A showy male Savi's Warbler Locustella luscinioides at Seebad, Ilmitz, Austria last week

Penduline Tit Remiz pendulinus male nest building in a roadside Elm beside a reedbed at Ilmitz, Austria something I have wanted to see for a long time, what a stunning nest, 'needle felted' together.

Last night I found a whopping 19 White-letter Hairstreak caterpillars across 4 brand new locations in Exmouth! Butterfly Conservation 🦋 BC Devon Branch Exmouth Wildlife Group

Grey-headed Woodpecker Picus canus pair, in floodplain forest at Marchegg, Austria last week - the first I have seen since 1984!

European Pond Turtle Emys orbicularis, complete with covering of green algae, out sunning itself at The Lobau, Vienna, Austria last weekend.

Scarce Swallowtail Iphiclides podalirius at Donau-Auen, Lobau, Vienna, Austria 19 April 2024

Longhorn beetles Lesser Capricorn Cerambyx scopoli & Saperda perforata active in the warm sunshine at Lobau, Vienna, Austria on 27 April 2024. The Saperda probably spends it days high in trees so usually difficult to find, this one had a deformed wing so could not fly.

Great to hear and occasionally see so many Nightingales Luscinia megarhynchos around Vienna and the Neusiedler See in Austria last week - managed to get some video of this one at Holle near Ilmitz.

About 4000 of the critically endangered European Hamster Cricetus cricetus live around Vienna, Austria - these were in a cemetery there last week

The outskirts of Vienna, Austria are a stronghold for the critically endangered European Ground Squirrel Spermophilus citellus. Local people feed them sunflower seeds at this site so they are hand tame.

A stunning male Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis singing around a potential nest site in a Beech stump at a windy, cold and at times damp Lainzer Tiergarten, Vienna, Austria last week

Interested in helping Buglife survey for the rare Potter Flower Bee (Anthophora retusa) at several sites this spring?

🗓️ Tuesday 14 May
🕖 10:00–12:30
📌 Seaford Head Nature Reserve, BN25 4JQ

🐝Come & find out more about this wonderful bee!

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What an experience! Sun this afternoon. Found a male guarding my favourite female. Another male shows up and chaos ensues. An absolute privilege to see this for the first time. Dream come true. ARG UK Thanks for all your advice John Walters and nicholas galley

Andrena ventralis. Added to the British list from a site in Hampshire last year. One of six British Andrena's that gather pollen entirely from Salix. The combination of red underside to gaster and white tergite flecks makes it pretty easy to identify. Thanks John Walters

Male and female Collared Flycatchers Ficedula albicollis at the Lainzer Tiergarten, Vienna, Austria this week

European Ground Squirrels Spermophilus citellus at Gerasdorf, near Vienna, Austria

No spring to autumn visit to Vienna, Austria is complete without a trip to the cemetery to watch the wild European Hamsters Cricetus cricetus

I hoped to see Penduline Tit Remiz pendulinus in Austria this week & luckily found a stunning male building a nest in a roadside Elm at Seebad, near Ilmitz. An amazing nest woven from grasses, reed and Reed Mace seeds which is 'needle felted' together with its fine pointed bill.

High on my list of birds to see around Vienna this week the stunning Collared Flycatcher Ficedula albicollis at Lainzer Tiergarten, Austria

A stunning Scarce Swallowtail Iphiclides podalirius at The Lobau Nature Reserve, Vienna, Austria