Somerset reservoirs in fine fettle now. Looked at Cheddar & Chew today. Combined totals 36+ glossy ibis, 13 curlew sands, little stint, 32 GWEs at Cheddar alone, osprey, white-tailed eagle, 25 black terns, 4 greenshank, 2 ruff, 2 hobby, 2 marsh harrier, returning duck numbers building. #ukbirding

This Pandemis cinnamomeana was species 1000 for our small suburban garden. Barred hook-tip was 1001, would have been a nicer milestone. Species breakdown for anyone vaguely interested. #panspecieslisting @graemelyons.bsky.social

Nice morning at Slimbridge today. Best were 9 shags (and a cormorant, honest) upriver at 1130. Also 2 knot on the river, wheatear on the Dumbles, redstart in the hedge nearby, 3 spoonbill, 20 odd ruff, 3 green sands etc. #[email protected] @slimbridge-wild.bsky.social

Highlight of our Austrian family holiday, watching European hamsters in Vienna Central Cemetary. Critically endangered, but doing well here, with a penchant for grave candles...

Amazing couple of hours at Silverlakes in Dorset this afternoon. At least 6 male and one female scarlet darters the prize, but male red-veined darter, 2 male lesser emperors and loads of small red-eyeds. Unthinkable even a few years ago. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Tiny plant hunting in the New Forest today. Delighted to finally see yellow centaury in flower, with chaffweed and allseed for company. Thanks a million @trisnorton.bsky.social for the help. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #ukwildlife

Rude not to pop over and see the male desert wheatear at Keynsham this morning, not what you expect in mid June! #ukwildlife #ukbirding

It’s longhorn season, what great things they are. Agapanthia villosoviridescens, Rutpela maculata and Glaphyra umbellatrum, all from Chilcombe Bottom. @bathnature.bsky.social #ukwildlife

Another invert foray today at Chilcombe Bottom. These were new for me, thistle tortoise beetle Cassida rubiginosa, the thorn-hopper Centrotus cornutus, yellow-barred longhorn moth & iris weevil Mononychus punctumalbum. #ukwildlife #teammoth

Chilcombe Bottom continued. And best of the rest, Downland villa beefly (Villa cingulata), a pile of young spiked shieldbugs (Picromerus bidens), knotgrass moth caterpillar (Acronicta rumicis), and a wonderful lacewing, probably Chrysopa perla. Top entertainment. 5/5. #ukwildlife

Chilcombe Bottom continued. Terrific for hoverflies too. Crimson-belted leaf-walker (Brachypalpoides lentus), Dark-saddled Leucozona (Leucozona laternaria), Long-horned Othronevra (Orthonevra nobilis) & Blotch-winged white-belt (Leucozona lucorum). 4/5

Chilcombe Bottom continued. Hymenoptera, with so many sawflies troughing down on the hogweed. Tenttaive IDs, Tenthredo mesomela, Arge melanochra, Macrophya duodecimpuctata and some randoms...3/5

Chilcombe Bottom continued. First up beetles, Spotted longhorn Rutpela maculata, the tumbling flower beetle Variimorda villosa, Welsh chafer Hoplia philanthus and the click beetle Athous haemorrhoidalis. God bless hogweed. 2/5.

Further exploration of Chilcombe Bottom nr Bath this afternoon. Windy, but stacks of inverts to see....1/5

Nice late pm wander at Wessex Water's lovely Charlecombe Bottom. Plenty to see, the tortrix Lathronympha strigana was new to me, smart false blister beetle Ischnomera cyanea, marbled white spot moth & escapee Rosa multiflora across the hedges. #ukwildlife #teammoth @savebutterflies.bsky.social

June always throughs up interest in our little garden. White-legged damselfly new for the year, ornate-tailed digger wasp (Cerceris rybyensis) on self sown ox-eye daisies, welted thistle a surprise garden tick & our mini-meadow looking ok after some rain. #ukwildlife @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

A few Devon hovers on hemlock water dropwort today in Topsham. Xanthogramma pedissequum, Riponnensia splendens, Chrysogaster solstitialis & Melangyna compositarum. A couple of those new to me I think.

Nice morning touring Portland and the Fleet, collecting various yearlies for @niallmachin1.bsky.social’s yearlist comp silliness. Best bits 5 Slavs (Tidmoor), 3 BN grebes and 3 GNDs Portland harbour and the 2 LT ducks Abbotsbury. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Good new years bash around Slimbridge yesterday, 79 sp, including spoonbill, whooper swan, GW teal, little stint, 5 cattle egret, ruff, kingfisher, peregrine, M harrier, WF geese, Bewicks etc. Coal tit a reserve tick too. The Frampton YBW was a real little star too. We go again...

Slimbridge today. Cattle egret over car park, spoonbill flew into South Lake (+2 Epyptians). 4 returning Bewicks, smashing pintail (Rushy). Juv goshawk causing mayhem on Dumbles, ca. 14 whitefronts back, 2 DB brents, 4+ ruff, 5+ chiffchaff, siskin over, lots of fieldfare & redwing moving. 72 sp.

A dark sword-grass and a silver Y here in West Wilts last night were as good as it got. A late LYU and a sleepy Eristalis pertinax best of the rest. 12 moths in total, most until next March? @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #migrantmoths #teammoth

Weather entirely too nice on Portland this weekend, but a nice place to be. Beautiful gothic pick of 4 new moths for me, young stonechat ringed, pied & spotted flycatchers Culverwell, down shieldbug Slopes, passage waders Ferrybridge. 10sp butterflies inc Painted Ladies aplenty.

Still plugging away with garden moths. Grey chi a notable NFG, plus eyed hawk moth larva, year ticks this week white point and galium carpet.

No showy hawk moths or prominents for us, but these were NFY this morning. Alder moth and light brocade, a common marbled carpet that wouldn’t pose and a garden pebble.

I'm new here, just come over from X for wildlife content. So, just posted a few garden moth pictures and had some likes, great! But unlike you other wildlife lot, my 'likers' seen like bots / folk I really doubt are entomologically inclined (see below). Am I missing a setting change?

Moths at last in the garden. 23 of 18 last night (West Wilts). 8 new for the year. Obligatory first buff tip on a stick, orange footman (NFG) and small waved umber the pick.