Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com

Arabian Green Bee-eater

Marsh Sandpiper

Indian Roller

Crested, sandwich and Lesser Crested Terns and Slender-billed Gulls

There will be a slight hiatus in the South Africa blog posts as I now appear to be in #Oman. A busy 1st day birding around Muscat with Arabian Green Bee-eater & Sooty Gull amongst the new ones & some quality species from my ornithological past like Lesser Crested & Bridled Terns. #BirdsSeenIn2025

Thirty Years Ago - November & December 1995
An immense dead blubbery thing, dodgy bunting and educational redpolls of several species... blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/12/thir...

Ground Woodpecker

Verreaux's Eagle

Long-billed Crombec

Pirit Batis

The Western Cape for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 7: 17th November 2025
A last look at the Tankwa Karoo before heading south east to the hills and native forests with birds aplenty along the way. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... #BirdsSeenIn2025

There were lots of browny birds but all had their merits including the Cape Capper Lark with its amazing song flight

Mountain Wheatear

Layard's Warbler

Karoo Chat

The Western Cape for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 6: 16th November 2025
The Tankwa Karoo in all its dry and dusty glory. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... #BirdsSeenIn2025

Karoo Scrub Robins

Chestnut-banded Plover

Swift Tern

African Black Duck

The Western Cape for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 5: 15th November 2025
The morning was spent Larking around before some windblown saltwork waders, coffee top up & then the long drive to Ceres, the Karoo and the mountains.
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White-throated Swallow

Cape Spurfowl

Black Korhaan

Common Ostrich

The Western Cape for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 4: 14 Nov 2025
The day was spent in the West Coast NP where Ostriches patrolled the beaches not far from roosting terns & waders while Francolins & Korhaan lurked in the dry scrub. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... #BirdsSeenIn2025

Red-chested Sparrowhawk

Cape Sugarbird

Karoo Prinia

Black Harrier

The #WesternCape for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 3: 13th November 2025
A delightful morning in Kirstenbosch before heading along the coast and then inland to the rolling farmland tracks. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... #BirdsSeenIn2025

Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatrosses

Shy Albatross

Southern Giant Petrel

White-chinned Petrel in its element

The Western Cape for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 2: 12th November 2025
Most of the day was spent at sea before a slightly wobbly walk around Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...

Cape Teal, Cape Shoveler, Red-knobbed Coot and Greater Flamingo

The blog begins:
The Western Cape for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 1: 11th November 2025
What better way to start a tour than a splendid sewage treatment works... blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-... #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds

An iconic Cape Sugarbird

I am back home after our exciting @oriolebirding.bsky.social Western Cape tour. The howling wind tried to skupper our last two days, & Rockjumper eluded us (we could barely stand up!) but we all saw our very first Penguins, rare Cormorants & botanic garden birds. Blogs in due course

December Moth

Long-eared Owl - Rob Wilton

Pallas's Warbler - Andrew Easton

The Streak - Antony Wren

#Lowestoft Life - 1st - 9th November 2025
A final autumnal gasp before my next adventure.
blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/11/lowe... Thanks to Andrew, Rob and Antony for the pics

Pine Bunting at Hopton

Thirty Years Ago - October 1995
A somewhat trying month by all accounts!
blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/11/thir... #birds

Spindle

Wall Brown

Lucilia sp

Bittern

Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 30th October 2025
A glorious morning to be at Holkham before some Bittern magic at Titchwell to round a up a grand few days. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/norf... #NorfolkBirding #Birds

Spot on colours - not tweaked

Grey Phaladot

Starlings

Pinkfeet

#Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 29th October 2025
Back down to Cley where the Phalarope spun & Jack Snipe bobbed before more quality Starling action & a fiery sunset. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/norf... #NorfolkBirding #Birds

Cattle Egrets

Pink-footed Goose

Dark-bellied Brent Goose

Starlings

Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 28 Oct '25
The coast was full of little high points with Little Auks, Cattle Egrets, murmurating Starlings & a Barn Owl although I think that seeing Yellowhammers was the highlight for most of the crew. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/norf... #birds

Curlew

#Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 27th October 2025
The start of a few days away for the Marylebone Birdwatching Society ( birdsmbs.org.uk ). A gentle amble at Titchwell... blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/norf... #NorfolkBirding

Brown Shrike

Firecrest

Black Redstart

Russian White-fronted Geese

#Lowestoft Life - 20th-26th October 2025
A week of catching up at home and some local birding when the weather allowed. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/lowe... #suffolkbirding #ukbirding

Common Darter

Red Deer

Raven

Mesembrina meridiana

Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social 19th October 2025
A final morning walk at Holkham had a proper autumnal feel to it and it was a fine end to a busy week on the Norfolk coast. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/norf...

Weasel

Shorelark

Noctule Bat

Tachina fera

Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social 18th October 2025
Back along the busy coast chasing warblers and larks before tea and cake... blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/norf...

Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social 17th October 2025
Over to The Broads for the day where the sun never shone but we did find Bittern, Cranes and a host of Thrushes. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/norf... #NorfolkBirding #Birds

Long-eared Owl faring a lot better

Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social 16th October 2025
The sky at Titchwell was full of the sound of Golden Plover before we went warbler hunting at Garden Drove where the Long-eared Owl was faring well.
blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/norf... #NorfolkBirding #birds

Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social 15th October 2025
A bitty day where the best birds played hard to get but still very rewarding. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/norf...

I give you 'Essence of Six Glossy Ibis'

yep with the Rockits - loads at Warham Greens yesterday

Tawny Owl - my first proper look at one in the UK for many years

Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social 13th-14th October 2025
A sneaky 'legs followed by some quality accidental coastal Owling while migrant hunting. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/norf... #NorfolkBirding #Birds

Perked up a little from earlier!

Join me (& @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social of course) in #Estonia next March with @oriolebirding.bsky.social to experience Steller's Eiders, northern Owls, Woodpeckers & hopefully big forest mammals too www.oriolebirding.com/tour/estonia...

Hawk Owl from the last trip @jonathanfarooqi.bsky.social

Turkestan Shrike

Barred Sallow

Minotaur Beetle

Fly Agaric

#Lowestoft Life - 7th -12th October 2025
Back to Blighty with a touch of an eastern Autumn and some garden mothing. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/lowe...
@suffolkmoths.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

Thirty Years Ago - September 1995
A spartan month but an armchair tick in the bag ready and waiting. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/thir...

Northern Long Tailed Tit stopping for a rest

Goldcrest

LTTs

I was still counting Great Tits...

#Estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 6 Oct '25
In 3h15m on the Sõrve peninsular we counted a staggering 27,576 Tits & 8331 Finches along with 595 Goldcrests. The mind was truly boggled and the flabber gasted. @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto...

Congratulations. What an amazing bird.