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Birds, Butterflies and other wildlife in UK. British/Mauritian. 🇬🇧🇲🇺 Laruphile.
A Saturday trip to Queen's Park, Blackburn to see the long staying 1cy Yellow-Legged Gull with @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social.

Thanks to @billaspin.bsky.social for the info!

#UKBirds #BirdingUK #GullsoftheWP #GullsoftheWorld #LancashireBirding #Seabirds
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
After six hours, and some peer pressure to stay, the Pechora Pipit eventually gave good but brief views early evening. An insane record.

Whoever tells you to say "no" to peer pressure, must be someone happy with mediocre views!

#RareBirdsUK #BirdingNorthEast #BirdingUK #Wildlife #UKWildlife 🪶
September 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A post work trip yesterday to see some local Clouded Yellows at Ledstone, Yorkshire.

3 in flight together with a possible 4th racing around in the early evening sunshine.

@ukbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
#UKWildlife #YorkshireWildlife #UKButterflies #Wildlife #Butterflies 🦋
August 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
July 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
It's been a while since @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I have targeted butterflies.

On Saturday we got Sarah's lifer Purple Hairstreaks at Roundhay Park in Leeds.

@bcyorkshire.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social #UKButterflies #YorkshireButterflies #Wildlife #YorkshireWildlife 🦋
July 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Full credit must go to @tim-hodge.bsky.social for finding them!

We just happened to be in the right place at the right time to see them.

My full apologies for not tagging you Tim. I didn't know your full name or if you were on this platform.
Last week @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I had 5 days in Norfolk and the unexpected happened.

Thought to be extinct in the county, at Great Yarmouth we saw 3+ Lejops vitattus hoverflies including a pair in cop!

@norfolknats.bsky.social
#UKWildlife #UKHoverflies #syrphid #NorfolkWildlife
July 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Last week @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I had 5 days in Norfolk and the unexpected happened.

Thought to be extinct in the county, at Great Yarmouth we saw 3+ Lejops vitattus hoverflies including a pair in cop!

@norfolknats.bsky.social
#UKWildlife #UKHoverflies #syrphid #NorfolkWildlife
July 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
More new odonata hunting last month, this time for Scarce Blue-Tailed Damselflies in Cheshire.

Several dotted around with a lovely diagnostic orange immature female being the first I found.

@britishdragonflies.bsky.social
#UKDragonflies #UKWildlife #CheshireOdonata #CheshireWildlife
July 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
It's been a relentless summer for butterflies as they emerge earlier than expected.

No more so than Black Hairstreaks. A mad dash for them at Brampton Woods with @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social at the start of the month.

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June 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
An amazing visit to the Farne Islands yesterday with @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social.

Loads of cute chicks and finally got pecked by Arctic Terns!

Plenty of photos to go through but for now, here is an Atlantic Puffin with Sand Eels.

#SuperSeaBirdSunday #Wildlife #BirdingNorthEast 🪶
June 29, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🚨 Lifer Alert! 🚨

Very gusty this morning but the long staying female Ortolan Bunting showed on and off at Wykham Forest.

2 Honey Buzzards soared over us as well as fly over Crossbills.

A great day out with @joerffalcon.bsky.social.

#RareBirdsUK #YorkshireBirding #Wildlife 🪶
June 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
After having to wait all week until today, I've been incredibly lucky to see and photograph Red-Veined Darters in Yorkshire.

Up to 3 males and a female on the south bank at Anglers County Park this morning.

@britishdragonflies.bsky.social
#YorkshireWildlife #Odonata #UKDragonflies
June 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Another new dragonfly for me this year was Downy Emeralds in Cheshire.

A great experience having several flying aroud my legs on a flooded path but a nightmare to photograph!

@britishdragonflies.bsky.social
#UKWildlife #Odonata #CheshireOdonata #CheshireWildlife
June 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
On Saturday @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I had a great day out with @birderbee.bsky.social at @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Brockadale Nature Reserve looking at Marbled Whites.

Always a thrill seeing them!

@savebutterflies.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social
#UKButterflies #YorkshireWildlife
June 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It's been a bit of an odonata summer for me so far this year.

While down in Wiltshire we ticked off Scarce Chasers at Conigre Mead Nature Reserve.

#UKWildlife #UKDragonflies #Odonata #WiltshireWildlife @britishdragonflies.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The first day of a long weekend in Wiltshire with @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and the target species in the bag.

A shame the season has been turbo charged but thankful there were still some hanging on!

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#UKButterflies #WiltshiteButterflies
May 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Reposted by Fozzy
Enjoy this great short (9 min) film on the work of Constanti Stefanescu, co-ordinator of the Catalan Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Such schemes are not only important for the butterfly counts, but also as a social network bringing butterflies to the people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d__p...
CHASING BUTTERFLIES
YouTube video by KAVU
www.youtube.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I really should post something other than a gull for #SuperSeabirdSunday but they are so full of character!

This Yellow-Legged Gull has mastered fishing in Cavtat, Croatia.

@steelyseabirder.bsky.social @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social #Seabirds #GullsoftheWorld #HolidayBirding #Wildlife #Nature
May 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Another gull contribution to #SuperSeabirdSunday.

Mine and @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social's first proper day in Croatia and the chance for Yellow-Legged Gulls, gull #21 for the year.

@steelyseabirder.bsky.social #GullsoftheWP #CroatiaBirding #GullsoftheWorld #Wildlife #WesternPalaearcticBirding
April 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
First bit of butterfly hunting of the year yesterday with @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social looking for Grizzled Skippers at @savebutterflies.bsky.social Twyford Woods, Lincolnshire.

@ukbutterflies.bsky.social
#UKButterflies #LincolnshireButterflies #UKWildlife #Insects 🦋
April 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
April 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Looking like a bit of a false start to the butterfly season up north with the duller Easter weather. Earlier in the week at @rspb.bsky.social St Aidans's I patiently stalked this male Orange Tip waiting for it to settle.

@ukbutterflies.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social
#UKButterflies #Yorkshire
April 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
My computer is telling me that today is Puffin Day!

That being the case, here is an Atlantic Puffin at @rspb.bsky.social Bempton Cliffs yesterday.

#UKBirding #YorkshireBirding #Seabirds #PuffinDay #Wildlife 🪶
April 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
An incredibly warm day on Saturday at Strid Woods with @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social for Pied Flycatchers.

This male dropped down from the tree tops to serenade us.

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April 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Always a joy to see my favourite UK gull back on their breeding grounds at Barden, North Yorkshire.

A really smart contribution to #SuperSeabirdSunday if I do say so myself!

@steelyseabirder.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
#UKBirding #YorkshireBirding #GullsoftheWorld #GullsoftheWP 🪶
April 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM