Sooty shearwater
These globe-spanning seabirds can often be seen offshore in autumn, shearing low over the waves.
These globe-spanning seabirds can often be seen offshore in autumn, shearing low over the waves.
The magpie is a distinctive moth with striking black and yellow spots on white wings. It is a frequent garden visitor, but also likes woodland, scrub and heathland.
An unmistakeable insect of heaths, sand dunes and grasslands, the Emperor moth is fluffy, grey-brown, with big peacock-like eyespots on all four wings. Males can be seen during the day, but…
It is so easy to miss this clever little moth. It is a master of disguise, blending in perfectly as it looks just like the twig of a birch tree! Flying only at night, the buff-tip moth can be seen…
One of the few moths that fly in winter, often seen in car headlights.
Tracking Data Points, Mid-to-Late January
Change and Preparation
First Sighting of Blue 014 in UK as an Adult
The garden tiger is an attractive, brown-and-white moth of sand dunes, woodland edges, meadows and hedgerows; it will also visit gardens. In decline, it is suffering from the 'tidying up…
The six-spot burnet moth is a day-flying moth that flies with a slow, fluttering pattern. Look for it alighting on knapweeds and thistles in grassy places. It is glossy black, with six red spots…
One of the UK’s rarest marine species, this giant of the rocky shore is a very special fish.
Ben keeps a diary of all the wildlife that he spots. He challenges himself to see new species: if he finds something that he doesn’t recognise, he takes a photograph so that he can look it up.