A Savanna Hawk caught mid-scream at Ceibas today. #Birds

A Giant Wood Rail from Ceibas, Argentina today, with a particularly mad look in its eye. #Birds

If I've learned one thing from social media it's that everyone loves Burrowing Owls. Here's one from Ceibas, Argentina today. #Birds #Owls

Back in Argentina and here's my first new bird of the trip trotting into view: a Spotted Rail at Lobos. #Birds

I've read the intro and the Ingold piece and I can already tell this is a banger of a special issue on more-than-human agency in conservation. 🌎🌐

The latest issue of Environmental Values is a special issue called 'Taking care together: Conservation as more-than-human process' edited by Sara Asu Schroer, Paolo Gruppuso and myself. Read our introduction, Tim Ingold's commentary and most of the articles here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/enva/34/6

A Common Snipe trying to avoid detection in the marsh at St Fittick's Park, Aberdeen today. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

You: Catherine, why don't you use genAI? Me: Because there are not, in fact, any wild penguins in Stonehaven, Scotland. (Screenshot from Google AI.)

At least one Red Squirrel is still around St Fittick's Park. This one was coming into the bird feeders today. #UKWildlife #Squirrels #Mammals

It's not often I see Crossbills feeding, so I enjoyed a group of 12 that were getting stuck into the larch cones in St Fittick's Park today. Crossbills surely possess one of the best tongues in the bird world. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

The seaweed patch in Greyhope Bay is often worth checking. Today, as well as the regular Rock Pipits, there was a female Black Redstart and a lovely Snow Bunting. Both were my first for the year at Girdle Ness. #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding #UKWildlife

I'm still gleaning patch year ticks at Girdle Ness with this Velvet Scoter that flew north today. Meanwhile, the Great Northern Diver continues in the harbour. #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding #UKWildlife

This Woodcock was quietly roosting under a small conifer in St Fittick's Park today. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife #ThermalBirding

Jack Snipe have been hard to find this year, but this one at St Fittick's Park today shone out in the thermal imager as it flattened down against the edge of the reeds. #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding #UKWildlife #ThermalBirding

A juvenile Arctic Tern at Girdle Ness today, which in late November should be as far south as it currently is north. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife #PatchBirding #SuperSeabirdSunday

A fox in the snow on the bowling green in Torry, Aberdeen today, a carton of tuna steak giving some nourishment in the cold. #UKWildlife #FoxOfTheDay

“As a medical anthropologist, I’m fascinated by the political, economic, and social networks that have transformed humble bird’s nests into one of the most expensive animal products in the world.” Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/edib...

Hard agree. Incredible that you can routinely drive in winter from Grantham to Norwich now and not see a single flock. It is increasingly becoming a bird of reserves and not the wider countryside, even in winter #UKBirding

Purple Sandpipers gathering on the rocks at Greyhope Bay, Girdle Ness today, their busy twittering cutting through the rolling surf. Their numbers are building up for the winter but changes in roosting habits make it harder to accurately assess the numbers these days. #Birds #BirdingScotland

The young Great Northern Diver is still in Aberdeen Harbour, today ploughing head-first through the waters and pulling out fish. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

You make a fair point about the disappearance of breeding Lapwing, Andrew. The thinning out of the breeding distribution has meant that they have ceased to be a 'local' bird for many. This was a sad blog to write: wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/2... #ornithology

Things have come to a pretty pass when it takes until mid-November to see my first Lapwing of the year at Girdle Ness. This one was in Greyhope Bay this morning. Maybe the bird that's undergone the most perceptible loss in British avifauna in my lifetime. #Birds #BIrdingScotland #UKWildlife

Seawatching below grey skies and an easterly at Girdle Ness. After yesterday's late Sooty Shearwater, 2 more passed today. Also, 2 Little Auks, 3 Bonxies, a Manx Shearwater and a Little Gull. The highlight was my first Slavonian Grebe here for several years, heading north. #Birds #BirdingScotland

My latest ever Sooty Shearwater headed north over some iridescent seas at Girdle Ness this afternoon. Bunched parties of Kittiwakes were heading the same way, looking for a route out to the Atlantic. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

Foggy arrivals at Girdle Ness today: Short-eared Owl (primarily), the NS Iona (emergently), the sun (diffusely). #Birds #BirdingScotland #weather #UKWildlife

An immaculate juvenile Great Northern Diver in Aberdeen Harbour today. #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding #UKWildlife

Proper #patchgold today in St Fittick's Park with this drake Gadwall on the main marsh. It's only my fourth ever record here and the first for five years. #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding #UKWildlife

Grey cold at Girdle Ness today, but the wind had eased from yesterday. A late morning flurry of 40 Little Auks was enjoyable. Other birds moving included 2 Sooty Shearwaters, a Great Northern Diver, 3 Little Gulls, a Merlin, and 26 Long-tailed Ducks. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife #PatchBirding

Arduous conditions at Girdle Ness this morning, with showers more on than off and a biting north-westerly. Relatively slow going at sea, with three Little Auks the highlight. Also one Great Northern Diver and 32 Long-tailed Ducks. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

A few tired looking Goldcrests arrived at Girdle Ness today. This one was gleaning insects in the willows but another had only got as far as a patch of thistles, before heading to the unlikely surrounds of the harbour breakwater. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

Today brought the autumn's first real arrival of thrushes at Girdle Ness, mostly Redwings and Blackbirds but a few Fieldfares strutted the short grass too. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

Pixels win prizes. This resplendent adult Pomarine Skua was the seawatching highlight at Girdle Ness today, picked out by @inchgarthbirding.bsky.social #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding #UKWildlife

A pale phase Arctic Skua directs aggro towards a Common Gull off Girdle Ness today. It then gets chased off by another Common Gull. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

Third helping of Winter Well on air soon. (Just before The Archers for those who like to listen live to Radio 4!) Episode 3 - ‘Get Out and Notice’ shares light-filled ideas and activities in the open air. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @hesterparr.bsky.social @alecfinlay.bsky.social

My first Long-tailed Ducks of the autumn arrived in to the harbour mouth at Girdle Ness today, encouraged by a light northwest wind. Interesting to see their feet. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

The 2nd calendar year Glaucous Gull reappeared at Girdle Ness today, sweeping across the bay before settling on the south breakwater. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

Terns seem to be staying later at Girdle Ness these days. This adult and juvenile Arctic Tern wandered between Greyhope Bay and Aberdeen Bay this afternoon. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

An unusual view of a group of Long-tailed Tits that forayed along the north side of Girdle Ness today. There were eleven in the flock and they circled out over the harbour for a short time. Like other tits, they seem to be wandering more widely than usual this autumn. #Birds #BirdingScotland

& sudden fall of temperature soon as sun goes, sky shocks indigo in aftermath & last weekend's stormwaters driven overground

A flat-screen TV sea at Girdle Ness today, stitched by lines of auks, gulls, Shags and rolling Harbour Porpoises. A Great Northern Diver blended the seasons in its plumage. #Birds #Cetaceans #BirdingScotland

Regular Moorhen appreciation post. St Fittick's Park, Aberdeen, today. #Birds #BirdingScotland

It was warm, calm and muggy at Girdle Ness today, feeling rather between seasons. Birds included a few Grey Wagtails, my first Little Grebe here this year, lots of Long-tailed Tits and three Stonechats. #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding

I was delighted to find this Twite in the field by Girdle Ness lighthouse today. It's my first here for 13 years. They used to be almost annual but have become much less frequent, in common with their decline nationally. #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding

A strong Icelandic feeling to the birds at Girdle Ness today: Juvenile Pomarine Skua Brent Goose (Pale-bellied!) 2 Great Northern Divers 25 Whooper Swans 33 Red-breasted Mergansers 5 Greylag Geese 440 Pink-footed Geese 2 Little Gulls 3 Golden Plovers Bar-tailed Godwit #Birds #BirdingScotland

A freshly stranded By-The-Wind Sailor, one of many pushed ashore by strong winds on the west coast of Barra today. Lots of obvious specimens of 6-8cm scattered over the beaches but also masses of tiny ones down to 5mm in length spread along the strandline. #Beachcombing

The two Brent Geese were along the shore at Girdle Ness this morning but then headed off high to the south. A mea culpa that these are actually Dark-bellied Brents, which are much rarer here. I should have waited to see them out of the water! #Birds #BirdingScotland

This Glaucous Gull appeared on the breakwater at Girdle Ness today, perhaps the same bird that was present earlier in the year. Other birds in the wake of Storm Amy included my first Mediterranean Gull of the year and a lovely pale juvenile Long-tailed Skua. #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding

This Merlin skimmed through Greyhope Bay today, just ahead of Storm Amy. Autumn is the peak time for them here. #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding

Some closer photos of the two Pale-bellied Brent Geese from Girdle Ness today. They seem to be finding some tasty seaweed in the harbour waters. Such delicate geese. #Birds #BirdingScotland #UKWildlife

I was pleased to catch up with the two Pale-bellied Brent Geese that have been frequenting the harbour at Girdle Ness recently. These will be resting on their way from Svalbard to Northumberland. #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding