Andy Field
@merseabirder.bsky.social
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Birder from Mersea Island in Essex.
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Andy Field
Daryl Rhymes
2 days ago
Fantastic afternoon at Abberton with 4 Slavonian & 4 Black-necked Grebe, Black-throated Diver, Lesser Scaup, 14 Gtr Scaup, 83 Goosander, Tawny Owl (seen & heard), 1000+ Jackdaw at roost & a huge gull roost, mostly (10,000+) Common Gulls. The sunset was pretty amazing too
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Andy Field
Essex Birdwatching Society
12 days ago
It's voting time in the EBwS Autumn 2025 Bird Photography Competition quarter-finals! Here are the entries in the 1st - please choose your favourite photo from these four and vote here:
strawpoll.com/w4nWWbWkJnA
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Andy Field
Essex Birdwatching Society
12 days ago
It's voting time in the EBwS Autumn 2025 Bird Photography Competition quarter-finals! Here are the entries in the 2nd - please choose your favourite photo from these four and vote here:
strawpoll.com/e7ZJaja5Yg3
#essexbirding
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Andy Field
Essex Birdwatching Society
12 days ago
It's voting time in the EBwS Autumn 2025 Bird Photography Competition quarter-finals! Here are the entries in the 3rd - please choose your favourite photo from these four and vote here:
strawpoll.com/3RnYXbXEmye
#essexbirding
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Andy Field
Essex Birdwatching Society
12 days ago
It's voting time in the EBwS Autumn 2025 Bird Photography Competition quarter-finals! Here are the entries in the 4th - please choose your favourite photo from these four and vote here:
strawpoll.com/NMnQNbNx1g6
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Highlight of today's WeBS count was this Snow Bunting on Stone Point, East Mersea this afternoon.
#Essexbirding
#UKbirding
10 days ago
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Andy Field
Raptor Persecution UK
11 days ago
Attempt to downlist conservation status of Peregrine Falcons to allow international trade is thwarted at CITES Conference.
#CITESCoP20
Good news for Peregrines, but not sure why UK voted to support this proposal!
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/04/a...
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Attempt to downlist conservation status of Peregrine Falcons (to allow international trade) is thwarted at CITES conference
To the relief of many raptor conservationists, a proposal to downlist the Peregrine Falcon from Appendix 1 to Appendix II of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species), which wā¦
https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/04/attempt-to-downlist-conservation-status-of-peregrine-falcons-to-allow-international-trade-is-thwarted-at-cites-conference/
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Andy Field
OliCWildlife
12 days ago
The highlight of a beautiful morning at EWT Fingringhoe Wick was this brilliant Red-necked Grebe feeding out on the Colne!
#EssexBirding
#Birding
#UKBirding
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Andy Field
Raptor Persecution UK
25 days ago
Another 'missing' Hen Harrier, this time in the Moorfoot Hills, south of Edinburgh - a well known hotbed of illegal raptor persecution over several decades.
#RaptorResearch
#WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/20/s...
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Satellite-tagged Hen Harrier āCirceā disappears in suspicious circumstances in Moorfoot Hills, south Scotland
Press release from Hen Harrier Action (20th November 2025) HEN HARRIER ACTION APPEALS FOR INFORMATION AS ANOTHER RARE HEN HARRIER SUSPECTED TO HAVE BEEN ILLEGALLY KILLED IN SCOTLAND A satellite tagā¦
https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/20/satellite-tagged-hen-harrier-circe-disappears-in-suspicious-circumstances-in-moorfoot-hills-south-scotland/
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Andy Field
Raptor Persecution UK
about 1 month ago
Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries. 18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
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Hen Harrier āSusieā, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victimā¦
https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/hen-harrier-susie-whose-chicks-were-stamped-to-death-in-2022-has-been-found-dead-on-a-north-pennines-grouse-moor-with-gunshot-injuries/
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Arctic Tern still off Stone Point, East Mersea this morning, Great Northern Diver on the Colne, scarce this end of the Island, and a Common Scoter flew in and landed. Merlin just north of Cudmore Grove car park.
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Thanks to a prompt message from Neil Harvey, we finished our WeBS count with an adult and juv Arctic Tern from Stone Point, East Mersea.
#Essexbirding
about 1 month ago
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Andy Field
Essex Birdwatching Society
about 1 month ago
This month's fascinating talk is about Recording Rare Breeding Birds in the UK and Essex, by Mark Eaton from the RBBP. It's streaming live on YouTube from 8pm on Friday:
youtube.com/live/VlTi7GS...
#essexbirding
#RareBirdsUK
@ukrbbp.bsky.social
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Recording Rare Breeding Birds in the UK and Essex
YouTube video by Essex Birdwatching Society
https://youtube.com/live/VlTi7GSk5iU
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Arctic Skua again today chasing Sandwich Terns off Kingsland Rd and Esplanade, West Mersea. Seems to be hanging around in the area.
#EssexBirding
2 months ago
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Andy Field
CM
2 months ago
My blog about days 3 and 4 of the Scilly trip, and a difficult Pipit that we still haven't 100% identified.
#ukbirding
#birds
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Red-throated Pipit? Scilly Days 3-4, 13th-14th October 2025
After a long day trudging around St Mary's seeing little (aside from a Garden Warbler that was briefly kicked up to Booted before being unce...
https://themanchesterbirder.blogspot.com/2025/10/red-throated-pipit-scilly-days-3-4-13th.html
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Andy Field
BirdGuides
2 months ago
BirdLife International has issued a firm warning against proposals to cull Great Cormorant across Europe, arguing that the measures would fail to address pressures on fish stocks and could damage years of conservation progress:
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Mass culling of cormorants won't save European fish stocks, BirdLife warns
BirdLife International has rejected proposals from eight EU Member States to reclassify Great Cormorant as a huntable species and co-ordinate continent-wide culls. The organisation warns that such measures would not restore fish stocks, could create legal uncertainty and would undermine decades of conservation work. Instead, BirdLife advocates for targeted local action and habitat restoration to tackle the real drivers of fish population decline.
https://bit.ly/3KT0eZQ
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Andy Field
Swallow Birding & Wildlife
2 months ago
It wasn't all birds for our Isles of Scilly tour. We also encountered RED SQUIRRELS, PRICKLY STICK INSECTS, the endemic subspecies of SPECKLED WOOD and HUMMINGBIRD HAWKMOTH.
#wildlife
#nature
#islesofscilly
#mammals
#uknature
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First Mersea Arctic Skua for some years for me yesterday, off West Mersea Esplanade, flew off high West but reappeared later chasing gulls off Bradwell.
#EssexBirding
2 months ago
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Andy Field
Portland Bird Observatory
2 months ago
www.portlandbirdobs.com/2025/10/13th-october.html
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13th October
Wow, what an exciting migration day. The portents were there right from the outset - in fact they'd been perfectly accurately forecast by th...
https://www.portlandbirdobs.com/2025/10/13th-october.html
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Andy Field
Bill Mackie
2 months ago
The immature White-tailed Eagle at Trimley Marshes SWT this morning.
#Birds
#UKBirding
#SuffolkBirds
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Andy Field
NotPhilCarter.bsky.social
2 months ago
An almost birdless slog around the patch was finally rewarded when a distant airplane turned out to be a White-tailed Eagle. Unfortunately stayed rather distant but never mind, a full fat patch tick.
#HytheLagoons
#EssexBirding
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A tusker in the reeds! Highlight of yesterday's WeBS count on Mersea Island.......which says it all about the WeBS count!!
#Essexbirding
2 months ago
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Andy Field
Raptor Persecution UK
2 months ago
29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015. Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.
#RaptorResearch
#WildlifeCrime
#Ornithology
#Yorkshire
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...
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29 āmissingā Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015
Media attention has been drawn to the Yorkshire Dales National Park this week, following the RSPBās press release on the suspicious disappearance of a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier named ̵ā¦
https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/29-missing-hen-harriers-nearly-40-birds-of-prey-poisoned-trapped-or-shot-in-yorkshire-dales-national-park-since-2015/
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Excellent thread from
@alexanderlees.bsky.social
More I'll thought out "conservation".
add a skeleton here at some point
2 months ago
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A bit of a surprise when we returned to our holiday lodge in Cornwall this afternoon. An Unarmed Stick, Acanthoxyla inermis I presume, on the door!!
3 months ago
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Andy Field
Bruce Taylor
3 months ago
Swainson's Thrush at Cuithir this morning, a well deserved find by Stuart Beeby, incredibly the 4th Barra record, making it our second most frequent North American vagrant passerine.
#BirdingScotland
#RareBirdsUK
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Hard work at Porthgwarra this morning but eventually a few Cory's and Great Shearwaters picked out by the small group of Birders there. Also a couple of Sooty Shears and half a dozen Balearic's, a few Storm Petrels and 2 Chough.
#UKBirding
3 months ago
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Andy Field
Essex Birdwatching Society
3 months ago
We've changed the location of this month's coach trip from Oare Marshes to RSPB Dungeness and there are still a few places left. Members and non-members are welcome, visit
ebws.org.uk/events/field...
for further details and to book
#essexbirding
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Andy Field
Steve Entwistle
3 months ago
Sunday 7th anyone visiting wigborough Church Arctic warbler please note we are keeping the church side of carpark clear for churchgoers from 10.30am.extra parking been arranged opposite first entrance(gate is open please park in there only)noParking on vergeFrontGates )
#Essexbirdnews
#EssexBirding
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Moulting adult Curlew Sand at East Mersea this morning.
#EssexBirding
#UKBirding
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Andy Field
Essex Birdwatching Society
4 months ago
Don't forget to watch tonight's Birds of Essex - it's going to have a special start...! With the usual mix of birding news, a look ahead to the new season, & the winner of the Summer Photo Comp, it's going to be another packed show. Watch LIVE here:
youtube.com/live/O8FNv7anN
#essexbirding
#birds
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#Essexbirding
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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A different Pied Fly at Feldy View, West Mersea this morning per Dougal, and 2 Spot Flies still.
4 months ago
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The Pied Fly had gone but 2 Spot Flies at Feldy View, West Mersea today.
#Essexbirding
4 months ago
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A mobile Pied Fly at Feldy View, West Mersea today, thanks to Dougal.
#EssexBirders
4 months ago
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"Some enchanted evening, you may meet a stranger!"
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Andy Field
West Midlands Ringing Group
4 months ago
We were proud to support our local police today on a wildlife crime warrant. The suspect was believed to be catching and selling wild finches. No birds were found, but illegal trapping equipment was seized inc lime sticks, a strong result in the fight against wildlife crime. ššļø
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Andy Field
Alexander Lees
4 months ago
I have cheerlead this project before and seen the storks at the fantastic Knepp estate
theconversation.com/stork-chicks...
but it is difficult to see this as anything other than a publicity stunt - no evidence it will redress biodiversity loss 2/2
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Stork chicks hatch in UK for first time in 600 years ā why thatās great news for British wildlife
Storks ā those harbingers of new life ā are breeding in Britain again.
https://theconversation.com/stork-chicks-hatch-in-uk-for-first-time-in-600-years-why-thats-great-news-for-british-wildlife-137320
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Wood Sand at Abberton Res this afternoon.
#Essexbirding
#UKbirding
5 months ago
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Andy Field
Raptor Persecution UK
5 months ago
With so-called 'partners' like this, the Hen Harrier Taskforce might as well pack up now before it becomes a laughing stock.
#RaptorResearch
#WildlifeCrime
#UKbirding
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/25/h...
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How can the National Gamekeepers Organisation be seen as a credible partner on the Hen Harrier Taskforce after it published this nonsense?
The police-led Hen Harrier Taskforce was launched in 2024 to tackle the ongoing illegal persecution of Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors. The Taskforce was set up specifically in response to the Rā¦
https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/25/how-can-the-national-gamekeepers-organisation-be-seen-as-a-credible-partner-on-the-hen-harrier-taskforce-after-it-published-this-nonsense/
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Andy Field
Daryl Rhymes
5 months ago
Autumn slowly arriving for the birds at Abberton today - seen today Pec Sand, Crossbill, 2 Greenshank, 12 Common & 5 Green Sands, 10 Blackwit, LR Plover, Spoonbill, 11 GW Egret, 75 Teal & the first returning Common Gull
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Nearly ready to go. Just the one this year.
#Essexbirding
#UKbirding
5 months ago
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2 of Brightlingsea's Cattle Egrets did the decent thing and turned up on Mersea today for a year tick, also, fist 2 Common Sands of the year and a constantly calling Willow Warbler.
##Essexbirding
5 months ago
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Splish splash I was taking a bath...........
@drhedgehog.bsky.social
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Andy Field
David Jobbins
5 months ago
#essexbirding
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Donate to CHELMER BLACKWATER IRONWORKS MEADOW RESERVE FIRE RECOVERY, organized by Ian Harden
Help Us Rebuild Chelmer Blackwater Nature Reserve On 14th Jul⦠Ian Harden needs your support for CHELMER BLACKWATER IRONWORKS MEADOW RESERVE FIRE RECOVERY
https://gofund.me/5a423456
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Andy Field
Frances Backhouse
5 months ago
Trump's 2026 budget plan to defund the North American Breeding Bird Survey and USGS Bird Banding Laboratory will be a continent-wide blow to bird conservation efforts. Undoubtedly, that's the point.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...
#citizenscience
#birdbanding
#ornithology
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Opinion | What weāll lose if bird banding ends
Scientists have tagged birds for more than 100 years. That preservation program might be defunded.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/trump-owls-birds-banding-usgs/
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Red-belted clearwing in my greenhouse! A first for me.
#TeamMoth
5 months ago
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3 Hog night! 3 of at least 4 Hedgehogs visiting our feeding station last night.
youtu.be/B1TQuwvG24Q
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3 Hog night
YouTube video by Andy Field
https://youtu.be/B1TQuwvG24Q
5 months ago
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Daryl Rhymes
6 months ago
Hanningfield Res this pm - 4 Common Sands, 10 RC Pochard but little else as yet. However, a small pond there held 6 Lesser Emperor, Norfolk & Southern Migrant Hawker, Scarce Chaser, Willow Emerald, sev Small Red-Eyes & Marbled White - that would have been unthinkable even 10 years ago!
#essexbirding
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Andy Field
Raptor Persecution UK
6 months ago
Thanks,
@bobberzins.bsky.social
for writing this guest blog. Detailed observations and commentary about what goes on on Peak District grouse moors...
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/18/m...
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More reasons to ban driven grouse shooting ā evidence from the Peak District National Park (guest blog by Bob Berzins)
This is a guest blog written by conservation campaigner and author Bob Berzins who has written previously on this blogĀ here,Ā here,Ā here,Ā here,Ā here,Ā here and here. MPs are scheduled to debate the Wā¦
https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/06/18/more-reasons-to-ban-driven-grouse-shooting-evidence-from-the-peak-district-national-park-guest-blog-by-bob-berzins/
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