Dave Helliar

@dhelliar.bsky.social

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Local patch birding in Somerset, Devon & Dorset & anything to do with natural history. Retired & now trying to do my little bit to help the natural world.

Green Sandpiper on siltbed
'helice' form of Clouded Yellow
Ear Moth species
Green Sandpiper unusually, sitting down!
Marbled Green
2nd brood (?) Dingy Skipper resting on stones with wings partially closed.
Two juvenile lapwing settled on siltbed
Shoveler with Mallards
One of 3 or 4 Clouded Yellow seen today.
Ragwort inflower, with Rubeckia to right, Purple Loosestrife & Hemp Agrimony behind....the pond is hiding in between!
Three Green Sandpiper on shore of siltbed.
Four-spot Dot (Bohemannia quadrimaculella) ?
Clear-winged Terellia (Terellia serratulae)
Vestal
Female Silver-washed Fritillary
Sharp-angled Carpet
Least Carpet
Newly emerged Gatekeeper inflating its' wings
Male Red-veined Darter perched on low plant in shingle.
7 Common Sandpiper perched on branch above water (Excuse the tangled bait bomb....joys of coarse fishing at the res!)
Pair of Red-veined Darter copulating, perched on willow twig.
drake Pochard with 2 Little Grebe on shore line
Male Red-veined Darter perched on twig
Male Silver-washed Fritillary on bramble flowers.
Green Sandpiper
The Gothic
Red Kite low over Meare Heath, Shapwick
Miller
Female Tufted Duck with 5 newly hatched ducklings
Scarce Silver-lines
Scarce Silver Lines
Elephant Hawk Moth
Ringlet
'praenubila' form of Four-spotted Chaser with additional extensive dark marks near wing tip.
Sycamore Moth
Marbled White taken in 2025
Male Hairy Dragonfly settled on ground vegetation
Orange-spotted Plant bug Grypocoris stysi
Kingfisher perched on twig in reedbed.
Juvenile GC Grebe with stripy head & neck.
Singing Dartford Warbler perched on gorse.
Eastern Bordered Straw
Clouded Yellow settled on stones
Marsh Fritillary
Hedge Beauty Alabonia geoffrella
79 flower spikes of these beautiful Southern Marsh Orchid on my tiny front lawn!
Probable Red-veined Darter perched on twig above 'blue' damsels.
Tatty Red Kite
Regal Piercer
Rufous Minor ??
The Minister
Brown Silver-line
Small Mottled Willow
Hummingbird Hawkmoth nectaring on Red Campion
Spectacle
Red-eyed Damselfly on lily pad
Adult Great Crested Grebe
Peppered Moth
Breeding plumage GWE with reddish legs & blackish bill