Kent Field Club
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Kent Field Club, founded in 1955, aims to study, record, and deepen the understanding and appreciation of the natural history of Kent, UK. Find more, see our publications, and/or join us here https://www.kentfieldclub.org.uk/
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Our AIDGAP sale is back! 🌿
Save up to 25% on selected identification guides and atlases — from plant galls to wasps, perfect for autumn and winter learning.
Shop now: buff.ly/IRByfaa
Save up to 25% on selected identification guides and atlases — from plant galls to wasps, perfect for autumn and winter learning.
Shop now: buff.ly/IRByfaa
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Our AIDGAP sale is back! 🌿
Save up to 25% on selected identification guides and atlases — from plant galls to wasps, perfect for autumn and winter learning.
Shop now: buff.ly/IRByfaa
Save up to 25% on selected identification guides and atlases — from plant galls to wasps, perfect for autumn and winter learning.
Shop now: buff.ly/IRByfaa
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Day 15 of the #NovemberFlowerChallenge, and a good one despite the mist. Some good chalk species added from Lydden, including a late Autumn Gentian, Basil Thyme, Dyers Greenweed and a solitary Botanists’ Thistle. And Monkey-Flower by the Dour. Now on 228 species.
November 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Day 15 of the #NovemberFlowerChallenge, and a good one despite the mist. Some good chalk species added from Lydden, including a late Autumn Gentian, Basil Thyme, Dyers Greenweed and a solitary Botanists’ Thistle. And Monkey-Flower by the Dour. Now on 228 species.
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BBC reporting the huge plastic pellet spillage from Southern Water's Eastbourne wastewater site has now started turning up in the county on the Dungeness Peninsula. #KentNature
Carcinogenic microplastic that smell like food. 🤔 No wonder wildlife eats 'em..
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Carcinogenic microplastic that smell like food. 🤔 No wonder wildlife eats 'em..
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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What are bio-beads used for and how did they get spilled on to Camber Sands beach?
Plastic pellets attract algae and smell like food so can be eaten by birds, fish and dolphins, which can prove fatal
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:20 AM
BBC reporting the huge plastic pellet spillage from Southern Water's Eastbourne wastewater site has now started turning up in the county on the Dungeness Peninsula. #KentNature
Carcinogenic microplastic that smell like food. 🤔 No wonder wildlife eats 'em..
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Carcinogenic microplastic that smell like food. 🤔 No wonder wildlife eats 'em..
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Longrock SSSI Whitstable Kent 9/11. Saw this striking fly which looks good for Ectophasia crassipennis a recent addition to the British list but have been seen in more frequently in the county @kentfieldclub.bsky.social #flies #insects #tachinid #inverterbrates #ukwildlife
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Longrock SSSI Whitstable Kent 9/11. Saw this striking fly which looks good for Ectophasia crassipennis a recent addition to the British list but have been seen in more frequently in the county @kentfieldclub.bsky.social #flies #insects #tachinid #inverterbrates #ukwildlife
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An unexpected outage for iRecord and other Indicia systems this weekend means that you won't be able to add records to the websites. It is still possible to add records to the iRecord apps, but you won't be able to upload them until this is fixed 😞
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
An unexpected outage for iRecord and other Indicia systems this weekend means that you won't be able to add records to the websites. It is still possible to add records to the iRecord apps, but you won't be able to upload them until this is fixed 😞
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Two Pallas’s Warblers (1 Trapping Area and one at Old Lighthouse) and two Yellow-browed Warblers in Trapping Area this morning - Dungeness
Woodlark, Woodcock, Dartford Warblers, crests, finches etc
Couldn’t clinch an ID on an Acro - which hopefully might be around tomorrow
#Kentbirding
Woodlark, Woodcock, Dartford Warblers, crests, finches etc
Couldn’t clinch an ID on an Acro - which hopefully might be around tomorrow
#Kentbirding
November 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Two Pallas’s Warblers (1 Trapping Area and one at Old Lighthouse) and two Yellow-browed Warblers in Trapping Area this morning - Dungeness
Woodlark, Woodcock, Dartford Warblers, crests, finches etc
Couldn’t clinch an ID on an Acro - which hopefully might be around tomorrow
#Kentbirding
Woodlark, Woodcock, Dartford Warblers, crests, finches etc
Couldn’t clinch an ID on an Acro - which hopefully might be around tomorrow
#Kentbirding
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Emblematic & symbolic of Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory, today's "seven-striped Siberian sprite" Pallas's Warbler 😁 was the 58th recorded at the Bay (of which 24 ringed) since the first (also for Kent) on Nov 23rd 1958❗. The earliest Oct 11th in 1975, the latest Dec 31st 1998 #KentBirding #KentNature
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Emblematic & symbolic of Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory, today's "seven-striped Siberian sprite" Pallas's Warbler 😁 was the 58th recorded at the Bay (of which 24 ringed) since the first (also for Kent) on Nov 23rd 1958❗. The earliest Oct 11th in 1975, the latest Dec 31st 1998 #KentBirding #KentNature
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Day seven of the #Novemberflowerchallenge saw us on the chalk arable fields of the East Kent prairies.
10 more species, including Common Poppy and Thyme-leaved Sandwort, bring the total up to 180.
10 more species, including Common Poppy and Thyme-leaved Sandwort, bring the total up to 180.
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Day seven of the #Novemberflowerchallenge saw us on the chalk arable fields of the East Kent prairies.
10 more species, including Common Poppy and Thyme-leaved Sandwort, bring the total up to 180.
10 more species, including Common Poppy and Thyme-leaved Sandwort, bring the total up to 180.
This is why all us field naturalists do what we do ... species matter, and studying them matters.
Wise words by Sir John Lawton: "There is no surrogate metric that can reliably assess conservation success or failure without knowing what is happening to populations of plants and animals in the landscape."
Write to your MP today: act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...
Write to your MP today: act.bats.org.uk/urge-your-mp...
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 AM
This is why all us field naturalists do what we do ... species matter, and studying them matters.
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Goose barnacles washed up at Samphire Hoe today.
November 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Goose barnacles washed up at Samphire Hoe today.
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Wild Roses of Great Britain & Ireland (latest title in the series of #BSBIHandbooks for tricky plants) is due out this month! Final proofs now with authors Gareth & Roger.
Interview with them about the new Handbook here: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/inte...
£16 for #BSBImembers until 24 Nov.
Interview with them about the new Handbook here: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/inte...
£16 for #BSBImembers until 24 Nov.
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Wild Roses of Great Britain & Ireland (latest title in the series of #BSBIHandbooks for tricky plants) is due out this month! Final proofs now with authors Gareth & Roger.
Interview with them about the new Handbook here: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/inte...
£16 for #BSBImembers until 24 Nov.
Interview with them about the new Handbook here: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/inte...
£16 for #BSBImembers until 24 Nov.
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Lachnus roboris, Variegated Oak Aphid, found by a colleague at East Malling, Kent, this lunchtime. Not many records on the NBN Gateway of this super duper ginormous wee beastie! @kentfieldclub.bsky.social @nbntrust.bsky.social #KentNature #Nature
November 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Lachnus roboris, Variegated Oak Aphid, found by a colleague at East Malling, Kent, this lunchtime. Not many records on the NBN Gateway of this super duper ginormous wee beastie! @kentfieldclub.bsky.social @nbntrust.bsky.social #KentNature #Nature
We are delighted that Kent Field Club member and Diptera and Symphyta recorder, Laurence Clemons, has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to #entomology.
We were delighted to present the 2025 @marshawards.bsky.social to Mark Gurney, Laurence Clemons and David Brown for outstanding contributions to the field. More information on the award can be found on the Marsh Charitable Trust website: www.marshcharitabletrust.org/award/marsh-...
November 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We are delighted that Kent Field Club member and Diptera and Symphyta recorder, Laurence Clemons, has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to #entomology.
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The Dungeness wider recording area 2025 total is now 239sp by end of Oct
New birds in no particular order - Pallid Harrier, Pallas’s and Yellow-browed Warblers, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Little Auk, Whooper Swan, Black Guillemot and Twite
A record breaking year for species total now
#KentBirding
New birds in no particular order - Pallid Harrier, Pallas’s and Yellow-browed Warblers, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Little Auk, Whooper Swan, Black Guillemot and Twite
A record breaking year for species total now
#KentBirding
November 1, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The Dungeness wider recording area 2025 total is now 239sp by end of Oct
New birds in no particular order - Pallid Harrier, Pallas’s and Yellow-browed Warblers, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Little Auk, Whooper Swan, Black Guillemot and Twite
A record breaking year for species total now
#KentBirding
New birds in no particular order - Pallid Harrier, Pallas’s and Yellow-browed Warblers, Red-breasted Flycatcher, Little Auk, Whooper Swan, Black Guillemot and Twite
A record breaking year for species total now
#KentBirding
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🦇 We are still receiving calls for injured and grounded bats, if you do find a bat that needs help, please contact the Bat Conservation Trust National Bat Helpline on 0345 1300 228 or report it via our website www.kentbatgroup.org.uk or simply google "help I've found a bat" for advice
🦇 November is here and for bats periods of torpor are lasting longer. Some begin hibernation, to save energy over the colder months, when insects are harder to find. They are using stored fat as fuel.
November 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🦇 We are still receiving calls for injured and grounded bats, if you do find a bat that needs help, please contact the Bat Conservation Trust National Bat Helpline on 0345 1300 228 or report it via our website www.kentbatgroup.org.uk or simply google "help I've found a bat" for advice
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A good hare day yesterday at Elmley NNR. A beautiful Brown Hare in the field next to the car park. 🤎
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A good hare day yesterday at Elmley NNR. A beautiful Brown Hare in the field next to the car park. 🤎
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Discussing the conservation of arable plants at Plantlife’s wonderful reserve in Kent. youtu.be/bZaUAsvrHS0?...
Conservation of arable plants
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
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October 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Discussing the conservation of arable plants at Plantlife’s wonderful reserve in Kent. youtu.be/bZaUAsvrHS0?...
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Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See. Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be some of the best in Europe....
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Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See… - Plantlife
Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be the best in Europe. Discover the pressures these colourful fungi and their habitats face...
www.plantlife.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Protecting Waxcaps: All the Losses We Cannot See. Britain’s waxcap grasslands are considered to be some of the best in Europe....
www.plantlife.org.uk/protecting-w...
www.plantlife.org.uk/protecting-w...
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Bumped into this mint fresh Small Copper on Dungeness NNR, Kent this morning and I reckon it has to be a fourth generation
I have only seen a few in the last month and the earlier broods/peaks were weeks early compared to previous years
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#ukbutterflies
I have only seen a few in the last month and the earlier broods/peaks were weeks early compared to previous years
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
#ukbutterflies
October 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Bumped into this mint fresh Small Copper on Dungeness NNR, Kent this morning and I reckon it has to be a fourth generation
I have only seen a few in the last month and the earlier broods/peaks were weeks early compared to previous years
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
#ukbutterflies
I have only seen a few in the last month and the earlier broods/peaks were weeks early compared to previous years
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
#ukbutterflies
Have you discovered the Kent Nature feed on Blue Sky? Dedicated to wildlife in Kent, UK. Tag your posts with #KentNature to appear in the feed.
October 27, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Have you discovered the Kent Nature feed on Blue Sky? Dedicated to wildlife in Kent, UK. Tag your posts with #KentNature to appear in the feed.
Rounding off our conference - the wonderful @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social on urban flora - the subject of his latest book. #KentNature #urbanflora #urbanplants #botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Rounding off our conference - the wonderful @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social on urban flora - the subject of his latest book. #KentNature #urbanflora #urbanplants #botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Now into our afternoon session at the Kent Wildlife Conference. Alan Frith & Karen Thorpe of Maidstone BC on urban Maidstone's stunning Mote Park; and Ben Morris of @beavertrust.bsky.social on Kent's wild beavers, both urban & rural. #KentNature #Maidstone #MotePark #beavers
October 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Now into our afternoon session at the Kent Wildlife Conference. Alan Frith & Karen Thorpe of Maidstone BC on urban Maidstone's stunning Mote Park; and Ben Morris of @beavertrust.bsky.social on Kent's wild beavers, both urban & rural. #KentNature #Maidstone #MotePark #beavers
2nd session of the Kent Wildlife Conference, covering the coast and sea. Tony Child of Thanet Coast Project covered monitoring & management of the very urban Thanet seashore. Emma & Jon from Cement Fields spoke on an innovative project for people and marine wildlife. #KentNature #marine #intertidal
October 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
2nd session of the Kent Wildlife Conference, covering the coast and sea. Tony Child of Thanet Coast Project covered monitoring & management of the very urban Thanet seashore. Emma & Jon from Cement Fields spoke on an innovative project for people and marine wildlife. #KentNature #marine #intertidal
Brilliant first session at today's Kent Wildlife Conference, with @ianbeavis.bsky.social talking Tunbridge Wells' urban hymenoptera, Scarlett Weston of @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social on urban bumblebees, and EA's Josh Hammond on citizen science in water quality monitoring in Kent. #KentNature
October 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Brilliant first session at today's Kent Wildlife Conference, with @ianbeavis.bsky.social talking Tunbridge Wells' urban hymenoptera, Scarlett Weston of @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social on urban bumblebees, and EA's Josh Hammond on citizen science in water quality monitoring in Kent. #KentNature
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Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain
Great to contribute to this #OpenAccess paper published in Ecological Solutions & Evidence: doi.org/10.1002/2688... #rewilding #forests #trees #nature @ukceh.bsky.social
Great to contribute to this #OpenAccess paper published in Ecological Solutions & Evidence: doi.org/10.1002/2688... #rewilding #forests #trees #nature @ukceh.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Creating woodland through natural processes: Current understanding and knowledge gaps in Great Britain
Great to contribute to this #OpenAccess paper published in Ecological Solutions & Evidence: doi.org/10.1002/2688... #rewilding #forests #trees #nature @ukceh.bsky.social
Great to contribute to this #OpenAccess paper published in Ecological Solutions & Evidence: doi.org/10.1002/2688... #rewilding #forests #trees #nature @ukceh.bsky.social