Birdingprof

@birdingprof.bsky.social

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Actual Birder, sometime Twitcher, budding Moth-er. 2026 Garden Bird yearlist 0️⃣9️⃣1️⃣ 2026 Garden Moth yearlist 3️⃣8️⃣6️⃣ VC 26 - TL77C West Suffolk, Breckland-Fenland interface

Evergestis limbata (Dark-bordered Pearl)
1CY Caspian Gull.
Leaf-mine of Phyllonorycter klemannella (Shining Alder Leaf-miner)
Long-tailed Shrike
Gypsy Moth
Sallow Kitten 🐱
Phyllonorycter pastorella (Royal Leaf-miner)
Stigmella aceris (Maple Dot)
I’ve been looking for this for a while in the garden, we’ve got masses of Bramble, so I guessed it must be here. Leaf-mine of Coptotriche marginea (Bramble Blotch-miner)
Seven dots, I mean Ravens, circling the garden this afternoon.
Leaf mine of Stigmella sakhalinella (Glossy Birch Dot) on Birch
Leaf-mine of Stigmella continuella (Silver-barred Birch Dot) on Birch.
Recording of Redshank circling the garden.
Leaf-mine of Lyonetia clerkella (Apple Leaf-miner)
Red Underwing
Forester
Adult Yellow-legged Gull amongst Lesser Black-backed Gulls.
Yellow-tail
Canary-shouldered Thorn
Silver Y
Hudsonian Godwit at Manningtree
Hudsonian Godwit
Hudsonian Godwit
Accepted number of Moth species recoded in each Suffolk Hectad. Courtesy @neilsmothman.bsky.Social
Isleham Wash.
Tinea trinotella (Triple-spotted Nest Moth)
White-spotted Pug
Acrobasis sauvella (Blackthorn Knot-horn)
2nd WP record of American Tree Sparrow in Iceland.
Cabbage
Ear Moth
Bucculatrix nigricomella (Daisy Tuft)
Yarrow Pug
Pammene aurita (Tawny Sycamore Piercer)
Aroga velocella (Striped Sorrel Moth)
Eucosma obumbratana (Shaded Tortrix)
Metalampra italica (Italian Bark Moth)
Hopefully Coleophora alcyonipennela (Clover Case-bearer)
Wormwood Pug
Maple Pug
Bulrush Veneer
Willow Ermine
Six-belted Clearwing
Six-belted Clearwing
Satin Beauty
Air Force One at RAF Mildenhall
Bird’s Wing
Dusky Thorn
Rosy Minor
Fen Wainscot
Tree-lichen Beauty
Grey Oak Knot-horn
Small Scallop
Copper Underwing
Argyresthia goedartella (Brassy Y)
Dingy Footman
Blastobasis adustella (Common Masoner
Raspberry Clearwing.
Pandemis heperana (Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix)
Dichomeris alacella (Black-spotted Snout)