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Birding, Botany & all round wildlife bothering, with a scattering of LFC & music. Time consumed by fatherhood. Scouse Lefty 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🍀 Flickr: https://flickr.com/photos/33376309@N05 YouTube: https://youtube.com/@southliverpoolbirder?si=ECCbrh4EYs1KFCPU
I'm so happy that Aigburth has voted with its head firmly screwed on! ✌️ #greenparty #Aigburth #byelection
First reptile survey of the year for NMARG and struck gold with a Slow Worm! Spring has definitely sprung!! #reptiles #herpetology #NMARG #Wildlife @mbblerc.bsky.social
Had a good walk around Oglet today; hoping for my 1st wheatear of year; no joy. 2 Whimbrell, 40 Curlew, 3 Cettis, SE Owl, 2 Sparrowhawk, Buzzard, Chiffchaffs & Common Lizard were nice to see.
Cilla is fast becoming ever present on my birding jaunts! #LancsBirding #UKBIRDING @mbblerc.bsky.social
The reedbeds at Garston Coastal Reserve looking amazing in the sun this afternoon! #Liverpool #Merseyside #Garston #RiverMersey
The Great-tailed Grackle showing well this evening at Speke Hall NT...belting out its oddball song! #LancsBirding #UKBirding #NationalTrust #SpekeHall #Grackle
The Great-tailed Grackle continues its extended stay @nationaltrust.org.uk Speke Hall; great to catchnup with @leeworth8.bsky.social & @birderjack.bsky.social too. Singing and displaying to magpies, with some magpies and jackdaw mimicking too...crazy!
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Tuesday at dusk...must be the same one...just on tbe other side of the woods 👍
Popped to #SpekeHall to catch the Great-tailed Grackle go to roost; nice to see the finder @birderjack.bsky.social enjoying its extended stay on her patch @birdguides.bsky.social
Toads heading to the ponds on the business park; rescued a few from getting splatted on the roads! @mbblerc.bsky.social
Spring in the air today, birds singing, blackthorn blooming and picnicking by the river! #Mersey #Spring
Signs of spring in South Liverpool, Coots, Parakeets & Stock Doves already nesting in Sefton & Greenbank Parks. Also Tawny Owl, Redwings, 4 Shoveler & a Gadwall seen #Lancsbirding #UKBIRDING
After 5 hours of hard slog the Great-tailed Grackle finally gave itself up @nationaltrust.org.uk Speke Hall & later on the adj business park; great find by @birderjack.bsky.social + woodcock, siskins, repolls & bee orchid rosettes on the business park @mbblerc.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
Nice day on the Dee Marshes today, 14 Marsh Harriers, Hen Harrier, Barn Owl, Short-eared Owl, Tawny Owl, 2 Sparrowhawks, 3 Kestrels, 12 Great White Egrets, Cettis Warblers, Willow Tit, Water Rail to name a few #UKBIRDING #WirralBirding @rspbburtonmere.bsky.social
We were in the Cairngorms...so it would have been rude not to 😅
Looking through old notebooks and stumbled across this memory from a #twitch with Mike Brown! Scops Owl @rspbscotland.bsky.social Loch of Strathbeg, in Aug 2004. The bird had been taken into care on an oil rig, & later released at the reserve; we arrived just in time for the release! #UKBIRDING
A lovely day spent at Leighton Moss #RSPB. We struck lucky & watched Connors first ever Otters; a female & 2 young fishing (& playing) for around 45 mins. Plenty of birds too, 4 White-fronted Geese, Marsh Harrier, Scaup, GW Egret, Bearded & Marsh Tit, winter thrushes @rspb.bsky.social #Lancsbirding
A bit of hard graft with North Merseyside ARG on the Sefton Coast SSSI yesterday... clearing scrub regrowth on a south facing Sand Lizard bank and opening up an associated watercourse. Knackered!
Finished for the year this afternoon & made a dash to Foryd Bay, Caernarfon for the drake Bufflehead...I made the right decision, had the bird to myself in front of a stunning sunset!
Lovely site, full of waders streaming in and flocks of PB Brents out in the bay.
In Southport today, so it would have been rude not to have a look at the Snow Goose and Smew...I only just caught up with the goose as it was flushed by an eFoil surfer! @mbblerc.bsky.social
Feeling privileged to peek at the Wildcat breeding facilities at Rewilding Coombeshead this week...all systems go & gearing up for the green light on English & Welsh releases in the near future! #rewilding #rewildingbritain #rewildingcoombeshead #Scottishwildcats #wildcats
I had the pleasure of visiting Rewilding Coombeshead, Devon for 2 days this week...amazing to see the site being transformed by natural processes...its 6 years since I last visited & even in that time there's been so much habitat change #rewilding #rewildingcoombeshead #rewildingbritain
Mersey WeBS count today, highlights being 111 Curlew, 2 Ring Ouzel, Water Pipit, chiffchaffs, goldcrests & tonnes of other migrants passing through. Cilla's first survey went well!
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Magpie Inkcap, Clustered Bellflower & White Helleborine during a works day out in the Chilterns yesterday. #Botany #UKOrchids #wildflowers #orchids #fungi #Chilterns #Autumn #fungifriday
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Caught up with the @jimmoir1.bsky.social #DawntoDusk exhibition at the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight on its final day!! Amazing stuff...really varied and full of life... inspired me to head out afterwards in search of the real thing! #art #wildlifeart #Wirral #Liverpool
Dusk at Parkgate is always a treat: Barn Owl, RT Hen Harrier, Merlin, Tawny Owl, 9 Marsh Harrier, Water Pipit, Water Rails, & 5 GW Egret...topped off with a chippy tea! #UKBIRDING #CheshireBirding #WirralBirding youtu.be/x5q8FoD6WPk?...
#Autumn colours in #Otterspool woods this week
#Liverpool #AutumnColours #LCR #LiverpoolCityRegion
Trip across the #Mersey on the #MerseyFerry with the lads on Wednesday...October days like this are the best! #Liverpool #Wirral #LiverpoolCityRegion #LCR
Dodging the showers in Sefton Park this morning, #Autumn colour at its best at the moment! #SeftonPark #Liverpool #LiverpoolCityRegion #LCR
A tremendous number of birds migrating through Oglet at dawn; huge no's of chaffinch, mipit, skylark, fieldfare, jackdaws, woodpigeon etc, 17 brambling & a ring ouzel; attracting 2 merlins & marsh harrier! Also 70 Avocet, 13k pinks, 10 GWE, 13 GCG out on the Mersey @mbblerc.bsky.social
