Brilliant & hilarious!!

Marsh Warbler at Hillswick this afternoon was a just reward for our Shetland group after sticking out some pretty grim weather for most of the day! Very elusive but eventually showed ok - a really buttery one which at times looked more like a Garden or pale Icterine! #UKbirding #UKbirds

After the Peregrine vs LTSkua battle I went home, made a coffee and settled down to see if a heavy shower had dropped anything into the back garden. Bingo! First garden record of Redstart! #ukbirding

Watching @lfcr.bsky.social v Southampton and just switched over from @itvsport.bsky.social to @skysportpl.bsky.social as Stephen Warnock’s punditry is so dreadful!!

Great morning at Hunstanton with great company. Star of the show was this Cory’s Shearwater! @garyhibberd.bsky.social @andyinnorfolk.bsky.social @norfolkbirding.bsky.social @garyelts.bsky.social

Well, I didn't expect to see one of these today - Pechora Pipit at South Shields this afternoon. A very tough bird to see, and showed mainly in flight, but it did show well on a couple of occasions... a proper mainland mega, and a lifer for me. #UKBirding #NEBirding

Chagas disease, a potentially deadly condition caused by a parasite carried by insects called kissing bugs, should now be considered endemic in some parts of the United States and should be considered in the diagnosis so that people can receive prompt treatment. www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Ooooh, some actual scrutiny …. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

One of the @ldvnnr.bsky.social reintroduced Corncrakes has pinged our MOTUS Tower! On 24th August at 21:32 it was picked up migrating over Spurn for 6 minutes! Amazingly, the same bird was detected just 90 minutes later at Weybourne, Norfolk! More info here www.facebook.com/share/p/1Arw...

A day behind the Pink-feet, our first Whooper Swans of the autumn touched down on Barra. This family of 3 were resting in the bay when we got home this afternoon. #BirdingScotland

We are on applecross in west Scotland All day skeins of pink-footed geese have been flying over. They are migrating from Greenland and Iceland to their wintering grounds in the U.K. - perhaps north Norfolk! Winter is coming!!!

A last minute weekend in Tarifa,Sunday saw thousands of Raptors and took an unexpected turn when @beachyheadbirder.bsky.social and I found a Blue-cheeked bee eater.Initially heard calling,then some disbelief but picked up on wires.Thanks @ingloriousbustards.bsky.social ‘s group lending us a scope!

A few pics from @oriolebirding.bsky.social tour to Andalucia last week. Amazing day 3 as 17000 Honey Buzzards passed, we personally enjoyed around 8k in an awesome morning mixed with Marsh & Montagu’s Harriers, Booted & Short-toed Eagle, White & Black Storks & hundreds of Bee-eaters! #birding

A superb days seawatching at Hunstanton yesterday with @mochaman.bsky.social @mandymyers007.bsky.social @andyinnorfolk.bsky.social 147 Manx, a Balearic, 10 Arctic, 3 Great, a Pom, 277 Gannet also migrants over the sea 4 Marsh hr, an Osprey, GWEgret plus Yw Wags, Swallow, H Martin & Mipits.

My recent seawatching-inspired artwork for @aluladesigns.bsky.social, a Fea's type Pterodroma petrel #SuperSeabirdSunday #BirdArt

Colour-ring readers jave contributed greatly to the science underpinning 1️⃣0️⃣ years of WaderTales blogs. One of the best studies, in terms of feedback to observers, is the Sanderling project run by @jeroen-reneerkens.bsky.social. More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/10/04/t... #ornithology

Whole region struggles to hold water now, as water table has fallen so far due to drainage & abstraction (more housing is making that worse). The meres will never come back, as water would have to be kept in, above the water table and against the flow, rather than being a sink where water flows in.

What a truly amazing days birding in the Straits of Gibraltar on @oriolebirding.bsky.social tour - c9000 Honey Buzzards, hundreds of Booted, Short-toed Eagles, 1000+ Bee-eaters, 25 Montagu’s Harriers, Black Storks & over 1000 White Storks, the latter performing this mesmerising sight overhead!!

Somebody get Roy Keane on TV now!! 😂😂

How they returned Holkham back to wetlands with breeding spoonbill and little, cattle and great white egret. All about water control and managing cattle grazing. youtube.com/watch?v=kirn...

Richard please if possible what were the 12 woodland species studied?

HUGE numbers of Adonis Blue at Fontmell Down in North Dorset today, over 200 in 30 mins, one every 5m in places. Just like the old days. Also 4 Silver-spotted Skipper. Grazing looks perfect, but mighty dry. Well done @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social

Whilst some of us would rather just go out birding & see things we weren’t expecting to see!

Humans outperform Merlin Sound ID in field-based point-count surveys academic.oup.com/condor/advan... 😊 #ScotBirds #UKBirding

@NorfolkWT #mothsmatter #teammoth moth trapping this morning gave some lovely results at Holme! Some new ones for me coming from Derbyshire @norfolkbirding.bsky.social

More Hummingbird Hawk Moth action today at the fab Buddleia outside @cleyspy.bsky.social at least 3 plus several Painted Ladies #mothsmatter#teammoth @norfolkmoths.bsky.social What a Summer for them! @timallwood.bsky.social @norfolkbirding.bsky.social

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🦋 New UKCEH research with @naturalengland.bsky.social and @btobirds.bsky.social shows the positive impacts of agri-environment schemes (AES) on butterflies. Paper: besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @jappliedecology.bsky.social 🧵🧪 1/

The first autumn passerine migrants appearing. Yesterday…Arctic & Great Skuas appeared offshore & the last flocks of Swifts were overhead. Nice to see @rspbtitchwellsnett.bsky.social brimming with waders 520 Black-wits, 48 Ruff, 3 Greenshank, 3 Little Stints, 4 LRP, Cn & Green Sand & a Hobby.

On this eve’s shared fishing/birding trip to Pol Bank, 5km SW of Bishop Rock, F3 NW, Wilson’s Stormy were common with 13 birds, & c250 Europeans. For shears, Greats remain steady with 28, Cory’s scarce with 5, & 2 Sooties. Also, Arctic Skua & Yellow-legged Gull. Photo Joe Pender #seabirds

Last week really was a top-notch week for plants and there's hopefully more to come this week with two days surveying coming up.

@BBCRadio4 @BBCr4today @isabella_tree whilst Knepp is a wonderful rewilding project. It’s completely inaccurate to use released White Storks as an example of nature recovery. There is just one historical breeding record 1416, they’ve never bred regularly in UK. 1/2

@BBCRadio4 @BBCr4today @isabella_tree whilst Knepp is a wonderful rewilding project. It’s completely inaccurate to use released White Storks as an example of nature recovery. There is just one historical breeding record 1416, they’ve never bred regularly in UK.

Sketches based on my photos and observations of the Little Tern colony at Seaton Carew - all getting ready for the breeding season, lots of sandeels being waved around. 🪶🐡 #ukbirding @teesbirds.bsky.social

Whooper swan cygnets from the weekend at WWT Welney Several pairs of Whooper swans remain at Welney throughout the summer as they are unable to migrate, however they do breed. What’s very cool, is their offspring have been recording migrating north in the spring #ukbirding

Two rather stonking Curlew Sand on Balephetrish beach just now. Also Little Tern, two Turnstone (almost equally stonking), five Sanderling, etc. #birdingTiree #birdingScotland

Amazing….well done James!! Just shows how gems like this are still out there waiting to be discovered!

Birders everywhere are calling for this! In Norfolk we’ve done very little to mitigate against the impact of 100’s of dog walkers walking low-tide shorelines. Many oblivious to the effect of the continuous disturbance. Sadly, we also see photographers doing the same thing!

Really educative read on the issues of Stone Curlew conservation in intensive arable farmland and pig farming areas - in East Anglia.

These deeply beautiful maps show the migration patterns of––respectively––Curlew, Kittiwake & Blackcap. From this interactive migration atlas recording migrations of 300 bird species: migrationatlas.org Birds both tether us to places & stitch the world together.

Another excellent winter birding tour to Islay a couple of weeks back, trip report now up online - norfolkbirding.com/islay-birdin...

The December tour report from North India trip is now up and online norfolkbirding.com/a-wildlife-bir… If you would like to join us in December 2025 then please be in touch!

To the best of my knowledge, we broke the 🚨 world longevity record 🚨 for Mediterranean Gull on Saturday, with this bird re-trapped at Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. Ringed at Folkestone, Kent, as an adult in February 2001, it’s now in at least its 28th calendar year, with no sightings since 2001! (🧵 1/2)

A Happy New Year to all! In a World with rapidly shrinking habitats & wetlands. It’s been a pleasure in Rajastan after a great monsoon, to see 17 sp. of wildfowl & 24 sp. of wader. 100’s of waders filling roadside pools, had 100+ Spotshank & 50+ Marsh Sands on a single pool.

Merry Christmas to everyone from Central India where we just celebrated our Xmas morning with stunning views of both Leopard & Tiger, stumbling on to both whilst alone in our jeep!