Carl Cornish
@cornishca
Followers
760
Following
8K
Media
1K
Statuses
4K
Suffolk coast exile in Newark, Notts. Part-time birder, full-time beardy. Nowadays more often looking at trees than the birds in them.
Newark, Notts
Joined September 2010
Dozens of Adonis and Chalkhill Blues and Silver-spotted Skippers at Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve last Sunday (10 August 2025). Plus a Clouded Yellow and Dingy Skipper. A beautiful chalk grassland site
1
0
6
Excellent views of 3 female Brown Hairstreaks at @RSPBotmoor yesterday. One in car park and 2 feeding on blackberries along Roman Way. Phone photo
0
0
19
Brilliant start to a site visit to Cemex Denge Quarry for work finding this Hoopoe this morning.
1
0
12
Visit to RSPB Nene Washes, Eldernell this afternoon. 12 Cranes, 4+ Great, 4+ Little & 3 Cattle Egrets, 10+ Marsh Harriers, 1 Peregrine, 1 Sparrowhawk, several Buzzards & Red Kites, 2 Barn & a Tawny Owl, c200 Black-tailed Godwits & 3 Stonechats #worldwetlandsday2025
1
0
3
Several Musotima nitidalis (Marbled Fern) moths flying around Bracken at Staverton Park, Suffolk on visit with @AncientTreesATF A moth for me and thanks for @MOTHIDUK for confirming. Just phone photos
1
0
2
Which side are you on? Add your name to the petition calling on the UK government to ban the use of pesticides on the streets, parks and playgrounds of our villages, towns and cities. #GoPesticideFree.
pesticidecollaboration.org
Add your name to the petition calling on the UK government to ban the use of pesticides on the streets, parks and playgrounds of our villages, towns and cities.
0
0
3
Real issue is building next to trees. Give trees the space they need with Root Protection Areas. Avoidable situation when village hall was built that needn't have resulted in loss of open grown trees @BBCEssex @WoodlandTrust @AdamCormack_.@ArbAssociation
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org
A parish council leader says everything has been tried to save three oak trees thought to be causing subsidence
1
1
6
Great day at @RSPBSherwood y'day on Thinking Arbs visit with Ted Green, Reg Harris, Jill Butler, Luke Steer, Lou Hackett, Izi Banton, Paul Cook and others. Always more to learn seeing and talking about ancient and veteran trees - if only the trees could answer our questions .
0
0
13
@MOTHIDUK Also is this Ephestia woodiella. Looks more pinkish red than in phots. And Bryophyta basaltinella. Thanks
1
0
1
RT @TomHibbert54: Back in Sherwood Forest for day 15 of #30DaysWild and the beetling was unbelievable! Couldn’t pick between Hazel Pot Beet��.
0
4
0
Saw 3 Ampedus balteatus this afternoon at @RSPBSherwood One on fallen oak tree and two on dead oak hulks. 📷 of one on fallen trunk, fallen trunk habitat and one disappearing into a crevice on a dead hulk
0
2
13
Some beetling about at @RSPBSherwood this afternoon in the warm sunshine. Saw Scaphidium quadrimaculatum, Triplax russica, Rhinoceros Beetle and Wasp Beetle
1
1
14
Other beetles seen were Cow Parsley Leaf Beetle Chrysolina oricalcia, the longhorn beetle Leiopus nebulosus, bird poo weevils Platyrhinus resinous & Platystomos albinos, and the Oak Leaf-roller Attelabus niens. Plus the attractive longhorn micromoth Nemophora degreerella
0
0
3
I went on an enjoyable walk led by @TBeetles yesterday at @RSPBSherwood to look for beetles. A highlight was seeing a female Hazel Pot Beetle found by @TomHibbert54 .I'd only ever seen a male before at the site
1
1
8
I just signed a @theactionnet petition: Save Nottingham Libraries. Sign here:
actionnetwork.org
Bilborough, Basford, Aspley, and Radford Lenton libraries are threatened with closure. Sign our petition to tell the council we love our libraries and won't let them close. Then get involved in the...
0
1
3
RT @Sajidah: I’m extremely grateful to have the endorsement of so many members & residents in Newark, and from our wider movement. They k….
0
4
0
A good day for scarce butterflies in Notts in the sunshine today. 2 Grizzled Skippers at traditional site south of Newark this morning (no 📷 ). Then a Green Hairstreak at Bestwood CP in afternoon. Managed a phone photo creeping up on it.
1
1
9
Toothwort in woods above Matlock Bath, Derbyshire yesterday .#wildflowerhour #woodlandflowers
1
5
44