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Picked a likely looking hillock and left a static recorder out, and couldn't have hoped for a better result... 🫨🎙💥 #blackgrouse 🖤

Nothing to see here, just 22,400 Sabine's Gulls in one flock... 🤯🇨🇦😍 ebird.org/checklist/S3...

It's that time of year again, baby birds everywhere at #salopobs including the garden pond Moorhens (after first clutch was lost). Starlings have fledged, House Sparrows sound like they're not far off... #spring

Happy 100th Birthday, Sir David Attenborough 🎉 Thank you for helping generations of people fall in love with the natural world — for opening our eyes to its beauty, complexity and fragility, and for reminding us why it matters so deeply. #DavidAttenborough #Nature #Wildlife

Still tripping over dozens of Painted Ladies this week, each one making me wonder how far it has come on its stage of the #migration relay

Hundreds of Painted Lady butterflies in East Yorkshire today, along with smaller numbers of Silver Y moths and Red Admirals @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

A sea of Bluebells lapping against a Beech woodland, one day late for #wildflowerhour. Not sure I've ever seen so many in one place as in the wood I came across at work today on the Yorkshire Wolds

The 6th(!) #salopobs record of Bittern flew over on Tuesday night, giving four calls over four minutes, all of which are collated here. Must have been almost overhead on the third! An excellent #nocmig week with 2 Quail as well! #ukbirding

A week of early starts and late finishes has been hard work, but well worth it in this weather. Just stunning

Although very distant to start with, the Dotterel on the Long Mynd showed very nicely as the sun was setting behind giving this lovely glow. Very tricky lighting and wind but what a wonderful wildlife encounter! Thanks @saloplarus.bsky.social for finding them!

Back in the hills today with some of my favourite Lepidoptera: dozens of Green Hairstreaks and my almost annual stumble across an Emperor Moth with no pheromones involved except my own 🥴 #teammoth

27/18 in this morning's cloud-assisted mothtrap, including some tasty favourites and the first hawk of the year: lime, choc, nut 😋 #salopmoths #teammoth

Heavenly on the Long Mynd this morning. Went for the inversion, stayed for the Dotterels. Magic 🤩 #spring #migration #shropshirebirding #ukbirding

Day off so got up above the clouds on the Long Mynd and found myself a birthday present: 4 stunning Dotterel! Love it when a plan comes together 😍 #shropshirebirding #ukbirding

Spent the morning watching terns (11 Black, 2 Little, 61 Arctic) and waders (80 Whimbrel, 200 Knot) migrating north over a glassy Irish Sea at Fleetwood, then came across another 2 Black Terns on home turf at The Mere #Ellesmere. Happy days #spring #ukbirding

An abysmal image of a cracking little bird. After a day spent constantly hoping for more than just another Wheatear, this Wood Sand was found on a roadside flood on the drive home #lancsbirding #ukbirding

Spent a pleasant afternoon watching small flocks of migrant Whimbrels dropping out of the blue sky onto the Wyre Estuary, one of which was accompanied by a brick-red male Barwit 😍 #migration #lancsbirding #ukbirding

Saw probably my earliest ever Swift today, powering NE into the wind in Lincs. Amazing. And Whitethroats everywhere! #spring #vismig #lincsbirding #ukbirding

A fantastic weekend at #salopobs with the first Cuckoo and Whitethroats, more Wheatears, and best of all, garden tick 💥152💥 in the form of 7 Blackwits dropping into nearby Condover Quarry early this morning 🥳 #happydays #ukbirding

The beautiful one day old Moon and Venus about to set over Lyth Hill, from the back garden just now #Moon #astrophotography

Another stunning morning today with the waning crescent Moon rising out of the fog. Made all the better by a backdrop of my first Whitethroats of the year 🎶 #yorkshirebirding

An added bonus of getting up way too early was a glimpse of the summer #MilkyWay from the drive this morning. The year rolls on... #astrophotography

Spring stepped it up a gear at #salopobs this morning with this gorgeous 2cy male 💥Pied Fly💥 in the paddock by the garden (first non-nocmig record), 8 Wheatears and 3 Willow Warblers moving thru, and lots more of all three hirundines #ukbirding #migration

Our drake Lesser Scaup was still waving to passers-by at The Mere #Ellesmere this evening before flying to the far SE end, and the heronry is starting to get noisy 🐣 #shropshirebirding #ukbirding

There's not much better than skuas, and spring adults are a rare treat. A couple of Arctics cutting some shapes as they raced north along the Blackpool/Fleetwood coast this evening were just fantastic 😍 #lancsbirding #ukbirding

13 Wheatears along the Fylde coast at Rossall this morning +White Wag and a few Redpolls north. Little Tern and a dozen Sandwich offshore #lancsbirding

The Mere Lesser Scaup: a 23-day gap between sightings, but just two early negative reports, and only four eBird checklists(!) in that time. Did it ever actually leave?! What's that? Underwatched?! 🤯 #shropshirebirding #ukbirding

Look who's back at The Mere #Ellesmere this morning! Not the tern or wader I was looking for! #shropshirebirding #ukbirding

Red sky in the morning, migrants warning. The first Wheatear of the year, Great Egret, a few more Swallows and that sunrise were the highlights of a couple of hours in the #salopobs garden this morning ebird.org/checklist/S3... #ukbirding

It's a beautiful night out there. Orion low in the west, Venus setting, and a glimpse of #zodiacallight reaching up towards Pleiades 🤩 #astrophotography

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

14yrs ago yesterday... #thayersgull #lincsbirding #timeflies

Always nice to catch a bit of Easter #aurora - this was the view from the back garden here in Shropshire half an hour ago

First trap of the year last night after a warm day. 28/9 wasn't a bad return, best of the bunch this fuzzball Brindled Beauty #teammoth

A bit of south back in the wind, and the first Osprey of the year has just gone NNW over #salopobs 🥳 Watched for 15mins as it covered about 6 miles from Acton Burnell to Central Shrewsbury #ukbirding #vismig #migration

The Battlefield gull field produced the goods again on the way home this evening, with the reappearance of the big 2cy #CaspianGull last seen on 23rd Feb #shropshirebirding #ukbirding bsky.app/profile/salo...

A relatively quiet morning at Waxham, with the exception of a side-by-side view of the Glaucous and Iceland Gulls off Waxham Sands Campsite. A single White Wagtail was also of note on the campsite turf.

Still 1 Todd's Canada Goose (larger of @stuartsbirding.bsky.social weekend birds) on Crossens Outer Marsh this morning with 16,000+ Pinks +Tundra Bean, 2cy PBBrent, 24+ Russian Whitefronts, 130+ Barnacles #lancsbirding #goosefest

Sleet, hail, sunshine and even freezing rain in squally showers on the Wyre Estuary this morning #loveukweather #backtowinter

British Columbia’s first-ever Taiga Bean Geese (middendorffii) gave fabalis views in Port Renfrew yesterday. Hot on the heels of Canada’s first Taiga Flycatcher, they continue this winter’s run of Taiga vagrants in the province. #CanadianBirding

Found my first March tick today, nestled under my wedding ring! Presumably from a Red Deer heavy site near Stirling at the weekend 😫 #betickaware #climatechange bsky.app/profile/lyme...

Bit of #aurora from my airbnb in the Trossachs this evening, and a glimpse of a new spring Moon 💚🌙

Slightly better view of the #Kintyre Ross's Goose at East Machrihanish this afternoon, and nearby a spring superflock of 1,906 Greenland Whitefronts (click-counted!) behind Drumlemble primary school. Still 2+ Russians with 230+ Greenlands at Rhunahaorine but flushed by an adult WTE #birdingscotland

Fantastic image of the current mega Taiga Bean Goose just north of Isombridge #shropshirebirding by local celebrity Clive Biddulph #rarerthanLesserScaup #ukbirding

Review of the Week: 9-15 March 2026 A Tengmalm's Owl caused a stir in Shetland, while an Oriental Turtle Dove was discovered in Northern Ireland. Miles Cluff reports:

Following a flyby find yday and stellar relocation today by John Reeves, what appears to be #shropshirebirding first Taiga Bean Goose with 2 Pinks by the River Tern at Isombridge late afternoon. Comments welcomed! #ukbirding

It all felt a bit Central Park 🇺🇸 at The Mere, #Ellesmere this morning with #shropshirebirding third Lesser Scaup feeding under the prom 😍 #ukbirding

Had to go back this morning for better views of the drake Lesser Scaup that I found on Friday on The Mere, #Ellesmere and look what happened! Unbelievable views 💥 #happymothersday #shropshirebirding #ukbirding

That time of year again when we're woken up by the sound of hieroglyphics being carved into the sky above #salopobs 😍 #skylark macaulaylibrary.org/asset/652749...