2 Sandwich Tern, Great Northern Diver, 5 Red throated Diver + 30 Common Scoter off Ynyslas beach, Ceredigion this morning. Nearby, 4 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Knot, 6 Pale-bellied Brent Geese, 4 Sand Martin, 7 Great crested Grebe at the Dyfi around mouth of the River Leri. #birdingwales #ukbirding

A cracking couple of hours in a brisk NW wind at New Brighton with Wirral legend Allan Conlin @wirralbirder.bsky.social - 5 Little Gulls (3 adult, a 2nd winter and a 1st winter, 80+ Kittiwake, Razorbill, Bar-tailed Godwit, Purple Sandpiper and this ringed Cormorant in mouth of R.Mersey #ukbirding

Two adult Bonaparte’s Gulls at Llanrhystyd, Ceredigion this morning. Amazingly I found one and the same field in 2004 and @arfonwilliams.bsky.social found one there last year! 17 Med Gulls, 5 Sand Martin + 3 Wheatears too. One bird still present when I left at 12pm. #ukbirding #birdingwales ☺️👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

An enjoyable walk around Conwy RSPB. At least 6 singing Cetti’s Warbler including the stunning leucistic bird. A pair of Long tailed Tits building a nest, adult Med Gull, Great White Egret, 8 singing Chiffchaff and a Black-tailed Godwit. #UKbirding #birdingwales

A superb few days in the arid desert south of the Morocco’s High atlas. 116 species up for the trip so far (in 4.5 days!). Thick-billed Lark, Temminck’s Lark, Pharaoh Eagle Owl, Lanner Falcon, Cream-coloured Coursers and loads of migrants. A superb Desert Horned Viper too. Off to the Desert today🇲🇦

First few days in Morocco just a bit special. We haven’t even left Marrakesh area yet and we’re on 70 species. Thanks to Jack Pettit for the photos. Moussier’s Redstarts, Rock Sparrows, Plain Martin and ‘Moroccan’ Wagtail in pics. Up to the High Atlas today, can’t wait ☺️👍 🇲🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

What a morning to be in the Welsh uplands. Great to show Mark and Sophie some March highlights of North Wales for Birdwatching Trips. Lekking Grouse, displaying Goshawks, bobbing Dippers and buzzing Willow Tits. Great scenery, amazing birds! @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social #birdingwales #ukbirding

Enjoyable day travelling back from Norfolk. 13 Cranes and hundreds of wild Swans at Walney with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social , Corn Buntings, drake Ring-necked Duck, Red-necked Grebe and a Hume’s Warbler (its chosen habitat below) at various stops on the way home #ukbirding

Last full day on the North Norfolk coast with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social - Black necked and Slavonian Grebes at Brancaster, along with flock of Long tailed Ducks, A Red throated and Great Northern Diver. Several Grey Partridge at Docking, Scaup, Water Rail and Firecrest at Titchwell #ukbirding

Another superb day in Norfolk with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social and co. 27 Snow Buntings showing superbly at Holme, Fulmars playing in the wind at Hunstanton and a grey ghost male Hen Harrier giving sublime views at Stiffkey Saltmarsh. Thousands of waders, ducks and geese too ☺️👍 #ukbirding

Another great day in north Norfolk with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social The Eastern Black Redstart showed superbly at Sheringham, 3 Glossy ibis and 3 Cattle Egret at Stiffkey, Goshwaks, Dartford Warblers and Woodlarks up on the heaths and Spoonbills, thousands of Geese, waders and ducks! #Ukbirding

Good day at Holkham, Norfolk with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social and co. A mega flock of 685 Russian White-fronted Geese, 13 Bean Geese, 200 Barnacle Geese, 12 Spoonbill, 15 Woodcock, Bittern + thousands of ducks and waders. This c-r WFG has been seen in Latvia, Poland, Germany and Holland! #ukbirding

A good start to a week in Norfolk guiding with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social Good group and great birds on our first afternoon around Titchwell RSPB @rspbtitchwellsnett.bsky.social 80 species in half a day inc. Long-tailed Ducks, Scaup, Water Rail, Barn + Tawny Owl 👍 #ukbirding #birdingnorfolk

Finally caught up with some Russian White-fronted Geese. 63 of these beauties next to the road south of Holt in the Dee Valley, Wrexham. Great Egret, 100+ Wigeon, 3 Goosander, 4 Shoveler, 2 Curlew and 300+ Lapwing on flooded fields too. #birdingwales #UKbirdinv

A few hours pre-rain at Welshpool, Montgomeryshire this morning. Adult Yellow-legged Gull (with 50+ LBBG and 25 HGs), 12+ Great White Egrets, 15 Little Egret, 9 Curlew, 2 Oystercatcher, 130 Lapwing, 44 Wigeon and 2 Goosander being the highlights. #Birdingwales #UKbirding

A walk at Gronant, Flintshire - Water Pipit, Jack Snipe, 2arsh Harrier and 4000+ Common Gulls. A Norwegian ringed and UK ringed Common Gull amongst the throngs. Gulls were arriving all the time so an evening visit in calm conditions is on the cards! #ukbirding #birdingwales #cr-biring #euring

Distant + pouring with rain, but I think there’s just enough to i.d this as Anglesey’s second Caspian Gull. Dark tertials, long gangly legs (especially tibia), thin black bill + white rounded head, size. It also showed a nice black tail band + white auxiliaries when it flew #birdingwales #ukbirding

Great day out on Ynys Mon (Anglesey) and North Wales coast with Paul Leafe yesterday. bufflehead, 3 Great N Diver, 3 Slavonian Grebe, Caspian Gull, Med Gulls, Yellow-b Warbler, Green winged Teal and this superb Peregrine chasing 1000s of waders! #ukbirding #birdingwales

Finally caught up with the Morfa Madryn LNR Green-winged Teal today. The Yellow-browed Warbler showing well in its usual spot with 2 Chiff-chaff. All birds vocal today with YBW calling regularly and Chiff-chaff in full song. #ukbirding #birdingwales

Nice to Year tick the Welsh Bufflehead this afternoon. An Anglesey tick to boot. Good to catch up with the Anglesey birders who were celebrating a good bird on their patch. ☺️👍 #birdingwales #ukbirding

Catching up with a few local year ticks after being out of the country. The Yellow-browed Warbler was at Morfa Madryn NR along with a showy Firecrest. 11 Greenshank and 5 Pale-bellied Brent Geese on the saltmarsh too. #birdingwales #ukbirding

This card in my Brooke Bond tea card collection as a boy has always excited me. Today I finally saw my first species of Archer Fish, and even saw it squirt water! Also Needle Fish! Awesome Thailand! With @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social @philwoollen.bsky.social

The last few days have been awesome! Too many highlights to mention. Pics here of Collared Scops Owl, Orange Headed Trogon, Crimson Sunbird + Great Hornbill, of which we saw 24 in one tree! 282 species in the first 6 days😜. Off up north now with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social @philwoollen.bsky.social

Bingo! A Spoon-full of Thailand with Birdwatching Trips is a success! With @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social @philwoollen.bsky.social with ace Thai birder @jay-shrike.bsky.social Walk away views. Now to enjoy a fortnight of Thai birds ☺️👍 #thailandbirds #birding

A few of today’s Birdwatching Trips tour highlights from around our hotel in Bangkok. Orange-headed Thrush, Black Baza, Grey-headed and Red-wattled Lapwing. Without really trying we amassed 84 species on our ‘rest day’! ☺️👍🇹🇭#birdingthailand @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social @philwoollen.bsky.social

Great start to a two week birding trip with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social in Thailand. Orange-headed Thrush, Chestnut-sided Starling, Pink-necked Pigeons + Eastern Yellow Wagtail amongst the 44 sp. seen around our Bangkok hotel this p.m. I think this is going to be good ☺️👍 #birding #birdingthailand

A brief early visit to Anglesey with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social came up trumps with great views of the Bewick’s Swan. Initially at Cors Ddyga it flew to Pont Marquis with 20 Whooper Swans. 3 Egyptian Geese + Cattle Egret too. 6 Great N Diver + 5 Slav Grebe near Holyhead #birdingwales #ukbiring

70 species seen at @rspbburtonmere.bsky.social Burton Mere RSPB today. I wasn’t expecting Willow Tit here, calling and showing on the track to Bridge screen. 3 Short-eared Owls, Barn Owl, Little Owl, 4 Ruff, 15+ Marsh Harrier, 2 Water Rail, 12 Fieldfare the highlights. #ukbirding #birdingwales

The day started with the Lesser Yellowlegs showing continuously for an hour on the River Clwyd. 2 Kingfisher, 5 Goosander, 5 Pink-footed Goose + good numbers of waders + ducks. This evening 25+ Marsh Harriers came into Neston Reedbed to roost along with at least one Bittern #ukbirding #birdingwales

2 Snow Bunting at Gronant still. Very showy male and female. Seem as though there are very few about this winter. A bonus Water Pipit here too. Mixed Sanderling, Knot, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Turnstone was cool and fun looking through the gulls #ukbirding #birdingwales

A great day guiding along North Wales coast today with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social - Shorelark, 10 Chough, Whooper Swans, 3 Slavonian Grebes, lots of Ducks and waders, great views of Red Squirrels and 3 very showy Water Rail at @rspbcymru.bsky.social Conwy. Great weather and stunning scenery too ☺️👍

The long-staying Shorelark on the Great Orme showed well this afternoon. Finally got it on the year list on my fourth visit of 2026! Where on earth does it disappear to? Great bird and with patience shows well ☺️👍 #ukbirding #birdingwales

My father in-law is 80 years old, on his own + can’t get out. We put up some bird feeders outside the window he sits at day in day out. It brings him so much joy, he’s even singed up to the @rspb.bsky.social Big Garden Birdwatch. Today he couldn’t stop talking about today’s visitors (in the vid!) ☺️👍

Bonkers weather and road chaos scuppered a proper shot at a New Year bird race however great fun with Tony Kearney + Owen Parsons. A close Slav Grebe at the Spinnies NR was the highlight until @alexhj.bsky.social found a superb Lesser Yellowlegs on the Clwyd! cracking bird ☺️ #ukbiring #birdingwales

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda, Happy New Year. 62 species at Conwy RSPB 7.30-10am. 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Pintail, 2 Knot, Cetti’s Warbler, 14 Dunlin, Stock Dove, 154 Lapwing and these fine Red-breasted Mergansers. 13 of them displaying on the lagoon ☺️👍 good start to local birding 2026. #ukbirding #birdingwales

Only six species seen all day on an 8 mile epic from Penmaenmawr to the summit of Drum and back. At least 12 Red Grouse seen, a species I could only dream of seeing up there as a young lad. Red Kite, Raven, Stonechat, Kestrel and a Carrion Crow made up the rest of the list! #ukbiring #birdingwales

Hard to come by this winter, two Snow Buntings on Talacre Beach were a welcome surprise this afternoon. 600+ Pink-footed Geese flying west, a Water Pipit and a Jack Snipe were the highlights of a walk from Prestatyn to Gronant and back. #ukbirding #birdingwales

An unseasonal Common Sandpiper on the River Clwyd near Rhuddlan this afternoon on enjoyable walk with @angnatur.bsky.social 55 Pink footed Geese, 47 Black-tailed Godwits and many many Wigeon, Teal and Dunlin to search through. #ukbirding #birdingwales

A fine Great Northern Diver off Colwyn Bay today. No sign of any Surf Scoters, despite the perfect light. 3 Purple Sandpiper at Rhos Point in the wader flock. #birdingwales #ukbirding

An Asda shop was quickly aborted when Simon H-Roberts found a fine Drake Bufflehead at the Foryd Bay, Caernarfon today. 45 minutes later and I was watching this superb Yank duck. Great to see so many friends too making it a nice social occasion. A Welsh (and UK) tick ☺️👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #ukbirding #birdingwales

#birdingwales At least one drake Surf Scoter showing well off Colwyn Bay promenade this winter. Ranging between Porth Eirias to Llanddulas. I wonder if this was the drake we had on an October seawatch flying west earlier in the year? #ukbirding

3 weeks in Thailand to look forward too. A tourist day in Bangkok to start with. Asian Koel, Asian Pied Starling, Black-collared Starling and Red-collared Dove in photos. Nearly everything was new! Enjoyed seeing several Yellow-browed Warblers and Asian Brown Flycatchers- got the juices going 🇹🇭☺️👍

The annually returning Drake Green-wing Teal was back is back on the Tain Links Duck Pond. Fast asleep while I was there. A flock of 20+ Siskin were far more active and showing well around the pond too. 28 Bar-tailed Godwit and 5 Knot on the estuary. #ukbirding #BirdingScotland

Great to be in the company of flocks of Twite while in Sutherland. This group showed particularly well today. They’ve become very scarce back home in Wales. These birds on Coul Links near Loch Fleet where around 50 are feeding in the Saltmarsh. #ukbirding #BirdingScotland

Pre-work visit to Udale Bay RSPB to see the Goose and Woldfowl spectacle. Wow! A cacophony of noise. 1000s of Pink-footed Geese, Wigeon + waders. Several Slav Grebes + Scaup too. If you have time + patience, watch the video and spot the odd one out amongst the Pinkies ☺️👍 #BirdingScotland #UKBirding

A cracker of a day in the Highlands around Brora, Golspie and Loch Fleet. A Yellow-browed Warbler, 2 White-tailed Eagle, 750+ Eider, 70 Twite and 9 Little Gulls. Not to mention the many Purple Sands, Long tailed Ducks and hundreds of Sanderling. Stayed dry too! #UKbirdong #BirdingScotland

Visited Udale Bay today on the Black Isle. Thousands of birds! 487 Scaup, 28 Long-tailed Duck and 17 Slavonian Grebes. Many thousands of Wigeon, Pink footed Geese and waders filling the bay. Hundreds of Fieldfare and Reding arriving + 4 Brambling showing well in the rain. #BirdingScotland #UKBirding

A whole day at Tarbat Ness. The sea was kind with 3 Sooty Shearwater, 5 Little Gull, Pom and Arctic Skua, Great Northern Diver, 23 Long-tailed Duck + 4 Manx Shearwater. Many Fieldfare, Redwing + Blackbirds in-off the sea. Golden Plovers, Purple Sands + a showy Otter ☺️👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ukbiring #birdingscotland

A day in the Highlands was rewarded with 2 Golden Eagles being mobbed by Ravens. 7 Red Kite in the air at the same time too. Lots of crossbills in the conifers and surprising numbers of Bullfinches. 6 male Black Grouse feeing in Birch Trees too! Superb ☺️👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ukbirding #birdingscotland

What a difference a week makes! Many Long-tailed Ducks and Scoter have arrived since I last visited the Golspie / Brora area of Highland last week. A good candidate for ‘Siberian’ Chiffchaff, Brambling + Otter highlight at Helmsdale. Lots of Mergansers and Goosander too. #ukbirding #birdingscotland