Trevor Codlin
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Naturalist, birder, bird ringer, moth-er and photographer. Love the great outdoors, nightingales & ringed plovers. Hampshire (VC11), UK. Titchfield Haven Ringing Group
Another bat survey today in South-east Hants, exploring tunnels on Portsdown Hill. The highlights for me were another Tissue, Buttoned Snout and Bloxworth Snout. Also a dozen or so herald moths and over 50 peacock butterflies. #teammoth
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Another bat survey today in South-east Hants, exploring tunnels on Portsdown Hill. The highlights for me were another Tissue, Buttoned Snout and Bloxworth Snout. Also a dozen or so herald moths and over 50 peacock butterflies. #teammoth
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Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
Exclusive: Leading ecologists say warnings over threat to wildlife have been ignored in drive to build 1.5m new homes
The scale of lobbying of ministers by developers on Labour’s landmark planning changes, which seek to rip up environmental rules to boost growth, can be exposed as campaigners make last-ditch attempts to secure protections for nature.
The government published its planning and infrastructure bill in March. Before and after the bill’s publication the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and housing minister Matthew Pennycook have met dozens of developers in numerous meetings. The body representing professional ecologists, meanwhile, has not met one minister despite requests to do so. Continue reading...
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November 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Developers met ministers dozens of times over planning bill while ecologists were shut out
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Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.
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September 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Ticks are more likely to carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease in areas where Common Pheasants Phasianus colchicus are released, according to new research.
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It’s not been a great year numbers wise at Titchfield Haven NNR, but today the 200th grasshopper warbler of the year was ringed. This is now the highest total since 2014 when we ringed 341 from 29 sessions, this year there have only been 19 sessions so far. #ukbirding #birdringing
September 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It’s not been a great year numbers wise at Titchfield Haven NNR, but today the 200th grasshopper warbler of the year was ringed. This is now the highest total since 2014 when we ringed 341 from 29 sessions, this year there have only been 19 sessions so far. #ukbirding #birdringing
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Latest government stats show a continued decline in many bird species across the UK 🪶🧪
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These data are made possible by the dedication of expert volunteers, allowing us to track common bird populations for >50 years
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These data are made possible by the dedication of expert volunteers, allowing us to track common bird populations for >50 years
Wild bird populations in the UK and England, 1970 to 2024
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September 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Latest government stats show a continued decline in many bird species across the UK 🪶🧪
www.gov.uk/government/s...
These data are made possible by the dedication of expert volunteers, allowing us to track common bird populations for >50 years
www.gov.uk/government/s...
These data are made possible by the dedication of expert volunteers, allowing us to track common bird populations for >50 years
46:18 was better than expected from my cold S Hants VC11 garden. The undoubted highlight was a clifden nonpareil, 1 silver Y the other migrant. Others bits included northern deep brown dart 1, black rustic 1, pink barred sallow 1, sallow 3 and L-album wainscot 6. #teammoth #migrantmothuk
September 22, 2025 at 4:53 PM
46:18 was better than expected from my cold S Hants VC11 garden. The undoubted highlight was a clifden nonpareil, 1 silver Y the other migrant. Others bits included northern deep brown dart 1, black rustic 1, pink barred sallow 1, sallow 3 and L-album wainscot 6. #teammoth #migrantmothuk
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The wonderful intricately marked Cherry Bark Moth (Enarmonia formosana) to light in the Hampshire garden last night. Ignore micros at your peril! #TeamMoth
August 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The wonderful intricately marked Cherry Bark Moth (Enarmonia formosana) to light in the Hampshire garden last night. Ignore micros at your peril! #TeamMoth
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A couple of interesting nights on the way as our weather is influenced by ex-hurricane Elin. Tonight, we could see the 1st arrivals in S. Ireland, SW Britain & perhaps along the south coast. Monday will be very warm with air from N. Africa, and perhaps the most likely night for migrants. #teammoth
August 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
A couple of interesting nights on the way as our weather is influenced by ex-hurricane Elin. Tonight, we could see the 1st arrivals in S. Ireland, SW Britain & perhaps along the south coast. Monday will be very warm with air from N. Africa, and perhaps the most likely night for migrants. #teammoth
82:48 to my South Hants VC11 garden last night. Some nice bits - Jersey & Garden Tigers, shaded broad-bar, rosy rustic, four-spotted footman & a diamond back, but this Gypsy Moth was the star, a new moth for me. Great antennae - face on it looks like a brown long-eared bat #teammoth #migrantmothuk
August 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
82:48 to my South Hants VC11 garden last night. Some nice bits - Jersey & Garden Tigers, shaded broad-bar, rosy rustic, four-spotted footman & a diamond back, but this Gypsy Moth was the star, a new moth for me. Great antennae - face on it looks like a brown long-eared bat #teammoth #migrantmothuk
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Little terns dead after dog attacks at Norfolk beach | Eastern Daily Press share.google/ryighi5PKWGC...
Rare seabirds dead after dog attacks at beach
Four little terns have died at one of the most successful colonies in recent years along the Norfolk coast.
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July 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Little terns dead after dog attacks at Norfolk beach | Eastern Daily Press share.google/ryighi5PKWGC...
My 29th year monitoring nightingales in Hampshire this year, and it looks like a good year. The first birds were recorded back around 7th April, at least 16 males held territory locally and 5 breeding females confirmed. So far 3 juveniles ringed in 2025, proving breeding success. #ukbirding
July 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
My 29th year monitoring nightingales in Hampshire this year, and it looks like a good year. The first birds were recorded back around 7th April, at least 16 males held territory locally and 5 breeding females confirmed. So far 3 juveniles ringed in 2025, proving breeding success. #ukbirding
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I'm so excited to share that this springtail, one that seems to have rapidly appeared in graveyards and gardens across the UK, now has a proper name: Entomobrya petri!
I hope this will be the first of many new species descriptions, allowing us to track our rapidly changing springtail fauna. 🧵⬇️
I hope this will be the first of many new species descriptions, allowing us to track our rapidly changing springtail fauna. 🧵⬇️
📢✨ONLINE FIRST✨ New #collembola species found in the UK!
James McCulloch @jamesimcc.bsky.social National Recorder of Sprintails, tells the world about Entomobrya petri! 💚
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James McCulloch @jamesimcc.bsky.social National Recorder of Sprintails, tells the world about Entomobrya petri! 💚
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July 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I'm so excited to share that this springtail, one that seems to have rapidly appeared in graveyards and gardens across the UK, now has a proper name: Entomobrya petri!
I hope this will be the first of many new species descriptions, allowing us to track our rapidly changing springtail fauna. 🧵⬇️
I hope this will be the first of many new species descriptions, allowing us to track our rapidly changing springtail fauna. 🧵⬇️
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Dark Crimson / Light Crimson Underwing ID tip - The discal spot is adjacent with the postmedian line and the antemedian line is pointed near the dorsum / The discal spot is isolated from the postmedian line and the antemedian line is curved near the dorsum. #MothsMatter #TeamMoth
July 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Dark Crimson / Light Crimson Underwing ID tip - The discal spot is adjacent with the postmedian line and the antemedian line is pointed near the dorsum / The discal spot is isolated from the postmedian line and the antemedian line is curved near the dorsum. #MothsMatter #TeamMoth
182:76 to my S Hants VC11 garden last night, took a while to sort this AM. A lot NFY, some highlight were Rosy Marbled (1), Monochroa palustris, which is a real nice moth imo and a Nemapogon keonigi which was new for me also Paraswammerdamia nebulella. #teammoth
June 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
182:76 to my S Hants VC11 garden last night, took a while to sort this AM. A lot NFY, some highlight were Rosy Marbled (1), Monochroa palustris, which is a real nice moth imo and a Nemapogon keonigi which was new for me also Paraswammerdamia nebulella. #teammoth
109:56 to my S Hants (VC11) garden. A few NFY inc. four-spotted footman, small blood-vein, barred yellow, Pyrasta purpuralis and small dusty wave. Very little on the migrant front, just 2 diamond backs and a silver Y. #teammoth #migrantmothuk
June 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
109:56 to my S Hants (VC11) garden. A few NFY inc. four-spotted footman, small blood-vein, barred yellow, Pyrasta purpuralis and small dusty wave. Very little on the migrant front, just 2 diamond backs and a silver Y. #teammoth #migrantmothuk
Early promise with a Great Oak Beauty and male Ghost Moth on the outside of my VC11 trap did not continue. Only 62:40 with little else of note, Monopis crocicapitella was the 2nd of the year as was an Ethmia dodecea. Another silver-y the only presumed migrant #migrantmothuk #teammoth
June 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Early promise with a Great Oak Beauty and male Ghost Moth on the outside of my VC11 trap did not continue. Only 62:40 with little else of note, Monopis crocicapitella was the 2nd of the year as was an Ethmia dodecea. Another silver-y the only presumed migrant #migrantmothuk #teammoth
Surprise catch of 101:44 to MV in my VC11 garden last night in grim conditions. A few migrants with silver-y & delicate, an Elegia similella very local here. Other hightlights, shoulder-stripe and Ditula angustiorana, snout, (all NFY) and L-album Wainscot (a fav of mine) #teammoth #migrantmothuk
June 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Surprise catch of 101:44 to MV in my VC11 garden last night in grim conditions. A few migrants with silver-y & delicate, an Elegia similella very local here. Other hightlights, shoulder-stripe and Ditula angustiorana, snout, (all NFY) and L-album Wainscot (a fav of mine) #teammoth #migrantmothuk
217:67 to MV, South Hants (VC11) last night. NFY’s inc. pretty chalk carpet, beautiful hook-tip, coronet, pinion-streaked snout and Lathronympha strigana. 1 each diamond back and delicate only #migrantmothuk also Clancy’s rustic, presumably not a migrant and another Bird’s Wing! #teammoth
June 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
217:67 to MV, South Hants (VC11) last night. NFY’s inc. pretty chalk carpet, beautiful hook-tip, coronet, pinion-streaked snout and Lathronympha strigana. 1 each diamond back and delicate only #migrantmothuk also Clancy’s rustic, presumably not a migrant and another Bird’s Wing! #teammoth
As I have had to wait so many years to catch a Scarce Merveille du Jour in my garden, then catch a second two nights later - was it the same moth? The left hand moth was from two nights ago, the right last night. There are many differences in patterns and the first is the more worn- so no #teammoth
May 31, 2025 at 2:48 PM
As I have had to wait so many years to catch a Scarce Merveille du Jour in my garden, then catch a second two nights later - was it the same moth? The left hand moth was from two nights ago, the right last night. There are many differences in patterns and the first is the more worn- so no #teammoth
219:68 to MV in my South Hants (VC11) garden last night. Another Scarce MdJ! but the highlight - Bird’s Wing (NFG) - numerous NFY inc. Anarsia spartiella, Lyonetia clarkella, Ethmia dodecea, Lozotaeniodes formosana & Dark spectacle, etc. #teammoth 1 delicate the only migrant. #migrantmothuk
May 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
219:68 to MV in my South Hants (VC11) garden last night. Another Scarce MdJ! but the highlight - Bird’s Wing (NFG) - numerous NFY inc. Anarsia spartiella, Lyonetia clarkella, Ethmia dodecea, Lozotaeniodes formosana & Dark spectacle, etc. #teammoth 1 delicate the only migrant. #migrantmothuk
227:68 to MV in my South Hants (VC11) garden last night. There were 22 NFY in that haul but the Scarce Merveille du Jour stole the show. In 25 yrs of mothing here, I’ve often wondered why I’ve not caught one as it is know from the Wickham area. We’ll finally it’s happened and what a beaut #teammoth
May 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
227:68 to MV in my South Hants (VC11) garden last night. There were 22 NFY in that haul but the Scarce Merveille du Jour stole the show. In 25 yrs of mothing here, I’ve often wondered why I’ve not caught one as it is know from the Wickham area. We’ll finally it’s happened and what a beaut #teammoth
Another early start for a bird survey on the Isle of Wight (VC10). It was a hot day with butterflies & day flying moths the most interesting species - Small Heaths were abundant with over 100, 3 Dingy Skippers & single Wall Brown & Painted Lady. Plenty of Speckled Yellow moths too. #butterflies
May 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Another early start for a bird survey on the Isle of Wight (VC10). It was a hot day with butterflies & day flying moths the most interesting species - Small Heaths were abundant with over 100, 3 Dingy Skippers & single Wall Brown & Painted Lady. Plenty of Speckled Yellow moths too. #butterflies
Insect of the day goes to this cracking female Oak (I think) Snakefly Phaeostigma notata. A species I don’t see very often at all and haven’t before in my South Hants (VC11) garden!
May 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Insect of the day goes to this cracking female Oak (I think) Snakefly Phaeostigma notata. A species I don’t see very often at all and haven’t before in my South Hants (VC11) garden!
A very early start for a breeding bird survey but still managed to find a few moths. A local site for me so still in South Hants (VC11). There moths found as I wandered around the Hedge Beauty Albonia geoffrella, Plum tortrix Hedya pruniana and the silver grass-miner Elachista argentella. #teammoth
May 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
A very early start for a breeding bird survey but still managed to find a few moths. A local site for me so still in South Hants (VC11). There moths found as I wandered around the Hedge Beauty Albonia geoffrella, Plum tortrix Hedya pruniana and the silver grass-miner Elachista argentella. #teammoth