Gull-billed tern Minsmere RSPB 31/05/2026 Thankfully, at Island Mere it was feeding on dragonflies, not the avocet chicks it was taking on the scrape @rspbminsmere.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #birds #suffolkbirding

Gull-billed tern Minsmere RSPB 31/05/2026 Reterned for better views feeding close to Island Mere hide @rspbminsmere.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #birds #suffolkbirding

Gull-billed tern Minsmere RSPB 30/05/2026 We were in shock when the fish we thought it was carrying, turned out to be a chick. Identified from the images as an avocet. @rspbminsmere.bsky.social #birds #suffolkbirding @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

Red-footed falcon Carlton marshes, Suffolk, 7/5/2026

Red-footed falcon Carlton marshes, Suffolk, 7/5/2026 Catching hairy dragonflies.

Cream-coloured courser Cape Verde 03/05/2026 #birds

Red-footed falcon Carlton marshes, 07/05/2026 With at least 30 hobbies. Best found by the silver on the upper wing showing clearly at distance. #birds

Red-billed tropicbird Cape Verde 02/05/2026 Having arrived in Cape Verde to meet the MV Hondius for a seabird passage to Madeira, we were told that the cruise had been cancelled due to a virus outbreak. Our thoughts are with those still on board and those who have lost friends and family. #birds

Tawny pipit Landguard, Suffolk, 30/04/2026 Best seen in the morning or late afternoon, when the heat haze decreases. Can show well but usually distant. Definitely worth putting in the time. #birds

Tawny Owl Essex, 21/04/2026 Taking a break in the box entrance. She seems to be an expert at taking #birds; catching another jackdaw (4th) last night, as well as a huge rat.

Grey wagtail Hanningfield, Essex, 20/04/2026 Relatively quiet WeBS today but the supporting #birds included a new singing nightingale area, cetti's & garden warblers, yellow and grey wagtail, swift, swallow, house and sand martin

Tawny owl Essex 16/04/2026 Due to the kids taking over the box, the female is spending as much time outside as the mobbing blackbirds and corvids allow. The feathers are jackdaws, she has caught three so far.

"Common" Nightingale Hanningfield, 18/04/2026

Nightingale Hanningfield, Essex. 17/04/2026 #birds

A few Kingfisher shots from SWT Worlingham marshes last week #ukbirding

The tawny owls are feeding and protecting 8 and 9 day old chicks. Stock doves and jackdaws have been inside the box while she has been sitting on the eggs and were chased out. This morning while resting in the entrance she had enough and a jackdaw became a midday meal for the thee of them. #birds

A local reed bed and heath morning, followed by a visit to the Brecks, produced the #bird species that a visiting colleague was hoping to see. A sing off between three nightingales, that seem to have came in over-night, and a pair of drumming lesser spots were highlights.

The irony of the Lowestoft Journal (once a decent paper wayyy back in the day) running a story about a mistakenly mis-id gull with gull pictures with the wrong names in the captions.... And 'thousands' didn't turn up. Nowhere near those numbers! #fakenews www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk/news/2596334...

Red-crested pochard Hanningfield, Essex, 23/03/2026 A very still morning for today's WeBS count.

Incubating a clutch of three eggs laid on the 25 & 28/02 and 03/03. Only 2 of 4 fledged last time. If the brood period is the same the hatching should begin around the 25-27th. The male has been bringing a mix of short-tailed vole, wood mouse and brown rat each night. #birds #EssexOwls

Hume's warbler and Firecrest Sparrows nest, Lowestoft, 06/03/2026

Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) versus White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) Pack ice off Rausu, Japan, 14/02/2026 Go #birds!

Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) & White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) Taken from a boat in the pack ice off Rausu, Japan, 14/02/2026 Go #birds!

Steller's sea eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) & White-tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) Taken from a boat in the pack ice off Rausu, Japan, 14/02/2026 A @bwntours.bsky.social tour of Japan led by Dave Farrow @mr-shortwing.bsky.social & Howard Vaughn @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social #birds

Red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis) Tsurui-Ito Tancho Sanctuary, Japan, 13/02/2026 #birds

Red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis) Tsurui-Ito Tancho Sanctuary, Japan, 13/02/2026 Taken on a @bwntours.bsky.social tour of Japan led by Dave Farrow @mr-shortwing.bsky.social & Howard Vaughn @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social

Day 11 - Winter in #Japan for @bwntours.bsky.social - 15th February 2026 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/03/day-... The final day on this extraordinary adventure. @mr-shortwing.bsky.social @chrisddarby.bsky.social @jimwillett.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2026

Day 10 - Part 2: Winter in #Japan for @bwntours.bsky.social - 14th February 2026 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/03/day-... The Valentine's Day that kept on giving... #BirdsSeenIn2026 @mr-shortwing.bsky.social @chrisddarby.bsky.social @jimwillett.bsky.social

Day 10 - Part 1: The Eagles: Winter in #Japan for @bwntours.bsky.social - 14th February 2026 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/03/day-... I am still lost for words... #BirdsSeenIn2026 @mr-shortwing.bsky.social @chrisddarby.bsky.social @jimwillett.bsky.social

Japanese macaque Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park, Japan, 06/02/2026 Behind the scenes.

Japanese macaque Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park, Japan, 06/02/2026

Japanese waxwing Honshu, Japan, February 2026 Dispersing mistletoe. #birds

Red-crowned cranes Otowa Bridge, Tsurui-mura, Japan 13/02/2026 "It will be cold in the morning, but worth it!" #birds

Day 9 - Winter in #japan for @bwntours.bsky.social - 13th February 2026 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/02/day-... Dawn to dusk with Hokkaido's dancing Cranes and fish hunting Owls. @mr-shortwing.bsky.social @chrisddarby.bsky.social @jimwillett.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2026

Day 7 - Winter in #japan for @bwntours.bsky.social - 11th February 2026 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/02/day-... Cranes, Geese & rare Starlings on the fields of Arasaki & some crab-eating Gulls up the spectacular coast. @mr-shortwing.bsky.social @chrisddarby.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2026

Day 8 - Winter in #Japan for @bwntours.bsky.social - 12th February 2026 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/02/day-... Ostensibly a travel day to the far north from Kyushu to Hokkaido but there was as usual time for some Bunting Hunting before we left. #BirdsSeenIn2026 @mr-shortwing.bsky.social

Day 6 - Winter in Japan for @bwntours.bsky.social - 10th February 2026 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/02/day-... The perfect crane day. Arasaki at its very best. @mr-shortwing.bsky.social @chrisddarby.bsky.social @jimwillett.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2026

Winter in #japan for @bwntours.bsky.social - Day 5 - 9th February 2026 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/02/wint... Bobbing with the Murrelets before before a cross country drive to Izumi. #BirdsSeenIn2026 @mr-shortwing.bsky.social @jimwillett.bsky.social @chrisddarby.bsky.social

Winter in #japan for @bwntours.bsky.social - Day 3 & 4 - 7th & 8th February 2026. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/02/wint... Quality birding in the woods and fields around Karuizawa that gave us a Double Pheasant Day before the epic journey back to Tokyo and onto Kagoshima down south.

Winter in #japan for Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours - Day 2 - 6th February 2026 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/02/wint... Monkeys in the bath, ducks on a pond and furtive woodland passerines. @mr-shortwing.bsky.social @chrisddarby.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2026

Winter in #japan for @bwntours.bsky.social - Day 1 - 5th February 2026 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/02/wint... The Shinkansen to Karuizawa with some quality birding between there and Yundanaka. #BirdsSeenIn2026 @mr-shortwing.bsky.social @chrisddarby.bsky.social

Bloggage begins: Winter in #Japan for @bwntours.bsky.social - Day 0 - a prelude. A walk in the park... blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/02/wint... @mr-shortwing.bsky.social @jimwillett.bsky.social @chrisddarby.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2026

Back from a stunning two week @bwntours.bsky.social tour of Japan led by the exceptional Dave Farrow & Howard Vaughn (@mr-shortwing.bsky.social @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social). Snow monkeys, fishing owls, 7 species of crane and 100's of eagles. I cannot thank and recommend it / them enough!👏👏👍

Blakiston's fish owl Yoroushi Onsen, Japan, 14/02/2026 Female watching the male at the fishing pool. #birds

Blakiston's fish owl Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan, 13/02/2026 The male caught 1, then 3 fish in two visits which it fed to the female in a tree above us. #birds

Blakiston's fish owl Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan, 13/02/2026 A 2 second exposure while it watched the fishing pool. #birds

Arasaki has been kind to our @bwntours.bsky.social adventure with not only 12000 Cranes of 6 species but singles of 3 rare Geese, various Buntings, Raptors, Rails & Gulls. We found vagrant flocks of 11 Chinese Grosbeaks & 22 Red-billed Starlings! Today is a two plane day way up to snowy Hokkaido+

Crane sunrise Izumi, Japan. 10/02/2026 13,000 leaving after breakfast. Six species - hooded, white-naped, common, sandhill, demoiselle and Siberian. A jaw dropping sight and the sound is mind-blowing!!!! #birds

While watching a heron catch perch at Hanningfield reservoir, the reeds moved behind it. #birds

Shorelark Kessingland shore pools 06/01/2026 With patience (= sitting still) the four #birds will settle and give good views