A Mediterranean Short-toed Lark (Alaudala rufescens) currently just across the Channel near Calais www.faune-france.org/index.php?m_... another species overdue re-entry onto the British List #UKBirding 🪶

Fantastic to have the 2024 Suffolk Bird Report land in the door mat. Swifts obviously checked first. 379 nest boxes were used in 2024, up from 272 in 2023 and 231 in 2022. We are chasing up data for 2025, please do let us know your records. @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social

“On 13 Sept, a satellite tag belonging to a white-tailed eagle was recovered near Gwgia Reservoir, Tregynon, … police … are asking anyone who was at or around the reservoir between 11am and 1pm or on access land near Bryn y Fawnog between noon and 3pm on 13 Sept to come forward.” #birdingWales

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

A fundraising appeal has been launched to save a unique grassland habitat in south Lincolnshire:

The Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme has published 2025 update on indices and trends! Unfortunately, it still shows an overall decline in common birds breeding in Europe, with the most pronounced decline among farmland species. Read more about the new update: pecbms.info/what-is-new-...

Snow buntings Kessingland beach. Suffolk. 16/12/2025 Apparently a flock of snow buntings is sometimes called a "flurry" due to their appearance resembling snowflakes when they fly together. 100+ #birds today, with 4 shore lark. @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

Suffolk Wildlife Trust has confirmed the successful purchase of Worlingham Marshes after meeting its £775,000 fundraising target, securing 154 ha of marsh, fen, wet woodland and grazing land in the Lower Waveney Valley:

A beautiful morning on Kessingland Beach was good for the soul. Over a hundred Snow Bunting were present but I couldn't find the Shore Lark (six were seen later). A lone White-fronted Goose flew north. At dusk Andrew Easton county 47 Cattle Egret at the Carlton Marshes egret roost.

Great to be out on Patch again at Walthamstow Wetlands today in glorious weather. I was certainly caught by surprise when I was looking through a Chiffchaff flock, and then this Common Whitethroat popped up! #ukbirding #patchbirding

One of three Great White Egrets on a late afternoon circuit of Carlton Marshes + at least 4 Cattle Egret and 50+ Fieldfare along the river trees.

📉 Our new paper shows Bewick’s Swan numbers in NW/NE Europe have fallen to ~12,900 birds - a 56.7% decline since 1995, with further losses predicted by 2026 unless survival or breeding success improves. Flyway-wide conservation is urgent. 🦢 Download paper > tidsskrift.dk/Wildfowl/art... #Ornithology

Epic recovery report just received! ⚠️ A Turnstone I trapped using a homemade walk-in trap has been recaptured in the 🌍 world’s 🌎 northernmost continuously inhabited settlement. Ringed on 12 February 2024 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex 🇬🇧, it was re-trapped on 08 June 2025 in Alert, Nunavut… 🇨🇦 (🧵 1/2)

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to save one of the largest areas of grassland left in Lincolnshire. Can you help us purchase and protect Hawthorpe for nature before it is ploughed and lost forever? Find out more: lincstrust.org.uk/hawthorpe-appeal

#superseabirdsunday Ivory Gull, Seahouses Golf Course 7th December 2013! @gary-woodburn.bsky.social

It's been a long wait but an advance copy of 'Grasshoppers' has finally arrived. It's been worth the wait with excellent printing

Great to see this emphasis on creating and maintaining wildlife habitat here - rather than buying food and feeders....

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

Here's a backlit GND from the Stour earlier in the week. Beak open between dives. #BirdArt

4 years to the day of a Blyth's Reed Warbler in a snow storm in Manchester City centre macaulaylibrary.org/asset/641652... #UKbirding

Cold sweat time, my first thought on seeing these images is that they are the product of Generative AI on account of missing/deformed feet. Could this however just be manipulation of a real image of an extralimital Willow Tit? Never had to even consider these issues before.... #UKBirding

At least one Zitting Cisticola still about south of Walberswick - no others seen in a couple of hours. Silent and elusive but now fully moulted at least and plumage looking quite dark and richly hued #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

Hume’s Leaf Warbler is a variable bird. The 3 currently inhabiting Holkham NNR all look different. The two I found on 16th: a grey/greenish rather scruffy bird (top left), & a buff/cream clean bird (top right) & Ash Saunders’ Wells bird is grey with contrasting green secondary edges #NorfolkBirding

A comparison of Hume’s Leaf Warbler (Wells Woods), left, and Yellow-browed Warbler (Holkham), right, from the last two days. Subtle but distinctive differences between these two similar Phylloscopus species supported by their quite different calls. #NorfolkBirding

That's just the tip of the iceberg. How many ' Fallowfield' or 'Orchid Meadows' etc are there? Should be called Block Paved Way, Tarmac Mews or AstroTurf Ave !

Great egret Suffolk, 26/11/2025 Fishing in the last light

3 Cattle Egrets on Peto’s Marsh Carlton at start of bund eastern end by digger. No cows in sight!

Found this abherrant Stoecnat at Lowestoft today, some Leucistic Feathers ,Pink legs and bill. #stonechat #ukbirding #suffolkbirds #lowestoftbirds

It's nearly 18 yrs since I found a Franklin's Gull at Torr Res, Somerset. Back then I spent 100s/hrs yearly scanning gulls at the res, landfill and fields. Today's Vatersay bird was easier, landing on the road in front of us as we headed for the beach...to go check the gulls. #BirdingScotland

Just when we thought autumn was done, birding would be quieter and that was that, this vision of larid loveliness landed in the road in front of us! A cracking adult Franklin's Gull, the first record for Vatersay. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK

An unexpected twist to a walk looking for Dipper on the Horton Burn! This Little Bittern was discovered late morning at North Shields in a bit of a sorry state. Pictured here at handover to a rescue team. Looking healthy (and drier), hopefully it will recuperate overnight for a release… #NEbirding

Hume's Warbler in Southwold churchyard brought up 220 for my patch this year, then almost immediately went to 221 with a Richard's Pipit that flew south calling - a scarce bird nowadays #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

Right, I have decided that tomorrow is THE day! It's the day a Hume's Warbler is going to appear in front of me. Microsite birding here I come. This is it! I believe...

Still 7 Shorelarks near the Pakefield Coastguard lookout also about 30 Snow Buntings further south but ranging along the coast

Dusky Warbler! This morning's sunny and calm weather provided the perfect window of bird-finding opportunity. So my pre-work visit to Brancaster turned out to be a good call, when I found this little chap 'tuk'ing away in a hedgerow near the Branodunum Roman Fort. #ukbirding #norfolkbirding

Both Hume's Leaf warblers are still present on my patch today, within half a mile of each other. Since it was sunny I spent a lot of time trying to photograph them. It's amazingly difficult! I took about 1000 photos and these are a couple of the only half-decent ones. #ukbirding #norfolkbirding

Jack snipe have been showing well from Bishop’s hide at Cley NWT this autumn. Great to eventually catch up with one today and spent an enjoyable morning sketching it along with 6 water pipits that dropped in. Quality!

Our walk today from Covehithe to Benacre Broad. Highlights: 9 Snow Bunting & Great Northern Diver south.

Shorelark Kessingland beach, 20/11/2025 7 today with 25 snow bunting.

Didactic video featuring two species which have declined catastrophically due to disease transfer at feeding stations. Birds infected with Trichomonas struggle to eat and will drop food items from their beaks, which are then eaten by healthy birds, hence RSPB no longer sells table feeders #UKBirding

Isabelline shrike (possibly Daurian) North Warren RSPB, Suffolk, Hunting wasp and bees during the morning of 17/11/2025. May have moved on yesterday am when the bracken in its favoured feeding area was cut. #birds

With thanks to @lowestoftlizards.bsky.social @perilsofbirding.bsky.social for inspiration& information, I speedbirded 10 minisites in Gorleston,Caister,Gt Yarmouth today. Migrants at all sites, but Meadow Park the best (Pallas’s!). Totals: 1 Woodcock, 5 Firecrest, Willow Warbler, 18 Chiff #ukbirding

Both Hume's Leaf Warbler still on the patch today. Here are some shots of the second one. Hume's is brilliant species I think - different from YBW in quite a few ways, and such a soft shade of green - I’d like to paint my lounge the same colour 😀. How many must there be here this autumn?

Divers still at Covenham Reservoir this morning @lincsbirding.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social #Birds #UKBirding

Wintering flocks of Long-tailed Ducks off Barra seem a little later in building up this year; there were c80 off Allasdale today. Our unexpected highlight of the day was 2 Grey Phalaropes struggling into a northerly gale past Brevig late afternoon. #BirdingScotland

Isabelline (Daurian?) shrike North Warren RSPB, Suffolk, 17/11/2025 Showed well today. @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #birds

This Swallow at Balranald, N Uist this afternoon appears to be the American subspecies: erythrogaster due to the lack of a dark band across the lower throat.

Worrying reports are coming in that Norfolk is sinking under the weight of eastern phylloscs. Thankfully Suffolk remains a safe space!

Incredible a'noon at Caister. First a Pallas's flitting through in a huge tit flock. Then another glimpsed warbler, silent & elusive. After a heard only bird at Thornham y'day I wondered if I just hallucinate Hume's Warblers. Till it popped up calling. And a Dusky calling too!

The immature shrike at North Warren RSPB. Identification of birds this age to species is not often possible, but a suite of features visible suggest Daurian Shrike (Lanius isabellinus) in this case IMHO - comments in alt text #RareBirdsUK #SuffolkBirding #UKBirding