Great to see @norfolkbirding.bsky.social this weekend and @tg42birder.bsky.social today on his patch. The Black-winged Kite performed this afternoon, much better in flight! Eventually settled but distantly. Hobby was nice and then we did your Little Tern colony! Superb and so many! #Norfolkbirds

Couple of great moths and one a nice surprise this weekend from our garden moth trap in Harpley! Plus good to track down several Sundew Plumes locally. #moths #norfolk @mandymyers007.bsky.social

Amazing looking Eared Leafhopper (Ledra aurita) came to light last night. @norfolknats.bsky.social

Recent moths….microtastic ♥️ #moths

We like to encourage accelerated recycling! #toxic #waste

This little Cosmopterix scribaiella (Reed Beauty) was a nice surprise in my garden moth trap on Tuesday night. They’re spreading but not many record in Norfolk yet. There are no reed beds in my little garden so presumably it wandered here from somewhere else. #NorfolkMoths #TeamMoth

Can we finally all agree that the argument “we should run the country like a business, and therefore elect businessmen to run it” has been a failed experiment?

Icterine Warbler trapped at the Bird Obs this morning. @birdguides.bsky.social @lincsbirding.bsky.social Photo’s by George Gregory and Kev Wilson.

Farage is now on a losing streak. He keeps losing by-elections, his party’s vote share peaked last year and is on a downward trajectory. Most deliciously of all, his vote is fracturing thanks to Restore - which wouldn’t exist if Farage’s ego had let Lowe stay www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Some nice moths this weekend & I do love micros. But these two cracking macros stole the show! Great find yesterday by @mandymyers007.bsky.social the Scarlet Tiger & this Lilac Beauty out of the garden trap was new a moth for us. #moths #norfolk

The referee and VAR are awful. A definite penalty for Egypt (anywhere else on the pitch that’s a foul!) followed by a free kick for barely any contact on Doku!? #Belgium #Egypt

A really quite incredible 24 hours on the Severnside patch! Avon's first record of Great Shearwater followed Thursday's scarce Pomarine Skua sighting. Then our first ever June record of Leach's Petrel (left) turned up alongside six-plus Euro Stormies. Pics: @severnsidebirds.bsky.social #ukbirding

A few pics from a recent visit up to the Scottish Highlands. Plus spectacular views of a 2 close Golden Eagles during a 20km hike…no camera! 😀

I’m going to enjoy watching the FIFA Club World Cup on TV, but the whole economic model and pricing is a disgrace, is FIFA still as corrupt as ever!? $1000 a game ticket prices??! Plus official FIFA resale of tickets & taking a cut?! Shame on you. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #FIFACWC

A grand day in northwest Norfolk, with a good movement of passerines along Hunstanton cliffs followed by Great Grey Shrike in the nearby dunes and a fine display of Bog Beacon and my first ever Red-headed Pine Sawfly (a female) in the woods at Dersingham

Central India trip report is now up and online www.oriolebirding.com/wp-content/u... @oriolebirding.bsky.social

Mike Warburton wins today's Photo of the Week for his outstanding Eurasian Goshawk portrait:

So all I’ve heard is 6 US serviceman have died on mainstream media. Whatever your opinions on the war, the tragic deaths of school children & teachers in Iran should be equally portrayed. @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social @nbcnews.com @nbcnews.com

Little Owl ‘singing’ from our garden this evening. Reminiscent of Scops Owl #ukbirding #cheshirebirding

It was good watching the local Pink-feet earlier this week and not too difficult to find some nice Tundra Beans amongst them, especially when there was a total of 18 amongst them! Also 3 Russian White-fronted Geese with this group.

Some decent weather at last! Good to see my local Goshawk population is doing very well, managed at least 3 different males this morning, possibly four! @danmartinwildlife.bsky.social

A good long walk yesterday down Blakeney Point with @mandymyers007.bsky.social proved worthwhile with a Merlin, Great N Diver and this beefcake Glaucous Gull on the end, which unfortunately got flushed before I could get some better pics, real chunky one with a colossal bill.

William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We have had multiple Yellow Weather Warnings and one Amber Weather warning for snow this winter covering our Peak District village. Snow depth peaked at about 7 cm with nothing on the last Yellow. Meanwhile images of yesteryear below... #ShiftingBaselines #ClimateChange

We're delighted to be welcoming 10 new BTO Youth Reps! 😀 Read all about their passion for nature and connect with your local rep at www.bto.org/our-work...

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

Out locally on the bike this pm. Rode past these fields with margins and cover strips, but might we be better off putting those subsidies towards educating #farmers on how to cut hedgerows? Plus not smash all the bramble down, a really important nectar source? #farmland #conservation

Great morning around Salthouse & @nwtcley with Steve Lewis, Twite, Jack Snipe, lots of Red-throated Divers and a Pale-bellied Brent showing at point blank range. Some nice shoreline delights to be found too!

Goldcrests might be tiny, but they can certainly travel a long way. A male Goldcrest ringed in Lincolnshire was caught alive 1,665 km away in northern Sweden 11 months later! #Winterwatch

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Blimey, the Firecrest was ringed on 03/11/25 at the Skagen Fugelstation on the northernmost tip of Denmark #birdingFife

China has the largest installed wind capacity in the world.

There was a wonderful selection of the rare & scarce showing well at Filby broad but you couldn’t ignore this showy stunning ♂ Goldeneye!

A thoroughly enjoyable day out East started with sifting through a few thousand Pink-feet, great to watch at least 7 Tundra Beans, this group of three showing nicely!

A wonderful experience to have guided this Botswana tour for @oriolebirding.bsky.social the full trip report is now online here www.oriolebirding.com/.../Botswana.... This tour runs again in November 2026 - if you're interested, an amazing trip!

For me, the prettiest flower of our New Year Plant Hunt had to be the exquisite soft indigo & snow white of the Ivy-leaved Toadflax. I mean, this is just wow! @linnetincley.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #cleyplants

Looks like keeping dogs on a lead might just be about to happen!? It was probably a matter of time before bird flu started jumping across to other mammals.

Farmed Salmon is not good for you or the environment, in fact it’s a disaster for the environment. Amazing how many people eat Salmon unaware of how it’s reared and think it’s good healthy food. Antibiotics, colourants, pesticide sprays and still so many infected and lice ridden.

🦢 What a swan’s 570km U-turn could tell us about water, wetlands, and a changing climate.... www.linkedin.com/posts/kane-b...

Any wildlife conservation is good! But trying to work out whether the UK’s concept of a ‘vast area for conservation’ is just that we generally have such small reserves here or that the BBC don’t have an understanding that 15 sq/miles is just 5 miles x 3 miles?! www.bbc.com/news/article...

"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic", says a conservation manager about the growth of a colony of 2,000 sooty tern seabirds. Previously, invasive rats had destroyed their eggs, making it impossible for the native birds to persist on the islands. www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/inv...

Farage: epic grifter

It all kicked off yesterday afternoon on North Ron with a Radde’s Warbler trapped at the obs! And then a Northern Bullfinch caught at HH I didn’t think it could get any better until Alison and I found this Black-throated Thrush in a net during the roost catch! #BirdingScotland #OrkneyBirding

Another good day with @sconebirding.bsky.social & @andyinnorfolk.bsky.social started yesterday with 33,000 Starlings & over 800 finches! Followed up with a nicely picked out migrating Hen Harrier by Nick at Holme & rounded off at the end of the day with this obliging juvenile Purple Sand!

Some vismig at Hunstanton with @sconebirding.bsky.social and @norfolkbirding.bsky.social produced some good passage with lots of Chaffinches heading north, unusually. A walk to the beach at Holme produced a ringtail Hen Harrier over and plenty of Blackbirds and Robins for company.

Best day so far this autumn for me. Lovely wander around Holkham & Overy with @sconebirding.bsky.social busy skies with 300+ Redwing, 40+ Brambling, 2500+ Starlings, 1-2s Fieldfare, Siskin, 20+ Blackbirds, flushed a SE Owl, Peregrine & 2 Yellow-browed Warblers.

Come work with me!! It will be fun. #seabirds

Operation Turtle Dove has issued an official statement expressing their disapproval over the captive breeding and releasing of European Turtle Dove in the UK:

Rarity finders: Isabelline Wheatear in Co Durham Finding a rare bird is thrilling, but doing so due to it landing on your arm is an entirely different level of exhilaration, as Andy Close experienced in a remarkable occurrence at Seaburn:

Brilliant & hilarious!!