Nick Pomiankowski
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All things natural history
Finding a Firecrest in my back garden in Stoke this morning was a nice surprise! My second garden record after one in 2003(ish). Thanks for the pic
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4 days ago
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A white-point nfg was the highlight in my Stoke trap last night along with December moth, 6 lbam and 3 ruddy streak
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9 days ago
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Today’s Vismig - good numbers of chaffinch, brambling and woodpigeon but still poor on the thrushes
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16 days ago
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Another big woody push this morning despite the showers. Skein of pinks a nice bonus
22 days ago
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Woodpigeon passage increasing nicely with over 14K thru Black Bank today, otherwise fairly quiet although probably undercounted
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23 days ago
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Vismig this morning was dominated by woodies, a brambling and 3 crossbill the best of the rest
25 days ago
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Visible migration at Black Bank this morning produced the first push of woodpigeons this autumn with a crossbill, two brambling and 31 golden plover the best of the rest
25 days ago
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Highlights from todays vis mig at Black Bank were 2 skeins of pinks and a couple of brambling but 2 grey herons flying high south were the first I’ve ever seen here on migration
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about 1 month ago
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Decent push of redwings on Black Bank vismig this morning but highlight was a late swallow
about 1 month ago
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Just seen my first orcas, three going up the east coast of Shetland, super excited to get them on my bucket list at last 😀
about 1 month ago
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One of two incredibly confiding goldcrests at Sumburgh Quarry Shetland yesterday
about 1 month ago
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A migration watch from Black Bank (Staffs) produced the first brambling of the autumn. Best of the rest were 204 mipit, 20 siskin, 9 swallow and 40 chaffinch.
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about 2 months ago
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First Redwing of the autumn (for Staffs) and 18 redpolls passed over an otherwise quiet Black Bank this morning
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about 2 months ago
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Decent migration watch this morning, a flock of 4 hawfinch being the highlight
about 2 months ago
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First clouded yellow I’ve seen in ages: Seasalter beach, Kent, 9/9/25. Such a stunning butterfly
2 months ago
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Some other goodies from my holiday in Seasalter, Kent: 2 scarce bordered straw, several yellow belle, nutmeg. Made a change for the commonest moth in the trap to be Flounced Rustic 😮
2 months ago
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An eight day visit to Seasalter Kent produced several moth lifers for me. Part 2: Cynaeda dentalis, Acrobasis tumidana, pediasia contaminella and ancylosis oblitella
2 months ago
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An eight day visit to Seasalter Kent produced several moth lifers for me. Part 1: plumed fan-foot, Clancys rustic, mullein wave and Chilo phragmitella
2 months ago
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A visit to Blithfield produced 22 crossbill, 3 Greenshank, 6 lrp, 5 ringed plover, 7 blackwit, 5 common sand, 10 ruff, 2 spot fly and a swift
3 months ago
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Black Redstart still at Berryhill Fields this morning (4th day) along with 2 Whinchat, 3 redstart and wheatear. Totally unexpected were 5 little egret and 3 grey heron loafing on Tiddlers Heath - I guess fishing must be easy on the water depleted ponds!
3 months ago
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At uttoxeter quarry this afternoon: a turnstone (site tick for me), green sand and ylg
3 months ago
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Highlights from last night’s moth trap in Stoke were Bordered Straw and Palpita vitrealis with pale mottled willow, treble-bar and swallow prominent also present
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3 months ago
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Good drop of migrants at Berryhill Fields this morning, star bird being an elusive black redstart which evaded the camera! Also present were 6 redstart, 2 whinchat, 2 lesser whitethroat, 2 stonechat, tree pipit over.
3 months ago
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A second twin-spotted wainscot for the year and a grey chi nfy were the best in my Stoke trap from last night
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3 months ago
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At Berryhill Fields this morning: Whinchat, 6 wheatear, 3-4 redstart, 2 stonechat, willow tit
3 months ago
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At Blithfield Res this morning were 3 Greenshank, 4 redshank, 8 ruff, 4 blackwit, 2 common sand, snipe, 2 ruddy shelduck, spot fly, ylg and peregrine
3 months ago
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What I assume is scrobipalpa ocellatella is a new moth for me and small ranunculus always welcome in my Stoke trap from last night
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3 months ago
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Twin-spotted wainscot undoubtedly the highlight my Stoke trap this morning - lifer and nfg. Maybe on the increase in Staffs? Also a vapourer, 2 ruby tiger and a record 17 vine’s rustic amongst 45 species
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3 months ago
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Highlights from trapping at Gun Hill yesterday: neglected rustic, mirifcarma mulinella (gorse streak), dotted clay, light knotgrass. Also plenty of chevron and epinotia ramella
3 months ago
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At uttoxeter quarry this morning: a hunting osprey, gwe, 5 le, peregrine, curlew, 20 barnacle geese, nene x barnie
3 months ago
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Green flowered helleborines at Cannock Chase
4 months ago
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Highlight from last night’s trap in Stoke was Neocochylis molliculana which looks to be a 3rd for Staffs (unless there are recent sightings), also aethes smeathmanniana nfg, dingy footman and least yellow underwing
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4 months ago
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What an amazing morning - two county firsts in my rain soaked Stoke trap! Dark Crimson Underwing and Gypsonoma minutana. Also Pammene aurita nfg and possibly a hectrad first
4 months ago
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I had an aberrant gatekeeper as per this web photo at Berryhill Fields Stoke this morning - too mobile to get a photo but paleness in upper wings very noticeable
4 months ago
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Some recent nfgs: what I believe is a golden-rod pug, epiblema foenella and rusty dot pearl
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4 months ago
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In keeping with it’s NS Moors distribution in staffs, a day flying muslin footman at Cuckoostones today plus an unexpected HBHawk-Moth, too flighty to get a picture, at nearby Revidge wood
5 months ago
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Quantity not quality in the moth trap this morning including 100 lyu, 38 box trees, a carpet of uncounted water veneers. An early copper underwing, black arches, spruce carpet & blackneck the best of the rest.
5 months ago
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Lunar-spotted Pinion was an unexpected lifer in my Stoke garden trap last night - very few Staffs records. Also present were dark swordgrass, double square-spot and roeslerstammia erxlebella
5 months ago
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Metalampra italica nfg looks like a species spreading north and maybe a hectrad first. Oak nycteoline, 3 small ranc, 2 coronet also present
5 months ago
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Highlights from a week at Thornham, Norfolk Part 2: Marbled Brown, Dogs Tooth, Ancylis achatana (salt marsh dweller) and Wood Sage Plume
5 months ago
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Highlights from a week at Thornham, Norfolk Part 1 : Sand Dart, Dwarf Cream Wave and Southern Wainscot all lifers plus 3 Privet Hawk-moth always nice to see
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5 months ago
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Last night mothing with John and Karl at Gun Hill produced 87+/43 in cool and breezy conditions: included Bilberry tortrix, Brown rustic (my first since 2007), Beautiful snout, Eudonia pallida and Hawthorn moth. Commonest moth was Northern spinach.
5 months ago
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A decent 98/41 in the moth trap from last night, best being orange footman, toadflax pug and variegated golden tortrix
5 months ago
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Great to find seven wheatear pairs on the North Staffs Moors, four pairs already with 12 juvs. 4 redstart territories also found with 4 juvs from 2 of them.
5 months ago
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A superb piece of “waste ground” by Sainsbury’s S-o-T showing vipers bugloss, bladder campion, field scabious, dark mullein, white bedstraw etc
5 months ago
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Ash bud moth (prays fraxinella) on the garden chair under the ash tree 😄
6 months ago
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A good haul of 73/32 last night, the best being teleiodes luculella lifer and nfg, one that looks to be spreading north. 3 elephant hms for back up
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6 months ago
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Can anyone suggest what this might be please?
6 months ago
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Nice to know there are still corn buntings in Staffs, not something you see every day
6 months ago
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A white-cheeked bulbul was an unexpected find chuntering away in the scrub at the bottom of pallet stacks, Berryhill Fields this morning. A nice bit of plastic for the site list 🤣
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6 months ago
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