moth detectorist (climbing through the briar and bramble). Also now a Black-headed Gull fan!
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BHG 288L is back in Otley after being spotted in West Sussex last month.
I wish that I had taken a better photograph now! 😂
#Chroicocephalus #ridibundus
#NWBHGs #GullOfTheDay #GullsOfOtley
Feathered Thorn (Colotois pennaria) today, attracted to security lights at Hollins Hall, Baildon VC64
Roundhay Park today where BHG 2E85 is a regular. It was the only colour-ringed gull in the proximity of the cafe and has never been seen anywhere else!
Colder weather will bring some more interesting birds.
#Chroicocephalus #ridibundus
#NWBHGs #GullOfTheDay #GullsOfRoundhay
I felt a bit foolish when the report came back showing that yesterday’s Redcar Tarn gull was argentatus rather than fuscus!
With hindsight the differences are fairly obvious.
Still a nice record though 😀
Went looking for Whooper Swans at Redcar Tarn, Keighley, today but they had already moved on.
The consolation prize was this young Lesser Black-backed Gull with a green colour-ring from the North-west Gulls Project.
Awaiting details
#GullOfTheDay #Larus #fuscus #GullsOfKeighley
Black-headed Gull 218F was back at Center Parcs Sherwood Forest this week after being spotted by @WLBirding in London.
#Chroicocephalus #ridibundus
#GullOfTheDay @nuttytussock
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So that’s how little Little Grebes are, wet and windy but a good walk round the local tarn
BHG 285S is back with 235H on the riverside in Otley. We last met on 24 September in Roundhay Park.
Google maps suggests that I could walk this distance in just over 4 hours 🤔 but doesn’t give a flight time for a young gull!
#Chroicocephalus #ridibundus
#NWBHGs #GullOfTheDay
A tiny ichneumon has emerged from this long-lived Luffia lapidella larval case.
I suspect the parasitoid might be a female Diadegma naryciae but I will have to get my old microscope out to look for confirmatory features.
#Larva aeterna
#Campopleginae #Ichneumonidae #VC64
Mark Shaw has now examined this specimen and says that it appears to be a small, dark, example of Diadegma luffiae Horstmann.
“D. luffiae Horstmann, with which your female specimen agrees well in all morphological features – except that it is rather small, and very much darker”
This could be the very definition of a “record shot”! 😂
Black-headed Gull 295R has arrived back at Yeadon Tarn, Leeds, after an excursion to Schleswig-Holstein, Germany 🇩🇪
#GullOfTheDay
#GullsOfYeadon
#Chroicocephalus #ridibundus
#NWBHGs
3cy Black-headed Gull 285S was in Roundhay Park, Leeds, today. It was originally ringed in Otley but has also been seen in Farnworth, Greater Manchester.
#Chroicocephalus #ridibundus
#NWBHGs #GullOfTheDay #GullsOfRoundhay
Black-headed Gull 20JJ is still at Yeadon Tarn, Leeds.
It was ringed as a pullus on 13 June 2026 in Flixton, SUFFOLK and arrived in Yeadon on 13 August.
#GullsOfYeadon #GullOfTheDay
#Chroicocephalus #ridibundus
Red Underwing (Catocala nupta) at Hollins Hall, Baildon, this morning.
#VC64
Shibden Park, Halifax, today. I get the impression that the migration of European gulls to the UK hasn’t really started yet.
225K is a regular here and has never been seen anywhere else!
Coot RX6 is showing its age now.
This Tachinid fly is one of two that emerged from a Comma pupa.
They had obviously parasitised the caterpillar before it pupated.
#VC64 #Diptera #Parasitoid
The Norfolk-ringed Black-headed Gull (2A1Y) is still at Yeadon Tarn.
Ringed as a nestling on 27 June at Marlingford Hall, it appeared at Yeadon two weeks ago at the same time as a bird ringed in Suffolk.
I wonder how many others are from East Anglia?
#Chroicocephalus #ridibundus
