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    Owen's Wildlife 2024

    May 11 Paid a quick family visit to Merthyr Mawr on the glamorgan coast today, an amazing site with huge sand dunes and plenty of specialist wildlife. Its my nearest site for Grizzled Skipper and managed to see a few. Also a very nice Brown Argus that was a lot more posey than normal, all my...
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    Exploring Sydney - and further afield.

    Love those skinks
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    Lizard ID? UK

    i may be totally wrong on this but i think all are deliberate reintroductions with the south coast being most likelynto sustain them (as 2 native species largely hold on in dorset) rather than anything ship related for what its worth (and i survey adders and regularly find grass snakes and...
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    Snakes on the sidewalk, Bonking Turtles and a few sps on Paphos Headland April 13-20th 2024

    Thanks
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    Snakes on the sidewalk, Bonking Turtles and a few sps on Paphos Headland April 13-20th 2024

    Have you been seeing many short toed lark. I had an ebird guy question a checklist saying greater s t l at Mandria but I thought that wasn’t an unusual record
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    Owen's Wildlife 2024

    Nice early start at Slimbridge where the bluethroat showed a few minuts after i arrived, nothing like my previous dips or even my eventual views in 2022. Scope views were excellent but photos weren't, views through the reeds are actually very easy right now and it showed every 10 minutes or so...
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    Owen's Wildlife 2024

    May 9th Spent the morning at first Goldcliff and then Uskmouth RSPB reserves and very much enjoyed the sunshine and birds without adding anything new to the lists. Lots of warblers and good numbers of butterflies and dragonflies but nothing I hadn't already seen. Nearer to home at Cosmeston I...
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    First Butterflies 2024

    First dingy skipper today. Lots of large white. Orange tip and brimstone and one peacock.
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    Owen's Wildlife 2024

    May 4th My first ever visit to RSPB Gwenffrwd-Dinas in mid wales today with ex-Birdforumer Rich/Clarkgriswold. I've always been a bit put off by the travel times and the fact I work on the edge of the Forest of Dean means I usually see it's specialities there but I was blown away by the...
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    Case for 32 nl pure with head rest

    I can’t seem to find my case for nl Pure 10x32. Can anyone recommend a third party case that fits them with the head rest attached (not that the swaro one is the best fit)
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    Owen's Wildlife 2024

    Big fall of warblers (and greenland wheatear) in Cardiff bay this morning, only a couple of days after everyone was bemoaning the lack of migrants. Today we had ever more excited whats apps through the first few hours of the morning Car was in the garage so I missed the early showy Grasshopper...
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    Owen's Wildlife 2024

    First reported regularly 2 years ago at one site. Now I think 3 potential breeding sites in Cardiff this year. Still very low numbers but yeah spreading
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    Owen's Wildlife 2024

    Pair of Parakeets on the way to work, near their main cardiff site saves me a half hearted trip at a later date 221 Ring necked parakeet Birds 221 mammals 12 herp 5 butterflies 17. Total 255 lifers 14
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    Scridifer's Bulgarian List 2024

    Good flycatcher day that, any others possible?
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    First Butterflies 2024

    Must be quite a lot around for that level of accidental encounters. Can't imagine i'd travel for one but it would be nice to see one one day
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    Plebejus argus? SW Romania, 29 April 2024

    Think so but when I was in Romania last year a lot of what looked like silver studded blue could possibly have been idas or reverdine. Separating them was beyond me
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    Cyprus - April 2024

    Looking forward to this. Loved birding in Cyprus
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    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    A lot of damsels today at ham wall mixture of bluetail and variable and possibly other blue ones, didn't notice any reds but a lot of teneral ones. Saw maybea half dozen dragons which didn't settle but seemed Hairy at a glance .
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    Owen's Wildlife 2024

    April 26th Ham Wall in Somerset for a morning today. Got there about 8.30 and as always loved every minute. So many close birds, every tree seemed to have blackcaps and every reed bed Cettis and Reed Warblers. Quickly saw a trio of Glossy Ibis and a nice spotted redshank as well as getting...
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    Fish ID cardiff

    thank you both
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    Fish ID cardiff

    I'm seeing quite a lot of these in Cardiff Bay right now, its a freshwater lake with lock access to the sea and some seafish access tunnels. Gathering in quite large numbers and at least a foot maybe foot and a half long. I'm sure it's nothing unusual but fish are a mystery to me Any ideas
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    Owen's Wildlife 2024

    April 25th A quick visit to the bay to scope a pair of Common Scoter, a patch and uk year tick but not eligible for this blog. They were sat sedately on the water just in front of the Welsh Parliament. Up to Wenallt woods where someone had had a wood warbler a few days ago, its a lovely...
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    Owen's Wildlife 2024

    April 24th Quick after work visit to the blorenge in the black mountains. Was nice to just get outdoors after a days work and there was a nice variety of birds even if they didn't ever get particularly close. Some mid range Whinchat including two males squabbling over a perch and my patience...
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    First Butterflies 2024

    How easy are stick insects near you Dan?
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    Paul's 2024 World List

    Like the shades of yellow on that wagtail. Lovely bird
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