Yellow wagtails in the evening golden light 💛

Painted Lady @spurnbirdobs Their wings are like stained glass #spurnbutterflies

Brilliant adventure to Spurn Point, Yorkshire's land's end, where the North Sea meets the Humber Estuary. Spurn Lighthouse is a huge part of Spurn's history. Many lives have been saved since becoming operational in 1852 & currently after it ceased being actively manned in 1985

This group of dunlin were edging closer and closer up the beach as the tide pushed the waves further and further in. It was so cute watching some of them hopping around on one leg as the waves interrupted their rest and then seeing them bury their heads into their feathers again

Singing skylark #holdernessfields and plenty of sedge warbler and reed bunting #beaconponds #spurnbirdobs

Pair of whitethroats both holding two different species of butterfly! #spurnbirdobs #churchfield #butterflies

A hare taking advantage of the peace and quiet at Spurn #hare #nature #kilnsea #spurnbirdobs

Some cool moths from Spurn recently #eyedhawkmoth #cinnabarmoth #barredstrawmoth #spurnbirdobs

Red kite soaring over the obs today at Spurn. In awe of the passage of swifts south in their hundreds at the moment

A little bit of bread and no cheese! Spotted redshank in breeding plumage at Kilnsea Wetlands and a little owl on farming equipment #spurnbirds

15th June - 2 cranes at Spurn! Such graceful birds, it was funny to see them fly in front of an industrial crane in the distance!

Spurn spoonbills!

Common sandpiper and mute swan cygnets from the Lakes recently #cumbriabirds

SCOPS OWL caught in the Gully Heligoland trap at around 21:00hrs last night! This is the Isle's third record, the last being 19 years ago in 2006. Keep up to date with all recent sightings here: www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/latest_sight... 📸A Penn

Orcas off Low Newton village this evening ! 🙂 #NEbirding

Nesting stock dove #cumbriabirds

Common whitethroats at Cavendish Dock #cumbriabirds

I don't think I've ever seen or rarely see birds perched like this stonechat in the first photo #cumbriabirds

6 hours of sea watching at Bowness-On-Solway included highlights of 5 adult pomarine skuas flying East viewed from the Old Viaduct, a great life tick ✅ Full species checklist here: ebird.org/checklist/S2...

This cute mallard duckling and several others were spending lots of time catching many damselflies which they were really good at catching. So many damselflies in one area too 🌷🦆🌾#brigsteerwetlands #cumbria

Highlights from a local fell walk 🥾 #cumbriabirds

This wren was missing some feathers, bless it, lovely to see it perched on this branch and singing though!

Wow! Amazing to see an Osprey over Lake Windermere diving to catch fish yesterday morning. The osprey showed persistence despite being mobbed by gulls and corvids #cumbriabirds #borranspark

Mute swan #lakewindermere

Great to see 5 Shelduck (2nd record) and the lingering Garden Warbler at Borrans Park this morning #cumbriabirds

Orange-tip butterfly (left) and Green-veined white butterfly (right) on cuckooflower #ambleside #nature

#sandmartins #borranspark #cumbriabirds #spring

Patch birding with Harry Coghill - Borrans Park, Ambleside. Beautiful morning, amazing birds and lovely to see a pair of gadwall (a first for the patch).

#cumbriabirds #spring

Lovely colours of the house sparrow (at my house haha) #cumbriabirds

Where better to see Wild Daffodils Narcissus pseudonarcissus than Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, the very spot where Wordsworth wandered as lonely as a cloud and saw ‘a host, of golden daffodils… fluttering and dancing in the breeze’. #WildFlowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Lovely to see and hear my first pied flycatchers of the year today. This ringed male was singing at the tops of the oak trees in Grasmere #cumbria

Lots of wheatears and meadow pipits seen today. So nice to see on the rocks #cumbria

#Ambleside #spring

An osprey isn't a bad garden tick! One just flew north over Ambleside #Cumbriabirds

It was such as nice surprise to see my first redstart of the year which was singing in a tree and a stonechat nearby at Rydal Water. Also lovely to see orange-tip butterflies #cumbria

Mountain Manxies! It was so exciting to finally get the opportunity to witness the amazing mountaintop Manx shearwater colony on Rùm last week (west Scotland). The night’s bivvy to experience their arrival on Hallival was pretty awesome. Here’s a short piece for #SeabirderSaturday

Never had such good views of a cetti's wabler, yesterday at Brigsteer and Park End Moss #cumbriabirds

Educational encounter with a Treecreeper of the Northern familiaris race in Riga - showing the features needed to pick one out on the Northumberland coast!

1/6 🔍Investigating drivers of wader chick survival on Orkney Lapwing chicks face high mortality—our radiotracking study in 2024 explored survival rates, habitat effects & predation risks. What did we find? 🧵#BOU2025 #ornithology

It’s such a thrill when the hours put in on the patch pay off. Alpine Accentor found today in West Cornwall

Lovely rock pipit at Workington Harbour yesterday

Great to spot my first sand martins of the year and for Borrans Park with 4 individuals zooming around. A special spring treat 🌷🌿

A random pink footed goose with greylags at Siddick Ponds, also Cetti's warbler and my first Blackcap of the year

A pleasure and privilege to still ring in the best observatory garden after my fist ringing migrants here 65 years ago.! Needless to say at PBO @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social , only brambles and heligolands then, not a bush, tree or pond in site. All planted now with mistnets resulting in Firecrests.

Pied wagtail, Borrans Park

Amazing to find a newly arrived cetti's warbler singing at Borrans Park this morning, the second area record! Here are some photos of a beautiful female goosander and song thrushes having a bit of a scrap