Thats it for the season! The Isle of May is officilly closed as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

Three Zitting Cisticola were active at weekend with 2 birds (males?) chasing each other about. Both pictured here, one with a lost second tertial on right wing #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

Campbell island , NZ

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📉 Our new paper shows Bewick’s Swan numbers in NW/NE Europe have fallen to ~12,900 birds - a 56.7% decline since 1995, with further losses predicted by 2026 unless survival or breeding success improves. Flyway-wide conservation is urgent. 🦢 Download paper > tidsskrift.dk/Wildfowl/art... #Ornithology

After constant badgering from @jonnybirder.bsky.social and @sconebirding.bsky.social I've finally put together a Canada Goose blog. For the certified #Wildfowl #elite 💯🦆 only. Also feat. @btobirds.bsky.social ♠️ #Science thewrongtimebirding.blogspot.com/2025/12/burn...

Weekly birding round-up: 5 - 11 Dec As we move into December there are still some high quality rarities to be found, headlined by a Scops Owl in Glamorgan Read Jon Dunn's review of the week here www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/W...

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The garden Yellow-browed Warbler has been quite obliging for the last 2 days. Seen morning, 08:30-ish and afternoon 14:30-ish. I even heard it from the house at lunchtime yesterday. #suffolkbirds

One of the standout #shorebirds of any tour here in The #Gambia is the stop-the-clock gorgeous Egyptian #Plover - we ended up venerating 14 different amazing individuals! #FlywayBirding #EgyptianPlover

I'm at a meeting in Bali this week - the local mudflat has provided some pre-breakfast entertainment with several Javan Plovers providing a welcome world tick! Grey-tailed Tattler, Greater Sand Plover and Great Crested Tern as supporting cast.

The Scops Owl near Swansea was illuminated by low light and only for a few seconds. It was feeding happily on the ground and was not disturbed. Its amazing what Lightroom can do!

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Akrotiri looking like a wetland again: Siberian Pipit was a nice surprise + Wigeon, Bonelli’s Eagle, Black w Stilt, 6 Spotshank, Ruff, Green Sand, 2 White Throated Kingfisher, Citrine Wagtail , 20 Water & 15 Red throated Pipit, Bluethroat, 2 Moustached Warbler & Penduline Tit #cyprusbirds

Raven at work today, mobbed by Hooded Crows. Perched up for good views. #birds.

Another top Oman target bird is the enigmatic Arabian Golden-winged Grosbeak. Never easy to see, and wary, I was delighted to get great views of this male yesterday. #Oman #omanbirding #birds

Black-crowned Night Heron. Perhaps one of the surprises of the year on my local patch of North Cave Wetlands was this adult, presumably last year's returning bird. The bird gave good views at times over its 9 day stay.

Scops Owl still Dunvant Park, Swansea #ukbirding

Almost emotional seeing Micklemere finally holding water and covered in birds! Helps that channels have been dug out. Masses of Teal and Marsh Harrier highlights of lunch visit. ♠️ #SuffolkBirding

New blog post: #seychelles #birding wirralbirders.blogspot.com/2025/12/cous...

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share videos, photos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution of an Atlantic Puffin swimming #SuperSeabirdSunday

On this day 40 years ago: Black and White Warbler at How Hill, an inland Norfolk nature reserve, of all places! 1985 truly was the Autumn that just kept giving. I seem to remember Ticker stepping into a puddle, without realising it was 4’ deep. 💦 The rest of the day had its merits too. See ALT

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Not sure if vid. works on repeat, but anyway this should be one of the juv GNDs on the Stour this week losing its rag with a fish way too big to swallow and hammering it with its beak. #BirdArt

WWT Welney looking stunning at the moment. Absolutely packed full of wintering wildfowl and waders.

Hen Harrier. Coloured pencils on paper

Highlight of today's WeBS count was this Snow Bunting on Stone Point, East Mersea this afternoon. #Essexbirding #UKbirding

Well that’s the first of this year’s Oman tours wrapped up, with a total of 230 species. We ended in style yesterday with great views of Sociable Lapwing and this cracking Caspian Plover. Now onto tour 2 with some time for mammals too 🤞🏻 #Birds #Oman #WiseBirding

Weekly birding round-up: 28 Nov - 4 Dec Just when you thought the winter doldrums had set in, the birding gods come roaring back at us with some top notch rarities Read @dunnjons.bsky.social review of the week here www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/W...

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The local patch Yellow-browed Warbler was showing and calling well late morning. Wonder whether it will linger until the new year!? #SuffolkBirding

Found a Black Redstart on lunch run. That's sort of shit you can expect fron me! ♠️

So last Rattray one for now. On 20th October this year I found a nightingale at Rattray. Around an 8th for Aberdeenshire and first since 2007. Then as my photos hit the various channels it was identified as an Eastern Nightingale. 2nd for Scotland and 4th for Britain. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK

Episode 3 is live! You want. You get. Our Aberdeen connection Mr. @andycarroll1973.bsky.social is dropping truth bombs #TheTwoJonnies #BirdWatching #Serious thetwojonnies.podbean.com

Rook flying to roost at #RSPBLakenheathFen

Curlew Sandpiper at Hayle Estuary This bird was photo’d today (3rd Dec) from the road bridge. Luckily it was the closest wader and gave great views in perfect low winter sunshine. Curlew Sand is a rare winter visitor to Cornwall. As far as I know, this is currently the only one atm.

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This time, the washes were ready! 🦢✅ After a 570km U-turn north to Aberdeenshire, likely due to low water at the Ouse Washes, the same swan has migrated south again & arrived to restored, higher levels. A real-world example of landscape-scale habitat assessment by migratory birds.

Exciting night birding in Oman with Egyptian Nightjar (photo), Sykes’s Nightjar and Arabian Eagle Owl in recent days. #Birds #Oman #WiseBirding

A 1st year female Siberian Rubythroat in a Shetland @rspbscotland.bsky.social Species on the Edge winter cover crop this afternoon. #birdingshetland #birdingscotland

This Merlin was terrorising Skylark at Knettishall Airfield yesterday. Absolutely awesome 💯🦅 #SuffolkBirding #Raptors

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Welney packed with waterbirds this afternoon including 401 Pintail, 313 Pochard. 22 Cranes flew SW at 1630. This morning, nearby fields had over 1000 Whooper Swan and 27 Bewick's Swan. #NorfolkBirding @wwtworldwide.bsky.social

Here's a backlit GND from the Stour earlier in the week. Beak open between dives. #BirdArt

Second week in a row - absolutely belter Red Kite roost near home. ♠️ #SuffolkBirding #Raptors 💯🦅

Crimson-Collared Tanager, Arenal Costa Rica November 2025. #Birdsoftheworld #tanager #arenal

Grey Wagtail from this morning's birding. ♠️ #SuffolkBirding #Knettishall

Always a treat to come across Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse during daylight hours. Our @wisebirding.bsky.social group had amazing views of 7 birds in Mudayy, Oman, yesterday #oman #omanbirding #birds

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