Thought I’d better go see the hotel rest glaucous before it departs

Australia-US minerals deal underpinned decision to allow Alcoa to keep clearing WA forest, document reveals

Two good patch ticks the weekend Humes and dusky brought my Winterton list to 258

Morning seawatch at Winterton 7.15-9.45 G plover 5 Pintail 7 Woodcock 2 C scoter 113 Shoveler 4 Wigeon 53 Little gull 5 Tufty 2 Brent’s 515 Real 65 Also many dunlin and sanderlings

Not often we get three sp of shrike in a year

Rewinds pouring over at salhouse

East coast patch birding

Autumn patch birding

Still showing nicely

Phone dead so had no idea until I got home 🤓

Brimstone in my garden

24 elephants buff arches cypress carpet and marbled white spot some of the highlights from last nights haul

First dark green fritillary of the year

It’s hummer time

First hummer of the year

Best from last night live a puss moth

Time to start moffing

Green oak tortrix at work today

Nice cinnabar at work

First small elephant of the year

Red kite this morning

Chinese Character (NFY) - I don’t think I’ve photographed one with its wings flat before. #teammoth

Visited the hickling pleasure boat today NWT been done up lovely 👍

PALE MORPH BOOTED EAGLE !!! What a bird to bring up my patch total to 254 big thanks to Graham etherington for promptly putting news out this morning 👍👍

Hopefully soon 🤞

Always a treat

A rare sorty over the border to see my patch nemises also nice to talk to rob Holmes and Peter ransome

Barwit this morning

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My patch highlight of the weekend

While on holiday to Ross on wye found this scarlet tiger caterpillar are they common in the area ?

Nice fresh in wheatear today

A two hoopoe day on the patch amazing

A little bit of spring today on the patch swallows,sand Martins, ring ouzel, whimbrel making it worthwhile getting out

Marsh tit

Never tire of a barn owl

Keeping watch

Treecreeper action this morning

Bit quiet on the patch today but found a Jack snipe and and a 4/5 Blk redstart on the patch

After not been seen for probably a month a very nice surprise this morning

Dusk this evening

Fingers crossed

Nice treat on the patch today probably released at some point but stil nice to see

Hickling this morning cranes quite active

Marshy today

Super light today

Relatively a common site in east Norfolk

Hour after work on the patch many geese but no beans ring tail hen harrier GWE and SEO the best

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]