Great few days birding on Texel lots of birds to see including this flock of 90+ Shore Lark digiscoped.

Spectacled eider, Texel, 🇳🇱. Having a good preen on the rocks and showing off those eye markings SO well. Kilometre out to Wadden Sea early this morning, before eventually coming to shore at Wagejot for a good 30 minutes. If only Redcar’s king eider had ever done the same … @teesbirds.bsky.social

Terrible day yesterday brightened up by this goose.

Saw it on the sea and it swan to the shore near us. Spectacled Eider, Texel.

These birdies are not always on the tee. Snow Bunting feeding on the footpath.

This wee Merlin is finding easy pickings amongst the tired migrant birds.

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Hand held iPhone Bempton Swift.

The Needletail was showing rather nicely.

Yes they are stood in the water my feet remained on dry land. Sibe Thrush, Shetland.

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Garden visitor this morning. Nice Redstart filmed through an unclean kitchen window.

Crazy we allow this nonsense to happen in “wild” places. Same as music concerts in Dalby Forest in the middle of breeding season. Respect for nature as been lost.

111 years ago today the last Passenger Pigeon on earth, which we called Martha, died in Cincinnati Zoo at around 12:30pm local time. The most abundant bird species Earth had ever seen had been driven to extinction. markavery.info/2025/09/01/p... #cincinatti #ohio #extinction #birds #martha

There's loads of incredible technology ready to replace fossil fuels what's lacking is political will "Spanish startup Vortex Bladeless is creating quiet, bird-safe wind turbines that generate electricity from a vibrating cylinder instead of spinning blades" via General Knowledge #SocialistSunday

Seen this Mole a few times lately surprised one of the many dogs hasn’t had it.

When they built the pretty glass wall sea defences at New Passage so knew it would be a disaster. I have seen several dead Wood pigeons killed by hitting the glass and this morning I found this dead Sparrowhawk. Stupid waste.

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Spanish Butterflies, that’s as far as my i.d. Goes at the moment.

Got to love Little Owls

www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/U... Bird friendly glass should be compulsory.

Seen very few roosting Nightjars in my time. Phonescoped this one.

I live on an island which is not just bird-rich but also covered in free-roaming cats. And some folk here like to tell me cats don't have impacts. Or bring in few birds. What the cat brings in isn't all the cat kills. Just look at the estimate from the US! From www.3billionbirds.org/findings 🪶

Probably the worst film of the Song Sparrow.

Orkney “wildlife”. Big effort to eradicate Stoats on Orkney. Need to try do something about the high cat population they’re everywhere, especially on Sanday.

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Turnstone in cracking breeding plumage.

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Could do with this on the Scottish Isles given the high number of cats these days.

Finally found the cat that’s killing all the wildlife in the UK. No one I cat owner I know has one that catches anything. It’s on Sanday, Orkney.

An all-too-familiar pattern. They're provided safe haven at Geltsdale, but as soon as they cross the boundary to hunt... Again and again and again and again. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #UKBirding raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/05/20/t...

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Bluesky not uploading my videos. My I.T. department is out of the country until June so could take a while to remedy.

Explains the lack of raptors on my recent South Africa visit.

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Have a habit of bumping into these. Sub Alpine warbler sp.

Been a long time coming found by Jo Symon. First twitchable Flamborough bird.