Brian Small

Lapland Bunting, Dunwich yesterday. A scarce migrant through Suffolk (rarely over winters), Lapland Bunting numbers have varied from 6-21 (av. 11) in the county over the past 10 years and is now hard to connect with, so it was nice to find this #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

Turkestan Shrike at Dunwich Heath this afternoon; a real stunner #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

Some better views and photos of the male Turkestan Shrike on Dunwich Heath this morning. Windy conditions not helpful #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

Turkestan Shrike - ad male, Dunwich Heath this afternoon. An excellent bird and find; photos in gloomy light not the best and was a little elusive early evening #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

A handful of very poor pix that show the juv Sabine's Gull at Benacre Boad this morning - my 210th species on patch this year #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

I may have the age and sex of this wrong, but would be happy for comments

Benacre Broad has been very good recently and this morning, as well as 19 species of wader, @david-walsh.bsky.social picked up a 2cy male Hen Harrier that eventually flew over our heads. Missing an inner 'finger' #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

As long as you didn't join them...?

On my first visit to Easton Bavents for a while a juv/1cy Red-backed Shrike was a nice find and a good way to bring up 200 species on my patch for the year. Always a little distant for photos...

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It has been a while since I saw my last UK Barred Warbler - Southwold 2019 - so it was great to get such good views of the 1cy at Kessingland this afternoon #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

An educational variety of Dunlin at Aldeburgh yesterday included a couple of juvenile arctica and a worn adult alpina-type #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

Your photo is of a Little Stint

A new image of the Zitting Cisticola at Walberswick - still a little distant but did sit out this morning before the wind

Windy vid of zitting

Well I wasn't expecting to see Zitting Cisticola on the patch when I set out this morning - 1 km south of Walberswick - record shots #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

Of the four juvenile Caspian Gulls at Southwold harbour this afternoon this one was the most intelligent, having learnt how to catch the crabs with a line

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This afternoon, the fifth Caspian Gull at Southwold harbour this week was a juvenile with a yellow ring from De Kreupel, NL

My first juvenile Caspian Gull of the autumn at Southwold harbour this afternoon. Elusive at first as it fed abut the revetement for starfish, it eventually gave good views - hopefully it will hang about...

A comparison of three species of juvenile tern at Minsmere today: Arctic, Common and Sandwich #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

Damon Blue

Glandon Blue

I am really pleased to be given the co-leader slot on Mariposa's exciting Butterflies of the French Alps tour in July 2026. www.mariposanature.com/tours/butter...

The Collared Pratincole at Aldeburgh was my fourth for Suffolk, having found two of them. It showed well, but heat haze has ruined pix #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

A few shots of some of the nominate limosas on Cley this evening, including "Anouk", a regular returning♀️from Welney. All adults, all already dropping grey winter feathers into the remants of summer feathers. Breeding failure at play for early numbers here.
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Minsmere has been good for adult limosa Black-tailed Godwits recently, with a 'head-start' c-ringed male, but others too - often distant on west scrape. Sometimes a female (as here), but I am less confident on ID of these...

Entering the public hide at Minsmere, I found that the Roseate Tern had just flown off! Two minutes later a Bridled Tern flew south low over the scrape; having watched it reach the sluice I remembered I had my camera, which was on the wrong settings - hence crap pix #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

As ever, late to the party, yesterday was my first visit to Long Nanny to take in the Arctic Terns and American Black Tern - we had to wait 2.5 hours for the latter to fly in off the sea #ukbirding

This 2cy fm Red-footed Falcon in the 5km radius patch is species 184 for the year; it is slim pickings from here on - getting to 200 will be tough

It has been pointed out that my grammar suggests I found all these. I did not; just stint and Bee-eaters