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An ancient Elm pollard and a surviving mature Elm in the background in Shingay, Cambs today. My first Wheatear of the year in the next field was a nice bonus!

Sound on for this one! 🔊This is a Screech Beetle, found in North Yorkshire today

West Brook, Cambs looked like this in Feb, it's now drying out and good wader habitat is appearing. Dunlin, 3 Common Sands, 2 LR Plover tonight with 3 Yellow Wags and White Wag with Duerden Cormack Cambs Bird Club

Worth getting out in the drizzle for this morning!

Black Tern at West Brook Pit this morning! Cambs Bird Club

Three Cranes NW over West Brook Pit was a nice surprise on the way home from work this evening! Cambs Bird Club

Knotted (left) and Clustered Clover growing side by side in The Brecks today. Good practise!

Tiny. Beautiful. Things. Floating club rush, lesser marshwort, pillwort and six-stamened waterwort!! All found whilst working at Cors Ddyga! BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Another lovely Redstart this morning at Clopton, S Cambs Cambs Bird Club 63 birds in total 19 Blackcap, 14 Garden Warbler, 5 Lesser Whitethroat, 3 Grasshopper Warbler with Duerden Cormack Tree Pipit and Marsh Harrier over.

Back ringing at Clopton, S Cambs. 5 new Grasshopper Warblers, 36 Blackcap, 3 Garden Warblers, 3 Lesser Whitethroat and 3 Willow Warbler. Tree Pipit fly over. With Duerden Cormack Cambs Bird Club

Clopton, S Cambs so far this am, juv male Redstart (4th of autumn), adult Grasshopper Warbler (21st of autumn), 4 Sedge Warbler (inc control AVT) 2 Garden Warbler (64th of autumn) and of course lots of Blackcap. Duerden Cormack Cambs Bird Club

Excellent day Spurn Bird Observatory chaperoning Lars Svensson around the ringing sites at Church Field meeting TJ MOVED TO BLUESKY and at the Warren with Jacob Spinks & Charlotte Foote, now on Bluesky. It all got too much for Duerden Cormack who was blown away with the occasion! #Migfest24

62 Blackcaps ringed at Clopton, S Cambs this am, with 2 Willow Warblers, 4 Chiffchaff, Reed Warbler, Song Thrush and Reed Bunting. Almost all Blackcaps are juveniles - like the young male in the image, still showing some of its brown cap that's going black. Cambs Bird Club

1,000th bird of the autumn - fittingly a Blackcap (469 so far), first Sedge Warbler for ages, Meadow Pipits starting to appear and Lesser Whitethroats thinning out. Clopton, S Cambs. Cambs Bird Club

After no joy last winter it was good to find Lauria sempronii in Gloucestershire today. There are only a handful of British sites Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland Pan-species Listing

Clopton, S Cambs ringing this morning, a complete clear out, just 10 birds, 7 Blackcap and a single Chiffchaff. Clear sky, SW winds. Blackcap total now 750 exactly, since 21st July.

Clopton, S Cambs this am, 400 Redwing (12 ringed), 150 Fieldfare & 400 Pigeons NW. Our 3rd Sparrowhawk of the autumn. Best birds, two Peregrines scrapping high overhead- ad M and juv F, first seen here. Cambs Bird Club

Clopton, South Cambs this am, 220 Fieldfare SW, 200 Redwing (13 ringed) and the highlight a ring-tail Hen Harrier NW. With Duerden Cormack Cambs Bird Club