How is AI going to rule the World when you can't even share a contacts list from Outlook nowadays? The shittification of these things is mindblowing.

"nuffin to see here guv'", says falconry expert who also happens to supply the Gulf royals with falcons 🥸 share.google/3kuF0oOSPv6K...

While in the eBird garden year list, I'll happily take top 5. Always good to break 100, but amazing to see once again that both Tim Appleton's gardens score the same. How does he do it!!?? 😜

In a fairly decent year for the garden, we soared to the dizzy height of 174, with Cattle Egret, Crane, Glossy Ibis and White-tailed Eagle all new. Most importantly, I won the predictions competition between myself and @clickbeetle85.bsky.social. A new year and new competition begins tomorrow.

For ID purposes videos can be great for familiarising yourself with seabird flight actions, structure, etc. but it’s a pain tracking down useful clips. I’ve collated video links for various N Atlantic species here #seabirds #seawatching #birding #birdID chatterstanes.wordpress.com/2025/12/23/s...

Three Suffolk Shrikes - I have a signed, limited edition giclee print of a painting of the 3 rare shrikes in Suffolk this autumn (Isabelline, Turkestan and Brown). Just 50 available and only £50 window mounted (add £12 for P&P): PM me if interested and please repost, thanks

🏆 Carl Zeiss Award 2025: Celebrates top rarity submissions to @britishbirdsbbrc.bsky.social – the observations, images & recordings impress, visit: 🔗 britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... 🏅Winner: Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, by Frank Moffatt. Thanks #ZEISSbirding for sponsoring & the prize binoculars!

Super article in December @britishbirds.bsky.social detailing use of passive bioacoustic recorders to detect Lesser Spotted Woodpecker - thanks to @lesserspotnet.bsky.social @simongillings.bsky.social @hosbirding.bsky.social et al A glimmer of hope? 🙏 Read here: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...

Me: 'huh, Oscar Wilde died at age 46, I'm older than that now" Wife: 'tick-tock muthatrucker' 🤔

Birdwatchers who are under 40 will not appreciate just how many breeding waders there were in Scottish farmland back in 1990. If your benchmark is 2015, look at what happened in the previous 25 years: wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/11/30/2... 🎂8️⃣ And things have not improved since: #ornithology

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The Easington Hume's Wblr showed nicely on Friday, although the unseasonably bright sunshine made it surprisingly difficult to get a shot. Too much light combined with operator incompetence! #spurnbirds

A video from earlier in the autumn during some particularly heavy Pheasant migration in Highland! #highlandbirds

Its been a long while, but finally finished editing photos from my bucket list trip to Guyana last November. Bird of the trip? Barbados Bullfinch while transiting through there, of course!! www.flickr.com/photos/38562...

The colours of autumn, a Siberian Chiffchaff on Vicars Lane, Easington shows just how its appearance can change against different backgrounds. Probably the split I'm most hoping for! #Spurnbirds

Well chuffed for @clickbeetle85.bsky.social finding this lovely little Hume's at the Tithe Barn, Easington. Now, if it will only scoot about 200m to the east, i'll be even happier! #Spurnbirds #RareBirdsUK

Cracking photo of South Polar Skua with a Bonxie, the evidence keeps building.

Nice to find a Water Pipit at Outstrays on this mornings WeBS count, plus a PB of 10 Great White Egrets. The pipit was in the north corner of the older realignment, near the new pumping station #Yorkshirebirding

While dipping on Pallid Swift, I was contemplating the future of the gas terminal. I reckon its got 15-20 years at current rates of erosion before the cliff top comes knockin'!

The latest report from the RBBP, Rare Breeding Birds in the UK in 2023, is out now in British Birds. It reports on the 104 species and races of rare breeding birds recording breeding, or showing signs of breeding, in 2023. Read the summary at rbbp.org.uk/2023-report-... #ornithology #ukbirds 🧵[1/15]

I have 3 spaces available for the 2026 Challenger Expedition to the continental shelf edge in British waters. See images below for more information, dates and contact details… #seabirds #UKbirding

Google maps has been updated with new aerials of the Outstrays NR. A nice birds eye view of the developing realignment.

Managing to be more focussed and actually get some photos edited. Here is a taster from our recent trip to Scilly to do some pelagics and have a general wander. More images at www.flickr.com/photos/38562...

Vacancy on BOU Records Committee. Are you up for it? I found it a really interesting and educational experience. Happy to share my experience if you are interested. #RarebirdsUK #UKBirding

Hello, we have been working hard all year to keep this challenge running and would love to hear your feedback! Let us know of anything that we can do to make the challenge even better so we can have a think ready for PWC 2026. #pwc2025#patchbirding

Our garden Yellow-browed Wblr showed very nicely all day today. We'll be giving it a name soon! #SpurnBirds

A few opportunities to learn about rare breeding birds and the work of the RBBP. If your bird club/wildlife group/RSPB group would like an online talk from our Secretary @markaeaton.bsky.social, get in touch.

There are much closer photos out there, but in a mad dash "extended lunch break", I was happy just to see the Spurn Blk-faced Bunting. Then this Yellow-browed Wblr brightened up the afternoon back at my desk, giving our best ever garden showing despite just managing to see one every year #SpurnBirds

Turns out the pod of Bottlenose Dolphins that went north past Kilnsea & Easington yesterday morning contained a well known female called "Runny Paint" after the distinctive markings around her dorsal fin (visible in 3rd photo) @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social

The skies were dripping with thrushes today, but the arrival was localised mainly to the Kilnsea and south side of Easington. Despite looking out from the gas terminal for the whole morning, only 7 Redwings came in! But a few minutes walk to the south this pm, and I joined in the Fieldfare fun.

The 2024 BBRC report is now available via the website, and will be hitting doormats pretty soon: British Birds Volume 118 Issue 10 | British Birds share.google/ilqsS7ib34do...

Short news piece on the Challenger expedition and the Band-rumped fiesta: britishbirds.co.uk/news/band-ru... #RareBirdsUK

This tiny patch of rank grass on the Easington coast path held a much anticipated Yellow-browed Wblr tonight. Presumably fresh in at 1730hrs. Autumn is finally here!

Its a f*****g conspiracy!!

If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares We could reduce the amount of land used for grazing and croplands used to grow animal feed ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

Possibly the worst picture of Glossy Ibis taken this year, but theres 11 of them and they're on patch.

Here's some Band-rumped images from the recent Challenger trip to the Canyons MCZ ebird.org/checklist/S2... #RareBirdsUK

Spectacled Eider accepted to Cat A by the CDNA. www.dutchavifauna.nl/news/2048/br... #ornithology

Fresh off the Challenger expedition to the Canyons MPA along the shelf edge at the limits of UK territory, we seem to have broken new ground with the status of Band-rumped Storm-petrels. A handful on the first two days were great, but on the third day, the cup truly runneth over, and 84 were...

Memories of last weekends Scilly pelagics still in the mind, and a mountain of photos to go through. I like this one, giving a sense of the big seas and a Cory's in wave rider mode #ukbirding

Its hotting up for 2nd place in the eBird garden year list as we head into what could be a very productive period for several participants. I aim to get 100 sp per year, hopefully on track for that. A certain Spurn birder is aiming for 200 from his garden this year, the difference a Humber can make!

Hybridization boosts survival of Europe's most threatened seabird share.google/gdJ3gWKogMec... 'Population on Menorca is genetically closer to Yelkouan'. If it looks like a duck, its not surprising that it quacks like a duck!

Just finished an epic long weekend with @scillypelagics.bsky.social, and what a fantastic 4 trips we had. Near constant views of Great & Corys, plus regular Wilsons and super confiding Sabines Gulls, Grey Phals and Long-t Skuas, but the icing on the cake for me was this Scopoli's Shearwater.

This could be a big win for conservation, its just a shame it takes the threat of imminent annihilation to kick start it. 'To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands' share.google/HVq4vHMR8Txw...

We have a (short) list of birds that we've missed for the garden list but know we could have had. Glossy Ibis is one of those, after we saw one fly over our house while we were watching an Isabelline Wheatear in 2016 - i can sense your sympathy!! But, finally, nearly 9 years later, we finally...

Also new for garden were these beasts, Long-winged Coneheads. Its caused a bit of a dilemma, as the Typha they are in is marked for removal, the roots have punctured the pond liner. Think we'll have to dig a new home for it (and hopefully its egg load of coneheads), very carefully.

Along with the headline wasp, we had a long-hoped for garden tick with Willow Emerald today, mere minutes before it became apparent there was an unprecedented arrival of them (60+) in the Spurn area. A Migrant Hawker in the same bush showed nicely too.

Its not every day you find an apparent 1st for Spurn, so I was pleased to finally nail pictures of a Median Wasp (Dolichovespula media) in the garden. Thanks to @hwitts.bsky.social for the ID.

Maybe the best experience at Withfleet tonight were these two Short-eared Owls, totally checking me out and flying in circles around me after sunset. Filmed at 1x on my phone.

Withfleet Outstrays is just a great place to be at the moment. 7 Spoonbills tonight were nice, over 1000 Curlew again, 150+ Avocet, Curlew Sand, Spotshank, a lost Guillemot! Its developing nicely.