Simon Ashley

Seawatching - Spurn

Pectoral sandpiper

Sleeping American Golden Plover.

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

Juvenile Red Backed Shrike amongst brambles and rose hips.

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

Otter

Otter 🦦

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

@mikebirding2024.bsky.social

Can’t get of these guys 🪶🪶🪶. Nice to bump into @coombehillbirding.bsky.social

Two Black tern perched on a bare branch

Two Black tern perched on a bare branch. A third is unsuccessfully trying to push one of them off its spot.

Three Black tern perched on a bare branches

Two Black tern perched on a bare branch

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 🪶🪶🪶

Black-Tailed Godwit

Common Snipe

Green Sandpiper

Red Knot. Looking very grey in its winter plumage.

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. 🪶🪶

Two Wheatear sat on top of a post

Whinchat perched on a thorny twig.

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

Spotted Flycatcher one of 3 off a family group

Common Snipe

Spotted Redshank. Part way through moult out of breeding plumage

Tundra bean goose.

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. 🪶🪶

Birding crew

Ruff.

Glaucous Gull

Golden eagle 🦅

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. 🪶

Puffin

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

Duke of Burgundy- soaking up some rays.

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

Male nightingale. Perched in a tree

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

Yellow-Crowned Night Heron

Red-Wimged Blackbird

Black Skimmer

Killdeer

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

Horseshoe Crabs 🦀

Field Sparrow

Black Scoter. Shockingly bad picture

Cape May - Bird Observatory Platform.

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

Prairie Warbler

Brown Headed Cowbird

Purple Sandpiper

Common Yellowthroat

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 😀. 🪶🪶

Osprey

Pied-billed Grebe

Tree Swallows

Northern rough- winged swallow

A few more Jersey birds 🪶

Bald Eagle

American Robin

Northern Flicker

Northern Cardinal

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

Drake Ring-Necked Duck 🦆

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

Glossy Ibis

Garganey - Drake

Ring-Necked Duck

Black-Necked Grebes

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

Took a while. 🤩