Stunned to get another chance with Long-tailed Shrike. Cooked up a plan involving the train to Cheltenham Spa & a lift to and from the bird. Pleased to have had good scope views, but the heat haze & distance made any record snaps or footage impossible 🪶 #LowCarbonBirding

Smashing through the summer doldrums with a real blockbuster! On news that the stunning Long-tailed Shrike in Glos had been refound late am, it wasn’t long until we were blasting down the M5! @mybirding.bsky.social #436✅ Great to see many familiar faces, West Mids well-repped of course! ✊

A few surprises at Snettisham today. Turtle Doves usually take a bit of looking for, but two flew across the path in front of me. I don't remember seeing Mediterranean Gulls there. The gorgeous juvenile plumage is one of my favourites 🥰 Clips of them below 🪶 #LowCarbonBirding

Great day, twitching & birding in Essex. Spent a couple of hours watching the Hudsonian Godwit. An enjoyable, friendly twitch. Then Abberton Res for the first time as a local birder kindly offered me a lift. Hobby, Osprey, Little Gulls, Spoonbills, Cattle Egrets. Mostly #LowCarbonBirding #UKBirding

Local cinema tonight to see Welsh language film Effi o Blaenau. Just as the end credits rolled, a message popped up that the Night Heron was showing. Checked the trains & there was one due. My phone footage is dreadful, so I've added a snap of the Slapton bird from 2022 #LowCarbonBirding #UKBirding

New record for the oldest Barn Owl in Britain and Ireland! 😮 At 18 years old the female was ringed in 2007 in Nottinghamshire when she was a chick before being recorded again in Lincolnshire this year! Read the full story ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/a... #Ornithology #BirdRinging 🪶

Installed a new tub pond in garden at the weekend as the bird drinking bowls were drying out too fast in hot weather. Filled it from a water butt, added a few plants and waited but not for long. The birds love it - this is from the wildlife camera today.

Long-tailed Shrike missed its chance to get on my life list. So, I spent the day in the Musselburgh area, enjoying 3 species of Scoter. Impossible to pick out the WW Scoter's profile with the heat haze. Enjoyed a bit of Edinburgh architecture, too #LowCarbonBirding #UKBirding 🪶

Beaver kit spotted on our Insh Marshes nature reserve! Beavers were released in this area in 2024 as part of the Bringing Beavers Back to the Cairngorms Project.

Adult male Long-tailed Shrike reported in a garden near Crail, Fife earlier today. Currently being looked for. Not sure who took this pic? #ukbirding

I cannot tell you how much I want the wildlife trusts to buy this estate what they'd be able to do with such a large piece of land would be truly extraordinary

First visit to Gibraltar Point this year. Little Gull, Spotted Redshanks, Greenshanks, Spoonbills, Common & Green Sandpipers, Dunlins & Mistle Thrushes. 4 species of raptor but I missed a ringtail. Lots of butterflies 🦋 Sad to see a dead Grass Snake on the road in. #LowCarbonBirding 🪶 #LincsBirding

The recreated dawn chorus is very moving. Hearing when we had Turtle Doves & then Nightingales too 🥺

We need to fundamentally change our relationship with nature. The UK Nature's Rights Bill seeks to do just that. You can help: ✉ Email your MP asking them to support the bill. Details can be found in my bio and on my website nataliebennett.org/2026/06/29/t...

Just 2 of the juvenile birds I've encountered this week. Lucky enough to see the city centre Peregrines a lot as their different spots are along my walks to the station etc. All 3 Pegs were present. ♂️ not pictured. Also a juvenile Cuckoo & 2 of the 4 birds that feed it. #UKBirding

Early birding this morning. Juvenile Cuckoo being fed by Dunnocks & Reed Buntings. Even more exciting was seeing & hearing my first Grasshopper Warbler for 6 years. Thanks to my newest #BirdingGear Year tick Yellow-legged Gull & nice to see the dangly legged silhouette of a Water Rail #UKBirding

Hudsonian Godwit showing well on Minsmere south scrape - a mega find by Mike Cartwright!

Lovely afternoon in the nearby city of Sheffield watching this cracking Black Redstart. Snaps show my first 3 views of the bird. Settled in to enjoy the show after that. #LowCarbonBirding #BirdOfTheDay 🙏 #LightAsAFeather #UKBirding

Roseate Terns, Sandwich Terns & a Puffin. 6th Tern species of a short trip to Northumberland #LowCarbonBirding #BirdOfTheDay #GreyDay 🪶

Love a tern colony & birds that stray from usual migration paths. Excited to read that the A B Tern & her Arctic beau had produced a chick. Long Nanny: 5 species of Tern. Fab to watch them bathing in the burn & Little Terns mobbing a Peregrine. Gutted to read that the chick died #LowCarbonBirding 🪶

youtu.be/PyQGrq-Y7gg?... It seems like a good time to share this again 👏

Can’t remember the last time I actually saw a Quail. You can hear it with the volume up. #UKBirding

A colourful afternoon in my urban garden. Red Kite flew low over. Scarlet Tiger, the star species. Rummaging around the garden trying to locate the Yellow Meadow Ants, I lifted some moss & was surprised to see a colony of Bees. Common Carders a friend tells me. Yellow & Black Longhorn too #Nature

Watch BBC Countryfile tonight, BBC One at 7:15. Woodpecker Network and @lesserspotnet.bsky.social volunteers, Ken and Linda Smith, will be in the New Forest talking about and looking for Woodpeckers.

The celebration of Juneteenth started in Galveston, but its impact is felt far beyond Texas. Generations of Americans refused to accept that freedom belongs just to some. They understood that freedom is something to cherish, and that each generation must continue the fight for justice and equality.

Enjoyable birding in Sherwood Forest. Several Tree Pipits, the beauts. Marsh Tits (no bird food out now). Family of Redstarts, Blackcaps & all the regulars: Treecreepers, Nuthatches, Jays, Tits etc. Nice to see the honey bee colony in the same oak too #LowCarbonBirding #BirdOfTheDay #Passerines 🪶

A bit worse for wear yday, not expecting any birding, I spotted half a dozen Swifts. Always have my bins with me, so I got a phonebinned clip. Shared it with Swift surveyor mates who commented that it's a young bird knocking to see if a nest is empty. Eh? says I. Hearing aids in, oh yes! 🪶

Blood, sweat, tears & another nervy drive to Wales after work! We were the only 2 birders on site this evening, a huge relief to pick up the Western Reef Heron feeding in channels around the river mouth! ✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿@mybirding.bsky.social

Dream twitch for the stunning Western Reef Heron today. Little Egret was less impressed 🪶 #LowCarbonBirding #UKBirding

Frampton Marsh today. Best were 2 Little Gulls, 2 Spoonbills, that birding conundrum that I never tire of: Is it a Barwit, or is it a Blackwit? 4 of the former, 1 of the latter I think. Delightful to watch a Water Vole, also a Field Vole briefly. #LowCarbonBirding #LincsBirding 🪶 #Nature

The birds & the bees. I spent a couple of hours in woodland this afternoon & kept a respectful distance with both. My first ♀️ Redstart of the year was a distant flicker of THAT tail. Nice moment when the ♂️ joined her. #LowCarbonBirding #UKBirding #Nature

@discors.bsky.social Is that THE Purple Heron? 🫣

Twitched this belter of a White-winged Black Tern after work. Enjoyed a good hour watching it flying, feeding & preening before it headed high north east. Just a few miles away at Holme Pierrepont, Notts. #UKBirding 🪶

@novem704.com I always appreciate a Bladerunner quote. It's one of my favourite films. Any version, I don't care. I myself am suffering from accelerated decrepitude 😄

Wasn't really feeling it today. But I took the chance of a lift to near an old workplace to see if Little Owl was still present. Made my day when I spotted a familiar movement in a tree & got my bins on that grumpy 'expression' #UKBirding

Two out of the (only) three White-tailed Eagles fledged in England in 2025 have since 'disappeared in suspicious circumstances', i.e. people killed them within months. Read this, and see how much effort those people go to, to kill them. We all know who & why. Two out of three. Within months.

I received my copy today too #UKBirding

White-winged Scoter at Kirkcaldy this morning on the beach. A lifer ✅️

Dental check-up today. It's out of town & near a river, so a bit of birding was in order. Peregrine, adult Grey Wagtail, juvenile Dipper & juvenile Grey Wags. #LowCarbonBirding 🪶

The EU is making it easier than ever to ditch the car keys and hop on your bike. The upcoming World Bicycle Day on Wednesday is the perfect occasion to do so. With our European Declaration on Cycling, we are committed to boosting this experience for you:

3 June - Word Bicycle Day 🚴🏼‍♀️🚲🚴🏼🚴🏽‍♂️ « The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world, as it gave them complete freedom of movement, without having to depend on anyone » – the view of Susan B. Anthony, who fought for women’s freedom and rights in the US, 1885. 💫

London is BROKEN (ft. Dawn Butler)

Nightjaring we're nightjaring Oh, isn't it wild? I'm thinking Grace Jones version. Wing clapping & flight views, 2 together & more. Roding Woodcocks, bubbling Cuckoo. Tawny Owls. Poignant to hear calls that I used to hear near my urban home #UKBirding #Toads is it best to move them?

A Broad-Billed Sandpiper on the water’s edge, in the bight at Dawlish Warren on high tide. A Lifer for myself and Mrs M 😊✔️. #UKBirding

Broad-billed Sandpiper at Dawlish Warren today, found by local birder. We had to wait for high tide this evening to even get eyes on it. #UKBirding #Devon

Sights & sounds of summer with @suzanne11a.bsky.social in north Notts today. Corn Bunting & Quail. Turtle Dove also heard only. We also spotted a puzzling dirt devil, a small tornado, in a barren field. #UKBirding

Over the moon when this Little Tern stuck around for a good few hours yesterday at Holme Pierrepont, Notts. Second clip added as it doesn't matter how many I see, I'm still amazed by how little they actually are #UKBirding

Deep within a Gloucestershire valley is a hidden world. The wider countryside is covered by mixed-age beech woodland in a complex mosaic of forest, commons and farmland. But in this quiet corner, a strikingly different blend of habitats can be found - and with it a mix of unusual species. (1/10)

Started the weekend on 197 for the year and the goal of getting to 200 by the end of it. #LowCarbonBirding makes it slow going. Rutland Water for Kentish Plover today. Went to get a clip of the Glossy Ibis to soften the blow of the Kentish clip 🫣 Wonder what tomorrow's year tick will be #UKBirding