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First ever wood warbler yesterday. It was singing it's heart out in the forest. Cracking bird!

05.05.2025 08:57 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ring ouzel north Wales moors today. Another year ✅ 😎📸. AKA the mountain blackbird.

21.04.2025 20:46 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First pied flycatchers and nuthatch of the year locally ✔️📸 #patchbirding

20.04.2025 17:33 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Loads of Black caps on patch AKA the northern nightingale! 😊 #patchbirding

19.04.2025 16:23 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

First sedge warbler of the year over Rhuddlan nature reserve this morning. #patchbirding

18.04.2025 12:11 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Tramped across four of my six @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social Heathland Bird Survey plots (a lot more than 1-km square each if you flatten out all the steep bits!).

Lots of Bilberry for #WildFlowerHour, and an actual pair of Dartford Warblers nest building in North Wales. #BirdingWales

13.04.2025 19:10 — 👍 64    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0

Part of the Sanderling flock - including three Dunlin

Peregrine Falcon

Great morning at Gronant near Prestatyn - amongst many highlights - male Whinchat, 6 Little Terns briefly offshore with Sandwich Terns, Peregrine spooking waders including 160 Sanderling, Grasshopper Warbler singing. 59 species recorded on #Birdtrack. #birdingWales @birdsinwales.bsky.social

12.04.2025 19:22 — 👍 41    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Man smashes Peregrine eggs at cathedral Three Peregrine Falcon eggs have been smashed at St Albans Cathedral. The incident occurred on 7 April 2025 and was filmed by the cathedral's live webcam. It is reported that a man was seen walking over the eggs and crushing them. No further details are available at present and the man's motives are...

A man has been caught on webcam smashing Peregrine Falcon eggs at St Albans Cathedral:

12.04.2025 06:22 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 2

Evaluating protected areas for migratory birds New research by the British Trust for Ornithology indicates that many migratory bird species are lacking consistent protection as they move through Europe.

New research by the BTO indicates that many migratory bird species are lacking consistent protection as they move through Europe:

12.04.2025 11:51 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Grasshopper warbler on patch👌😊 Rhuddlan nature reserve this morning. #wildlife #northwales #patchbirding

12.04.2025 08:58 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What a brilliant book! 😎

11.04.2025 07:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0