Scops Owl Wales this evening #ukbirding

‘Royal’ type Tern, possibly West African Crested still Dawlish #rarebirdsuk #ukbirding

Lesser Scaup Helston yesterday #ukbirding #cornwallbirding

I wonder how the Great-tailed Grackle got here? 😂 #ukbirding

Scilly Redstarts! #ukbirding

Wryneck Bryher today #ukbirding

American Pipit St Agnes #ukbirding

Spotted Sandpiper on St Agnes #ukbirding

Mourning Dove this morning on St Agnes #ukbirding

American Pipit, Spot Sand, Hoopoe and Rosefinch the pick of the best on scilly today #ukbirding

Rose-coloured Starling for breakfast and American Pipit for supper! #ukbirding

Shortie and seconds of the Phalarope today, spent ages looking for new stuff, a few more common migrants today!

Nice views of the Wilson’s Phalarope on St Mary’s at lunch time! #ukbirding

Still plenty of Glossy Ibis at Chew, single pan of scope picked out 34 with plenty of others seen from other vantage points. #ukbirding

Crows! Chew this morning! Nice to find this as I stepped out the car! #ukbirding

Buff-breasted Sandpiper still strutting its stuff distantly at Chew Valley! #ukbirding #avonbirding

Went to sea! Saw a fish! Oh and loads of large Shears including a Scopolis and a Wilson’s Petrel! Got wet, had fun! Year ticked my first Tern of the year!! I’ve missed the sea! #ukbirding

Zitting Cisticola twitch in Suffolk! #ukbirding

Swedes!

Quail in paddock next to friends house this evening was a nice surprise! #birds #ukbirding

Desert Wheatear still Keynsham this morning #birds #ukbirding

Corn Bunting on Salisbury Plain, nice to have so many here! #birds #ukbirding

Moffs not birds #hummingbirdhawkmoth Salisbury Plain this afternoon!

Happy 4 year anniversary! #lundy #sulpherbelliedwarbler #ukbirding

Salisbury Plain Great Bustards not miles away for a change! #ukbirding

Bar-headed Goose Hayle! Smart bird and very wary, obviously wild and fresh in 😂 #ukbirding

Woodchat Shrike on Cope Hill Down Salisbury Plain late afternoon, new bird for me on the Plain, had it all to myself, reported as a probable five hours previously yet no one looking for it! #ukbirding #wiltshirebirding

Photo of the Quail I found earlier on Scilly taken by Mark Baker! #ukbirding #scillybirding

Flushed a Quail on Lower Moors Scilly, a big full fat Scilly tick! #ukbirding #scillybirding also seconds of the Shore Lark!

Purple Heron Porth Hellick Pool this morning #ukbirding #scillybirding

Short-toed Lark in grim conditions on the airfield, St Mary’s Scilly #ukbirding #scillybirding

Shore Lark Scilly tick! #ukbirding #scillybirding

Savis Warbler still Marazion 07:00 #ukbirding #cornwallbirding

A couple of birds from Salisbury Plain today, also Cuckoo and big chickens! #birds

A new bird for me on Salisbury Plain, a pair of Little-ringed Plovers! Bonus year tick Yellow Wagtail! #ukbirding

Found some Stoners on the Plain at last! #ukbirding

Grasshopper Warbler reeling on Battlesbury Hill Wilts #ukbirding

Always a delight to see these two back at Torr for another year! #birds #ukbirding

NINE Little Egrets at Torr this afternoon, I’m lucky if I see one here annually!! #ukbirding

Fully diagnostic photo of Least Sandpiper, Little Stint and Dunlin from Steart on Saturday morning! Fortunately scope views were better than the photo suggests! #ukbirding #ukrarebirds #somersetbirding

Two Mediterranean Gulls in tonight’s Torr roost #somersetbirds #birds

First Med Gull of the year at Torr this evening #birds #ukbirding #somersetbirding

That’s what 12 years of birding does to you! 62!! #wearsunscreen #birds

Very distant Starling Murmuration this after at Ham Wall while dipping American Bittern! #birds #ukbirding

Out locally today, a few nice year ticks, several attempts at Hawfinch. Firecrest and Sibe Chiff at Bruton Sewage Works was nice start to the day! #ukbirding

A bit of Booted Eagle action this morning in Cornwall, nice to see pale phase after seeing the dark phase near Henley last year! #ukbirding #ukrarebirds

Bonapartes Gull Sennen this morning #ukbirding

1000 pieces in 7 days! #birds #puzzle

Christmas Trees!

American Coot Loch Spiggie Shetland this morning #ukbirding #ukrarebirds #shetlandbirding