EcoRecord
@EcoRecording
The Local Environmental Record Centre for Birmingham and the Black Country - Tweet your wildlife sightings and we'll add them to our database!
A Song Thursh yesterday in our garden in Yardley B25 bashing &dropping a snail to retrieve the edible part from the shell. S Thrush's are rare in our garden so I assume the current dry spell and lack of earth worms is driving this behaviour @EcoRecording @Team4Nature
Happy Black Country Day! Have you spotted this 'Black-Country' coloured moth this year? If so please let us know!
Some Black Redstart images from last year at various sites in Birmingham City Centre. The city centre seems to be alive with them this year, but getting distant views can take time. But after the gulls, they seem to be the noisiest birds around😀. @WestMidBirdClub
Happy Flying Ant Day to all who celebrate - and you should! Not really a day, but a short period of time each year in which ants grow wings and take flight in search of mates. And it's GREAT because ants are crucial for soil health, seed dispersal, nutrient cycling & lots more!
3 Little Egret on the Mill Pond at Hill Hook NR this morning - been two present since late June but now joined by a third. Also Grey Heron, Emperor dragonfly and Little Grebe calling unseen. Still no Tufted Duck broods 😢 @EcoRecording
My first Painted Lady of the year feeding on buddleia just outside Hill Hook NR (the cut-through between Sandhurst + Kensington Roads) this morning along with 6+ Red Admiral and 1+ Peacock @EcoRecording
Birmingham City run; 3 Black Redstart Black Redstart way up high;
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It was fantastic to submit my 10,000th wildlife record on @inaturalist this week Almost half the species found were within 3 miles of Birmingham Cathedral My 10,000th record came at the site where George Dawson developed the Civic Gospel that transformed Brum! #CityofNature 😎
Clearwing species #4 with a Yellow-legged to the lure yesterday afternoon. VC38 SK10 B74 @ruth_newby @EcoRecording @BCWarwickshire
Drake Garganey still present on FML this am @EcoRecording Also 1 Common Sand + Kingfisher
771 butterflies of 15 species were on @BibbeysWildFarm transects today 249 Ringlet 242 Meadow Brown 82 Small Skipper 63 G-V White 51 Large White 26 Small White 20 Marbled White 16 Large Skipper 8 Comma 4 Gatekeeper 3 S Tortoiseshell 3 Peacock 2 Red Admiral Brimstone S Wood 😎
I seem to be doing well for butterflies and day flying moths this year. Several Painted Ladies and Hummingbird Hawk-moth seen so far. This one on lavender. @BC_WestMids @EcoRecording
Amazing! Great effort Chris!
It was fantastic to submit my 10,000th wildlife record on @inaturalist this week Almost half the species found were within 3 miles of Birmingham Cathedral My 10,000th record came at the site where George Dawson developed the Civic Gospel that transformed Brum! #CityofNature 😎