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I’d probably rather be birding I may be at Fife Ness he/him
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Peter Christian
2 months ago
Sequence of a Female Leucistic Hen Harrier successfully hunting on The Isle of Man, 2026 🇮🇲
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Okay, who nicked spring?#birdingFife
3 days ago
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Stejneger’s Scoter back at East Wemyss (‘though light a bit pants at the mo) and White-winged Scoter still at Innerleven
#birdingFife
#rarebirdsUK
5 days ago
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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them)
14 days ago
Here's a side-by-side of some of the specimens (IDs and dates in alt-text). We can make things better when we try.
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The male Stejneger’s Scoter showing reasonably well from the sea wall by East Fife Football Stadium, Methill
#birdingFife
#rarebirdsUK
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14 days ago
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By far the best views (closest and great light) I’ve had of the East Wemyss Scoter and the bill looks fine for Stejneger’s. Incredible how different the bill looks at distance /in crappy light
#birdingFife
#rarebirdsUK
18 days ago
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Velvet x Stejneger’s Scoter again at Buckhaven
#birdingFife
#rarebirdsUK
26 days ago
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Nice to see the Bridled Tern write-up in the new issue of Scottish Birds
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
#birdingFife
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26 days ago
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Lorraine Wilson
about 1 month ago
So THE SALT ORACLE is a finalist for the BSFA awards! And my amazing designer, Sam Gretton is a finalist for the cover too! 🙌🏽 Truly delighted for Sam & very, very grateful to everyone who voted for my strange, briny why-pick-one-genre-when-you-can-pick-four book 🤗
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
🖤
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A sad end for another White-billed Diver, this one at the Eden Estuary
#birdingFife
#rarebirdsUK
about 1 month ago
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The Stejneger’s x Velvet Scoter-thing @ Buckhaven this morning. Remarkably tricky (distant) getting actual bill pattern and colouration- yellowish towards tip grading to some reddish tones towards the nostrils today’s best guess, pattern still not fitting Stej
#birdingFife
#rarebirdsUK
about 1 month ago
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Does anyone have or is anyone aware of any photos or sightings of juvenile/ 2nd calendar year White-billed Divers during Jan-Feb 2026 from E Scotland or NE England?
#birdingScotland
#NEbirding
#rarebirdsUK
about 1 month ago
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So I reviewed the frequency of locally scarce species in Fife and applied a standard set of criteria to update the Fife local description species list.
#birdingFife
#birdingUK
#rarebirdsUK
about 1 month ago
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Fife Ness getting in on the White-billed Diver action this weekend. Nice to appear in a photo with one! (photo courtesy of Will Cresswell)
#birdingFife
about 1 month ago
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19 European White-fronted Geese at Cameron Reservoir this morning was a 90 minutes of scanning the 2000+ Pinkies well spent
#birdingFife
about 1 month ago
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The hybrid Velvet x Stejneger’s/ White-winged Scoter still in bay between East Wemyss and Buckhaven. Quite distant but good diffuse light and pale areas of bill still appear to be yellow
#birdingFife
#rarebirdsUK
about 1 month ago
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A distinctly clawless Little Egret at Cameron Reservoir at the weekend
#birdingFife
about 1 month ago
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A pleasant mid-afternoon break in the sunshine to see the Common Crane that was found just outside St Andrews by the Uni Bird Club
#birdingFife
about 1 month ago
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ad White-billed Diver (in heavy wing moult) of Leven beach
#birdingFife
about 2 months ago
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The hybrid Stejneger’s x Velvet Scoter still at East Wemyss
#birdingFife
#rarebirdsUK
about 2 months ago
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male White-winged Scoter 1km east of Lower Largo, one of the White-billed Diver too
#birdingFife
#rarebirdsUK
about 2 months ago
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White-billed Diver very close in at Lower Largo, drifting east from Temple carpark
#birdingFife
about 2 months ago
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male White-winged Scoter at Leven, in scoter flock just to east of caravans
#birdingFife
#rarebirdsUK
about 2 months ago
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Great to hear Will Cresswell here talking about Corn Buntings and some of the insights he’s gained from the work he’s been doing in the East Neuk
#birdingFife
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Scotland Outdoors - The Role of the Corn Bunting in Scotland's Ecology - BBC Sounds
Mark Stephen speaks to Professor Will Cresswell about the welcome rise in corn buntings.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0mxfksf?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
2 months ago
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3 Little Auk east at Pittenweem in ongoing easterly blow, 2 Scaup at Kilconquhar Loch which also produced year tick Gadwall and Kingfisher. Exciting times
#birdingFife
2 months ago
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A Little Auk and bonus male Pintail this morning struggling east past Pittenweem in a very strong easterly blow
#birdingFife
2 months ago
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Jared Wilson
Lorraine Wilson
2 months ago
Grateful & delighted to see The Salt Oracle on the BSFA longlist among so many brilliant friends 🥰🥰🥰 EVEN MORE delighted to see the super talented Sam Gretton
@solarisbooks.bsky.social
nominated SEVERAL TIMES for his genius covers, including my beauty✨ Congrats all🤩
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Vote for the BSFA Awards
https://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-longlist
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Jared Wilson
Lorraine Wilson
2 months ago
I post a lot of very calm sea photos. Just for balance, it also does this
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Jared Wilson
Lorraine Wilson
2 months ago
I am braving the horrors of rail replacement buses to get to this, so please come 😆
add a skeleton here at some point
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Blimey, the Firecrest was ringed on 03/11/25 at the Skagen Fugelstation on the northernmost tip of Denmark
#birdingFife
add a skeleton here at some point
2 months ago
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The wintering flock of Twite at Cocklemill was up to 88 today, and the Nuthatch range expansion seems to have reached the East Neuk
#birdingFife
2 months ago
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Green Sandpiper yesterday near Pittenweem, a very unexpected January year tick
#birdingFife
2 months ago
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33 Little Auk south, 1 Puffin (first for several months), ad Little Gull & p-b Brent Goose the highlights of 90 mins late morning at Fife Ness
#birdingFife
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3 months ago
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male White-winged Scoter still @ Leven, off from the KwikFit
#birdingFife
#rarebirdsUK
3 months ago
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6 Little Auk north @ Fife Ness in a chilly and damp strong NNW this morning
#birdingFife
3 months ago
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Purple Sandpipers at Donaghadee, County Down yesterday
3 months ago
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#seabirds
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3 months ago
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#birdingUK
#rarebirdsUK
#birdingCornwall
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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The Nanjizal 2025 summary is now online. The year had the second highest annual ringing total since ringing started 30 years ago
@kesteraw.bsky.social
nanjizalbirds.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/2...
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2025 Summary of the Year
Overview This was the 30th year of ringing at Nanjizal, with the first ringing date of the year on 27th February and the final netting day on 22nd November. The year saw the usual up…
https://nanjizalbirds.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/2025-summary-of-the-year/
3 months ago
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male White-winged Scoter still at Leven 10:45 today, out from the ‘Fun Zone’ carpark
#birdingFife
#rarebirdsUK
3 months ago
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Two Manx Shearwater feeding offshore and a single Little Auk south and landing on the sea the highlights of an hour at Fife Ness first thing
#bidingFife
3 months ago
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For ID purposes videos can be great for familiarising yourself with seabird flight actions, structure, etc. but it’s a pain tracking down useful clips. I’ve collated video links for various N Atlantic species here
#seabirds
#seawatching
#birding
#birdID
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Seabird Video Footage as a Learning Resource for Seawatchers
During the last few years significant progress has been made in improving our understanding of identification criteria and distribution of previously problematic seabird species. This progress has …
https://chatterstanes.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/seabird-video-footage-as-a-learning-resource-for-seawatchers/
3 months ago
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Rather few birds past Fife Ness this morning but 5 Little Auk, ad Little Gull and Black-throated Diver south (the latter by far the scarcest species here of the three)
#birdingFife
3 months ago
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Fantastic to spot this in today’s Guardian!
4 months ago
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Jared Wilson
The Seabird Group
4 months ago
We can now announce our panel of
#Seabird
Career experts for this Friday's online panel session 📣 👩🔬 Laura Shearer
@seabirdshearer.bsky.social
👩🔬 Helen Wade 👩🔬 Jenny Coomes
@jaycee161.bsky.social
👨🔬 Rob Thomas
@robthomasbirds.bsky.social
Sign up here by Weds to attend!
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Jared Wilson
Solaris Books
4 months ago
Welcome to
@rainewilson.bsky.social
's THE SALT ORACLE, where a diverse group of academics, engineers & boatmen are cloistered together on a giant floating college, with an uncanny girl who can channel the digital ghosts scattered throughout their post-internet world... Buy
https://geni.us/saltorac
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Jared Wilson
Ian Dunt
4 months ago
Thank God for Bluesky: A little love letter to the people who would not compromise with Nazis
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Thank God for Bluesky
Yes, it's eager. Yes, it's censorious. But it has the very considerable advantage of not being fascist.
https://iandunt.substack.com/p/thank-god-for-bluesky-a58
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2 Little Auk south, a lingering Manx Shearwater, Red-necked Grebe and a Little Gull the highlights at Fife Ness first thing. A reasonable movement of Long-tailed Duck with 40 north
#birdingFife
4 months ago
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Water Pipit still @ Cocklemill Burn midday today, plus 11 Twite
#birdingFife
4 months ago
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The five Twite at Cocklemill Burn yesterday had morphed into a flock 54 by this morning
#birdingFife
4 months ago
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