Garry Pogson
@garrypogson.bsky.social
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Mainly butterflies, but also any other nature that happens to pop up. Based in Greenwich, SE London.
White Admiral, High Elms Country Park, Kent - yesterday.
19 days ago
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The Painted Lady invasion reaches the streets of Greenwich
@joebeale.bsky.social
@dustygedge.bsky.social
21 days ago
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Yikes! Had similar experience to an earlier poster - found my small potted Alder Buckthorn with zero leaves - thought I'd not watered enough in recent drought. But then noticed 2 very fat Brimstone caterpillars. Transferred them to large bush in garden - let's see them eat their way through that!
22 days ago
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It was beginning to look like i would draw a total blank at Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich this afternoon. but then 3 Marbled White and a Meadow Brown - all lovely and fresh - popped up.
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
27 days ago
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Glanville Fritillary at Compton Down, Dorset 28/5. GB Life tick #53 (#54 if you count L Tort). Also Small Blue, Grizzled & Dingy Skippers. Dazzling Adonis Blue everywhere + 1 Clouded Yellow. Thanks to
@garyh-56.bsky.social
for his earlier post saving me the complication of an Isle of Wight trip.
30 days ago
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A fair few Heath Fritillary seen in Thornden Wood, Kent 25/5/26
about 1 month ago
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Hooray! Brimstone caterpillar on Alder Buckthorn that i planted just for that purpose. It was planted several years ago, and we immediately had a couple of years with good numbers of them. Then i read that once the plant is over 3yrs old they won't use them - and we've had none since - until today!
about 2 months ago
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I'm assuming the stripiness means we have the joy of young Dunnocks in our Greenwich back garden (please let me know if I'm wrong!)
about 2 months ago
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Well
@thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social
beat me to it a few days ago, but I'll post mine anyhow - had never seen Holly Blue ovipositing on Pyracantha before. Greenwich back garden phone shot.
about 2 months ago
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We don't get much of this kind of thing in our small Greenwich back garden.
2 months ago
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Yay! Green Hairstreak at Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich again this year.
@joebeale.bsky.social
@dustygedge.bsky.social
(down in the main dip - on the main stand of brambles).
2 months ago
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Female Brimstone waiting for a bus in our Greenwich back garden today (phone shot).
2 months ago
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Came to Norfolk last summer for the butterflies (Swallowtail). This time I'm here for the football - but the Holly Blue is out in force in the residential streets bordering Norwich city centre (phone shot - best not to zoom in!).
2 months ago
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Wonder if we will be treated to Green Hairstreak again this year at Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich. Not yesterday anyhow. But 2 Comma, Small White, Peacock and a pretty Holly Blue that wouldn't keep still
3 months ago
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Male Orange Tip in the Gravesend area 07.04.26. A few males and females seen.
3 months ago
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Curlew, Topsham, Devon, just now
3 months ago
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My daughter bought me a ceramic cow (don't ask) - containing sheeps wool - to hang out for the birds. A Great Tit got to grips with it and ended up as... a Bearded Tit!
3 months ago
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Not seen a Wren in our Greenwich back garden for years Happy Days!
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
3 months ago
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A Comma and 3 Peacock at Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich this afternoon. One Peacock frequently opened and closed its wings, making a change from the usual open wing shot
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
4 months ago
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Faggs Wood, Orlestone Forest, Kent yesterday (thurs) - at least 4 Large Tortoiseshell seen (and at least 20 butterfly lovers seen).
4 months ago
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Jess Morrissette
6 months ago
Grok's new "feature" that allows users to undress women in photos posted to X is a new low for the platform. If you're somehow still active over there, I urge you to let this be your final straw.
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My first british butterflies of 2026... 2 Comma and 2 Peacock at Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich today. Also 2 Brimstone fly-bys (1m,1f) through our Greenwich back garden this morning.
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
4 months ago
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RSPB B'watch today - 3rd place in our Greenwich back garden to Ring-necked Parakeet (4). Good news in 2nd place House Sparrow (9). More Feral Pigeon than Trafalgar Sq in 1st. Pleased to log Blue Tit, Great Tit & Robin despite the big birds. Last 20 mins a bit quiet after appearance of dirty big fox.
5 months ago
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Shags unimpressed by noisy neighbour. The Black Backed Gull did settle down and share the ledge nicely for a while afterwards. Near Lizard Point, Cornwall today.
6 months ago
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damp Mullion rooks hoping that the brighter band of sky is heading this way
6 months ago
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Pied Wagtail, St. David's Church, Llanwrtyd, Powys. Sat 22/11.
7 months ago
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Buttercups flowering in Ockbrook, South Derbyshire today - is this normal? Also Knapweed and pink Clover in flower.
9 months ago
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Catching the train from Maze Hill station (east Greenwich) I was surprised to see grey wagtail on the opposite platform waiting for the down train. Never seen one in this immediate area (cropped phone shot)
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
9 months ago
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Just walked down our compact greenwich back garden in the fading light and was surprised to see a bird still out and about. Then surprised to see at least 7 mire birds out and about (I think there's 8 in the pic - count 'em). Got to love a long-tailed tit!
9 months ago
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Still a few Clouded Yellow to be found at Cliffe Pools, Kent today. Was hopelessly trying to follow a flighty one when it stopped suddenly, having found a female.
9 months ago
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Grown from a conker i picked up 30 years ago. Quite pleased with myself!
10 months ago
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Small White in our East Greenwich back garden yesterday. I love the groovy black background, which was the pure happenstance of how my point and shoot auto setting dealt with white butterfly in bright light
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
10 months ago
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Happy little B on allium in our back garden
11 months ago
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11 months ago
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Self-set in our low patio wall: far prettier than anything we could plant!
11 months ago
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Plenty of Gatekeeper currently in the local open spaces, but don't remember seeing one in our small Greenwich back garden before
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
12 months ago
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17 days ago i reported many Marbled White at Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich - today zero. Instead, dozens of Gatekeeper. But stars of the show, this close to town, were Small Copper, Common Blue & the pictured Brown Argus. Thank goodness for Ragwort!
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
12 months ago
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Never got a Purple Hairstreak pic actually showing any purple-so when i saw a report of 00s on the wing at Northward Hill, Kent I set off. They must have continued on the wing to somewhere else! 7 hrs in the woods yielded ONE individual agreeing to a photo displaying a tiny purple patch (zoom in!)
about 1 year ago
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Plenty of butterflies at Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich yesterday. Never seen so many Marbled White there - probably 20-30 individuals. But you're probably seeing lots of MW pix at the moment, and i quite liked something about this pic of a lone Large Skipper
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Terrible phone record shot, but super pleasing record - Small Tortoiseshell on lovely patch of nettles near start of pathway from woodlands park rd to maze hill, East Greenwich this a.m. Not seen one round here for ages.
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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Rare sighting of a Great Spotted Woodpecker in our east greenwich back garden - third one in 27 years. IMHO not bad for a phone shot through kitchen window overdue a clean.
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
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I was about 7 when i first gawped at the swallowtail picture in my observers book of butterflies. I am now 69, and have finally gawped at the real thing - fantastic! Hickling Broad 11/6
about 1 year ago
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Garry Pogson
Jo Smith
about 1 year ago
π€¦ββοΈπ€·ββοΈ I know which I prefer!
#AndThenThereWereNon
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Garry Pogson
Mr and Mrs Trellis
about 1 year ago
Protect hares and their young from shooting during the breeding season...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Petition: Protect hares and their young from shooting during the breeding season
We call on the Government to stop the shooting of hares during their peak breeding season, by establishing a legally enforceable close season for hares in England and Wales, from 1st February to 30th ...
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/724795
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reposted by
Garry Pogson
Little Toller Books
over 1 year ago
On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?
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My first ever Large Tortoiseshell at Orlestone Forest, Kent on Saturday - after just the 60 year wait.
over 1 year ago
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My first Comma and first Brimstone of 2025, about 10 yards apart, at Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich thurs lunchtime. Several years now the same bramble patch has yielded my first comma of the year
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
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I know there's a lot of Red Admirals being posted at the moment, but it's my first butterfly of the year, so i'm going to post it anyway. Vanbugh Hill, East Greenwich this afternnon.
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@dustygedge.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
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reposted by
Garry Pogson
Mike Blackmore
over 1 year ago
The Chalk Stream Recovery Pack is a DEFRA document outlining the policy roadmap to protect and restore Englandβs unique chalk streams. It exists. It was set for publication in 2023. The government shelved it. Now there is a petition to publish it:
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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still sorting out the old files... here's a Small Skipper from Vanbrugh Pits, Greenwich 10th July, 2023.
over 1 year ago
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