Several Clouded Yellow on the rings of Maiden Castle today, too, Dave... butterflies galore

End of a 2 week heatwave, but Maiden Castle parched with no rain forecast #DorsetBirds 🪶 3 Stonechat (1 juvenile), lots Linnet & Goldfinch. 2 Common Whitethroat, 2 Kestrel. 🇬🇧

🌞 24degC Lodmoor RSPB 🪶 #Weymouth #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 4 Green Sandpiper at the Postbox Pool, 2 Great White Egret on the West scrape. c6 Lapwing, 2 Blackwit (one breeding plumage), Raven. Plenty Cm Tern & BH Gull with numerous juveniles. 20+ Med Gull. c10 Grey Heron, lot LtEgret. 40+Swift over Came Down

Last night, Monday, on Roman Road, Puddletown Forest for the Nightjars #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 Up to 14 seen flying, including our favourite pair, who now appear to have two juveniles with them. So, breeding success! Multiple birds churring etc. Distant Tawny Owl heard. Strawberry Moon obscured by clouds.

First #Northumberland Eider at Amble & 24 RBM. Coquet island, 100s Grey Seals, Roseate Terns, lots Puffin, Guillemot, Sandwich & Common Tern. Hauxley NWT, flock Tree Sparrow, numerous birds, plenty of hides. Seahouses, Farne islands, 1000s Guillemot, Puffin & Kittiwake, 100s Arctic Tern, +Razorbill.

Nosterfield #Yorkshire 🇬🇧 🪶 Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap, Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler, Sedge Warbler, Reed Warbler, Reed Bunting, Chiffchaff. Little Ringed Plover, Avocet, Redshank, Curlew, Lapwing, Oyc, GCG, LtGrebe. Shoveler, Tuftie, Gadwall, Shelduck, Pochard. Med Gull! Marsh Harrier on Flasks.

Grandson, Charlie, just back from the World War 1 Battlefields on an organised school trip. He was able to visit a family grave and lay a wreath. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them... 🇬🇧

Roman Road, Puddletown Forest for 5 Nightjar on a moonless night. An obvious pair very close; the male settled on the path a few feet away several times. Loud churring from numerous birds close by. A Tawny Owl 🦉 in Thorncombe Wood. #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social 🪶

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Great pics, Phil! All happening at lovely 😍 Lodmoor... #DorsetBirds @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social 🪶 🇬🇧

Perspective from Vancouver.....

Just two #DorsetBirds Puffin at Dancing Ledge yesterday evening 🪶 4 Swift overhead. Many Fulmar. Plenty of nesting Guillemot on Durlston Cliffs & Cormorants nesting near Old Harry. 2 Gannet off Swanage. Numerous Sandwich Tern in Poole Harbour & Studland Bay. 2 Shelduck! @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Special 🪶, N Donaña 🇪🇸 🌞 Rufous Bush Robin, Yellow-crowned Bishop, W Olivaceous Warbler, Pratincole. 3 Short-toed Eagle, Montague's Harrier, lots Griffon Vulture, 2 Booted Eagle. 2 Penduline Tit, Great Reed Warbler, Ferruginous Duck, Marbled Duck families, many Bee-eater. 5 Roller NW of Manzilla ❤️

Donaña, Andalusia 🇪🇸 🪶 Great Reed Warbler, lots Whiskered Tern, Little Bittern 😍 Masses breeding Purple, Night & Squacco Herons. Booted & Short-toed Eagles. Many Black Kite. Griffon Vulture. Breeding colony of Spoonbill. Bee-eaters galore. 16 Iberian Yellow Wagtail, 1000s Flamingo, 10 Marbled Duck

Castro Verde Portugal 🇵🇹 🪶 Goodies; 2 Roller, 5 Great Bustard,2 Little Bustard, numerous TurtleDove & Bee-eater, 4 GoldenOriole, 2 Black-eared Wheatear, 3 Little Ringed Plover, 5 Montagu's Harrier. Lots Griffon & Black Vulture, BlackKite, M Harrier. Eagles; 2 Booted, 3 Spanish Impérial, 2 Bonelli's.

Great day out Phil; love the pics! @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social #DorsetBirds 🪶 🇬🇧

Red-necked Nightjar on the El Rompido patch tonight 🪶 Andalusia 🇪🇸

Highlights of El Andevalo & Sierra Pelada 🇪🇸 today: 🪶 Golden Oriole, Short-toed Eagle, Gt Spotted Cuckoo, Black-eared Wheatear, male Blue RockThrush. 2 N Wheatear, 3 Black Stork, 2 Booted Eagle, Black Kite, Quail, 10 Iberian Grey Shrike, 5 Woodchat Shrike, several Black Vulture, lots Griffon Vulture.

Double Dipper #DorsetBirds Day. Dipper on River Hooke at Kingcombe Meadows @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social also male&female Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, lots Blackcap, Chiffchaff, Chaffinch, Wren, Swallow. SongThrush, 2 Swift. 2nd Dipper on the River Frome at Maiden Newton, GreyWagtail🪶

Hobby hawking over Radipole #Weymouth #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 at 1540hr. Also, Marsh Harrier & Buzzard. Another Hobby at Came Down, directly South of the woods at 1555hr, en route to Dorchester, Dorset. 🪶 😍 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetraptors.bsky.social #UKbirding

Thorncombe Wood #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 2 Marsh Tit, Firecrest, Nuthatch, 2 Great S Wood, Green Woodpecker, 5 MistleThrush, 3 SongThrush, lots Blackcap, Wren, Chaffinch & Chiffchaff. Woodsford, R Frome, Garden Warbler, lots Reed & Cetti's Warbler, CmWhitethroat, Red Kite, several HouseMartin, 2 LtEgret.

Maiden Castle, delightful Dorset ☺️ #DorsetBirds 🪶 🇬🇧 7 Greater Whitethroat, more heard singing; several in song flight. Corn Bunting atop the set-aside. A pair of spectacular Yellowhammer in the hawthorn. Numerous Linnet & Goldfinch. 2 Skylark on high. 3 Raven, 2 Buzzard. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Kingcombe Meadows: cafe recommended. @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social #DorsetBirds 🪶 🇬🇧 Sparrowhawk, 3 Buzzard, 10+ Swift, lots Swallow & House Martin. 2+ SongThrush, Blackcap, Jay, GSW, Greenfinch, numerous Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Chiffchaff, Wren, Stock Dove, tits. Maiden Newton had DIPPER, 4 Grey Wagtail

Spent a happy 90seconds with Bonaparte's Gull at Lodmoor before it departed to Lynch Cove about 1045hr! No Garganey today 😢 25 Bar-tailed Godwit, 4 Dunlin, 2 Sand Martin with lots House Martin & Swallow + one Swift. SongThrush, Reed & Cetti's Warblers, Blackcap. Many busy Cm Tern. #DorsetBirds 🪶 🇬🇧

Cogden Beach #DorsetBirds with S Dorset RSPB 🇬🇧 🪶 4 Swift, Swallows. Red Kite, 2 Tern, 2 Whitethroat (more singing), many Skylark, Goldfinch & Linnet, lots Blackcap singing. 8 Yellowhammer, 6 Reed Bunting, 10+ Stonechat. Bind Barrow had 2 more Whitethroat, masses Linnet, 4+ Stonechat. Jay at Swyre 😍

Beautiful, Phil. All happening at Lovely Lodmoor! #DorsetBirds #Weymouth 🪶

16kt East wind, 🌞 at Lodmoor #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 Grey Plover, 3 Barwit! 2 Whimbrel, 2 CmSandpiper, 2 Dunlin, 20+ Cm Tern, c10 Sandwich Tern. Reed & Cetti's Warblers. Med Gulls in the flock. Lots Swallow & fewer House Martin. Kestrel. Radipole had numerous Sand Martin, some H Martin & 3 Marsh Harrier.

Sunny & windy at Badbury Rings for 11 Common Whitethroat, all singing. 7 Blackcap, a pair + 3 male contesting a female + another singing male. 2 Skylark, 4 male Stonechat, 2 (poss 4) very active Kestrel. Lots Linnet, several Swallow, 3 Raven. #DorsetBirds More Blackcap singing at Kingston Lacy. 🪶🇬🇧

Cracking shots, Graham! 🪶 #DorsetBirds @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Wow! Very nice 👌 🪶 #UKbirding

Great to see the Little Terns back at Ferrybridge today. 3 on the oyster bed with 7 Sandwich Tern, 10+ Mediterranean Gull & 3 Common Gull. Lingering Red-breasted Merganser & Oyc nearby. Wheatear at Smallmouth Bay with numerous Swallow over. #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 5 Marsh Harrier flying earlier at Radipole 😍

🌞 morning on Coombe Heath with @dizzygirl66.bsky.social et al. Osprey Beaky on Middlebere nest having breakfast, flew 1100hr. 2 White-tailed Eagle over Purbecks. 2 Red Kite ♥️ 4 Buzzard. 19 Curlew, 2 Lapwing, 300+ Blackwit, lots Shelduck. Several Sandwich Tern, Blackcap GSW @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Avoided the 🌧 for a lovely time at Killerton NT House, gardens & parkland #Devon 🇬🇧 🪶 Great Spotted Woodpecker, several Treecreeper & Nuthatch, MistleThrush, SongThrush 🎵 Lots Blue, Great & Long-tailed Tits & Chiffchaff. Flock Chaffinch. Noisy Rookery! Several Wren & Stock Dove. @nationaltrust.org.uk

Saltram NT #Devon @nationaltrust.org.uk 🌧 #UKbirding 🇬🇧 🪶 pair of Red-crested Pochard, pair Mandarin Duck, Ring-necked Parakeet! Blackcap, SongThrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Nuthatch, flock Goldfinch, lots Chaffinch, tits, Corvids, Gulls. LtEgret. 😁 3 Seals Hope Cove this morning, close in 😍

Bolberry Down #Devon #UKbirding 🪶 @nationaltrust.org.uk Nasty 23kt Westerly wind, gusting 38kt, and mizzle. Lovely new bench 😍 📷 Didn't stop a Dartford Warbler atop the gorse singing. Several Skylark singing too, and holding their positions high in the wind. Stonechat busy. Gannet flying East.

🌞 #Devon #UKbirding 🪶 Hope Cove, South Huish & S Milton Leys 2 Egyptian Geese, Canada, Shelduck, Wigeon, Teal, Grey Heron, 7 Cattle Egret, LtEgret, Oycs. 6 Buzzard, 4 Kestrel, Raven eating 🐀, masses Jackdaw. flock Linnet, lots Stonechat, Skylark, Greenfinch, Chaffinch, Rock Pipit, Gulls & tits. ❤️

Great pictures, Phil! 👍 Good to see you at Lodmoor & have a catch-up. Strange that I should see an Otter shortly after we were discussing them at Lodmoor. This one I saw from 'the blue house'. Surprising what turns up...

Lovely 🌞 Lodmoor #Weymouth 🇬🇧 #DorsetBirds 🪶 Wheatear male, Swallow ❤️ 2 Avocet, 2 Dunlin, 8 Blackwit, Snipe. Curlew heard only. Male MarshHarrier, Buzzard, 2 Raven. Some Common & Med Gulls. 6 Shoveler, pair Gadwall, lots Teal, Wigeon, Shelduck, Canada. Otter swimming @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social 😍

Lovely place, great sighting... 🪶

Lunch at Bramble Bush Bay, and a Red Kite low overhead... @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social 🪶

Very nice pair of Scoter in Studland Bay currently, from Middle Beach @harbourbirds.bsky.social 🪶

Blue sky 🌞 but a nasty 12kt Westerly blowing for today's stroll on Maiden Castle #Dorchester #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 Very quiet! Just 2 pairs of Stonechat, small flock c10 Linnet on the set-aside. Raven, Buzzard, Kestrel. Plenty of Crows arguing about nest space & a single singing Robin. Very Peaceful ❤️

Misty Badbury Rings & High Wood #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 2 Yellowhammer, small flocks Linnet & Goldfinch. Bullfinch, Treecreeper, 2 Nuthatch, c30 Redwing, several Chiffchaff & Chaffinch. 11 Stonechat, Kestrel, 5 Goldcrest, 2 Wren, 4 Skylark. 3 Green Woodpecker, GSW. Mallards on pond. Tits, Gulls, Corvids.

Excellent shot! #DorsetBirds 🪶

Sea Mist, Seaton Wetlands #Devonbirds 🇬🇧 🪶 Peregrine, Buzzard, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk. 50+ Redshank, 20+ Curlew, 2 Blackwit, Oyc. Lots Shelduck, Teal. Shoveler, Gadwall, Mallard, 3 LtGrebe, Grey Heron, 2 LtEgret. 2 Stonechat, tits&finches. 4 Lesser BBGull in the flock, Cormorant. Several Chiffchaff 🎶

Lovely 🌞 Spring day for a walk at Culpepper's Dish #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 Looking for Crossbills; pleased with a flock of nine including a magnificent red-plumage male in the conifer overhead. Also, flock of Siskin, Mistle Thrush singing, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard. A Marsh Tit heard, but couldn't locate it...

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Very nice 👌 🪶 🇬🇧

Blustery grey Thursday at Silverlake #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 Peregrine Falcon having breakfast, 2 Stonechat, Dartford, Red Kite, Raven, Egyptian Goose, 20+ Canada, Pochard, 4 Tuftie, 2 GreatCrested Grebe, Lt Grebe, 10+ LBBGull. Thorncombe Wood had a Marsh Tit, & 2 Red-legged Partridge at Thorncombe Farm.

A Little Gull briefly on Charminster water meadows, W of Dorchester #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧🪶 also, Goldcrest, fem Blackcap, 2 LBBG. Maiden Castle, 3 Corn Bunting, 3 Stonechat, Redwing, singing Skylarks. Blue sky at Thorncombe Wood, 2 Firecrest, 7 Goldcrest, 5 Nuthatch, 2 Siskin, tits&finches, woodpeckers 😍