Michael Caponi

A Curlew standing on a gravelly beach beside the water

Curlew having a vigorous clean in the water

Curlew all fluffed up after it's bath

Curlew struggling to swallow a large shellfish

Curlew enjoy a bathe followed by breakfast. Woolston Sewage Works 27.09.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

A group of Black-tailed Godwit alert to the presence of dogs

The same group of Godwit taking flight as the dog gets closer

Another picture of the Godwit taking flight

A single Black-tailed Godwit with coloured rings on both of it's legs. The rings show that the bird was ringed in Iceland in 2012 as a young bird. It has been recorded as visiting the UK every year since 2014.

Black-tailed Godwits, flushed by dogs at Bunny Meadows and a single ringed bird further along at Warsash. Hampshire, 13.09.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Grey Phalarope at Hayling Island Oyster Beds 04.09.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Common Gull

Herring Gull

3 Herring Gulls

Greater Black-backed Gull amongst Herring Gulls

Gulls at Weston Shore 27.08.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

First winter Turnstone

Adult Turnstones

Lesser Black-backed Gull

Lesser Black-backed Gull calling

Woolston Sewage Works 04.08.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Black Tern on the beach at Hill Head, 30.07.25 ##HantsBirds #HantsBirding

Great picture wirh Corfe in the background!

Great picture with Corfe in the background!

Superb!

What a great way to bring up the 200! Fantastic!

2 Common Terns fly close to a Common Buzzard in an effort to steer it away from the reserve

2 Common Terns on a purpose-built nesting platform looking after their first freshly hatched chick

2 well-fed Common Whitethroat fledglings out-size their parent that was busily bringing them food

Sedge Warbler clinging to the reeds on a windy day

Bus and train to Fishlake Meadows in Romsey #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Nice! I just had one trying to come in for lunch!

A male Redstart sitting on a branch in the sun

A male Redstart sitting with his back turned and his bright tail fanned out in the sun

A male Stonechat sitting singing on top of a bramble bush

A Meadow Pipit with a beak full of grubs

New Forest birds 16.05.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Side view of a Collared Pratincole on a dry bare stream bank

Collared Pratincole in flight, showing a hint of the coloured underwing and the long tail

Less cropped side view of the Collared Pratincole standing on the parched stream bank

Distant shot showing the first views of the Collared Pratincole when first spotted. It is 1pm in full sun and the view is hazy

Collared Pratincole on the stream at Farlington Marshes this afternoon. Worth the train trip and walk 😁 11.05.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

A pale purple Green-winged Orchid

A group of Green-winged Orchids growing in the protective shadow of brambles

Darker purple Green-winged Orchid flowerspike that is being used as home for a spider

A small flowerspike of a mid-purple Green-winged Orchid

Green-winged Orchids. Beaulieu Aerodrome 30.04.25 #orchids #HampshireWildlife

Male Sharp-tail Bee (Coelioxys rufescens) on a flower of Geranium phaeum

Blue Mason Bee (Osmia caerulescens) on a perennial wallflower bloom (Erysimum cv.)

Large Red Damselflies (Pyrrhosoma nymphula) in tandem on Duckweed floating on the water's surface

Male Nomad Bee (Nomada sp.) resting on a leaf surface in the sunshine. One of a group of Nomada species that are almost impossible to identify by eye, including Nomada flava and N.panzeri

Garden critters: in amongst the predominant honey bees there many other wonderful native bees busy pollinating my garden flowers. Southampton 02.05.25 #bees #insects #HampshireWildlife #HantsWildlife

Male Stonechat perched up on Scots Pine

A male Redstart on the side of a Silver Birch trunk

A Goshawk cruises the sky

A Willow Warbler sat on top of a willow, singing away

A sunny morning in the New Forest #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Wheatear perched on a fence post

A wheatear on the ground

Skylark perched on sea cabbage singing

A Sandwich Tern on an orange buoy

Wheatear, Skylark and Sandwich Tern. Recent arrivals at Hook With Warsash, 24 04.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding #HampshireBirding

A Whimbrel on the shoreline

2 European Herring Gulls

A single Lesser Black-backed Gull

2 Brent geese on the shoreline, 1 Brent, 2 Shelduck, a Lesser Black-backed Gull and a European Herring Gull in the water

A grey murky hour by Woolston Sewage Works this morning turned up 14 Brent, 2 Shelduck and a Whimbrel #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

3 Brent geese on shore. One bird has leg rings (red 5, black 1)

A Brent goose with identifying leg rings (red K, black T)

Brent geese feeding on shore

A curlew on shore, ruffled by the wind

Still a group of Brent by Woolston Sewage Works at low-tide this morning, including a couple of ringed birds I haven't seen here recently. The feeding looked good after choppy waters yesterday. Also, a fairly frail Curlew feeding. #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

4 Brent geese including 1 ringed bird

2 Brent geese, 1 with ID rings

4 Brent geese, 1 with rings

3 Brent geese, 1 with rings

Still a group of 41 Brent geese by Woolston Sewage Works at low tide yesterday afternoon, including a few ringed ones too. 13.04.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Common Whitethroat peeping through the foliage

Common Whitethroat clinging to a reed stem

Wren perched amongst bare twigs

Mute Swans mating on the water

Bus and train to Romsey to walk the canal path to Fishlake Meadows. Lots of new arrivals singing from the reeds, mostly not showing their faces though! Sedge and Reed Warblers singing away but from low in the reeds. 12.04.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

2 Early Colletes (Colletes cunicularius)

Marsham's Nomad Bee (Nomada marshamella) a cleptoparasitic bee that lays it's eggs in the nest cell of it's host

Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes)

Yellow-legged Mining Bee (Andrena flavipes)

A walk to see the bees on Netley cliff yesterday. The cliff came alive in the glorious sunshine, mining bees everywhere! This in spite of the erosion the cliff has suffered recently and man's attempts to prevent it. #Bees

Mediterranean Gull with a yellow leg-ring with black writing reading AYYE, indicating that this bird was ringed in Leipzig, Germany in 2018

2 Mediterranean gulls, one with a green leg-ring with white writing reading R8VX, indicating this bird was ringed in Vendee region of France in 2022

Mediterranean gull with a white leg-ring with black writing reading 3TPL, indicating that this bird was ringed in Bruxelles, Belgium in 2017

Mediterrean gull with a green leg-ring with white writing reading R9UA, indicating that this bird was ringed at Vendee, France in 2022

A train and bus ride to see Mediterranean Gulls in glorious spring sunshine at Hayling Oyster Beds 18.03.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

A single Brent goose with an orange ring on its left leg reading "5" and a black ring on its right leg with 2 horizontal white bands on it

2 Brent geese and a single juvenile herring gull. One goose has an orange ring on its left leg reading "5" and a black ring on its right leg with a white lite "A" on it. The other goose has an orange "5" ring on its left leg and a black ring on its right leg with a white "9" on it

3 Brent geese. The lefthand goose has 2 leg rings. The left leg as an orange ring stamped "5", the right leg has a black ring with a white "X" on it

Agroyp of 7 Brent geese feeding at the water's edge. 4 of the geese have identifying leg rings

A group of 10 Brent geese remained by Woolston Sewage Works this morning as the tide came in. 4 of the group had rings, 3 of which I have recorded there in the last few weeks. 03.03.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding

Worth it though!

Queen Early Bumblebee, Bombus pratorum, visiting winter-flowering honeysuckle. Woolston, Hampshire 02.03.25 #Bees #HantsBees

Hairy-Footed Flower Bee, Anthophora plumipes. First of the year in garden sunshine. Woolston, Hampshire 02.03.25 #Bees #HantsBees

Looks fantastic! Especially in sunshine 🌞

2 oystercatchers exhibiting courting behaviour, one bird has identifying rings on it's upper legs

A single Brent goose in flight

A group of Brent geese feeding at the water's edge

A mixed group of 3 oystercatchers and 3 Brent geese at the shoreline

Courting Oystercatchers and feasting Brent, Woolston Sewage Works 25.02.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding