We'll be interested to see how many Short-eared Owls cross the North Sea and spend the winter in Britain. 🦉 Read about BTO’s research tracking Short-eared Owls here ➡️ bit.ly/TrackingSEO #Ornithology #RaptorResearch 📷 Short-eared Owl by Liz Cutting/BTO

Tsssseeeep 🎶 ❤️ FIRST REDWING OF AUTUMN!!! 📷 Jo Cartmell

Foggy full moon; heady ivy flower scented night air; crazy owl calls; rustling hedgehogs; last of the chirping crickets; listening out for Redwings… I love October 🧡🍂🦉

Autumn arriving at Charmouth 🌬️🌊

New record for the oldest Barn Owl in Britain and Ireland! 😮 At 18 years old the female was ringed in 2007 in Nottinghamshire when she was a chick before being recorded again in Lincolnshire this year! Read the full story ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/a... #Ornithology #BirdRinging 🪶

Midsummer haze 🧡🌾🌞🌻🦗

Poorest breeding season on record for Kestrels and owls in #Wiltshire. Most Barn Owls haven’t laid eggs yet due to shortage of food. Many adults are in moult so unlikely to breed this year. Kestrels that have bred are feeding their young with birds, and broods are small 🪺🦉

When was the last time you saw a wildflower meadow bursting with so much colour, teeming with 🦋🐝🪲🐛, orchestrated by chirping crickets and breeding birds? #NationalMeadowsDay

Unveiling the Myth: Harpy Eagle Harpia harpyja Attacks on a Human in the Amazon Forest | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Heard this beautiful nightingale singing in a park in Budapest 🎶 A tragedy that the UK’s nightingale population has declined by 90%. They used to sing in our parks! Decline linked to breeding & winter habitat quality as shown by BTO’s latest GPS tracking study ➡️ www.bto.org/our-science/...

Inquisitive Tawny Owlet 🦉💚

1/⚠️ Blackbirds are in trouble & we need your help! Threatened by the Usutu virus, we need you to submit your garden Blackbird sightings so scientists can better understand the virus’ spread & potential impacts on these songbirds. 🌍 Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/blackbirds #UKBirding #Ornithology

Heard a Kestrel in Budapest! Warm spring weather has finally arrived here. Blossom everywhere! I’m desperate to hear Nightingales sing on Margit Sziget (island in Danube). Wherever I go, it’s always the birds that make a place 🌸🎶🐦‍⬛

A privilege to be in Kiskunság National Park in Hungary watching Szabolcs Kókay paint a Black-tailed Godwit. So many beautiful waders here. Curlews calling all around ❤️

Heard my first ever Scops Owl last night! They’ve just arrived back in Catalonia after overwintering in Africa. Five were calling back to our Scops Owl whistle calls! 🦉💚

They’re back! (In Catalonia!) 💚💚💚

Great talk on Little Owl diet and the trial use of AI to analyse insect remains in video files in the 🇳🇱. A whole weekend on Little Owls at the International Symposium in Spain🦉

@btobirds.bsky.social Spring 25 edition of their member’s magazine is wonderful. I especially loved @willrose.bsky.social artwork, Annie Brooker’s illustrated article ‘Healed by Birds’ & Cudyll Cymru on raptor monitoring in Wales 🦅

Wonderful to watch this Water Rail foraging along the banks of the River Chew. Winter is the best season to spot this secretive bird.

Heard my first Song Thrush of the year 🎶 Magical to hear glorious birdsong again #SignsOfSpring 💚

Did you know that Tawny Owls are less vocal on cloudy nights and when it is raining, but more active on nights when the moon is fuller? 🌕 🌧️ This was discovered from data collected for the BTO Tawny Owl Calling Survey. #Winterwatch #Ornithology #Birds

Heard my first singing Blackbird of 2025. It joined in with the Robins in the dusk chorus. 🎶🎶🐦‍⬛ Welcome back. Your fluting melodic notes filled my heart ❤️ 📷 Roger Wilmshurst

Golden sunset waves at The Cobb in Lyme Regis. I love it here especially in winter. Turnstones, Rock Pipets and wagtails meander along the harbour wall, stopping now and again to look out to sea.

I love midwinter. The warming sun, unfurling daylight, displaying Buzzards, clattering Jackdaws, emerging snowdrops, frosty cheeks, tree silhouettes at sunset, hooting owls, barking foxes, twinkly starry skies, and Orion ✨

Tawny Owls are quiet tonight as the snow falls in #Bath. The trees in my local park look beautiful with their shadowy branches backlit by the snowy sky. I felt like I was the only one there until I could smell a fox sitting under a hedgerow 🤍🦊

Welcoming in the New Year with this gorgeous Little Owl print by @hazela.bsky.social 🦉❤️ Looking forward to working on my Lights Out for Nature project in 2025 to help encourage more dark spaces for nature.✨ 🦉 🦊 🦇

Trees in #Bath are decorated with beautiful little birds. I love watching Pied Wagtails gather to roost at dusk in winter. Wishing you a merry festive time 🐦‍⬛ 💚

Lights Out for Birds ✨🐦‍⬛ Artificial light at night kills over a billion migratory birds each year. Light pollution is reversible and we can all make a difference now. Find out more in my article on light pollution and birds in this month’s Birdwatch @birdguides.bsky.social

Honoured to have written about spotting my first Montagu’s Harrier for the @btobirds.bsky.social stunning #IntotheRedBirds book. Get £5 off this book with code BTORBFL2024 ➡️ t.co/tsKirMG81I

I LOVE Pied Wagtails 🖤🤍 #PeggyDishwasher #WillieWagtail

Little Owls: Living on the Edge book by Andy Rouse features stunning photography and my conservation essay 🦉❤️ On sale for a special price this festive period ➡️ www.andyrouse.co.uk/index.php?s=... @wildmanrouse.bsky.social

Grey Wagtail pottering around on Lyme Regis’s pavements. Wagtail is a perfect name for these charming little birds 💛🩶

Tawny Owl Time 🦉🎶 I love walking amongst winter trees looking for owls at dusk. A top tip is to follow their courtship calls then look up. Tawny Owls can make lots of different vocalisations ➡️ soundapproach.co.uk/species/tawn...

7th International Little Owl Symposium will be held in Vic, Catalonia in March 2025 🦉 Come to share fieldwork, research and strategies from all over Europe to help conserve the declining Little Owl. Registration is open ⬇️ 📷 Andy Rouse

Grouse moors are perilous places for Short-eared Owls and other raptors who are illegally shot, trapped and poisoned 🦉🦅 NEW Ban Driven Grouse Shooting petition. Please sign here ➡️ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... @markavery.bsky.social

Incoming. Freshly arrived Short-eared Owl just prior to flopping down behind a large boulder on the SMI foreshore this morning. #UKbirding. #birdingNorthEast

Blakiston’s fish owls are so large that, as adults, they don’t really have natural predators. I’m aware of only one case of predation, when a Eurasian lynx surprised one along a riverbank while it was concentrating on the water & watching for fish 1/4 🌍🦉

Loved recording a @goldengrenadesco.bsky.social podcast episode with @yolobirder.bsky.social on my five favourite birds and why I love them. Listen here ➡️ goldengrenades.com/podcast/epis... 🦅🦉🐦‍⬛