Antony Wren
@beachhutbirder.bsky.social
Birder, moth recorder and natural nerd. Based in Suffolk
Really having fun with the Dwarf Lab D3 from my Suffolk garden
November 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Really having fun with the Dwarf Lab D3 from my Suffolk garden
After Grapholita delineana started turning up in my Suffolk garden last July, it was confirmed as new to the UK. Another arrived at the weekend with no other British records that I know of. Perhaps I have the only breeding Grapholita delineana in Britain? suffolkmoths.co.uk/micros.php?b...
June 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
After Grapholita delineana started turning up in my Suffolk garden last July, it was confirmed as new to the UK. Another arrived at the weekend with no other British records that I know of. Perhaps I have the only breeding Grapholita delineana in Britain? suffolkmoths.co.uk/micros.php?b...
Imagine my surprise when this one turned up in my east Suffolk garden a few years ago!
June 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Imagine my surprise when this one turned up in my east Suffolk garden a few years ago!
Some Little Terns from the Suffolk coast today
June 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Some Little Terns from the Suffolk coast today
Wasp Spiderlings hatched today in my Lowestoft garden
April 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Wasp Spiderlings hatched today in my Lowestoft garden
A splendid Emperor in Dunwich Forest yesterday
April 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A splendid Emperor in Dunwich Forest yesterday
Barnard 33, Horsehead and Flame Nebulae
April 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Barnard 33, Horsehead and Flame Nebulae
I have this one by MoveShootMove... Really nice piece of kit. It has a three-way adjustment for swapping between phone lenses easier
January 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I have this one by MoveShootMove... Really nice piece of kit. It has a three-way adjustment for swapping between phone lenses easier
Andromeda M31 from my Suffolk garden
January 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Andromeda M31 from my Suffolk garden
M42, Orion Nebula and the Pleiades from last week. No clear skies since
December 28, 2024 at 3:48 PM
M42, Orion Nebula and the Pleiades from last week. No clear skies since
Pleiades this evening just before the Moon made it tricky.
December 19, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Pleiades this evening just before the Moon made it tricky.
And here's a larva on Hart's-tongue Fern
December 10, 2024 at 8:40 PM
And here's a larva on Hart's-tongue Fern
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In October 2021 I found Suffolk's 5th Musotima nitidalis, Marbled Fern. In just 3 years we now have nearly 650 in the database. This year I had my first 2 garden records and saw several in Dunwich Forest
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In October 2021 I found Suffolk's 5th Musotima nitidalis, Marbled Fern. In just 3 years we now have nearly 650 in the database. This year I had my first 2 garden records and saw several in Dunwich Forest
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December 10, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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In October 2021 I found Suffolk's 5th Musotima nitidalis, Marbled Fern. In just 3 years we now have nearly 650 in the database. This year I had my first 2 garden records and saw several in Dunwich Forest
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In October 2021 I found Suffolk's 5th Musotima nitidalis, Marbled Fern. In just 3 years we now have nearly 650 in the database. This year I had my first 2 garden records and saw several in Dunwich Forest
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Here's the beautiful adult Cosmopterix pulchrimella
December 10, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Here's the beautiful adult Cosmopterix pulchrimella
Still plenty of Cosmopterix pulchrimella larvae around Lowestoft. Almost every plant around the High Street had larvae present yesterday.
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December 10, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Still plenty of Cosmopterix pulchrimella larvae around Lowestoft. Almost every plant around the High Street had larvae present yesterday.
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Radford's Flame Shoulder has traditionally been a rare migrant to the UK with most records occurring in South and Southwest of the UK. 2024 turned out to be an exceptional year for them with lots of inland and new county records. I managed to catch 5 in one week!
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Radford's Flame Shoulder has traditionally been a rare migrant to the UK with most records occurring in South and Southwest of the UK. 2024 turned out to be an exceptional year for them with lots of inland and new county records. I managed to catch 5 in one week!
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December 9, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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Radford's Flame Shoulder has traditionally been a rare migrant to the UK with most records occurring in South and Southwest of the UK. 2024 turned out to be an exceptional year for them with lots of inland and new county records. I managed to catch 5 in one week!
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Radford's Flame Shoulder has traditionally been a rare migrant to the UK with most records occurring in South and Southwest of the UK. 2024 turned out to be an exceptional year for them with lots of inland and new county records. I managed to catch 5 in one week!
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Crimson Speckled is one of those "Holy Grail" moths which I dreamt of seeing from the moment I saw a picture of one when I was a child. Amazingly it's on my garden list for 2018 but this year I caught up with them in Greece.
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Crimson Speckled is one of those "Holy Grail" moths which I dreamt of seeing from the moment I saw a picture of one when I was a child. Amazingly it's on my garden list for 2018 but this year I caught up with them in Greece.
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December 8, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Crimson Speckled is one of those "Holy Grail" moths which I dreamt of seeing from the moment I saw a picture of one when I was a child. Amazingly it's on my garden list for 2018 but this year I caught up with them in Greece.
#TeamMoth
Crimson Speckled is one of those "Holy Grail" moths which I dreamt of seeing from the moment I saw a picture of one when I was a child. Amazingly it's on my garden list for 2018 but this year I caught up with them in Greece.
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Gold Spot Plusia festucae used to be far more regular in my garden but in the last 5 years I've only seen 2. Has anyone else seen this downward trend in numbers?
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Gold Spot Plusia festucae used to be far more regular in my garden but in the last 5 years I've only seen 2. Has anyone else seen this downward trend in numbers?
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December 8, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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Gold Spot Plusia festucae used to be far more regular in my garden but in the last 5 years I've only seen 2. Has anyone else seen this downward trend in numbers?
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Gold Spot Plusia festucae used to be far more regular in my garden but in the last 5 years I've only seen 2. Has anyone else seen this downward trend in numbers?
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Beautiful Marbled Eublemma purpurina is a stunning Migrant moth which I have recorded just twice. This year I caught one on a cliff top in Kessingland. Not many in Suffolk this year; what about elsewhere?
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Beautiful Marbled Eublemma purpurina is a stunning Migrant moth which I have recorded just twice. This year I caught one on a cliff top in Kessingland. Not many in Suffolk this year; what about elsewhere?
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December 7, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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Beautiful Marbled Eublemma purpurina is a stunning Migrant moth which I have recorded just twice. This year I caught one on a cliff top in Kessingland. Not many in Suffolk this year; what about elsewhere?
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Beautiful Marbled Eublemma purpurina is a stunning Migrant moth which I have recorded just twice. This year I caught one on a cliff top in Kessingland. Not many in Suffolk this year; what about elsewhere?
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2024 has been phenomenal for Palpita vitrealis, Olive-tree Pearl. From 2017 to 2023 I recorded 42 individuals in my Lowestoft garden. This year I have recorded 73! Several local moth-ers have seen it for the first time this year. Anyone else seen good numbers?
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2024 has been phenomenal for Palpita vitrealis, Olive-tree Pearl. From 2017 to 2023 I recorded 42 individuals in my Lowestoft garden. This year I have recorded 73! Several local moth-ers have seen it for the first time this year. Anyone else seen good numbers?
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December 6, 2024 at 9:38 AM
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2024 has been phenomenal for Palpita vitrealis, Olive-tree Pearl. From 2017 to 2023 I recorded 42 individuals in my Lowestoft garden. This year I have recorded 73! Several local moth-ers have seen it for the first time this year. Anyone else seen good numbers?
#TeamMoth
2024 has been phenomenal for Palpita vitrealis, Olive-tree Pearl. From 2017 to 2023 I recorded 42 individuals in my Lowestoft garden. This year I have recorded 73! Several local moth-ers have seen it for the first time this year. Anyone else seen good numbers?
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Four-spotted Footman is a regular but never common visitor to my garden; usually in the Autumn and probably migrants. Only the females have the four spots that give them their name
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Four-spotted Footman is a regular but never common visitor to my garden; usually in the Autumn and probably migrants. Only the females have the four spots that give them their name
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December 5, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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Four-spotted Footman is a regular but never common visitor to my garden; usually in the Autumn and probably migrants. Only the females have the four spots that give them their name
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Four-spotted Footman is a regular but never common visitor to my garden; usually in the Autumn and probably migrants. Only the females have the four spots that give them their name
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One of my favourite wildlife experiences ever... This Grey Phalarope was playing hard to get so I went to the opposite side of the pool, lay flat on the wet sand by the waters edge and waited.... 20 mins later a photographer flushed it and this happened. Magic!
December 5, 2024 at 9:47 AM
One of my favourite wildlife experiences ever... This Grey Phalarope was playing hard to get so I went to the opposite side of the pool, lay flat on the wet sand by the waters edge and waited.... 20 mins later a photographer flushed it and this happened. Magic!
I'm up to 21 now. These three came in one night!
December 4, 2024 at 7:16 AM
I'm up to 21 now. These three came in one night!
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Euchromius ocellea is a snazzy migrant that appeared for many moth-ers in September and not just on the coast...there were some great inland records too.
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Euchromius ocellea is a snazzy migrant that appeared for many moth-ers in September and not just on the coast...there were some great inland records too.
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December 3, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Euchromius ocellea is a snazzy migrant that appeared for many moth-ers in September and not just on the coast...there were some great inland records too.
#TeamMoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @suffolkmoths.bsky.social
Euchromius ocellea is a snazzy migrant that appeared for many moth-ers in September and not just on the coast...there were some great inland records too.
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My favourite Suffolk bird of the year was this obliging Black-necked Grebe at Kessingland in the Autumn
My favourite Suffolk bird of the year was this obliging Black-necked Grebe at Kessingland in the Autumn
December 1, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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My favourite Suffolk bird of the year was this obliging Black-necked Grebe at Kessingland in the Autumn
My favourite Suffolk bird of the year was this obliging Black-necked Grebe at Kessingland in the Autumn