Another Autumn pilgrimage to Spurn draws to a close. 120 species over the 4 days. Included 3 species of skua, pectoral sandpiper 5 different Yellow Browed warbler, Pallas warbler a Black-Faced bunting and a bonus American Golden Plover on the way home!! 🪶🪶🪶 #birding

Fabulous last day at Spurn. And a definite case of the right place at the right time. On the walk back from a successful viewing of a Pallas’s Warbler we saw a Black-Faced Bunting 😀👍🪶🪶. With @pringlebirder.bsky.social @richardrbw.bsky.social @starlifter.bsky.social

Red-Backed Shrike this evening at Portbury Wharf was nice to see. Always great to bump into a fellow birder. None more enthusiastic than @kidphotographer24.bsky.social 🪶🪶🪶

Otter 🦦 spotting. Great to see 5 minutes walk from a town centre. Stroud Canal this lunchtime @mikebirding2024.bsky.social

Black terns 18 of them at Clifton Pits, Worcestershire today. Just fabulous 🪶🪶🪶

A stoic bittern - from the Zeiss hide @wwtworldwide.bsky.social Slimbridge site. Amazing to see one in open view. #Glosbirds 🪶🪶🪶

A short afternoon visit to @wwtworldwide.bsky.social Slimbridge. Lots of fabulous close waders including. Black-tailed Godwit, snipe green sandpiper and red knot. #Glosbirds 🪶🪶🪶

A very showy little stint at Farmoor Reservoir earlier today. 🪶🪶

Blakehill Nature Reserve isa new place for me. Nice to pick up some early migrants. At least 9 wheatear and 4 whinchat. 🪶🪶

Not a bad commute this morning. I bumped into this otter 🦦 family. Looked like mum was teaching them to fish.

Spotted Flycatcher- waiting for a meal. Frampton on Severn #Glosbirds 🪶

Slimbridge Bean Goose. 🪶 #Glosbirds South Lake causeway this afternoon

A nice selection of birds at Slimbridge and Frampton today. Bean Goose, spot fly, YL Gull and green Sand all year ticks. Along with spot red, snipe, yellow wagtail, Hobby, spoonbill

I always enjoy those accidental encounters with nature. A literal leap of faith for these 7 mallard ducklings. 🪶🪶

A week of Hebridean birding draws to a close. Some fabulous scenery, unbelievable weather, top birds and impeccable company. Thanks to @richardrbw.bsky.social and @starlifter.bsky.social for making it fun. 🪶

Puffins, Mingulay. Outer Hebrides trip. Some fabulous birds today. Apart the photogenic puffins managed to see Golden Eagles, White-tailed Eagle and Great Skua. 🪶🪶

Rodborough Common is one of the best places to see so many of our fabulous butterflies. So many in the wing at the moment taking advantage of sunny weather. Always especially pleased to see Duke of Burgundy like this one. 🦋@savebutterflies.bsky.social

One of the birds I really look forward to hearing (and seeing) each spring. Nightingale at Highnam woods first thing this morning. #glosbirds 🪶🪶nice way to start #GlobalBigDay

I finished my US holiday on 126 species. Some fabulous places and habitats. 🪶🪶🪶

Yesterday I spent the early morning at Cape May watching the Spring Migration. Fortunately I was with some very knowledgeable birders.

Week 2 of family hols. We’re in Cape May - what a fabulous place it is. This mornings walk around Higbee Beach was great. Two lifers 😀. 🪶🪶

A few more Jersey birds 🪶

Family holiday to New Jersey. Managed to squeeze in a little early morning birding. 🪶🪶🪶🦅🦅

Visit to Frampton - Court Lake this evening. My third RND of the year. 🪶🪶#GlosBirds

A nice variety of birds today bit of a tour of Somerset spots. Glossy Ibis, Spotted Redshank, Ring Necked Garganey at Ham Wall. Black Necked Grebes and G Scaup at Cheddar and CVL 🪶🪶

#MyDailyDipper. Dipper activity continues apace on Frome in Stroud. A pair today. 🪶🪶 #Glosbirds

Lots of birdsong on my lunchtime walk. Blackcap in full song. Dippers and Kingfisher seen just about everyday for past week or so. River Frome Stroud #glosbirds 🪶🪶

It’s taken me a long time to get good views of Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in the UK. So super please with today’s visit to the New Forest. Also great views of Goshawk / Hawfinch / Firecrest /Dartford Warbler and finished off with a Wiltshire Stone Curlew. 🪶🪶. @pringlebirder.bsky.social

An overdue visit to WWT Steart to see the Least Sandpiper. Life ✅. An obliging little stint made for direct comparison. Also added purple sandpiper for the year. With nice close views of 5 at Battery point.

Trip to the Forest of Dean - detour to Slimbridge to see Glossy Ibis. Lovely chilly winters day. Hawfinch my bird of the day. #Glosbirds 🪶🪶

My first trip to Slimbridge this year. Always a nice visit - plenty to see Cranes, Bewicks amongst my 6 year ticks. 🪶🪶#glosbirds

Nice to do a cruise along the River Exe estuary. A great spot for our wintering birds. Nice views of Great Northern Diver, greenshank, Brent Geese 🪶🪶. And obliging Grey seal 🦭 popped up on a pontoon. ebird.org/checklist/S2...

A chilly lunchtime walk along the canal and parts of River Frome, Stroud. Two dippers - a first of the year treat. 🪶🪶 #GlosBirds

With the festive break well and truly over. Back to lunchtime walks. Still nice to see Mandarin, Chiffchaff and Grey wagtail and add them to my bird list. 🪶

Well that’s an extraordinarily confiding Yellow-Browed Warbler picking through the leaf litter. Frampton On Severn. Bonkers. 🪶🪶

Big Norfolk Skies.

The moment 10000 Pink feet take to the sky and you realise you’ve lost the chance of find the Lesser Whitefront 🫣. Still fabulous to see 🪶

Glaucous Gull 🪶 Old Hunstanton, Norfolk yesterday.

Home after 3 day trip to Norfolk. Big Skies / Big tides / Baltic Weather/ Biting winds and lots of Brilliant birds 🪶 LEO / SEO / Glaucous Gull / Shore lark / Velvet Scoter / water Pipit / 3 types Harrier. Among the many highlights shared with @pringlebirder.bsky.social and @richardrbw.bsky.social

Impossible to go to Norfolk in the winter and not be enamoured by the spectacle of 1000’s of Pink-footed geese. This large flock was made or the more special as it contained a few white-fronts and at least one Tundra Bean Goose. Finished the two days on 105 species. Always a great trip. 🪶🪶🪶

Trip to Norfolk to try and top off my year list. These gorgeous Shorelarks were species 250 for the year. Plenty of other highlights. Pallid, Hen and Marsh Harrier. Barn and little owl. Merlin and 1000’s of pinks 🪶🪶

Just back from annual autumn pilgrimage to Spurn and Flamborough. Lifer with Pallas warbler, great views of YBW. Black Redstart, American Wigeon. Always a brilliant weekend. Great company. @pringlebirder.sky.social

Tough to do the house chores when there was a chance of seeing Lesser Yellowlegs at Pilning Wetland. With @richardrbw.bsky.social 🪶

Such a special time of year so many birds departing our shores at moment. Great to see close up 1000’ of swallows from Selsey Bill yesterday. Other highlights Bearded Tits at Farlington Dartford Warbler New Forest and Slow worms at Pagham Harbour 94 bird species with @pringlebirder.bsky.social 🪶

One of 5 Spotted Redshank on the Rushy pool this morning. All busy feeding. This one struggling to swallow a stickleback. 🪶WWT Slimbridge

Lovely day out in Dorset bird migration now in full swing. Highlights included Balearic Shearwater, whinchat, wheatear, bushes full of chiffchaff and willow warbler, 1000s of mipits 🪶@richardrbw.bsky.social

Cracking big day in Kent Red-Backed Shrike, Glossy Ibis, YB Warbler, Sooty Shearwater, Arctic Skuas and Western Bonellis Warbler amongst the many highlights. #ukbirds

It did rain - but didn’t dampen our enthusiasm today. Portland Bill area and Brue Estuary on the way home. Little Stint / Curlew Sand / Wheatears and a fabulous Sabine’s gull to finish. #UKBirds

The Hayle estuary has been just brilliant this weekend. Grey Phalarope - what bird to finish on. #ukbirds

Lizard point for sunset yesterday evening. Another opportunity to watch 1000’s of Manx Shearwater streaming by. 20 noisy coughs for company 😀