MY VISION’S SO CLEAR IN ANGER AND PAIN I LEFT DEEP WOUNDS BEHIND BUT I ARRIVED TRUTH MAY BE CHANGED BY VICTORY

Sedge Warbler for #BirdOfTheDay Songbirds

Mute Swan for #BirdOfTheDay Water droplets

I see the wind changes to southerlies next week. Hopefully bringing Spotted Flycatcher and Whinchat. 🤞 #birds

Rathlin Island Late Pink-Footed Goose Atlantic Puffin Corncrake Great Skua #birds

More birds, less billionaires #birds

For #BirdOfTheDay, waders out of water Great Egret on a boat Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Female Hen Harrier for #BirdOfTheDay #FeatheredFemmes Photographed last year

I eat miles for breakfast. Morning 10 miler

Little Pied Cormorant and Silver Gulls for #BirdOfTheDay All in a line. Sydney, Australia. #birds

Rathlin tomorrow. Hopefully I might hear a Corncrake? 🤞 #birds Plus Puffins

Seabirds are being poisoned by pollution stemming from rigs. Unable to fly or hunt

Portmore Lough RSPB FOY Marsh Harrier FOY Whimbrel Also Greylag Geese goslings. Arrived to stake out Wood Sandpipers that had been found this morning, no luck. #birds

55 species for the Global Big Day. Six Mile Water Carnlough Antrim Glens FOY Cuckoo. ebird.org/tripreport/5...

Antrim Parkrun! Sub18 for the first time this year! Building up the miles, and it is working.

Let there be birds

3 hours at Lough Neagh, Six Mile Water and Rae’s Wood I may be addicted to birding this area. Reed Warbler still singing, Sedge, Willow and Blackcap. Kingfisher, Swan nest building, Treecreeper. Woodpecker noted by their absence. #BirdingAntrim ebird.org/checklist/S3...

9 miler this morning.

Black Vulture for #BirdOfTheDay All black Costa Rica, June 2024.

Bring out the birds to counter the doom! Blue Tit. #birds

Global Big Day prep. #birds Hoping to get some good birds on Saturday

Reed Warbler is 115 for Antrim this year. #birds Actually got decent views, which makes a change.

Bush Thick-Knee for #BirdOfTheDay Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia.

Osprey for #BirdOfTheDay Stretching. Their wingspan is impressive.

Riverside Ballymoney Parkrun! That was a windy and twisty course, and rather warm. 18:30.

Keep your cats indoors, at all times. Take down your bird feeders. #birds

Spoonbill at RSPB Window on Wildlife. Found by Clive Mellon this morning. Possibly last year’s bird returning. #birds

The Swift countdown is on. #birds Let’s go

White Stork for #BirdOfTheDay Long Neck.

Common Pauraque for #BirdOfTheDay Camouflage. If this looks obvious, try seeing without the scope 😂 Costa Rica, June 2024. Photo taken by a fellow tourist’s phone through a scope.

Also, shoutout to the legend in Liverpool, blasting ‘Devils’ Dance’ by Metallica out of his car. Respect to the Reload Album and respect to him. 🤘

Nova Prestatyn Parkrun! Wales Parkrun ticked, and what a day for it. 18:01, I’m getting faster!

I have seen one! Monteverde, Costa Rica, June 2024.

Job hunting sucks. 2 rejections today alone. I need something to work, soon.

Blackcap singing for #BirdOfTheDay

Shield Bug seen today

One observation from Sam and Ade Go Birding. I need to up my ear game. I should get better with calls

Imagine making AI bird slop when Osprey already exist. Majestic. Stradbroke Island, Australia.

Emerald Toucanet for #BirdOfTheDay Green. Costa Rica, June 2024.

Golden Plover for #BirdOfTheDay alt Flock. Portstewart, 2022

Wheatear and Red Kite today up the Glens of Antrim. 111 for Antrim this year. Also Hen Harrier seen. I’m trying to see 100 birds in April in Antrim. 93 today, 7 to go.

All eyes on Gaza All eyes on Lebanon

Was looking for something else, and discovered this gem. Blaze Bayley, I owe you an apology. youtu.be/HlLImF_5gxg?...

Bohemian Waxwing for #BirdOfTheDay Come Eat With Me. Missed Waxwings this year, didn’t have time to head out, and I was working the next day. 💔

Maned Duck for #BirdOfTheDay Duck out of water Sydney, February 2026.

Six Mile Water Parkrun! Fun and fast, 19 minutes. Hirundines arching the skies overhead, with warblers now in full voice.

No eagle. Sedge Warbler is 109 for Antrim this year. Also saw Bar-Tailed Godwit, Red Knot and Western House Martin today at RSPB WOW. #birds

So. It appears that a certain immature WTE has been touring Lough Neagh This Eagle has already visited the Antrim shore of Lough Neagh, taunting me. I’ll have to do something about that.

#BirdLoversOnFacebook Well then That happened

Wedge-Tailed Eagle. Hamilton Island, Queensland, Australia. #birds