Dawlish Warren Recording Group
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Wildlife news from Dawlish Warren in south Devon. www.dawlishwarren.co.uk
News of a 2nd for Britain late last month - the #ichnuemon wasp Lissonata oculatoria found by Alan Keatley near Langstone Rock. Thanks to @gavinbroad.bsky.social for confirming ID.
October 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
News of a 2nd for Britain late last month - the #ichnuemon wasp Lissonata oculatoria found by Alan Keatley near Langstone Rock. Thanks to @gavinbroad.bsky.social for confirming ID.
A(nother) UK first for the Recording Area, the #nudibranch #sealug Corambe testudinaria found yesterday in rockpools at Langstone Rock. One to add thanks @panspecieslisting.bsky.social
September 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
A(nother) UK first for the Recording Area, the #nudibranch #sealug Corambe testudinaria found yesterday in rockpools at Langstone Rock. One to add thanks @panspecieslisting.bsky.social
The second site record of Latticed Heath was soon followed by the third, disturbed from grassland with dozens of Rush Veneer and a Vestal #TeamMoth In a similar vein four Glossy Ibis were the seventh record after the sixth yesterday! #UKBirding
September 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The second site record of Latticed Heath was soon followed by the third, disturbed from grassland with dozens of Rush Veneer and a Vestal #TeamMoth In a similar vein four Glossy Ibis were the seventh record after the sixth yesterday! #UKBirding
September 6, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The Warren's Oystercatcher are returning for another winter on the Exe, with eight recoveries so far, one ringed here as an adult in Jan 1997 is now at least 30 years old! More details at dawlishwarren.blogspot.com/2025/07/wedn... #UKBirding
July 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The Warren's Oystercatcher are returning for another winter on the Exe, with eight recoveries so far, one ringed here as an adult in Jan 1997 is now at least 30 years old! More details at dawlishwarren.blogspot.com/2025/07/wedn... #UKBirding
The 'snail trail' larval leafmines of two scarce Devon moths were found on the poplars around the car park Phyllocnistis xenia devonmoths.uk/micros.php?b... on White & Phyllocnistis unipunctella devonmoths.uk/micros.php?b... on Lombardy #teammoth
June 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The 'snail trail' larval leafmines of two scarce Devon moths were found on the poplars around the car park Phyllocnistis xenia devonmoths.uk/micros.php?b... on White & Phyllocnistis unipunctella devonmoths.uk/micros.php?b... on Lombardy #teammoth
The summer plumaged Curlew Sandpiper was still present in The Bight over today's high tide, a good reason to post a couple of pics from the weekend - both from Lee Collins #PWC2025 #UKBirding
May 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
The summer plumaged Curlew Sandpiper was still present in The Bight over today's high tide, a good reason to post a couple of pics from the weekend - both from Lee Collins #PWC2025 #UKBirding
No need for a bulb to join #teammoth, a recent selection of daylight finds include the first Burnet Companion and second Mother Shipton for Recording Area and the first Cinnabar and Silver Y of the year.
May 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
No need for a bulb to join #teammoth, a recent selection of daylight finds include the first Burnet Companion and second Mother Shipton for Recording Area and the first Cinnabar and Silver Y of the year.
The first successful mothing of the year saw a total of 129 individuals of 46 species to light, including five new species for the Recording Area; Brindled Beauty, Dark Spectacle, Lunar Marbled Brown, Red Chestnut and Water Carpet, the 813th-817th species for the Warren. Pics Luke Harman #teammoth
May 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The first successful mothing of the year saw a total of 129 individuals of 46 species to light, including five new species for the Recording Area; Brindled Beauty, Dark Spectacle, Lunar Marbled Brown, Red Chestnut and Water Carpet, the 813th-817th species for the Warren. Pics Luke Harman #teammoth
A few sparks of blue starting to appear in the fixed dune grasslands but flowers are not always required to add colour. The Warren is one of only two known Devon locations for Mossy Stonecrop but this red carpet must await elsewhere... #WildflowerHour
March 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A few sparks of blue starting to appear in the fixed dune grasslands but flowers are not always required to add colour. The Warren is one of only two known Devon locations for Mossy Stonecrop but this red carpet must await elsewhere... #WildflowerHour
Sand Crocus has yet to flower this year, and the forecast suggests that will remain the case over the weekend. The mean emergence over the last 20 years is 27th March, first dates ranging between 14th March (2007) & 12th April (2010).
March 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Sand Crocus has yet to flower this year, and the forecast suggests that will remain the case over the weekend. The mean emergence over the last 20 years is 27th March, first dates ranging between 14th March (2007) & 12th April (2010).
Posted elsewhere, any reason this isn't the nationally scarce Sand-running Spider Rhysodromus fallax, aside from the fact it would be the 1st for South Devon and the 1st in Devon for at least 45 years...? srs.britishspiders.org.uk/portal.php/p... @tylanberry.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Posted elsewhere, any reason this isn't the nationally scarce Sand-running Spider Rhysodromus fallax, aside from the fact it would be the 1st for South Devon and the 1st in Devon for at least 45 years...? srs.britishspiders.org.uk/portal.php/p... @tylanberry.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social
A good excuse to post this spoon bill
March 8, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A good excuse to post this spoon bill
The 2024 Dawlish Warren Bird Report is now online summarising reports of 194 species recorded during the year, including two 1st records and a host of migrant Americans. #UKBirding dawlishwarren.co.uk/2024DWRGBird...
February 4, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The 2024 Dawlish Warren Bird Report is now online summarising reports of 194 species recorded during the year, including two 1st records and a host of migrant Americans. #UKBirding dawlishwarren.co.uk/2024DWRGBird...
The Recording Group's 2024 Bird Report is still in its final stages, in the meantime here is a summary of the birding year to whet the appetite #UKBirds dawlishwarren.blogspot.com/2024/12/wild...
January 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The Recording Group's 2024 Bird Report is still in its final stages, in the meantime here is a summary of the birding year to whet the appetite #UKBirds dawlishwarren.blogspot.com/2024/12/wild...
Another couple of 2024 round ups, the bugs dawlishwarren.blogspot.com/2024/12/wild... and the beetles dawlishwarren.blogspot.com/2025/01/wild...
January 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Another couple of 2024 round ups, the bugs dawlishwarren.blogspot.com/2024/12/wild... and the beetles dawlishwarren.blogspot.com/2025/01/wild...
Now is a good time to look for signs of the recently arrived and rapidly spreading Alexanders Straw Aethes deaurana, search the seeds left attached to dead Alexanders for larval exit holes. Then go back in May/June to see the adults. Current Devon distribution devonmoths.uk/micros.php?b...
January 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Now is a good time to look for signs of the recently arrived and rapidly spreading Alexanders Straw Aethes deaurana, search the seeds left attached to dead Alexanders for larval exit holes. Then go back in May/June to see the adults. Current Devon distribution devonmoths.uk/micros.php?b...