A pleasant couple of hours in Ninesprings early afternoon eventually yielded 2 Firecrest at the very top of the valley. Also 2 Water Rail on the lake but oddly not a single Mandarin #ukbirding #somersetbirding

Exciting to catch up with the drake Bufflehead that graced Point of Ayr #RSPB over high tide today. No sign of rings & behaving like a wild bird. @rspbcymru.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social #birdingWales @birdsinwales.bsky.social @rspbburtonmere.bsky.social @penrhynbirder.bsky.social

Scops Owl still Dunvant Park, Swansea #ukbirding

Desert Wheatear at Bolberry Down 06/12/25

How extraordinary it was to see a Eurasian Scops Owl tonight, locally here in Gower, and in December of all months! A fabulous little bird that was hunting in a suburban park. #GowerBirds #ScopsOwl @gowerbirds.bsky.social

Royal/West African Crested Tern still in front of hide Dawlish Warren #ukbirding

Royal or African Crested Tern still distantly from both Cockwood and Dawlish Warren Hide #ukbirding

1w m Black Redstart Wyndham Estate, Yeovil on Jellicoe Road #somersetbirding #ukbirding

A quick dash to Spiggie this afternoon to see this female SIBERIAN RUBYTHROAT released back in to the ‘Bumblebird’ wild bird crop. Clearly autumn isn’t over for us here in Shetland! #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife

Killdeer on South Slob Co. Wexford this morning. Another fantastic find by Stephen King 👍

Desert Wheatear still Bridging Camp but distant, also Cirl Bunting #ukbirding

Cracking day on patch at Littlesea, The Fleet. Highlight was finding a ♀️ Desert Wheatear in Bridging Camp. ♀️ Long-tailed Duck, 2 Slavonian Grebes & singles of Atlantic Brent Goose, Whimbrel & Water Rail, plus a Harbour Seal made up the rest of the highlights.

When I drive around the island I get sheep in the road. Others though get Franklin’s Gull blocking their way. Vatersay, Caolas this afternoon

Pacific Diver at Crookhaven Harbour, Co.Cork, Ireland. November 2025

Eastern Black Redstart at the point near the green beacon. Pic: T Willoughby. #spurnbirds @rarebirder.bsky.social

YBW at SBR by outflow stream at 13:55 though mobile. @somersetbirds.bsky.social

Pine Bunting seen briefly with mobile Yellowhammer flock at St Aldhelm's Head Quarry at 1030hrs & not relocated as of 1250hrs. Ltd parking available in Renscombe car park, otherwise park in Worth Mattravers village car park and walk down, staying out of private fields @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

On Shetland for the weekend to do some jobs in & around the house but kept getting distracted by birds in the garden! Started with a Coues's Arctic Redpoll then Rory Tallack had brief views of a pipit which eventually gave itself up as a Pechora. Lastly, a Bullfinch was a most welcome addition.

Incredible pics of the Pallid Swifts at Dawlish Warren today by Luke H shared with his permission

Ring-necked Duck still from Decoy hide #ukbirding #somersetbirding

Outstanding views of the Pallid Swift at times over the middle of Top Fields - thanks @alanlewiswildlife.bsky.social for letting us know it was showing so well up there

Sorry for the late news, ridiculously busy first couple of hours so not had time to post a photo of the Black-faced Bunting trapped in the Crown Estate Field on the first net round of the day - ta to Duncan Walbridge for this pic

MEGA KILLDEER North Pond, Skokholm 1500: until dusk. 📷 photo by Skokholm obs.

BLACK-FACED BUNTING, Fair Isle. 📷 photos by luke Marriner.

A 3 second flight view of a small duck flying over Morghan this morning set alarm bells ringing. 90 minutes of frantic searching ended when I found Barra's 1st BUFFLEHEAD on a tiny loch in the Dark Glen. Unringed and flighty, it flew off west at 12.12pm. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK

I think this is great tailed grackle? It is at calshot

An elusive Pallas's Warbler found by James Leaver in the wood at the southern end of Peveril Point Swanage at the start of the path towards Durlston #DorsetBirds @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social w3w.co/oiled.vouche...

Black Redstart Cunningham Road, Yeovil #ukbirding #somersetbirding

Highlights of the last few days of the season were Little Bunting, Firecrest, Barred Warbler and Long-eared Owl, but the best of the week waited until a day after the last census of the year, a Black-faced Bunting at Shirva! Read more at www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/latest_sight... 📸 A Penn

Great views of European & Oriental Turtle Dove side by side at Hillwell, Shetland this evening. #birdingscotland #rarebirdsuk

As usual it seems I've totally failed at finding my own birds during my visit to Portland but at least managed to connect with this Pallas's Warbler at Avalanche Road this morning - a particularly difficult individual to see and photograph well #ukbirding

Brilliant views of this Steppe Grey Shrike at Scousburgh, Shetland this morning. #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife

Beaut of a SHRIKE nr Ring Marsh, Co Wexford. 📷 photo by Tom Shelvin.

A 1st winter male SIBERIAN RUBYTHROAT caught on North Ronaldsay!!! #RareBirdsUK #BirdingScotland #OrkneyBirding

Amazing to see the Upper Hollesley common Brown Shrike today, found by John Lewis. My 5th Uk shrike species of the year and third for Suffolk. Epic!!!

Chuffed to have been in right place at right time when my first ever EYE BROWED THRUSH dropped in front of us . Congrats to finders ..

Black-faced Bunting still feeding & showing well Spurn 6pm #ukbirding

After a dawn raid on the Point, this little beauty was cowering in the buckthorn on my birding walk back, not far south of the Breach at Spurn. Thomas Willoughby’s brilliant pic. Bird of a lifetime. A British tick as well 😂

Wow – Britain’s first Great Crested Flycatcher! Photos in the BirdGuides gallery: www.birdguides.com/gallery/bird...

Thanks Martine. Wow! It looks like a Steppe Grey Shrike!

Would’ve been rude not to! Death’s Head Hawkmoth @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social The Red-breasted Flycatcher at Avalanche Road Hump was a nice bonus too #ukbirding

The Bird Gods smiled on us today. Delighted to find Barra's first Blackpoll Warbler at Bruernish late morning. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK

The lanceolated warbler was a nice surprise today on an otherwise slow ringing day at Nanjizal

Baikal Teal at Abbotsbury Swannery this afternoon with 500+ Teal. Flock very mobile. Swannery open 10am tomorrow. No entry before 10am. Doubtfully viewable from rights of way other than grounds. There is no right of way SE of tank traps on beach. If you walk beyond fence there everything will flush!

Living in Somerset, I don’t get many opportunities to see Lapland Bunting so this one on Wingletang was a very nice bonus this afternoon. Six years since my last! #ukbirding

Only had a few short hours on St Agnes this afternoon, so it’s a good thing everything showed well straight away! Mourning Dove, Buff-bellied Pipit, Spotted Sandpiper, Hoopoe and Lapland Bunting plus a Great Shearwater from the Scillonian #ukbirding

Finders-in-the-Field: Harlequin Ducks in Co.Donegal, an Irish first @robertvaughani.bsky.social and two friends headed to Tory Island for an autumn bird-finding trip and end up landing on a fall of Red-eyed Vireos and Ireland's first and second Harlequin Ducks www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/F...

The Brown Shrike at St Davids today - a belter and a bit of a show off. Found it whilst driving down to Porthclais to look for Yellow-browed Warblers. First for Wales if accepted. Hope it sticks around. #birdingWales