Great. Thanks for the info.

Nice! Are the Tortoiseshells favouring any particular area or is it a question of just wandering round? If it’s skill I might struggle 🤣

Looking great! Jealous he’s got more hair to work with than you?

Thanks - never knew that!

Amazing! I’d have thought they were thrushes perched up like that. I’m obviously doing it wrong looking in the grass and wet pond margins!

Thanks for the gen - will defo have a look. When I’m not staring at the sea looking for skuas! In between I’m cycling the Hebridean way - can’t wait!!

Any chance they might be out by mid May? I’ll be on hols - can’t go later unfortunately. Cheers

We must sort out another time for a meet up. I was only up this time Sunday pm to this lunchtime so couldn’t get much birding in really.

Thanks for the heads up on the Lesser Scaup location. I was on a time crunch earlier - it was about the 5th bird I looked at. Family very impressed with your local knowledge!! Feeding constantly in the 5 mins I was there.

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Nice!! Got to be the best shag in the world?

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What is their texture? Hard like a shell or more like the plasticky stuff inside a squid? I always think one would look nice on the mantle piece but I guess it would smell bad very quickly.

That’s a bit below the belt, Mr M!!

Speed of evolution is amazing - lost the feathering in the feet already

Thanks. Hopefully kicking round the wider area and might resurface.

Nice! Seen a few of those - stupidly in hindsight not the Staines bird. Amy’s sign at Sandwich today?

Cracking pics. I was there yesterday 1-2pm ish and it was pretty tough to see let alone photograph

Nice one! Great find. You’ll have made quite a few people’s day with that one.

Great find, thanks for sharing the news! Glad to catch up with it albeit a very brief view for me.

What a cracker! Hoping I’ll find one tomorrow 🤣

Nice on David! Well deserved for all the time you put in.

Stunner! One in Long Mynd next?

Wow! What you been doin?😆

Nice one!

How did you get on? Not a lot of smiley faces in those pics!

Nice one. Handy to know - noting you’re a lot more used to driving in SE Asia than me (ie hardly at all!)

Wow! You’re having an incredible trip. Is it with a tour company or visiting independently? I went nearly 20 years ago before these hides were set up and the species you’ve had were the stuff of legend! I need to go back!!

Seems like anything’s fine if you’re behind the wheel.

The Drinker - a large beige-coloured moth.

Funnily enough I caught up with the Drinker on Saturday - when one flew into the pub we were having dinner!! (The Sheppy out on the Somerset levels. Nice meal, good cider. )