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Tim Worfolk
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Bird illustration, insect photography, getting more local (Topsham, Devon) every year.
My photos are here https://www.flickr.com/photos/141833872@N05/albums
One of two male (presumed 2cy) Marsh Harriers over the reeds at Topsham today. RN Grebe still on Bowling Green Marsh. Ruff, Kingfisher, Little Grebe all making for a fine morning stroll.
#lowcarbonbirding
#DevonBirds
November 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I wouldn't like to say from the photo Bill, and I certainly wouldn't argue with John. Cave Bristletail has bizarrely turned up twice in our Topsham garden - not a cave! Eyes are critical but antennae also more banded/scaled vs. Petrobius spp. See also strong black band across thorax.
September 17, 2025 at 5:34 AM
A bit surprised by this at Topsham Rec yesterday. Goosander typically a rare winter visitor on the patch. This adult female (seems to be in wing moult) perhaps from our local breeding population.
#UKBirding
#DevonBirds
September 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Fewer insects about now but I found this mint fresh Tachinid in the garden yesterday. Panzeria anthophila, a female and presumably looking for some suitable caterpillar (Erebid or Noctuid moth) to host its eggs.
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#diptera
#UKWildlife
August 31, 2025 at 7:06 AM
I've thought of another excuse to post more Wryneck. This shot shows the eye colour to be dark dull brown, on an adult it would be more reddish, so fairly confident this a juvenile/1st winter bird. Subtle plumage differences between ages best assessed in hand.
#UKBirding
#DevonBirds
August 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Just in case there aren't enough photos of this lovely bird here's my Wryneck photo. Just happened to be walking past Turf Lock, didn't know it was still here - so not really twitching is it?
First I've ever photographed so happy it stayed on and behaved so well.
#DevonBirds
#LowCarbonBirding
August 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
No doubt this juv White Stork at Topsham, Devon is one of the many released in Britain this year. Yellow c-r on right leg, too distant to read code but does anyone recognise the scheme?
#WhiteStork
#reintroduction
#UKBirding
August 5, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Two of the larger Pondskaters: Lake Pondskater (Aquarius paludum) on left, and a pair of River Pondskaters (A. najas) on right. Appropriately enough on a canal. Neither that common I believe and paludum only recently recorded in Devon.
#Hemiptera
August 1, 2025 at 8:19 AM
These little beauties are often very tricky to photograph but managed a few of this in the garden recently: good enough to get it IDed on FB BWARS site as Pseudomalus triangulifer. Apparently only recently recognised as a UK sp. so I've no idea how common it is.
#wasp
#hymenoptera
August 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Leaf mines on garden Dog Rose: I think it's Stigmella anomalella (Nepticulidae) but I'm way out of my area of competence with these!
#leafmine
#lepidoptera
July 25, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Leptogaster cylindrica female. Tricky to photograph among the grass but I think I managed in the end.
Topsham, Devon.
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#robberfly
#diptera
July 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Crabro cribrarius male with his extravagantly modified front legs. Sometimes called 'Large Shield Wasp', sometimes known as 'Slender-bodied Digger Wasp'; either will do I suppose but using the scientific name is easier and less confusing.
On Hogweed, Topsham, Devon.
#hymenoptera
#wasp
July 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
In the garden yesterday: good light, not too windy and an nice variety of insects, one new to me.
Names etc. in ALT texts.
July 2, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Opinions sought on this odd-looking bumble. Appears to be female and not, as I first thought, a cuckoo bee - corbiculate hind tarsus and 12 antennal segments. Posted on the BWARS FB group and no consensus reached. Any suggestions?
#hymenoptera
July 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Found these rather large aphids on a Nordmann Fir in the garden. Seem to be Cinara sp. but, despite their size and markings, further identification apparently problematic although I suspect Cinara confinis.
#aphids
#hemiptera
June 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
My local bee-bank is still operational. A forgotten corner of a new development (hope no one remembers it) and home to a small colony of bee-wolves and relatives including my first local record of Painted Nomad Bee.
Names etc. in ALT Texts.
June 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Caught the action out of the corner of my eye: the robberfly dashed in and snatched this bug before landing on a nearby bean leaf. Dioctria baumhaueri female with its lunch Liocoris tripustulatus.

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#robberfly
#diptera
June 27, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Macrotylus solitarius (Miridae) on Hedge Woundwort in our Topsham garden today. First found here in 2024 and so far the only known site for the sp. in Devon and Cornwall.
#hemiptera
June 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A selection of Tephritid flies from the garden today. Very fond of these with their beautiful markings and curious displays. Names in ALT Texts.
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#diptera
#Tephritidae
June 25, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A selection of beetles from the garden yesterday. Names and more details ALT Texts.
#UKWildlife
#Coleoptera
June 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Haltichella rufipes, a Chalcid wasp found in the garden yesterday. A parasitoid but the host is apparently unknown. Probably widespread but under-recorded. Thanks to Paul Vignac for the ID.
#Hymenoptera
June 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Can't seem to pass a figwort these days without checking for figwort weevils: paid off today with a new one for me Cionus hortulanus. A great walk at Salcombe Regis, Devon also produced a Boat Bug and what I think is an Iris Weevil. more in ALT Texts.
#UKWildlife
#coleoptera
#hemiptera
May 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Roesel's Bush-cricket nymphs. Now the third year running I've found them in Topsham, I still haven't found an adult. Their sounds are now beyond my hearing range, I'm wondering if a bat-detector might help.
#Orthoptera
#UKWildlife
May 6, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Seems a good time of year for finding weevils on Figwort. Three sp. of Cionus on same plant at same time which begs the question of how they share the resource?
Name etc in Alt Texts
#Coleoptera
May 6, 2025 at 4:34 AM
A lucky find in our garden today: it appears to be Margarinotus merdarius (Histeridae). Not rare nationally but rather uncommon in Devon with just two recent records. Certainly new for me.
#coleoptera
#beetle
May 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM