Pittas of Borneo

Unbelievably stoked when these two beauties passed right overhead! @caithnessbirds.bsky.social A couple of futile trips to the coast here this week turned up little, so to have two inland long-tailed skua migrate N over me at Broubster was literally a fantasy come true! 👌 #birdingscotland

Local patch birding this morning: three migrant Pittas in one hour - Fairy, Western Hooded & Blue-winged.

My Merlin hunting Western Sandpipers watercolour is available as giclée print. Size: 30 x 40 cm, limited to 95 copies. Price: 170 EUR, half of it goes to our Artists for Nature/Native Conservancy project, publishing our book on the Copper River Delta. PM for details!

@birdguides.bsky.social why’s there a correction on the red-rumped swallow report from Weymouth? Has been seen by multiple observers including @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social and there are photos

There are few Baikal Teal (Sibirionetta formosa 花脸鸭 Huāliǎn yā) wintering at the Yellow River estuary in Shandong Province. Photo by "菜小hua". #birds #china #yellowriver

Grok's new "feature" that allows users to undress women in photos posted to X is a new low for the platform. If you're somehow still active over there, I urge you to let this be your final straw.

Went to see this interesting gull found in Cork city yesterday by Alex Lynch. It seems most likely to be an adult Black-headed x Bonaparte's Gull, a very rare pairing and not conclusively proven anywhere as yet, as far as I can see, but with two strong candidates from Spain and France.

Is this the world’s first Siberian Thrush Christmas cake?! My cake celebrates this bird, seen with @sheldonbirds.bsky.social on our way back from Fair Isle in October. Made from clay & painted (badly) in acrylics. Happy Christmas all! #SiberianThrush #ChristmasCake #UKbirding #UKwildlife

Juvenile green woodpecker in the trees at the edge of the north end of RSPB radipole reserve. It or another very noisy bird has been hanging around here for the last couple of weeks

Sooty shearwater off Portland Bill 1140-1220 at least, mostly sat on the sea at long range, almost impossible to pick up if you don’t know it’s there. But originally picked up flying around at medium range. Lots of Manx and Balearic milling around too, some showing quite well

Stock dove showing nicely on neighbours roof (phone-binned photo)

Spotted flycatcher north end of radipole RSPB Weymouth

This dragonfly in my garden in Weymouth is scarce chaser correct?

Nice views of a perched female hairy dragonfly near the dilapidated bridge at chafey’s lake, Weymouth

HULK ADAM SMASHES DIRE WOLVES. Man alive this vexes me, and I am a bit sweary and irritable in this. Enjoy. arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...

Subalpine warbler spp police fields southill

Cuckoo, willow warbler, swallow and house martin all seen at pilsdon pen, west Dorset

Flock of 20 or so sand martin prospecting the nesting bank at radipole RSPB

Reed warbler singing at radipole RSPB, Weymouth, near start of buddleia loop

Red kite overhead two mile coppice Weymouth at around 1210

Good count of 5 lesser black-backed gulls across from the radipole tennis courts in Weymouth

Found this interesting looking Wagtail in a flock of ca. 60 White Wagtails today at Pareyer Luch, Eastern Germany. It showed a complete eye stripe on both side of head and looks quite promising to be an East Siberian Wagtail (ocularis).

Just a few more days left to apply for this PhD with me working on Vibrio bacterial dormancy in the River Teign and Conwy. Check out details below 👇 #ExeterMarine @exetermarine.bsky.social #MicroSky

Just on the slim chance that anyone is aware of anyone magically acquiring a new pair of binoculars or you see them offered for sale .... my Leica Ultravid 10 x 42 binoculars were stolen from a hide at WWT Slimbridge on 11 December. The serial number is 1593393. #BirdingGear

Marmalade hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus on the wing this morning, Weymouth esplanade

7 cattle egret with cows at the north end of radipole RSPB

Spotted flycatcher at radipole RSPB visitor centre

Portland bill sea watch not great this morning, 5 manxies the highlight, also a ringed plover overhead

Visibility improving at Portland bill, a few bits and pieces moving through incl 7 Balearic, 1 storm petrel. 1 cory’s reported from earlier (I missed it…)

Foggy at Portland bill, have heard redshank and grasshopper warbler near the Obs and seen one wheatear

Willow warbler in song Lodmoor RSPB

Hello. First post on here, so I will make sure that it is as unexceptional as possible so as not to raise expectations for the future. Great northern diver and 2 pale-bellied brents at ferrybridge this morning. Big flock of sand martins at radipole this afternoon. Winter and summer in one day