Mmm three of these common coastal birds appear to be bats!

Garden shallot harvest #garden

Onions in and other beds prepared #allotment

Bird ringers, we are (again) looking for dropped twite feathers. If you have access to a population in the UK or continental Europe, please do keep us in mind.

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PhD opportunity on individual flight behaviour of petrels in the tropical Indian Ocean! www.findaphd.com/phds/project... (Image: Richard Crossley)

Always good to start the year with a Jack Snipe (one of 70 species recorded at @tophilllow.bsky.social today)

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

Light Knot Grass from the garden trap back in June. Didn’t realise it at the time but it’s the first record for our area. #teammoth #moths

Tune in at 8pm for tonight’s Folk Along the Coast for the last of the programmes of 2024 before we plunge into two seasonal specials.

Utricularia bisquamata ‘Betty’s bay’ brightening up a winter windowsill

Snipe and Jack Snipe at Tophill today

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While looking for raptors this morning, I came across this adult Swainson's hawk. I asked him why he wasn't in Argentina and he said that Argentina is too cold, bordering on Chile. #birds

Lovely to stumble across this resting Little Auk by Scarborough Harbour earlier today with @grahamscott14.bsky.social. It spent a while sheltering from the northernly winds at mouth of the Harbour, before flying strongly north into a heavy squall. A Great Northern Diver also fed nearby.

It's publication day! My Poyser book on Marsh Tits & Willow Tits is now available. Huge thanks to publishers @chiffchat.bsky.social who have been fantastic. #NatureWriting #Ornithology #ukbirding #ForestEcology #nature

Bempton cliffs this afternoon

Lovely morning surveying on Filey Brigg - distracted by a pod of dolphin - quadrats full of Fucus and Pelvitia

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First redwing of the year ringed

First walk to the sea in ages. Lovely afternoon light.

For shorebird fans near the Dee Estuary. I am giving an an on-line talk called "Waders on the move". 12 November at 7pm. Free tickets still available: ourdeeestuary.co.uk/events/wader... Here's a blog about wader migration, if you cannot wait! wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/w... #ornithology

Congratulations to top British ringer @kesteraw.bsky.social for putting up a Motus receiver at Pendeen in Cornwall, which has just detected a Dutch tagged Yellow-browed Warbler. The power of Motus to track the smallest birds without the need for recapture, is amazing! See motus.org for more info

Nice fresh Red-green Carpet in the garden trap last night #TeamMoth

Nice fresh Red-green Carpet in the garden trap today

New project? Thinking of using leg flags? Useful bird welfare paper turned into a WaderTales blog on 29 Oct 2018. 🎂6⃣ wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/l... #ornithology

Almost empty trap last night but the first Epirrita agg. Of the autumn was nice #Teammoth

Added Yellow Browed Warbler to my garden list today. #ukbirds

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Just set up my BlueSky account, if you follow me on Twitter, let me know & I’ll follow back. Same handle, same profile picture. #gardening #houserenovation #diy #travel #botany #science #dogs #food

Green-brindled Crescent, the only moth in my trap last night (Hunmanby, VC62).

Autumn at the #allotment. Burning off non compostable plant waste, digging in green manure and mulching with a straw/manure mix from the local stables. And a hearty home grown leek and potato soup to round off the day #gardening

Migweek update for tomorrow Sadly the weather has changed so the vismigging and migration walks are cancelled. Ringing demonstrations at south landing and RSPB Bempton will be assessed in the morning so some ringing may occur. flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/events/migwe...

Grey Phalarope in Brid harbour today #birds

Green manure doing OK at the #allotment #gardeningfeed

Scarborough is looking good today

They’re here! And we need to check these autumn gems for colour rings. This via @birdguides.bsky.social www.birdguides.com/news/yellow-... #birdingScotland #UKbirding

Only 7 of 5 last night. Cold and clear. #teammoth

Lovely (if wet) wander around Burnby Gardens today

Utricularia bisquamata ‘Betty’s Bay’ #plants

Onions #allotment

Well this is exciting. First view of advance copies of my new Poyser book: The Marsh Tit and the Willow Tit, a Poyser monograph from @chiffchat.bsky.social. Production looks fantastic. Release date is 5 December: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marsh-tit...

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Potatoes lifted for storage and now to plant some green manure #allotment

Misty evening, wet air, hard work for this Barn Owl #birds

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Wren Diagram