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Recent content by Jon Turner

  1. Jon Turner

    First Butterflies 2024

    5 or 6 Brimstones at various sites in East Hampshire yesterday.
  2. Jon Turner

    Birding Montejaque, Málaga

    You can also drive up there too. Lots to see.
  3. Jon Turner

    First Butterflies 2024

    Warm sunshine here in N Devon tempted a Peacock to fly around my garden today.
  4. Jon Turner

    Sedge Warbler reported at Staines Moor today!

    Reed Warbler reported in Cornwall yesterday....
  5. Jon Turner

    First Butterflies 2024

    The friend who saw the Painted Lady back along a while saw a Comma in his garden yesterday. he's very good at keeping Butterfly counts and says he has never recorded Comma in February previously. Locally in N Devon I saw Water Boatmen today.
  6. Jon Turner

    First Butterflies 2024

    Red Admiral at the railway crossing just North of Dawlish this morning. Looked as if it had crossed the whole river!
  7. Jon Turner

    [Fiji, Taveuni] Separating Silktails

    Thanks for posting the pics, a lovely reminder of a quality bird!!
  8. Jon Turner

    First Butterflies 2024

    And he just emailed me a picture of a butterfly chasing around his garden with a Red Admiral; None other than a PAINTED LADY!
  9. Jon Turner

    First Butterflies 2024

    Should have mentioned it before but a friend in Cornwall saw a Red Admiral in his garden on Jan 7th! Also Stick insect. Must have been a warm day!
  10. Jon Turner

    [Fiji, Taveuni] Separating Silktails

    I was on Taveuni in early 2003, On a walk down from the transmitter I saw a Silktail, but back then (even with the guidebook) I wasn't aware that there might be 2 species. It wasn't long after a tropical hurricane had gone through the islands so perhaps that might be how they may get displaced?
  11. Jon Turner

    Swan BTO Ring numbers.

    Demography online. Or DemOn for short. We ringers enter all our bird ringing data on it. Not sure whether it has general access to all others...
  12. Jon Turner

    First bird of 2024

    Heard Robin and Tawny Owl before it got light, but bird#3 was a cracking singing Song Thrush.
  13. Jon Turner

    January 1st joint Birdforum list (2024 edition)

    Lesser Scaup - 6! Spoonbill been added yet?
  14. Jon Turner

    First bird of 2024

    Probably Wood Pigeon, Jackdaw or Herring Gull. Or if I open the back door a singing Robin.... Will be up b4 dawn ready for a trip to Cornwall for the day.
  15. Jon Turner

    How's Your 2023 List Going?

    Another British tick - another Tern! This time the Dorset Forster's Tern, followed by Wood Sandpiper and Buff-breasted Sandpiper, and a change of venue with a trip to a very scorched Southern Spain: White Stork, Griffon Vulture, Spotless Starling, Booted Eagle, Lesser Kestrel, Serin, Crag...
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