Avocets at Saltholme yesterday morning @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

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Three different ruff at Saltholme this morning @teesbirds.bsky.social #ukbirds

Ruff preening, just now at Saltholme. One of two seen together @teesbirds.bsky.social #ukbirds #birds

Egyptian goose, Back Saltholme @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Whitethroat, ZWR @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Lapwings, ZWR @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Little terns at Seaton Carew - lots here this year, with the aid of the volunteers. @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Reed warblers, and a sedge warbler - lots of both species busy at Margrove this morning @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Glimpse of a little grebe at Margrove this morning - first one I've seen for a good while @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Singing blackcap at Margrove @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Shovels at dawn: drake rivalry at Margrove this morning. @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

What's this coot up to at Margrove? @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Sedge warbler's song-display-flight at Margrove this morning, in real time and slo-mo @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Canada geese at Margrove this morning @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Down in a diverse range of colours @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Great spotted woodpecker in clandestine operation at Margrove this morning @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

This is quite difficult to make out, but there are three blackcaps together - two males, and a female (who appears in the middle, 9 seconds). From the woodland attached to @teeswildlife.bsky.social centre, near Margrove. @teesbirds.bsky.social

Treecreeper on the horizontal. Charltons. @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Bullfinch, ground-feeding on dandelion seeds. Charltons @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Tree sparrow - nesting pair at Charltons @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Margrove lapwing trying to protect its chicks from the elements, as well as the various predators @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Lots of swallows hunting flies in the rain, low over Margrove pond @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Lapwing, Scaling @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Lots of sand martins feeding over Scaling today in the mist. @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Blackcap, Charltons @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Garden warbler and several blackcaps singing in apparently suitable territory in the Charltons area. @teesbirds.bsky.social

Redstart @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Four baby lapwings - Commondale @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Oystercatchers and lapwings at Westerdale this morning @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Buzzard and rabbit eye each other up #birds

Meadow pipit, Sleddale - keeping on watch as a cuckoo calls nearby @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Redstarts, nlest building @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social #birds

Shoveller, Margrove @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Bigfoot, AKA moorhen. Just the one chick seen tonight at Margrove @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Adder in Botton today! @teesbirds.bsky.social

One of the swallows at Margrove tonight looked particularly rosy-bellied (a little more so than the video suggests) @teesbirds.bsky.social

Pair of shoveller at Margrove, hopefully breeding @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Comma, Botton @teesbirds.bsky.social

Whitethroat, South Gare @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Wood pigeon on her nest #birds

Fresh porpoise carcass on Bran Sands, providing breakfast for great-black-backed gulls, and a carrion crow @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Newly arrived baby coots, hiding in the reeds at Coatham Marsh @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Reed warbler, Coatham Marsh just now @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Whitethroat at South Gare this morning @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Grasshopper warbler still at South Gare this morning, as per @palustris.bsky.social. @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Pair of bar-tailed godwit on Bran Sands this morning @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Song thrush pair, hunting worms - Charltons @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Beautiful crab apple tree

Great spotted woodpecker drumming (in real time, and then slowed down about 20x) - Botton @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds