A cracking Wood Warbler helped to stave off the post-holiday blues today. Year tick Red Grouse too #UKBirding 🪶

A Terek Sandpiper was reported with just enougtime for a twitch. Without local knowledge, it took a while to find the right spot, walking 3 sides of a large site. Sadly, I had to tick & run. Bittersweet to not have time to enjoy, record & take better pics. Just made the ferry! #Vogels 🪶

Yesterday took me to 3 birding places to get to 100 species for the trip. Every site is a bird filled adventure. Best were a singing ♂️ Golden Oriole with a ♀️ in flight bringing the visuals. Great Reed Warbler & Crane over. BW Stilts, GWF Goose & a Wood Sand. Bird pic names in alt text #Vogels 🪶

Enjoyable birding in Nieuwe Driemanspolder - Zuid Holland. Zomertaling (Summer Teal/Garganey) & Groenpootruiter (Greenshank), Rosse Grutto (Barwits), Kleine Plevier (LRPs) & Bontbekplevier (RPs). Pictured: Drieteenstrandloper (zomer & winter), Gele Kwikstaart & Temminck's Strandloper. #Vogels 🪶

Please don’t put out hair for bird nests. Chicks get entangled in hair balls. Just had to cut hair strands that were tying 3 blue tit chicks together, and wrapped round the throat of one skinny chick that couldn’t swallow food. Hopefully saved in time 🤞

Bluethroat in the Netherlands today. He was singing his heart out 💙 Savi's, Bearded Tits & Cuckoos too. #BirdOfTheDay #BirdsSeenIn2026

@carrcole.bsky.social youtu.be/iqAsfDCIkGo?... Spotify just played me a new C.W. Stoneking

Snapped these birds a few minutes walk from my accommodation in #Texel Netherlands. They are all #LockedOn to something & it's hecka #Breezy out there with 40+ mph winds. Wheatear, Grey-headed Wagtail & Willow Warbler #BirdOfTheDay

Great Snipe just now. Watched the tail end sticking out from the bird's favourite tussock for half an hour. Pleased as punch when he gave us a twirl #Texel #Vogels #Birds 🪶

First evening & morning at Texel digs. Arrived just in time for sunset & noticed several Nightingales. Pre-breakfast highlights: Marsh Harrier, Lesser Whitethroat & an Oystercatcher mobbing a Honey Buzzard. So bird rich here. I need to stop welling up about how sterile it feels in blighty 🪶

Woke up in Harwich with time to bird. 35 species around the travelodge. Incl Lesser Whitethroat, fledged Starlings & a Muntjac putting the wind up the Reed Warblers. Oyc, Brents & Little Egret from the ferry. 2 Porpoise at sea. 1st species in NL: Common Tern. Very 1st BHGs of the day were a joy 🪶

A confiding Song Thrush, one of a pair that must've had a nest nearby. They were working hard, I was wasting time by the Ely canal. #LowCarbonBirding #BirdOfTheDay #InMotion

After years of dithering, it’s time to replace my trusty Swarovski CLCs. I’d love to hear any thoughts/experiences on choosing between Swaro NL Pure 8x32 and Zeiss Victory SF 8x32. I’ve heard Zeiss colour reproduction is supposed to be better...? Any views would be greatly appreciated! #BirdingGear

Tune of the weekend! Enjoyably busy walking & birding. Apologies to the people at the bus stop just now for my almost dancing. No apologies for chasing someone down the bus aisle to give them their forgotten water. Nice moment 👌 youtu.be/agVpq_XXRmU?... #TuesdayTunes #NowPlaying #MusicSky

Grasshopper Warbler, Dundee 4/5/26. #BirdingScotland

Sea bird year ticks at Flamborough, avoiding the Bempton crowds. Started at Old Fall for a smart Spotted Flycatcher. Shag, Fulmar, Gannet, Razorbill. Found a Puffin on the sea after a few scans. Oodles of Painted Ladys & a Lesser Whitethroat. No camera, just handheld phonescope #LowCarbonBirding 🪶

The Lesser Kestrel at Croft Pascoe gave excellent views to the many admirers. Didn't seem bothered about coming close to us all. It was catching plenty of prey and taking it back to its favoured perches. @cbwps.org.uk #UKBirding

Across the boarder into Cornwall for The Lesser Kestrel. It gave us all amazing views. A big thanks to John Foster for a top find ! Thanks to Paul Bray for extra info. #UKBirding

Several Nightingales & Painted Ladys, just before the rain came last night 🪶

Good day at Frampton Marsh. 3 mile walk each way is part of the birding: Yellow Wags, Great Egret & point blank Kingfisher 💙 Stunning numbers of birds, on site. Best being American Golden Plover & Med Gulls. AGP was a challenge & some ticked a Euro GP. I got a flash of underwing & a dreadful clip 🪶

Too much #LowCarbonBirding choice today. Head to Landguard to twitch a lifer? Bee-eaters near yorkshire coast, so go to Bempton? Nightingales?Etc 🤪 Rocked up to train station & let the next train to somewhere interesting decide for me. Off to Boston 🤘 youtu.be/t4QK8RxCAwo?... #NowPlaying #MusicSky

Bar-tailed Godwit at Holme Pierrepont, Notts this morning. Hobbys, Warblers, Common Sand & LRPs to enjoy too. Fifth Lesser Whitethroat of the year was a bit showy but still gave me the run around. #LowCarbonBirding 🪶

Blotted my copybook after 4 days of birding by bus & train. I had to squeeze a yoga class in before the end of the weekend & tired from the day's birding, I decided to fire up the Yaris. Couldn't believe my luck when just as I got home, 2 Black Terns were found at the patch, 3 miles from the gym 🪶

Woodland birds: many Pied Fly pairs in nest boxes & tree holes. First ♂️ Redstart was in the canopy & the 2nd was one of 3 hweeting birds in a tree. The other 2 were a Chiffy & a Willow Warbler with its lovely long primaries. Nice to spend time watching a Cuckoo & a Tree Pipit 🪶 #LowCarbonBirding

No Wood Sands, Black Terns, Little Gulls or Barwits at the patch today. Just a cracking Whinchat. Especially enjoyed watching him sallying for insects. Cuckoo in flight was the best view so far this year & spotting a Hobby is always a treat 🪶

Birding in East Notts. My good year for Bittern, got even better with 2 in long flight views to a soundtrack of occasional calls, year tick Cuckoo in the background & a Hobby over the reedbed. It felt very 'birdy'. Lesser Whitethroat rattling away, 4 Yellow Wags catching insects #LowCarbonBirding 🪶

Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Hobby & 30 Swifts for the year today. Found #PatchGold Turnstone. All the large gulls went up & whilst looking for what'd flushed them, spotted a Bittern among the throng. Joyful to see many Whitethroats displaying & smiles at this pair of high-rise Coots. #LowCarbonBirding 🪶

We're told that we all want to be accepted. If the Alvecote Hooded Merganser does one sharpish, she may have a slim chance 🙏 At Middleton: LS Wood. Garden Warbler, 1st song of the year stops me in my tracks & with a bit of patience I saw him. Fab to bump into my mate @ochrurosbirder.bsky.social 🪶

What a day! Weeting for Stone Curlew gave me impetus to take my scope for fixing at Downham Market. Lots of other birds too incl Wheatear. An hour to waste during my third Ely station visit. So I went for a walk: ♂️ Marsh Harrier, Sprawk & a pair of Song Thrush. 11 miles walked #LowCarbonBirding 🪶

It would be brilliant if one of the bird news services starts to add the nearest buses, trains, and cycle/footpaths @amythebirder.bsky.social

Year tick Yellow Wags & a Wheatear all beautifully lined up like musical notes on a wire fence. Too distant to capture sadly. Enjoyed observing common birds, a Blackcap hunting insects, a nest building Chiffy with a feather in its bill. Also a Cattle Egret in flight #NottsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 🪶

The only juvenile Little Owl I have ever seen. On my walk to work. What a cracking little surprise it was! #LowCarbonBirding #BirdOfTheDay #UKBirding #Juvenile

One of those rare, right place right time chances. I encountered this in Suffolk years ago. Now it's Norfolks turn. Sadly these are extinct in Cambs and there needs to be some reintroduction plan for these amazing reptiles. #adderdance

Well hello there, a tawny mining bee peers out of the entrance of her nest in our wildflower patch. We have more than ever of their little volcanoes in our back garden this year. #UKGardening 🌱

NEWS: @rspb.bsky.social advice on bird feeding; Feed Seasonally, Feed Safely. My blog: markavery.info/2026/04/10/g... I think the RSPB has called this right. @btobirds.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @alexanderlees.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk

@sfwilsonbirder.bsky.social I love your bio information. I was thinking that it would be great to have hashtags for photographs that let people know that good field craft has been used & that the photographer is happy to answer questions about their pics. Your bio does just that 😊👍

Brilliant day local birding, I think I may have a new patch. Flushed a pair of Grey Partridge, a Bittern nearly took my head off, flying so close from behind me I could hear its wings. Masses of Blackcap, a few Whitethroats & Willow Warblers. Ended on finding 2 Common Cranes in flight #UKBirding

First after-work birding of 2026. 5 year ticks: Green & Common Sand, Sedge & Reed Warblers, Common Tern in flight. White Wags. Scaup soon to vamoos, 0 Wigeon. Got off the train & spied a circling Sprawk. It extended its legs & dropped at speed missing its wood pig quarry. Attenborough, Notts X 2 🪶

Was there ever a more beautiful pair of birds to enter a springtime garden? Grey & brown or grey & black - who would have thought it? #Birdoftheday #Warblers #Blackcaps #Nature #ECK @alan678.bsky.social @robcrank68.bsky.social

Feels like spring migration is finally happening 🙌 Well pleased to arrive at Warren Hills in Leics to find there were a pair of Ring Ouzels. Forgive the heat haze. Still smart birds 🪶 Willow Warbler & Whitethroat today too #UKBirding

Rutland Water via bus & train y'day. Walked 3 miles & I was exhausted. Distant Osprey, BHG continually dropping & catching a small thing, Kes with a kill, singing Blackcaps. Water like a millpond. Today. Red-necked Grebe & distant Scoter. Water choppy. Birding, car assisted. @lrosbirds.bsky.social 🪶

Three Glossy Ibis giving great scope views at Stiffkey, Norfolk. Weekend ended on 90 species, just 5 year ticks: Cattle Egret & Sarnie Tern too, Iceland Gull & Swallow. Tired & deflated after not making it back to Notts in time for a lifer, Leach's Petrel. Glad bird flew off strong, tho #UKBirding

Started a few days in Norfolk with an Iceland Gull. Excellent to watch it in flight, on the beach & bossing other gulls for food. Would've been nice to see the Glaucous, but myself & another birder couldn't find it, despite it just being reported. First Swallow of the year too. #LowCarbonBirding 🪶

Garden birding on Saturday. Single Greenfinch over. A bit of excitement with a pale Buzzard (Osprey is my most wanted garden raptor). This bird was soaring with two regular plumage Buzzard. That, a Sparrowhawk & a Red Kite were quite satisfying. At least two Blackcap still. #UKBirding

Been under the weather, so today was last chance saloon for this weekend. Two Waxwings in Goole. Blacktoft for the Tree Sparrow colony. A White-fronted Goose dropped in with half a dozen Greylags. Sparrowhawk visibly hunted, just inches in to the reedbed. Good numbers of Corn Bunting nearer home 🪶

@lowcarbonkev.bsky.social Reading the post by @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social I'm reminded of getting on a bus, and a car driver beeping at the bus for stopping at a bus stop. The bus driver said that it happens a lot.

Out & about for a couple of year ticks. Late with my first Kingfisher, but when it follows 2 Dippers flying under the bridge you're standing on, well, it was worth the wait. Realised I was well placed to twitch a Ring-necked Duck by bus #LowCarbonBirding 🪶

Cracking time as always at Frampton Marsh. Best was a much hoped for Spoonbill. It landed in front of the cafe! Pleased as punch to welcome back my first Little-ringed plovers of the year. Raptors, Ruffs & the rest. #LincsBirding #UKBirding

Cracking full days birding along the Suffolk coast. Lots of good birds seen today include the Zitting Cisticola, 4 shorelarks, woodlarks, dartford warblers, spotted redshank, bittern, bearded tits etc. also my first adder and butterfly of the year. Walked miles mostly on shingle beaches