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  1. Swindon Addick

    UK Dragonflies and Damselflies 2024

    Thread for any UK odonata news and discussion, whether your own sightings or other news you've picked up. Questions, comments, etc all welcome. A Beautiful Demoiselle was reported from Dorset on 20 March which is the first report I've seen.
  2. Swindon Addick

    Escape behaviors in prey and the evolution of pennaceous plumage in dinosaurs

    Are we allowed to post about feathered creatures which technically weren't bird ancestors? This seems to be so firmly in the bonkers-but-wonderful category that I think it's worth sharing. And to the extent that it contributes to ideas about the evolution of feathers in non-flying dinosaurs it's...
  3. Swindon Addick

    UK Yellow-browed Warbler ring recovery

    Thanks to some impressive collaborative detective work the ring on the YBW over-wintering at Broadsands, Paignton has been read from photos and traced to a bird ringed in Birkeland, Norway on 24 Sept 2023.
  4. Swindon Addick

    January 1st joint Birdforum list (2024 edition)

    You are invited to join in the eleventh annual Birdforum joint list for 1st January. The idea is that those who want to take part provide a list of what they've seen or heard on 1 January and we produce joint lists for areas such as the UK, the USA, Europe, Australia, or wherever we get enough...
  5. Swindon Addick

    The fourth species of echidna - re-found

    The least common of the three Long-beaked Echidna species has been filmed for the first time, and recorded by science for only the second. Zaglossus attenboroughi was named from a museum specimen that was re-identified as a separate species. The BBC article has some camera trap footage that was...
  6. Swindon Addick

    Wasp, RSPB Strumpshaw Fen

    I seem to have misplaced my big book of insects, and the various AI-based ID sites I might look at just sort of shrug. It was walking around on frogbit leaves in the meadow ditch that hosts the best of the dragonflies and the fen raft spiders. When disturbed it flew weakly and not very far...
  7. Swindon Addick

    British Dragonfly Society spring meeting

    If anyone's interested, the BDS spring meeting on 11 March is being done on Zoom and is open free of charge to non-members although you do need to book in advance via Eventbrite. Talks relating to Cyprus, Panama, Cameroon, Austria and, erm, Paxton Pits. Plus a talk on application of eDNA...
  8. Swindon Addick

    January 1st joint Birdforum list (2023 edition)

    You are invited to join in the tenth annual Birdforum joint lists for 1st January. The idea is that those who want to take part provide a list of what they've seen or heard on 1 January and we produce joint lists for areas such as the UK, the USA, Europe, Australia, or wherever we get enough...
  9. Swindon Addick

    Tree-stripping caterpillars, UK

    I assume these are some sort of moth? There were huge numbers of webs at Ripple Pits by the River Severn near Tewkesbury yesterday. The trees were getting towards being leafless under the assault. Everyone present was there for dragonflies with no moth experts. Can anyone satisfy my curiosity?
  10. Swindon Addick

    UK Dragonflies & Damselflies 2022

    We're up and running for the year, with a Banded Demoiselle seen in "a small London park" on 18 March. As with previous years, please feel free to use this thread for any UK odonata news and discussion, whether your own sightings or other news you've picked up.
  11. Swindon Addick

    January 1st joint Birdforum list (2022 edition)

    You are invited to join in the ninth annual Birdforum joint lists for 1st January. The idea is that those who want to take part provide a list of what they've seen or heard on 1 January and we produce joint lists for areas such as the UK, the USA, Europe, Australia, or wherever we get enough...
  12. Swindon Addick

    Enormous hoverfly

    This was in the bit of my local park that's managed for wildflowers. I'd estimate about 20mm long, but the creeping thistle flower gives a good idea. My big book of insects suggests perhaps Volucella zonaria, but also suggests that shouldn't be as far north as Swindon, or at least not in 2005...
  13. Swindon Addick

    Bird sounds, Swindon UK

    This was recorded this morning in a bit of woodland in Swindon. Hope the sound has survived being converted to mp3 format. I can hear a chiffchaff in there, but at intervals there's a short trilling sound followed by a whoop. At the time, the two seemed to be coming from different places...
  14. Swindon Addick

    Mouse ID question

    I was assuming this was a wood mouse, but started to doubt myself. It had got itself inside my suet block feeder and was having the time of its life...
  15. Swindon Addick

    Gull, Swindon UK

    I really struggle with gulls, even the common ones. Particularly when they're not fully mature and don't look to be the colour I was expecting. Is this just a slightly dark herring gull? And if so, how old is it? It was in my local park a couple of days ago. The lake isn't big and usually only...
  16. Swindon Addick

    January 1st joint Birdforum list (2021 edition)

    You are invited to join in the eighth annual Birdforum joint lists for 1st January. The idea is that those who want to take part provide a list of what they've seen or heard on 1 January and we produce joint lists for areas such as the UK, the USA, Europe, Australia, or wherever we get enough...
  17. Swindon Addick

    Hoverfly (?) from Wiltshire in September

    I saw this on 13 September at Blakehill, a large meadow reserve in north Wiltshire. I'm baffled and iNaturalist isn't helping much. Can anyone give me some pointers?
  18. Swindon Addick

    British Dragonfly Scoiety annual meeting 14 Nov - online and free

    The BDS have made the most of having to go online, with Dave Smallshire, KD Dijkstra and Lucy Lapwing all among the speakers lined up for talks during the day. It's going to be free to attend whether or not you're a member, but you need to sign up via Eventbrite to get the Zoom invite...
  19. Swindon Addick

    A bee from Wiltshire

    I got as far as this being some sort of sweat bee or similar. Someone has suggested it might be a Lasioglossum sp, but I have no idea if that's accurate. To give an idea of scale, that's a creeping thistle flower it's sat on. Can we say anything further than "bee"?
  20. Swindon Addick

    Waders, UK

    I still get nervous with identifying waders at this time of year when the plumage doesn't match the books. So I think these are 2 photos of a Dunlin and 2 that might be a turnstone, but happy to be corrected if I've missed something. Both at Farmoor reservoir so not in typical habitat and...
  21. Swindon Addick

    Wagtail, Farmoor, Oxfordshire

    Anyone up for a game of identify-the-bird-from-the-dodgy-photo? It's a wagtail at Farmoor today. I assume it's a youngster and with them I normally give up and look around for an adult, but that didn't help with this one.
  22. Swindon Addick

    Fly of some sort, Wiltshire

    I normally get somewhere towards an ID using the AI on iNaturalist, but that basically shrugged. Is it possible to narrow this down a bit from "fly"?
  23. Swindon Addick

    Caterpillars, Berkshire 25 July

    Two rather spectacular creatures hiding in the vegetation by the Thames at Goring on Saturday. Can someone help me with IDs?
  24. Swindon Addick

    Wasps in Wiltshire, early July

    A collection of wasps from the amazing meadow reserve at Blakehill that Wiltshire Wildlife Trust have been creating. All seen on 4 July, in quite large numbers. If anyone can help me narrow down approximately what any of them were, that would be appreciated.
  25. Swindon Addick

    Mockingbird(?), Los Angeles

    All I know about this is that it's nesting in a hedge in LA and pretty noisy. Photos are from a friend - I've never been to the US myself. I'm thinking northern mockingbird, but obviously nervous about the ID because I don't know what the other options are.
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