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It’s not quite spring, but it’s on the way. Which means it’s time to start recording rare breeding birds to help the work of the RBBP. Stay tuned through the spring & summer for videos and blogs with guidance on how you can add extra value to your birding #ornithology #ukbirding #birds

Goosander displaying and very vocal at #LadywalkNR added few ✔️ #PWC2026 over last couple of days-
Green Sand,Oystercatcher and a Mealy Redpoll along public footpath. Increase in Siskin/Redpoll feeding on catkins of hybrid Poplars.

A surefire migrant: a pollened Chiffchaff just shown up in the Obs garden; also a Marsh Harrier overhead a while ago

Spot the Spotshank time. Wintering Spotted Redshank at Fortreys Hall, Ouse Washes still present today with Black-tailed Godwit flock. Bonus points if you also get the Ruff 😉 @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social #UKbirding

1/ 🌳 Watch our new film!
“Coppicing – Can the oldest style of woodland management bring UK woodlands back to life?”
🎥 youtu.be/l6UMLLj74BU

Garden-
3 Blackcaps 2m/1f, males in subsong
Pr Stock Dove displaying, GSW, singing Greenfinch,Coal tit and Skylark overhead. Primrose and Coltsfoot.
#VC55Birds

Nothing beats a Wheatear, especially a showy one.
This male Desert Wheatear was coming within 4 meters of me, I had to back off to get some videos through the scope!
#cyprusbirds

2026 Sign-up and 2025 Score Submission! Hello from the Patchwork Challenge team!  We have just released the sign up and scoresheet for Patchwork Challenge 2026! We hope you are loo...

Good luck to everyone out #patchbirding this weekend! Remember that it isn't too late to sign up for this year's competition, so if you have a patch you enjoy watching, why not sign up?!

For more info on how to do so, follow this link: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/12/2026...

Both HUME’S WARBLER & Yellow-browed Warbler just a few miles from home so far this year. RIDICULOUS. Another great find by Rich Walker! #peakybirders #warwickshirebirding #ukbirding 🪶

Glad you and your dad got to see it 👍

The #PWC2026 January review is now out!

Take a look at where you have come in the mini-leagues and gawp at what others have seen on their patches! To do this, click the link to go to our blog: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/02/janu...

Hope you enjoy reading it!

Can always rely on you to spoil things Tom.

Patch mega! HUME’S!
2nd patch record for the 3k @patchbirding.bsky.social #PWC2026
Strip of woodland between main reserve at #LadywalkNR and Lea Marston Church( now been gifted to manage as part of main reserve)
Brief views but very vocal/flighty. Another top find @northwarksbirder.bsky.social

Not had much chance to get out on patch and missed the WFG in the week at Lea Marston.
Picked up LSW calling at start of month at #LadywalkNR and added a flyover Skylark today 84 for the 3k #PWC2026
Couple of Roe deer was only second on patch at Whitacre Heath NR.
Just a nice day to be out 😎

Beaver comeback accelerates with 100 releases scheduled for 2026 Natural History Museum highlights growing momentum behind Beaver restoration, with further releases expected under new government approach

Beaver comeback accelerates with 100 releases scheduled for 2026 www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/B...

Bonapartes, Mediterranean, and black headed gull off Tolcarne Beach Penzance today. @cbwps.org.uk

Didn’t consider that beavers can reduce turbidity!: This drone photo was taken during a heavy rainstorm. A beaver dam is blocking dirty water.

#BeaverWatch #NatureConservation #WildlifePhotography

Songs from the Solstice; The Hällögern Files #1

open.spotify.com/episode/37Vo... Wild Bird Acoustics drops a new episode this morning. Listen to the wonderful sounds of Northern Sweden in July, a long form sound magazine of high quality field recordings. A nice compliment to a relaxing Sunday afternoon….

SALE WATER PARK, Manchester - Great to have WILLOW TIT in the area and so close to the city, a bird practically extinct in some counties, watercolour sketch on a new glossy paper I'm trying, currently at least 2 birds visiting the feeders. #ukbirding #birds #sketching

Alkborough Flats-
Merlin(male) and 6 Marsh Harrier.
2000+ Golden Plover @lincsbirding.bsky.social

Thanks will be in touch.

Afternoon. When will next have the AT in stock please?

Patchwork Challenge

THE PATCHWORK CHALLENGE 2025 ROUND-UP IS NOW LIVE ON THE BLOG!

Go head over and see where you finished #PWC2025 and sign up for #PWC2026!

The link for the blog is: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com

Ring-necked Ducks male (far left) & female (middle right) with Tufted Ducks male (middle left) & female (far right)

My Devon shot of 2025! Not knowing at the time I had taken in-flight shot of both male & female Ring-necked Ducks with male & female Tufted Duck providing a great comparison! For #photographers #BirdingGear its the cheap Nikon Z50II with a sharp (not so cheap) Z400mm 4.5, both bought 2nd-hand

Mandarin in the murk at #LadywalkNR
Meadow pipit (2) still in southern meadows and Brambling added in the week on Hams lane between the paddocks/wild bird seed crop #PWC2026 #Warksbirds

The results are in on the #PWC2025 Best Find comp! Congratulations to @seanoh58.bsky.social for his Black Scoter which came in first then second place goes to @williamlambourne.bsky.social with his Black Redstart and third to @andysims49.bsky.social for his Pectoral Sandpiper. Well done you three!

Several male Surf Scoters swimming in a line. These scoters are recognizable by their large, brightly coloured beaks of red, orange white and black. The adult male also has a large white spot on its forehead and the back of its neck (not visible in this shot).

Feeling unusually organized today, NOT, but I do have all my ducks in a row!
Surf Scoter, Dipper Harbour, #NewBrunswick, #Canada
#birds #nature #wildlife #birdphotography

Not an easy bird to catch up with.

Good lapwing count.

@ladywalknr.bsky.social Work done today removing birch and willow adjacent to the meadow. Area on map has been removed more needed. Should be able to view the meadow from the track to B Hide.