer, Common Marbled Carpet, Common Rustic agg., Common Wave, Common White Wave, Dark Arches, Dark Spectacle, Dotted Clay, Double Square-spot, Double-striped Tabby, Early Thorn, Flame Carpet, Flounced Rustic, Garden Carpet, Garden Grass-veneer, Garden Pebble, Golden Argent, Grey Knot-horn, Heart and Dart, July Highflyer, Large Grey, Large Yellow Underwing, Lempke's Gold Spot, Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing, Lesser Yellow Undering, Little Grey, Maple Button, Marbled Beauty, Mottled Beauty, Mouse Moth, Orange Swift, Orchard Ermine, Pale Straw Pearl, Plain Golden Y, Riband Wave, Rosy Rustic, Rusty Oak Button/Rusty Birch Button, Scalloped Oak, Shaded Broad-bar, Silver Y, Six-striped Rustic, Slender Brindle, Small Angle Shades, Small Fan-footed Wave, Small Phoenix, Small Rivulet, Small Square-spot, Small Wainscot, Smoky Wainscot, Straw Grass-veneer, Swallow-tailed Moth, The Uncertain, V-Pug, Water Veneer, White-shoulded House-moth, Willow Beauty, Yponomeuta sp., Eider, Common Scoter, Great Crested Grebe, Red-throated Diver, Fulmar, Manx Shearwater, Little Egret, Gannet, Shag, Whimbrel, Kittiwake, Sandwich Tern, Arctic Tern, Common Guillemot, Razorbill, Black Guillemot, Puffin, Cuckoo, Kingfisher, Hooded Crow, Raven, Rock Pipit, Grey Wagtail, Dipper, Spotted Flycatcher, Nuthatch, Redstart, Stonechat, Wheatear, Tree Sparrow, Lesser Redpoll, Crossbill, Siskin, Yellowhammer.
Common Groundhopper (Tetrix undulata), Gailes Marsh SWT & male Common Green Grasshopper (Omocestus viridulus), Townholm, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire (VC75), Scotland, Aug 2022
female & male Field Grasshopper (Chorthippus brunneus), Townholm, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire (VC75), Scotland, Aug 2022
female Mottled Grasshopper (Myrmeleotettix maculatus), Brodick Bay, Isle of Arran, (VC100) & male Mottled Grasshopper, Irvine, Ayrshire (VC75), Scotland, Aug 2022
July 2022 Jul 9th-24th Moth Trap, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex Ash-bark Knot-horn, Box-tree Moth, Bramble Shoot Moth, Bright-line Brown Eye, Brimstone Moth, Brown-spot Flat-body, Bulrush Veneer, Cloaked Minor, Clouded Silver, Codling Moth, Common Carpet, Common Footman, Common Lutestring, Dark Arches, Dark Umber, Diamond-back Moth, Double-striped Pug, Dun-bar, Dusky Sallow, Dwarf Cream Wave, Fen Wainscot, Garden Carpet, Garden Grass-veneer, Gold Triangle, Golden-brown Tubic, Grey/Dark Dagger, Heart and Club, Horse Chestnut Leaf-miner, Jersey Tiger, Knot Grass, Langmaid's Yellow Underwing, Large Yellow Underwing, Least Carpet, Least Yellow Underwing, Lesser Yellow Underwing, Light Brown Apple Moth, Lime-speck Pug, Long-legged Tabby, Maiden's Blush, Marbled Beauty, Marbled Green, Marbled Yellow Pearl, Mint Moth, Peppered Moth, Plain Pug, Riband Wave, Rosy Tabby, Rosy-striped Knot-horn, Ruby Tiger, Ruddy Streak, Scalloped Oak, Shuttle-shaped Dart, Single-dotted Wave,Small Grey, Small Red Slender, Treble Brown Spot, Tree-lichen Beauty, Twin-barred Knot-horn, Uncertain, White-bodied Conch, White-shouldered House-moth, Yponomeuta sp.
Jul 23rd Wennington Marsh Lesser Emperor, Emperor Dragonfly, Black-tailed Skimmer, Blue-tailed Damselfly, Short-winged Conehead, Long-winged Conehead, Marsh Harrier, Hobby, Bearded Tit, Little Egret, Marsh Frog.
Jul 4-8th Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Black Redstart, Water Rail, Hobby, Marsh Harrier, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, Reed Warbler, Common Tern, Avocet, Swift, Roesel's Bush-cricket, Emperor Dragonfly, Black-tailed Skimmer, Marbled White, Gatekeeper, Painted Lady, Jersey Tiger.
Six-spot Burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) & Six-belted Clearwing (Bembecia ichneumoniformis), Purfleet, Essex, England, 2 July 2022
June 2022
Birding by bike to work, Mar-Jun 2022
Jun 18-25th Blencathra FSC, Cumbria [Trip Report] Pied Flycatcher, Redstart, Dipper, Tree Pipit, Crossbill, Wheatear, Stonechat, Spotted Flycatcher, Garden Warbler, Yellowhammer, Goosander, Tawny Owl, Golden-ringed Dragonfly, Dark Green Fritillary, Speckled Wood, Purple Hairstreak, Bilberry Bumblebee, Common Green Grasshopper.
Barred Straw (Gandaritis pyraliata) & Garden Tiger (Arctia caja), Blencathra FSC, Cumbria, England, June 2022
True Lover's Knot (Lycophotia porphyrea) & Ghost Moth (Hepialus humuli) (female), Blencathra FSC, Cumbria, England, June 2022
Jun 18 & 25th Train journey from Essex to Cumbria (and return via coach to London due to strikes): 41 species recorded: Blackcap, Dunnock, Collared Dove, Wood Pigeon, Carrion Crow, Mute Swan, Little Egret, Marsh Harrier, Feral Pigeon, House Sparrow, House Martin, Grey Heron, Ring-necked Parakeet, Magpie, Starling, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Stock Dove, Red Kite (13), Rook, Jackdaw, Mallard, Blackbird, Canada Goose, Kestrel (3) , Buzzard (8, plus 1 roadkill), Pheasant, Linnet, Cormorant, Coot, Herring Gull, Black-headed Gull, Common Tern, Moorhen, Turtle Dove (2), Greenfinch, Swallow, Sparrowhawk, Swift, Common Gull, Greylag Goose, Hobby.
Jun 6th-10th Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Black Redstart, Broad-bodied Chaser, Black-tailed Skimmer, Bryony Mining Bee, Large Skipper, Small Heath, Small Copper, Holly Blue, Common Blue, Marsh Harrier, Avocet, Cetti's Warbler, Little Egret, Cuckoo.
May 2022 Moth trap 28th-29th Moth Trap, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex Nutmeg, Cream-spot Tiger, Angle Shades, L-album Wainscot, Light Emerald, Willow Beauty, Brimstone Moth, Shuttle-shaped Dart, Garden Carpet, Heart and Dart, Pale Mottled Willow, Vine's Rustic, Marbled Minor agg., Setaceous Hebrew Character, Satin Wave, White Ermine,
Moths trapped at Purfleet-on-Thames, May 2022
May 23rd-27th Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Bearded Tit, Black Redstart, Swift, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Avocet, Marsh Harrier, Little Egret, Blue-tailed Damselfy, Painted Lady.
May 21st-23rd Moth Trap, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex Brimstone Moth, Buff Ermine, Double-striped Pug, Flame Shoulder, Garden Carpet, Heart and Dart, L-album Wainscot, Latticed Heath, Light Brown Apple Moth, Light Emerald, Lime-speck Pug, Marble Minor agg., Pale Mottled Willow, Ruddy Streak, Rustic Shoulder-knot, Setaceous Hebrew Character, Shuttle-shaped Dart, Treble-bar, Turnip Moth, Vine's Rustic, Waved Umber, White Ermine, White-point, Willow Beauty, Yellow-barred Brindle.
May 15th-20th Moth Trap, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex Waved Umber, Maiden's Blush, Puss Moth, Burnished Brass, Satin Wave, Bright-line Brown-eye, White-point, Treble Lines, Yellow-barred Brindle, Garden Carpet, Flame Shoulder, Shuttle-shaped Dart, Willow Beauty, Double-striped Pug, Brimstone Moth, Muslin Moth, Turnip Moth, Light Brown Apple Moth, Ruddy Streak.
May 9th-13th Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Black Redstart, Cattle Egret, Corn Bunting, Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Bar-tailed Godwit, Grey Plover, Whimbrel, Avocet, Ringed Plover, Marsh Harrier, Buzzard, Little Egret, Hairy Dragonfly.
May 3rd-6th Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Iberian Chiffchaff, Corn Bunting, Cuckoo, Garden Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, Wheatear, Bar-tailed Godwit, Whimbrel, Avocet, Mediterranean Gull, Cetti's Warbler, Marsh Harrier, Little Egret, Mandarin Duck, Great Crested Grebe, Jay.
April 2022 Apr 23rd-24th Moth Trap, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex Brimstone Moth, Brindled Beauty, Chocolate-tip, Double-striped Pug, Flame Shoulder, Iron Prominent, Knot Grass, Light Brown Apple Moth, Muslin Moth, Pale Mottled Willow, Ruddy Streak, Shuttle-shaped Dart, Small Quaker.
Moths trapped at Purfleet-on-Thames, April 2022
Chocolate-tip (Clostera curtula), Purfleet, Essex, England, 24 April 2022
Apr 16th-22nd Moth Trap, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex Brindled Beauty, Brindled Pug, Brimstone Moth, Buff-tip, Double-striped Pug, Hebrew Character, Least Black Arches, Muslin Moth, Puss Moth, Ruddy Streak, Turnip Moth, White-shouldered House-moth, Yellow-barred Brindle.
Moths trapped at Purfleet-on-Thames, April 2022
Apr 19th-22nd Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Yellow Wagtail, Grasshopper Warbler, Sand Martin, Wheatear, Whimbrel, Common Tern, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Avocet, Mediterranean Gull, Cetti's Warbler, Marsh Harrier, Little Egret, Green Woodpecker.
Apr 13th Kilmarnock-Irvine, Ayrshire Willow Warblers starting to arrive in numbers. A 30 mile cycle around 10 sites produced 47 singing males: Kilmarnock-Dreghorn disused railway line (13), Milgarholm Park (1), Tarryholme (4), River Irvine, Shewalton-Holmsford Bridge (4), Oldhall Ponds SWT (4), Shewalton, Meadowhead Road pit (3), Shewalton Wood SWT (18). Plus many non-vocal birds refuelling at wetland sites, e.g. 13 Oldhall Ponds, 9 Tarryholme. Also 55 singing male Chiffchaffs.
Apr 11th Knockentiber-Springside disused railway line, Ayrshire 50 species/815 individuals: Blackbird, Black-headed Gull, Blue Tit, Bullfinch, Buzzard, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff (7 singing mm + 2), Coal Tit, Collared Dove, Common Gull, Cormorant, Crossbill (2), Dunnock, Feral Pigeon, Goldcrest, Goldfinch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Tit, Greenfinch, Grey Wagtail, Herring Gull, House Martin (3), House Sparrow, Jackdaw, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Linnet, Long-tailed Tit, Magpie, Mallard, Meadow Pipit, Mediterranean Gull (1st-w), Pheasant, Pied Wagtail, Raven, Reed Bunting, Robin, Rook, Siskin, Song Thrush, Sparrowhawk, Starling, Stock Dove, Swallow (1), Tree Sparrow, Treecreeper, Willow Warbler (5 singing mm + 3), Wood Pigeon, Wren, Yellowhammer.
Ayrshire bird surveys by bike, April 2022
April 4th & 14th Return train journey from Essex to Ayrshire: 44 species recorded: Blackbird, Black-headed Gull, Blue Tit, Buzzard, Canada Goose, Carrion Crow, Chiffchaff, Collared Dove, Common Gull, Coot, Cormorant, Dunnock, Feral Pigeon, Geylag Goose, Goldfinch, Goosander, Great Crested Grebe, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Great Tit, Grey Heron, Herring Gull, House Sparrow, Jackdaw, Lapwing, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Magpie, Mallard, Moorhen, Mute Swan, Oystercatcher, Pheasant, Raven, Red Kite, Robin, Rook, Shelduck, Siskin, Sparrowhawk, Starling, Stock Dove, Tufted Duck, Wiilow Warbler, Wood Pigeon, Wren.
Birding by bike to work, Jan-Mar 2022
March 2022 Mar 24th-28th Moth Trap, Purfleet-on-Thames, Essex Early Grey, Clouded Drab, Common Quaker, Double-striped Pug, Early Thorn, Hebrew Character, Light Brown Apple Moth, March Moth, Small Quaker.
Mar 21st-25th Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Sedge Warbler (singing), Blackcap (singing), Chiffchaff (singing), Little Grebe (singing), Cetti's Warbler, Marsh Harrier, Redshank (displaying), Lapwing (displaying), Mediterranean Gull, Rock Pipit.
Mar 7th-11th Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Water Pipit, Woodcock, Barn Owl, Barnacle Goose, Cetti's Warbler, Marsh Harrier, Avocet, Water Rail, Little Grebe (singing), Chiffchaff (singing), Chaffinch (singing), Reed Bunting (singing).
Birding by bike to work, March 2022
February 2022
Feb 21st-25th Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Firecrest, Barnacle Goose, Green Woodpecker, Buzzard, Cetti's Warbler, Marsh Harrier, Avocet, Little Grebe (singing).
Feb 7th-11th Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Barn Owl, Barnacle Goose, Red-crested Pochard, Great Crested Grebe, Pochard, Mandarin Duck, Water Rail, Cetti's Warbler, Marsh Harrier, Reed Bunting (singing).
January 2022
Jan 17th-21st Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Spoonbill, Dartford Warbler, Yellow-legged Gull, Water Rail, Barn Owl.
Jan 10th-14th Bluestone National Park Resort, Pembrokeshire, Wales: Robin, Song Thrush, Jay, Wren, Dunnock, Blackbird, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Cormorant, Grey Heron, Moorhen, Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Herring Gull, Wood Pigeon, Collared Dove, House Sparrow, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Pied Wagtail, Redwing, Great Tit, Mistle Thrush, Nuthatch, Grey Wagtail, Goldcrest, Magpie, Jackdaw, Greenfinch, Siskin, Lesser Redpoll, Carrion Crow, Starling, Bullfinch, Reed Bunting, Tawny Owl, Marsh Tit, Treecreeper, Mute Swan, Coal Tit, Fieldfare, Brambling, Stock Dove, Pheasant, Buzzard, Long-tailed Tit, Red Kite, Feral Pigeon, Sparrowhawk.
Jan 5th-7th Cycle to work highlights [2022 list] Dark-bellied Brent Goose, Barnacle Goose, Chiffchaff, Little Egret, Cetti's Warbler, Marsh Harrier, Stonechat, Rock Pipit, Black-tailed Godwit, Avocet, Redwing, Fieldfare, Snipe, Pintail, Shoveler, Teal, Wigeon.
January 2022
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