
Brian Hedley
@manfrommarton
All-round naturalist🐾. Lincs birder, born+bred Hants. Professional Ecologist Chartered Environmentalist. Love exploring New Forest/Scottish Highlands #SaintsFC
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05-03-2017 11:14:59
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Garden rockery looking good in the sunshine today, especially the red Rock-rose. Marton, Lincolnshire BBC Gardeners World Garden News BBC Gardeners' World Mag


Four #speedwell species seen in flower this weekend for wildflowerhour challenge: Germander, Slender, Wall and Thyme-leaved. LNU Lincs Wildlife Trust Plantlife BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #wildflowerhour


23 of 14 moth species at Marton last night. 5 new for year: Large Nutmeg, Marbled Minor, Flame Shoulder, Turnip and Depressaria radiella. Also a Spectacle British Moths LNU Lincs Wildlife Trust Butterfly Conservation 🦋 #mothsmatter


Patch GOLD. Cattle Egrets on the cow field this afternoon. #PWC2025 104/113. I have waited for many years and then I find 2, twenty minutes later another 2 dropped in! Lincsbirding Lincsbirders.org Patchwork Challenge BTO Lincolnshire Lincs Wildlife Trust LNU




Mating Pearl Bordered Fritillaries. Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Butterfly Conservation Yorkshire


Stonechats showing well at Cavenham Heath NNR recently. A fantastic reserve for all sorts of wildlife. Natural England SuffolkWildlifeTrust





51 of 17 this morning with 6 nfy including this fine Privet Hawkmoth. British Moths LNU Ben Sale Paul Chapman Dave Roberts Brian Hedley


Another movement of Common Sandpipers along the River Trent at Trent Port, Marton, this morning. Had three together and probably a separate one upstream. Lincs Wildlife Trust Lincsbirding Notts Birdwatchers BTO


About 115 of 35moth species in garden last night here at Marton. 13 were new for year incl. Pine Hawk, Purple Bar, Sandy Carpet, Small Dusty Wave, Poplar Hawk, Coxcomb Prominent, Light Emerald, Straw Dot Butterfly Conservation 🦋 LNU BNA science Buglife #mothsmatter


Also In Derbyshire yesterday Pied Flycatchers, Redstarts, Ring Ouzels & Tree Pipits. With Phil Espin & Roger Hugh Labbett Derbyshire Ornithological Society (DOS)


Trent Port, Marton, Patchwork Challenge this AM. 43spp incl. 2 Raven, Cuckoo, Kingfisher, 2 Shelduck, Bullfinch, both Grey and Red-legged Partridges, Bullfinch, 2 L.Egret, 2 Sand Martin, Gadwall Lincsbirding Lincs Wildlife Trust LNU


One of our hardest Umbellifers to photo, given their liking for dark shaded areas of Calcareous Ancient Woodland, are the Beautiful starry flowers of Sanicle, Sanicula europaea. Thankfully conditions were just right here at Cloud Wood! BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour #wildflowerhour


The impressive Rose Sawfly (Arge orchropus) I believe. In the garden here at Marton (Lincs) today. LNU Lincs Wildlife Trust Buglife BWARS BNA science


Creeping Buttercup (Ranunculus repens) and Ox-eye Daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare) giving a #WildflowerShow this week for wildflowerhour #wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Plantlife LNU Lincs Wildlife Trust BNA science
