chrisbentleycb.bsky.social
Freelance invertebrate ecologist
👤 Joined on 17 December 2025
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@chrisbentleycb.bsky.socialChantry Hill and Dew pond yesterday afternoon. 10 Grey Partridge, 4 Corn Bunting, 10 Mipits, 6 Skylark, 15 Common Gull feeding with 50 Black-headed Gulls, 20 Lapwing and 50 Starlings. Overhead a Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzard, 2 Raven, 2 Kestrel and 6 Red Kite. @sussexornitholo.bsky.social
Show PostPhytomyza germenilicis now published in collaboration with @dan-h-n.bsky.social, Carina van Steenwinkel & Rens Hendrickx. Look out for its distinctive mines on Holly (Ilex) seedlings this winter. @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @panspecieslisting.bsky.social www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Show PostCallomyia amoena is the prettiest PLatypezid fly. All in this group breed in fungi.
Show PostA Grey Plover hunts across the saltmarsh at Rye Harbour looking for movement in the mud. Only a tiny morsel this time! @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
Show PostMy choice for or the #SmallLegs theme for #BirdofTheDay is the Swift - Apus apus - because you rarely see their legs and apus means no feet (from Ancient Greek α, a, "without", and πούς, pous, "foot") Photographed with legs at a nestbox in Winchelsea church.
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