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Finally caught up with the Morfa Madryn LNR Green-winged Teal today. The Yellow-browed Warbler showing well in its usual spot with 2 Chiff-chaff. All birds vocal today with YBW calling regularly and Chiff-chaff in full song. #ukbirding #birdingwales

Nice to Year tick the Welsh Bufflehead this afternoon. An Anglesey tick to boot. Good to catch up with the Anglesey birders who were celebrating a good bird on their patch. ☺️👍 #birdingwales #ukbirding

Catching up with a few local year ticks after being out of the country. The Yellow-browed Warbler was at Morfa Madryn NR along with a showy Firecrest. 11 Greenshank and 5 Pale-bellied Brent Geese on the saltmarsh too. #birdingwales #ukbirding

This card in my Brooke Bond tea card collection as a boy has always excited me. Today I finally saw my first species of Archer Fish, and even saw it squirt water! Also Needle Fish! Awesome Thailand! With @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social @philwoollen.bsky.social

The last few days have been awesome! Too many highlights to mention. Pics here of Collared Scops Owl, Orange Headed Trogon, Crimson Sunbird + Great Hornbill, of which we saw 24 in one tree! 282 species in the first 6 days😜. Off up north now with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social @philwoollen.bsky.social

You nailed it mate ☺️👍

Bingo! A Spoon-full of Thailand with Birdwatching Trips is a success! With @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social @philwoollen.bsky.social with ace Thai birder @jay-shrike.bsky.social Walk away views. Now to enjoy a fortnight of Thai birds ☺️👍 #thailandbirds #birding

A few of today’s Birdwatching Trips tour highlights from around our hotel in Bangkok. Orange-headed Thrush, Black Baza, Grey-headed and Red-wattled Lapwing. Without really trying we amassed 84 species on our ‘rest day’! ☺️👍🇹🇭#birdingthailand @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social @philwoollen.bsky.social

Great to have @philwoollen.bsky.social as part of the team too. Other birds showing well included Asian Golden Weaver, Malay Pied Fantail, Oriental Magpie Robin and Ornate Sunbird! All in the centre of Bangkok. ☺️👍🇹🇭

Great start to a two week birding trip with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social in Thailand. Orange-headed Thrush, Chestnut-sided Starling, Pink-necked Pigeons + Eastern Yellow Wagtail amongst the 44 sp. seen around our Bangkok hotel this p.m. I think this is going to be good ☺️👍 #birding #birdingthailand

A brief early visit to Anglesey with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social came up trumps with great views of the Bewick’s Swan. Initially at Cors Ddyga it flew to Pont Marquis with 20 Whooper Swans. 3 Egyptian Geese + Cattle Egret too. 6 Great N Diver + 5 Slav Grebe near Holyhead #birdingwales #ukbiring

I had it from the Shotton Cycle track David scoping out onto marsh. It was sat on an old building.

Superb Ray! A real treat to have locally. You’ve captured it brilliantly!

Superb! Really wasn’t on my radar at all. I thought I’d found a first for the reserve until I spoke to a vol warden on site 🤣👍

Glad you got it Dylan. Great bird ☺️👍

70 species seen at @rspbburtonmere.bsky.social Burton Mere RSPB today. I wasn’t expecting Willow Tit here, calling and showing on the track to Bridge screen. 3 Short-eared Owls, Barn Owl, Little Owl, 4 Ruff, 15+ Marsh Harrier, 2 Water Rail, 12 Fieldfare the highlights. #ukbirding #birdingwales

Inspiring Graham! Makes me want to get straight out there and get birding ☺️👍 thanks for sharing.

The day started with the Lesser Yellowlegs showing continuously for an hour on the River Clwyd. 2 Kingfisher, 5 Goosander, 5 Pink-footed Goose + good numbers of waders + ducks. This evening 25+ Marsh Harriers came into Neston Reedbed to roost along with at least one Bittern #ukbirding #birdingwales

2 Snow Bunting at Gronant still. Very showy male and female. Seem as though there are very few about this winter. A bonus Water Pipit here too. Mixed Sanderling, Knot, Dunlin, Ringed Plover, Turnstone was cool and fun looking through the gulls #ukbirding #birdingwales

A great day guiding along North Wales coast today with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social - Shorelark, 10 Chough, Whooper Swans, 3 Slavonian Grebes, lots of Ducks and waders, great views of Red Squirrels and 3 very showy Water Rail at @rspbcymru.bsky.social Conwy. Great weather and stunning scenery too ☺️👍

The long-staying Shorelark on the Great Orme showed well this afternoon. Finally got it on the year list on my fourth visit of 2026! Where on earth does it disappear to? Great bird and with patience shows well ☺️👍 #ukbirding #birdingwales

My father in-law is 80 years old, on his own + can’t get out. We put up some bird feeders outside the window he sits at day in day out. It brings him so much joy, he’s even singed up to the @rspb.bsky.social Big Garden Birdwatch. Today he couldn’t stop talking about today’s visitors (in the vid!) ☺️👍

Bonkers weather and road chaos scuppered a proper shot at a New Year bird race however great fun with Tony Kearney + Owen Parsons. A close Slav Grebe at the Spinnies NR was the highlight until @alexhj.bsky.social found a superb Lesser Yellowlegs on the Clwyd! cracking bird ☺️ #ukbiring #birdingwales

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda, Happy New Year. 62 species at Conwy RSPB 7.30-10am. 2 Jack Snipe, 2 Pintail, 2 Knot, Cetti’s Warbler, 14 Dunlin, Stock Dove, 154 Lapwing and these fine Red-breasted Mergansers. 13 of them displaying on the lagoon ☺️👍 good start to local birding 2026. #ukbirding #birdingwales

Only six species seen all day on an 8 mile epic from Penmaenmawr to the summit of Drum and back. At least 12 Red Grouse seen, a species I could only dream of seeing up there as a young lad. Red Kite, Raven, Stonechat, Kestrel and a Carrion Crow made up the rest of the list! #ukbiring #birdingwales

Hard to come by this winter, two Snow Buntings on Talacre Beach were a welcome surprise this afternoon. 600+ Pink-footed Geese flying west, a Water Pipit and a Jack Snipe were the highlights of a walk from Prestatyn to Gronant and back. #ukbirding #birdingwales

An unseasonal Common Sandpiper on the River Clwyd near Rhuddlan this afternoon on enjoyable walk with @angnatur.bsky.social 55 Pink footed Geese, 47 Black-tailed Godwits and many many Wigeon, Teal and Dunlin to search through. #ukbirding #birdingwales

A fine Great Northern Diver off Colwyn Bay today. No sign of any Surf Scoters, despite the perfect light. 3 Purple Sandpiper at Rhos Point in the wader flock. #birdingwales #ukbirding

Glad you got it mate 👍

Great bird, no rings and looks settled. Well done that Simon H-R ☺️👍 #biringwales #ukbirding