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...

#DorsetBirds 🪶 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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 😍

Sandsfoot Castle #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 6 Great Northern Diver, Slavonian Grebe, c15 Great Crested Grebe, several Red-breasted Merganser, lots Shag, 7 Brent. Hamm Beach yielded 2 additional GND & 4 Black-necked Grebe in a group. Ferrybridge had several Dunlin & Ringed Plover & Mediterranean Gulls & Brent.

Dry, bright & still at Studland #DorsetBirds 🪶 🇬🇧 Middle Beach, Black-necked Grebe, Great Northern Diver, GC Grebe, lots Shag. Bramble Bush Bay & Jerry's Point, 10 BNG, 4 GND, c25 Red-breasted Merganser, 20+ GCG. 20 Turnstone, 24 Sanderling, 11 Dunlin, Redshank, Sparrowhawk. @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Blue sky 💙 at Thorncombe Wood #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 7 Lesser Redpoll 😍 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 5 Goldcrest, 6 Nuthatch, 3 Treecreeper, large flocks of Siskin & Chaffinch. 3 Raven, 2 Greenfinch (male), 2 Song Thrush, several Wren, Dunnock. Lots of Blue, Great, Long-tailed Tits. Et al

Hi all, many thanks for the messages over the weekend regarding our website. We’re sorry for the inconvenience, it seems like we won’t be able to get it sorted until Monday. Please bear with us and we should have it back up and running again soon. Cheers: The BoPH team. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

High water level at Silverlake #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 3 Pintail, several Pochard, Gadwall, 2 Gt Crested Grebe. Dunnock singing 🎶 few Coot, Canada. Cormorant. Brighter at Thorncombe Wood, Marsh Tit, numerous Gt, Blue & Coal Tits. 3 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch. Several Stock Dove, Siskin, Wren. Buzzard over.

Lovely pics, Viv... great birding at Seaton 😊 🪶 #Devonbirds

Blue Sky at ARNE #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 high tide Middlebere NT c200 Avocet, 2 RB Merganser, Pintail, c10 Redshank, 3 Snipe, Sparrowhawk, 2 Curlew, many Shelduck, Teal & Canada. MistleThrush. Chaffinches singing. Arne Bay RSPB, 20+ Spoonbill, more Avocet, Blackwits. Grey Heron! @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Thorncombe Wood #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 2 Firecrest 😍, 9 Goldcrest, 2 Treecreeper, Nuthatch, male Bullfinch ♥️, lots Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Siskin. 2 Buzzard, Raven, Kestrel. Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Wood, 2 MistleThrush, SongThrush, 4 Redwing. Lots Tits; Blue, Great, Coal, Long-tailed. Stock Doves.

and after the rain; evening sky, now at #Dorchester #Dorset England 🇬🇧

A mooch in the mizzle, Maiden Castle #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 446 Golden Plover keeping their heads down in field to East of car park 😊 A single Corn Bunting, Kestrel, Raven & small flock of Goldfinch. female Blackcap in the home garden #Dorchester @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social

thanks to @nickyhoar.bsky.social who first spotted yesterday's Slavonian Grebe, very distant towards the harbour entrance! Masses of birds at Brands Bay too: 100s of Wigeon & Dunlin, numerous Grey Plover, Shelduck, Pintail, Teal, Canada. Several Curlew, GCG, Redshank 😃 🪶 @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Jerry's Point & Bramble Bush Bay @harbourbirds.bsky.social #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 4 Great Northern Diver, Slavonian Grebe. 30+ RBM, several GCG. c20 Turnstone, c50 Dunlin, 2 CmSandpiper, Grey Plover, 3+ Ringed Plover. Shell Bay had another G N Diver & a Black-necked Grebe. 200+ Brent Geese off Knoll Beach.

Blue sky, almost Spring #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 Portland Harbour had at least 5 Great Northern Diver & a Black-throated Diver ➕️ 3 Black-necked Grebe & 12 Red-breasted Merganser. Ferrybridge had c70 Brent Geese, 1 RBM, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 GND, 7 MediterraneanGulls ,5 Coot, Turnstone, 6 Oystercatcher

Thanks to @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social for organising the Winter excursion to Brownsea Island #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 today. 🪶 many Avocet, 70+ Grey Plover, 100s Blackwit, c10 Barwit, 5 Turnstone, Curlew, 100s Dunlin, 2 Greenshank, several Redshank. Lots Shelduck, Brent, Cormorant. 3 Red Squirrel 😍 Buzzard!