Sean Foote

I realise everyone's fed up with Mockingbird pics, but this was a significant bird for me. My 400th in the UK! Its taken a while! I promise, the bird is in the Holly bush in the gap in pic 2!

@lizardschwartz Excellent. I'm addicted to Wingspan now :-D Let me know if you have got/ever get the digital version, and we'll have a game :-D

Happy Wingspan nesting box to me 🥰

We said goodbye to our special Garden Dormouse, Brie, earlier in the week. This pic is from the day we found her 5 years ago. Their in-the-wild life expectancy is 2-3, so to last at least 5 is a testimony to her fighting spirit. 🐭

Brie the ninja mouse

@msabirder Spilonota sp and Scrobipalpa sp is all i can say

Hi Sean @TheDetermin8or I would appreciate your opinion on these please - Notocelia incarnatana (but seems too dark?) and Scrobipalpa salinella/salicorniae, or ocellatella?

@msabirder Agree with both

Hi @TheDetermin8or a couple for you if that's ok? From early Jun, talked myself out of Confused, but would appreciate your thoughts, and a recent Yarrow Pug, perhaps? Both #kilnsea #teammoth

@Birduder344 @rivers_disguise Best ask @rlewington2 for caterpillars

@rivers_disguise @TheDetermin8or might know

Can anyone with the ID of this looper moth caterpillar (UK), please? Thank you :-) #UKMoths #moths #caterpillars #Invertebrates

@ianeagle67 Rusty-dot Pearl

@TheDetermin8or Hi Sean, just had this in the garden, flew out of the mint, as I've heard of a mint moth ,thought this would be one. Sadly not. Can't find anything similar with a quick search.

@philjo61 @Birduder344 @DaveHobbyHutton @Britnatureguide Yep amzn.eu/d/85Ol48D

@TheDetermin8or @Birduder344 @DaveHobbyHutton @Britnatureguide Is your book still available Sean?

11 down 5 to go !! Many thanks to @DaveHobbyHutton for allowing us into his garden to tick off Orange-tailed & Red-belted Clearwing today 🙂 #MothsMatter @Britnatureguide

@Birduder344 @philjo61 @DaveHobbyHutton @Britnatureguide No, not yet

@TheDetermin8or @philjo61 @DaveHobbyHutton @Britnatureguide There you go. Have you seen one now?

@Birduder344 @philjo61 @DaveHobbyHutton @Britnatureguide Dusky Clearwing wasn't around when I started, so it was 15.

@philjo61 @DaveHobbyHutton @Britnatureguide @TheDetermin8or Just looked. 15 the saw. Wonder which one he didn’t. He will reply hopefully.

@Birduder344 @ianbennell75 Yeah one of the two Copper Underwing but can't tell which without underside view

@ianbennell75 @TheDetermin8or hi chaos. ObsIdentify says 70% this is a Svensson’s copper underwing which seems a bit exotic. What do you think it is? Thanks

Two White-tailed Eagles circling over the Avon Valley between Salisbury and Downton just now.

@RichardRbw Every social media platform attracts degenerates unfortunately. The nature of the beast.

Thinking of moving to Bluesky? You know, that other place where it’s not “toxic” and where all the nice, sensible, moderate “grown ups” have gone to. Here are some replies to Jon Sopel on the Allison Pearson police call affair. Yeah very clean and pleasant 🤬

@Birduder344 @ianbennell75 @sferguk People deleting accounts and moving to other platforms. I've seen a huge surge in followers over on BlueSky and Instagram.

Crumbs my followers are still disappearing rapidly. Is it people deleting accounts or bots disappearing or boredom from my posts? @ianbennell75 and @sferguk are not allowed to comment. 😂

Though I'm ill, still made it for our annual family trip to Cornwall. Started with the Red-backed Shrike at Marazion Marsh.

@BrittenKit @RSPBPulborough I thought that was a particularly accurate what.3.words, for a sec ;-)

Yellow-browed / Water Pipit / eagle/ Little Grebe @RSPBPulborough today

@Birduder344 Ivory Funnel is a good guess, but in actuality very few fungi can be positively IDed from pics like this. Need additional evidence such as gill shape/colour, smell etc for important evidence towards an ID.

@TheDetermin8or any ideas?

@GeorgieWightman Yes Dark Bush-cricket

Had this freaky guy at work today (garden centre) thoughts anyone? Cheers @graemelyons @TheDetermin8or

Yellow-browed Warbler still at Cockey Down, Salisbury. With Tit flock. #WiltsBirds