Spring has broken in The Straits! 🌸🦅 The first Black Kites are crossing from Africa, joined by Barn Swallows, House Martins, and majestic White Storks. Witness the greatest show on earth with our migration tours: www.ingloriousbustards.com #IngloriousBustards #TheStraits #Migration #Birding

This @freshwaterbio.bsky.social #pond restoration training course 25th, 26th June is well worth attending. Learn how to restore degraded existing ponds & #ghostponds with Norfolk Ponds Project founders Carl Sayer & Helen Greaves: www.fba.org.uk/shop/p/pond-...

We’re recruiting at Spurn Bird Observatory 🐦 Head Little Tern Warden + 2 Assistant roles available at Beacon Ponds this season. Details here 👉 spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news

A very wet day for our @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social Winter Wetlands tour in the Lower Derwent Valley, but these gorgeous Barnacle Geese with 320+!! White-fronted Geese at North Duffield Carrs really brightened our morning. Nice find by Tim Jones @ldvnnr.bsky.social @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Bishopthorpe Parish Council want to sell a small wildlife oasis hosting rare wildflowers like Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem to a developer. This field belongs to the people of Bish who cherish its wildlife. Please sign this petition to stop them doing this. Thanks 😊 c.org/syGKBRcGBY

Pulled up to scan a goose flock at North Duffield, could hear WFronts as I was setting up the scope, only to realise whole flock was WFronts, at least 307 with some out of view, also 2 Barnacle Geese, best viewed from along path to Garganey Hide @birdguides.bsky.social @yorkbirding.bsky.social

The School of Urban Birding is about to go LIVE! Learn all the basics of how to become a birder. Launch on Feb 14th. That's right, its on Valentine's Day - especially for all you bird lovers. 😀❤️🦉 bigsmokebirding.co.uk/urban-birdin... #DiscoverLondon #BirdWatching #GuidedTours #NatureInTheCity

Attention birders! @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social have launched an urgent appeal to protect the Little Tern colony, one of the most successful in the UK. An unexpected funding gap means they need funds sharpish - a few quid goes a long way! Donate: tinyurl.com/2s3k5exe Learn more: tinyurl.com/2cnc9br4

Yorkshires only Little Tern colony relies on paid wardens to protect them from predators and disturbance, the team have achieved amazing numbers of fledglings in recent years and it would be a great shame if it doesn’t run this year, much appreciated if you can help out with this funding gap 🙏

Drake Black Scoter off Bambrugh Castle just now with c30 Commons @ntbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social @rossahmed.bsky.social

Anyone know of a good spot to photograph Jays relatively close to York please? 🙏

What a way to start the year on my local patch. Landed on the beach for a few minutes then flew off west.

A brilliant bird filled day in @ldvnnr.bsky.social. An afternoon watching a White-tailed Eagle thanks to a phone call from @ldvbirder.bsky.social, preceded by finding 5 Eurasian White-fronted Geese in the vast Greylag herds. LDV hooching with birds, absolutely fantastic. #UKbirding #Birds

The superb juvenile White-tailed Eagle in the @ldvnnr.bsky.social yesterday, looking absolutely massive lumbering around flushing the thousands of Wildfowl and Waders currently on site, unringed/untagged so presumably continental origin @yorkbirding.bsky.social

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 🪶

The Taiga Bean Goose at Loch Heilen was ringed in E. Finland in July 2020. Usually wintering in S. Sweden, it was sighted in Norway (26th Sept) before Caithness. Full details can be found here submit.cr-birding.org/animals/1417... #CaithnessBirds

Not sure if vid. works on repeat, but anyway this should be one of the juv GNDs on the Stour this week losing its rag with a fish way too big to swallow and hammering it with its beak. #BirdArt

The Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust is looking for a manager for their seabird recovery programme. www.wildlifetrusts.org/jobs/project...

This is cool. Gotta love a Jack Snipe #motus #migration #ukbirding

It has taken a bit of legwork to get this GW Egret at Alton Water decoded (well done to Laurence Potter for tip-off that we had a bangled one there). Turns out it is from NE Poland, border with Lithuania. I've seen a couple of reports from Belarus, so fits the pattern. #UKBirding

Pine Bunting seen briefly with mobile Yellowhammer flock at St Aldhelm's Head Quarry at 1030hrs & not relocated as of 1250hrs. Ltd parking available in Renscombe car park, otherwise park in Worth Mattravers village car park and walk down, staying out of private fields @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

🌿 Love wildlife and winter landscapes? We’re looking for two Winter Volunteers to help care for Spurn Bird Observatory and its beautiful surroundings this season. Be part of something wild. 🕊️ 👉 Learn more & apply: spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news/winter-...

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation promoting the amazing work of @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social across global #flyways: buff.ly/NNQNpRs

It’s the final weekend of the season at Spurn Bird Observatory 🍂 Easterlies at last – and a few spaces still available in the Obs'! Join us for great birding, good company and cosy evenings by the log burner. Book your spot here 👇 spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/accommodation/

Show me a sharper photo?!

I completed the Swainson's and Grey-cheeked Thrush illustration over the weekend. It was really enjoyable to work on these 2 subtle American vagrants that I was lucky to see earlier this Autumn close to home. #donegalbirding

Selling my Sony G FE 200-600mm F5.6-F6.6 lens it’s in great condition with no marks on the lenses, it’s boxed and has the hood, strap, case, instructions. It has a vinyl skin applied. Looking for £950 Collection only or can meet at Spurn/Flamborough etc.

Same ring size for the dinky Red-breasted Flycatcher as the Firecrest!

Shore Larks - Holkham Bay. Framed ready for my forthcoming show

Here’s the finished Siberian Thrush drawing. Bringing it to life on paper was a great way to relieve the memories of a really special bird! Coloured pencil on paper. Reference photo Jake K. #birding 🪶

Dream #flightshot

One of the Harlequins Ducks I found a few weeks ago has settled down on a quiet little beach in North West Donegal and I was really fortunate to spend a bit of time with it recently. Fingers crossed now that it stays for the winter, what a glorious sight it will be in a few months.

A 1st winter male SIBERIAN RUBYTHROAT caught on North Ronaldsay!!! #RareBirdsUK #BirdingScotland #OrkneyBirding

Yesterday's Pallid Swift arriving from the east at #longnab #YorkshireBirding @nybirdnews.bsky.social

A remarkable Eastern Nightingale at Rattray Head yesterday. It's behaviour was most un-nightingale-like, sitting in the open and pumping its tail. A real crowd-pleaser!

Eastern Common Nightingale, Rattray Head #birds #birdingscotland

After a dawn raid on the Point, this little beauty was cowering in the buckthorn on my birding walk back, not far south of the Breach at Spurn. Thomas Willoughby’s brilliant pic. Bird of a lifetime. A British tick as well 😂

#justicefordaveboyle #spurnssecond

We are looking for a short-term residential volunteer to join the team from the 2nd to 19th October (+/-2 days). Tasks include morning bird monitoring (Point Counts / Visible Migration watches) and afternoon maintenance tasks (habitat/estate work)⬇️

A migrant quiet bit of birding at Whitby with @ollie333.bsky.social yesterday was highlighted by one of the best birds we’re lucky enough to see almost every autumn on the Yorkshire coast, Yellow-browed Warbler 😍 #UKBirding

Today the Hobby kits have been learning about crows- no protection on hand from the adults as the female is long departed and the male doesn't do child minding except for feeding... happy ending as the grabbed bird got rescued in fine style by its siblings. #UKbirding

Getting closer bsky.app/profile/gull...

Happy Days First Yellow-browed of the autumn Snook, Holy Island #NEbirding #UKbirding

The last of the 4 previous #StKilda Baird's Sandpiper records was in 1999, and finding a 2nd bird on 16th was a surprise in itself. That 2nd bird was neither of these two though, meaning that Will found a 3rd of the year this morning. Madness! @birdguides.bsky.social @hebridesbirds.bsky.social

Can species reintroductions harm biodiversity rather than help it? Are we using reintroductions as a distraction from the real drivers of our nature crisis? Listen to my conversation with the one and only @alexanderlees.bsky.social 🌍🦤🧪🪶 ➡️ pod.fo/e/32fae6

65 Glossy Ibis Heron’s Green Bay, flew to Herriot’s Bridge at 7pm. 20 GWE, 7 Ruff, 2 YLG & Hobby #ukbirding

LESSER KESTREL on #StKilda! Retrospectively identified from Will Miles' excellent images on 16th Sept. We'd recorded a Kestrel from 12th, possibly the same bird, but sadly not relocated today. @birdguides.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @hebridesbirds.bsky.social

September 2025 captured in a single post!

My first Yellow-browed Warbler of the Autumn. Tresta garden.

YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER KALXON 🔥🔥🔥🎸🎸🎸🚨🚨🚨Let the games commence 😂