Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com

Did not get the Wren-Babbler but likewise was pleased to hear the Stubtail!

various local reserves

Thirty Years Ago - May, June & July 1995 6 th -7 th May A weekend in Darlington visiting Uni friends, with clouds of Swift sand hirundines swirling around and my first Little Te...

Thirty Years Ago May, June and July 1995 - sorry got a bit snowed under and forgot to do these! Happy days zooming up and down the country. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/08/thir... @akettle.bsky.social

Dusky Sallow

Wall brown

Fen Raft Spider

Phasia hemiptera

#Lowestoft Life - 19th - 30th July 2025 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/lowe...
A round up of local perambulations. @suffolkmoths.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

Polar Bears - Steve Bird

#svalbard - Polar Bear Cruise with @bwntours.bsky.social
12th June - 19th June 2026 birdswildlife.com/svalbard-pol...
Now is the time to visit the remote Arctic and our cruise around Svalbard lets you experience one of Earth’s northernmost wildernesses. Polar Bears, Walruses Whales, birds & more.

Long-tailed Ground Roller - Tom Bird

#Madagascar with @bwntours.bsky.social birdswildlife.com/madagascar-i...
15 Nov to 5 Dec 2026
Prime habitat is shrinking fast so it really is a case of visit now before it is too late.
There are 120 or so endemic #birds to find along with incredible Lemurs & Chameleons. It will be epic

Scarlet Darter

Beautiful Demoiselle

Southern Damselfly

Golden Ringed Dragonfly

New Forest-ish for @oriolebirding.bsky.social 7th-11th July 2025. Just for once it was hot and sunny and the dragonflies and butterflies obliged. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-... @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Bulwer's Pheasant

Crested Partridge

Bornean Scimitar Babbler

Bornean Banded Pitta

#borneo for @bwntours.bsky.social Day 15 - 17th June 2025 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/born... We started in the dark with an arching moon of white Pheasant feathers & ended with a vibrant glowing sunshiny golden Pitta.
Quite an end to a most rewarding of Asian adventures #BirdsSeenIn2025

White-capped Forktail

#borneo for @bwntours.bsky.social - Day 14 - 16th June 2025. A long hot final walk in the Danum Valley before the journey back to KK. Almost done - but not quite. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/born... #BirdsSeenIn2025
White-capped Forktail - I loved these!

YouTube video by Howard Vaughan Striped Babbler - Danum Valley - 15-6-25 Howard Vaughan

#borneo for @bwntours.bsky.social s - Day 13 - 15th June 2025. A final full and very wet day in Danum. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/born...
A Striped Babbler - such an engaging little bird - HD and sound! youtu.be/Hv35BPZVVI8
#BirdsSeenIn2025

Steller's and White-tailed Eagles

Red Crowned Cranes

Blakiston's Fishing Owl

Japanese Macaques

#Japan for @bwntours.bsky.social - an adventure never to be forgotten. Imagine day after day of Attenborough moments with plunging mega-Eagles, Cranes, funky Ducks, chilling Monkeys & more Cranes, fishing Owls birdswildlife.com/japan-cranes... Join @davefarrow58.bsky.social and I again in Feb 2026.

Oiceoptoma thoracicum on Stinkhorn

Lowestoft Life - 12th-18th July 2025 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/lowe... Amazing what you find in the woods...

Lantern Bug

Blue Bronze Back

Isocentris phoenicozona

Lamproptera curius curius

and as usual it was never just about the birds in #borneo for @bwntours.bsky.social

Bornean Bristlehead

Scarlet Rumped Trogon

Bornean Wood Owl

Bornean Banded Kingfisher - Mr Lee

#borneo for @bwntours.bsky.social Day 12 - 14th June 2025
blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/born... It was hot and sweaty #BirdsSeenIn2025

Hypolimnas bolina philippensis

The Silam - Danum race of Red Leaf Monkey - more orangey She has a baby too

A juvenile Black Eagle - such a distinctive shape

Ventriloquial Oriole - if you can say it

Back to #borneo for @bwntours.bsky.social - Day 11 - 13th June 2025. The journey into Danum. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/born...
#BirdsSeenIn2025

White-tailed Eagle

Mull - a Scottish adventure for @oriolebirding.bsky.social 28th June - 5th July 2025 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/mull...
A mixed bag of weather but some top notch wildlife and landscape encounters. A whole trip in one blog post...

How do I chose just one Eagle picture though?

So good to see you again! Been too long

Scarlet Darter

Out West on the @oriolebirding.bsky.social tour down on the south coast and the lure of Odonata at Silverlake rewarded us with Scarlet & Red Veined Darters & Lesser Emperor and several other new species taking us to 23 species in 3 days!

Forester Moth!

so many fresh Brimstones

Silver-washed Fritillaries - we saw Dark Green too

Chalk Hill Blue

We left the New Forest on the @oriolebirding.bsky.social & headed north to Bentley Woods & Martin Down. It was very hot but full of insect life & the Butterfly list took a big boost along with some quality day flying moths, bees & excellent flora. Both Red-eyed Damsels were seen too at Eyeworth

Giant Pill Millipede

Banded Broadbill

Onychargia atrocyana

Great Slaty Woodpeckers - epic!

#borneo for @bwntours.bsky.social - Day 10 - 12th June 2025
A final morning in Sepilok before crossing over to Lahad Datu where the Danum Valley was calling us. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/born... #BirdsSeenIn2025

Golden Ringed Dragonfly

A grand 1st proper day in the New Forest for @oriolebirding.bsky.social with 13 species of Odonata & a few other inverts as well as Goshawk, Redstart, calling Crossbills, Sundews and many Spotted Flycatchers.

And my 2025 and 2026 adventures can be found on my own webpage here: www.blueeyedbirder.com/trips-away-h...

Slow Worm

Grayling

Green Tiger Beetle

Silver Studded Blue

But before the Bird Fair I am in the New Forest for @oriolebirding.bsky.social & we snuck in a cheeky hour after the crew arrived today seeing Silver Studded Blues, Graylings, Tiger Beetles & a Slow Worm. The forest is incredibly dry but we shall see what the good weather brings us!

I shall be at the @globalbirdfair.bsky.social this coming weekend and will be helping out on the @bwntours.bsky.social stand in Kingfisher Marquee (stall 10) as well as paying a visit to the @oriolebirding.bsky.social stand in Nightingale Marquee (stall 18). Some past trip highlights! More to come!

heading home tomorrow... will wring some of my clothes out!

The weather on Mull on the @oriolebirding.bsky.social trip has been appalling 2day but we still saw Otters and some wet shoreline birds! The water coming off the hills was astonishing. Waterfalls everywhere

Pig Tailed Macaque

Bornean Orangutan and infant

Tyriobapta torrida

Cannonball Tree - Couroupita guianensis

#borneo for @bwntours.bsky.social and of course there was lots of other wildlife too!

Black-crowned Pitta

#borneo for @bwntours.bsky.social - Day 9 - 11th June 2025. A day spent slowly walking the trails of Sepilok RDC. It was seriously hot and sticky but the wildlife encounters were exceptional. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/07/born... #BirdsSeenIn2025

European Otter

What a contrast! 13 species of rain today on the @oriolebirding.bsky.social tour of Mull. It was a very much a 'watching from the van' sort of day but we still saw two Golden Eagles, three Otters, Northern Marsh Orchids, Hen Harrier and added four new birds and some wiggly bits of coast to the list

Indeed it was!