Finding a 1st winter Bonaparte's Gull on The Plym wasn't on my radar this morning but it was a very nice surprise, my first in Plymouth #devonbirds
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Finding a 1st winter Bonaparte's Gull on The Plym wasn't on my radar this morning but it was a very nice surprise, my first in Plymouth #devonbirds
Out on a group run yesterday. Talk on the trails kept returning to durability of trainers, or lack of. 👟
Many complaining of only getting a couple hundred kms out of their shoes before problems arise.
This isn’t good enough. We need daps that last.
What brands & models should people avoid?
Sadly I am away - but enjoy Suffolk 🤘🏼
Kittiwake, which is a bit like a seagull 😁 And a Purple Sandpiper, which is a wader
Day one of my jollies in Suffolk. Year ticks of Purple Sandpiper & Kittiwake. Yet another Shore Lark dip 💛
51 species so far. Barn Owl would be very welcome on the one hour walk to find my digs. Wish me luck 🙏
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Naff boc shots, but the Willet on Boa Vista showed nicely today. All gearing up nicely for the pelagics off Fogo next week, hopefully some quality sea-birding here on Cape Verde to come...
Apparently patch birding does all come good in the end. 1w Ring-billed Gull this evening and glad some people managed to connect after my rather garbled attempt at putting news out. Blog post to follow #ukbirding
Finally got round to finishing my last #FootIt blog post. Just 10 months till we can do it all again...
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Cracking morning @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social with @philwoollen.bsky.social & my eldest. Highlights a c-ringed Stonechat (ringed on Mull🏴 Aug25), another which we caught&ringed (1 of 5 on), 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Coal Tits (scarce spring migrant at Hilbre) and much more (all on our blog) #UkBirding #Ringing
Russian White-fronted Goose (front) with Greenland White-fronted Geese
3 Russian White-fronted Geese with Greenland White-fronted Geese
Russian White-fronted Goose (left) with Greenland White-fronted Geese
Russian White-fronted Goose (front) with Greenland White-fronted Goose
Came across 6 Russian Whitefronts amongst a pleasing total of 2,423 Greenlands on Kintyre today: one at Laggan and 5 at Rhunahaorine. Chalk and cheese #goosing #birdingscotland
Great fun & nice speaking to these two this evening
Great day @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social today with @steveonhilbre.bsky.social. The run of Stonechats continues with 1 ringed & this colour ringed bird photographed on Middle Eye. Ringed in August 2026 on Mull!
Series 1 of #TheTwoJonnies podcast DONE!
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We finish on a high with @philwoollen.bsky.social of @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social fame. A wide ranging chat including Hilbre, Thailand and Oz birding!
Episode is up on all reputable podcast platforms NOW:
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Pine Beauty
Trapped for the first time this year last night - about 6 million quakers and this utter beaut... Pine Beauty
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#TeamMoth
Great sighting this morning in #Malaga, a Ring billed gull!! She was a 2 cy bird, third for me in 26 years! Have a beer for me! : ) #Gulls #Teamgull #Idbirds #Photography
Day 3 for the Bonaparte's Gull on Barra. It's very much a loner, shunning local foraging flocks of gulls but continuing to give incredible close views from time to time. #birdingscotland #RareBirdsUK
Massive #FootIt year ✅️ mind! Anyone else dropped that on foot this year?!
White-billed Diver off Inverkeithing
White-billed Diver near Inverkeithing Harbour
2nd distant bird in heavy wing moult
Distant White-billed Diver in-front of Inchmickery Island
Two White-billed Divers still present, between Inverkeithing & Carlingnose Point this morning, then one closer to Inverkeithing harbour, the other much more distant in front of Inchmickery Is.
One moulting Scandinavian Pipit at St. Margret's Marsh this pm.
#birds
#birdingfife
#Wildfowl #elite 💯🦆
Evidence of a slight upturn in Jack Snipe numbers
Two sites visited today in different Hectads, a 6 count in a Typha swamp & an 8 at an industrial SUDS pool.
(The largest of our Ecology Whippets thinks he’s a pointer 😄🐕🎯)
#NEBirding
Class paps them - what a pooch 👏
A magic moment all to myself, as the White Billed Diver popped up in front of my shore level vantage point over the Blyth Estuary this afternoon.
#NEBirding
#Birdsoftheworld
Acrylic sketch of one of today’s Lesser spots.
Was just chatting about Snowcock this other day! Still mot visited one of these raptor bottlenecks. Firmly on the to-do list! Work just gets right in the way of my birding 🤣
Sharing a few photos from volunteering with @batumiraptorcount.org in Georgia last autumn! Highlights include counting 100,000+ birds in a day, stunning Oriental HBs & of course the wonderful people! 🦅💛🇬🇪
The Ross’s Gull in Newlyn Harbour today (23rd Feb). Present for third day and seems settled in the harbour and Wherrytown area.
Well worth a visit, along with the Pacific Diver, 2 Lesser Scaup, R N Duck, Kumlien’s Gull, Bonaparte’s, 2 Dusky’s and a Little Bunting😉
#cornwallbirding #ukbirding
HB SIR 💯🎉
#Wildfowl #elite 💯🦆
Oystercatchers and Great Crested Grebes back in locally... plus the annual build-up of Shoveler at Livermere.
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What a time to be alive!
White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
White-tailed Eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
White-tailed Eagle this morning at Holywell pond, after looking for it all day yesterday without luck, we struck gold this morning when it flew over our heads. #NEbirding #RarebirdsUK #UKbirding
I eagerly await her return each year & this morning, there she was! 🥰 #Curlew CJ6 ringed as a chick in central #Finland in 2012, this is her 13th spring staging on the #AlstonWetland patch. 3-4 weeks fattening up on #Lancashire's finest earthworms then she'll be off once again. #waders #shorebirds