A quick visit to Holyhead Breakwater Country Park this afternoon, 2 Leach's Petrel, DP Arctic Skua (both West) were my highlights, nice to see the Grey Seal pups plus a Blackcap and plenty of Goldcrest. #Birds #Birding #Photography #UKBirding #birdinguk #photo #wales #nature #wildlife #uk

A bit late this morning but nice to see European Storm Petrel west past Rhos Point, also Great Northern Diver (east and may have landed), 12 Golden Plover and 6 Brent Goose. #Birds #Birding #UKBirding #birdinguk #Nature #Wildlife #UK #Wales

For #Birds, my highlight was this Slavonian Grebe at West Kirby Marine Lake (Yesterday), along with a Rock Pipit. And at Burton Mere, 30+ Pink-Footed Goose, Coal Tit, Spotted Redshank, 4 Ruff and a few Pintail. #UKBirding #birdinguk #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #Photo #UK #England #Birding

Other #Dragonflies in the area (@rspbburtonmere.bsky.social) included these very showy Common Darters, along with this Migrant Hawker in the same spot as the Willow Emerald Damselfly. #Odonata #Insects #Wildlife #Nature #UK #England #Photography #Photo

It was good to get a chance to see this Willow Emerald #Damselfly today at @rspbburtonmere.bsky.social! It was difficult to get a photo but showed (through the scope!) at the Garden Pond. #Odonata #Nature #Wildlife #UK #England #Insects #Photography #Photo

I always enjoy spotting the Western Roe #Deer at @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social, these were ones we saw at #Migfest25, along with other #Mammals such as European Badger, Brown Hare, Common Bottlenose Dolphin and Common Pipistrelle. #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Photo #England #UK

Brilliant morning at Point Lynas, 7:30-10:30, nice to find a Pomarine Skua, other highlights 1 Bonxie, 4 Arctic Skua, 5 Black Tern, 1 Black Guillemot, 2 Leach's, 1000+ Scoter, 7 RTD, 3 GCG, 9 Risso's Dolphin, 4 Porpoise! #Birds #Birding #UKBirding #birdinguk #wildlife #nature #Wales #Photo #UK

Just back from a pelagic trip out to the Whittard Canyon area on the continental shelf edge with @scillypelagics.bsky.social @scottinscilly.bsky.social @nomadbirder.bsky.social Madeiran Storm Petrel reclassified from MEGA!!! to scarce summer visitor in one evening with 84 counted last night! 😂

Another Highlight of #Migfest25 for me would be the Pipit movement, with Thousands of Meadow Pipits moving South over the weekend, aswell as a few Tree Pipits, which it was nice to pick up through call. #Birds #Birding #UKBirding #birdinguk #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #Photo #England #UK

Outstanding Afternoon at Rhos Point, Highlights including: 1 Long-Tailed Skua 3 Leach's Petrel 1 Surf Scoter 4 Arctic Skua 7 Red-Throated Diver 2 Little Tern 1 Arctic Tern 25+ Common Tern 45+ Manx Shearwater #Birds #Birding #rarebirdsuk #UKBirding #birdinguk #Nature #Photography #Wildlife

Probably the Birding highlight of #Migfest25 at @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social on the weekend for me, this Stunning Juvenile Red-Necked Phalarope! It showed so well, at times only a few feet away! #Birds #England #UK #UKBirding #Birdinguk #Nature #Photography #Wildlife #Photo #rarebirdsuk #Birding

2 Adult Dark Morph Arctic Skua East past the Great Orme yesterday Afternoon, also 4 Chough, Blackcap, Raven, plus several Gannet, Kittiwake and Guillemot past. #Wildlife #Nature #Photography #Photo #Birds #Birding #UKBirding #birdinguk #Wales #UK

Nice day around the Caernarfon area, good to get a Dark Morph Arctic Skua off Dinas Dinlle aswell as Manx Shearwater, 4 Snipe, and several Common Scoter, Kittiwake, GBBG and Gannet. #Birds #Birding #Wales #Photography #Photo #UK #UKBirding #birdinguk #Nature #Wildlife

Another interesting #Bat Walk at #RSPB Conwy this evening, 20+ Noctule, 10+ Soprano Pipistrelle, c8 Common Pipistrelle and what was likely a Lesser Horseshoe Bat! #Mammals #Wales #UK #Nature #Wildlife #Photo #Photography

Great Orme this afternoon: 6 Chough, 3 Raven, 2 Wheatear, 10+ Meadow Pipit, 10+ Kittiwake, Chiffchaff, 2 pods of at 4+ Bottlenose #Dolphins! Rhos Point: A few Gannet, Common Tern with the Sandwich Terns, c10 Ringed Plover #Birds #Birding #Wales #Wildlife #Photography #UK #UKBirding #Nature

📷 Common Chiffchaff 📌 Nantporth NR, Bangor #Wales #Photography #UK #Birding #Birds #Photo #Nature #Wildlife #UKBirding #birdinguk

Wood Sandpiper on patch at #RSPB Conwy yesterday, happy to finally see one after 4 total dips and good to get it so locally. #Birds #Birding #UKBirding #birdinguk #Nature #Wildlife #Wales #UK #Photo #Photography

Small patch of Morfa Aber/ Glan y Mor Elias: 1 Curlew Sandpiper, 1 Golden Plover, 1 Greenshank, 4 Redshank, 3 Lapwing, 50+ Dunlin, 40+ Common Ringed Plover, 1 Knot, 2 Sanderling, 10+ Oystercatcher. #Birds #Birding #UKBirding #birdinguk #Nature #Wildlife #Photography #Photo #Wales #UK

Good to get 6 Cattle Egrets at #RSPB Cors Ddyga yesterday aswell as a Little Stint and 12 Greenshank at RSPB Conwy from Carneddau Hide this morning. #Birds #Birding #UKBirding #birdinguk #Wildlife #Photography #Photo #Nature #Wales

Zitting cisticola Walberswick, Suffolk, 23/08/2025 I thought I was having a good day with an image of one of the juveniles from the 1st recorded breeding of Zitting cisticola in the UK. On review I found four juveniles and the adult female🤯 @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #suffolkbirding #ukbirding

Wirral this morning aswell: West Kirby 10am: 20+ Grey Plover, 50+ Common Ringed Plover, 5+ Red Knot, Arctic Tern, 40+ Little Tern, 15+ Common Gull. #RSPB Burton Mere 1pm: Green Sandpiper, Great Egret, 15+ Ruff. #Birds #Birding #UK #birdinguk #UKBirding #Nature #Wildlife

Amazing to see my first Black Tern today on the River Clwyd from the path near the railway bridge! 3 Whimbrel and a few Knot aswell. #Birds #Birding #UKBirding #birdinguk #Wales #Nature #Photography #UK #Photo #Wildlife

Today last year! Hudsonian Godwit at #RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands! #Birds #Birding #rarebirdsuk #UKBirding #birdinguk #UK #Wildlife #Photography #Nature

Yesterday Evening's Bat Walk at #RSPB Conwy with Levi produced 5 species of Bats with Common Noctule, Common Pipistrelle, Soprano Pipistrelle, Daubenton's Bat and Natterer's Bat! #Nature #Wildlife #Mammals #Bats #Wales #UK #Photo #Photography

#RSPB Conwy at High Tide this afternoon: 11 Greenshank, 3+ Common Sandpiper, 50+ Little Egret, 2 Great Egret, hundreds of Gulls (Herring, Black-Headed, GBBG, LBBG) and a few Teal. #Birds #Birding #UKBirding #birdinguk #Nature #Wildlife #Wales #UK #birdingwales

Great to see my first ever Grey Partridges near Lunt Meadows NR today whilst looking for Buntings, and nice to see them with young aswell! #Birds #Birding #birdinguk #UKBirding #Photography #Photo #Nature #Wildlife #England #Lancashire #UK

It’s the big day! After four years of research, writing and editing (and procrastination, terror and imposter syndrome), Endemic has now been released to the world.

This week last year: the wonderful Island of #Fuerteventura, where I hope to visit again at some point! 📷 Four-Striped Digger Bee 📷 Atlantic Yellow-Legged Gull 📷 Spanish Sparrow 📷 Berthelot's Pipit #Birds #Birding #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #Photo #Hymenoptera

Glad I decided on Rhos Point this morning! 1 European Storm Petrel (west), 1 Black Guillemot, several Fulmar and Manx Shearwater, 3 Great Crested Grebe, Ringed Plover and easily 60+ Sandwich Tern on the beach! #Birds #Birding #UKBirding #birdinguk #Photo #Nature #Wildlife #Wales #UK

A Boat Trip around Puffin Island today produced c20 Grey Seal, Common Guillemot, Black Guillemot, Manx Shearwater, Fulmar, c20 Kittiwake, Compass Jelly, c70 Shag, and it was great to get close views of Lion's Mane #Jellyfish! #Cnidarians #Birds #Birding #Wales #Photography #Nature #Wildlife #photo

📷 Eurasian Wren 📌 #RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands #Birds #Birding #UKBirding #Wales #England #birdinguk #Nature #Photo #Photography #Wildlife

Summer can be a little quiet when it comes to Birds, that's why I enjoy #Lepidoptera whilst I wait for the Autumn! Great to get a Crescent Dart in the latest Trap aswell as this nice Iron Prominent. #Moths #TeamMoth #Insects #Wildlife #Wales #Nature #Photo #Photography

Wonderful news this evening! A pair of Montagu's Harrier has bred at a secret location in England this summer, the RSPB has announced:

Some nice looking #Moths in the Trap, highlights 3 Double-striped Pug, September Thorn, Canary-Shouldered Thorn, Chequered Fruit-Tree Tortix, Light Brown Apple Moth, Small Dusty Wave and more. #Lepidoptera #Photography #Photo #Nature #Wildlife #Wales #Insects #TeamMoth

And some lovely Mandarin Ducks on the way back! These were at Llangollen from the riverside walk, there was 5 in total. #Ducks #Birds #Birding #Photography #UKBirding #birdinguk #Photo #Wildlife #Nature #Wales

I just found a Quail! 📌Shropshire #Birds #Birding #England #UKBirding #birdinguk #Wildlife #Nature #Photo #Photography

Early Thorn from today's #Moth Trap! #Insects #Lepidoptera #Wales #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #Photo #TeamMoth

Another #Moth Trap Last night, Double-Striped Pug, Common Footman, Common Rustic, 2 Riband Wave, 4 Rustic/Uncertain, Large Yellow Underwing, 3 Garden Grass Veneer and Little Grey among others. #Lepidoptera #Photography #Wales #Wildlife #Nature #Photo #Insects

#RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands yesterday, a nice surprise to see (and hear) Short-Winged Coneheads, also a Nursery Web #Spider on its Tent Web, 4 Ruff, Brown Hawker, Great Egret and more. #Odonata #Arachnids #Birds #Birding #Photography #Photo #Nature #Wildlife #Orthoptera #Insects

#Moth Trapping lastnight- we had Riband Wave, Rush Veneer, Barred Marble, Scalloped Oak, Pale Mottled Willow, Shuttle-Shaped Dart, Dark Arches, 3 Garden Grass Veneer, 4 Rustic/Uncertain and what I think is Lychnis. #TeamMoth #Insects #Photography #Wales #Nature #Wildlife #Photo #Lepidoptera

Soft-plumaged Petrel (light morph) off Porthgwarra this eve. 8:24pm. 13th July. Following a prompt txt from Joe Jones at 6:34 from the Lizard, this bird took 1hr 50 to reach Pg. Just five of us connected. The 2nd uk record and 1st for Cornwall. Pics courtesy Mike McKee. Still stunned tbh!

Golden-Ringed #Dragonfly from Anglesey yesterday, a new one for me, and surprisingly large! #Odonata #Insects #Photography #Photo #Wildlife #Nature #Wales

Very quiet #Moth Trap last night, my favourite was this Canary-Shouldered Thorn, otherwise we had 4 Large Yellow Underwing and 3 Garden Grass-Veneer. #TeamMoth #Lepidoptera #Insects #Photography #Wildlife #Nature #Wales

Wonderful time at the base of The Great Orme this afternoon, Ferruginous Bee-Grabber, 2 Dark Green Fritillary, 6 Silver-Studded Blue, Grayling, 15+ Field #Grasshopper, c5 Meadow Brown, 4 Common Blue, and more. #Butterflies #Lepidoptera #Orthoptera #Diptera #Wildlife #Photography #Wales #Nature

Another morning with the #Moths, becoming addicted, we had Clouded Border, Barred Red, what I think was Rustic and Elderberry Pearl, Garden Carpet, Large Yellow Underwing, 6 Uncertain/Rustic, 3 Heart & Dart, 6 Garden Grass Veneer, Dark Arches + Pug sp. #TeamMoth #Photography #Nature #Wales #Insects

Another Moth-Trapping session Last night produced 1 Grey Dagger, 1 Uncertain, 1 Scalloped Oak, 3 Dark Arches, 3 Heart and Dart, and 1 Silver Y. #teammoth #Moths #Lepidoptera #Nature #Photography #Wildlife #Wales #Insects

📷 Eurasian Coot 📷 Common Moorhen Both showing well at a local park last weekend. #Photography #Wildlife #Birds #Birding #Nature #Wales #UKBirding #birdinguk #Photo

Nice to get the #Moth Trap out for the first time yesterday evening, this morning when we checked back there was 5 Garden Grass Veneer, Dark Sword-Grass, Heart & Dart, 2 Large Yellow Underwing, Brimstone Moth and more. #Lepidoptera #Nature #Wildlife #Wales #Photography #Photo #Insects

Cemlyn a few weeks back, Roseate Tern stuck around and showed nicely alongside Hundreds of Sandwich, Common and Arctic Terns, It was also nice to see the Manx Shearwaters so close, with at least 40 passing in 10 minutes. #Birds #Wales #Photography #Birding #Nature #UKBirding #birdinguk #Widlife

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