Bill Stuart

Holkham from Lady Anne’s Drive in November evening light

Holkham at last light: 2 Whooper Swans with the geese from Lady Anne’s Drive and a Hawfinch in the Pines (which are teeming with Goldcrest) #norfolkbirding #birds #ukbirding

No. 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ for the year is a Black Throated Diver on sea off Titchwell 😃 My first 💯💯 year since 2017 and great to get there at my very favourite birding place #norfolkbirding

Firecrest and Yellow Browed Warbler both showing well with patience near Titchwell picnic area #norfolkbirding #ukbirding #birds

Shorelark on Titchwell beach just W of footpath 09:55 plus late Swallow heading S #norfolkbirding #ukbirding #birds

East Bank at Cley Marshes reserve Norfolk looking towards the sea November

Cley marshes and coastguard: birdwatching highlights today were watching hundreds of Starlings in-off the sea and super views of Water Pipits. Also 2 Jack Snipe; Razorbill & RT Diver os #norfolkbirding #birds #ukbirding

Lake at Thurrock Services M25 Essex viewed from platform outside Costa Coffee

Ridiculously profitable 20 minutes from platform at Thurrock Services Costa coffee overlooking the lake with Kingfisher, Goldeneye on lake, Peregrine over #ukbirding #birds #EssexBirding 🦆 ☕️ 👌

Congratulations on no.300 Leon

Light 31.10.2025

A post about #birds I didn’t see for a change. This #BritishSummerTime I missed:
- Grasshopper Warbler
- Quail
- Wood Warbler
what about you? #ukbirding

Rainbow across entrance track to RSPB Otmoor reserve Oxfordshire autumn afternoon

Beautiful autumn colours at Otmoor this afternoon. Dunlin & Great White Egret from first screen + Marsh Harrier were #birds highlights. A lot of berries awaiting arrival of winter thrushes @rspbotmoor.bsky.social #ukbirding #OxonBirding

Whooper Swans or Flamingos? Great photo

Congrats on 300 Carl - brilliant 🎉

Autumn clouds dramatic grey skies

This year #WorldMigratoryBird day in my sheltered bit of inland #SussexBirding is about Meadow Pipit vismig, Goldcrest dispersal & a few Chiffchaff which these ( #climatechange) days are probably arriving rather than leaving #birds

mast year for acorns in 2025. Go #Jays

Kingston, Lewes between the Downs and the Brooks & very much betwixt the seasons today 🍂 On the one hand Spotted Flycatcher, Whitethroat; on the other Siskins & suddenly lots of Robins #birds #ukbirding #sussexbirding

I reckon any day with a Barn Owl sighting is a good day, so grateful to see one hunting near Bolney vineyard earlier this evening #sussexbirding 🪶

Tonight’s #birds on #wine labels is a Pheasant (looking at it, some might say a Golden Pheasant 😉 ... if so my first without driving several times around the Wolferton Triangle - birders of a certain vintage will know) 🍷

Wild bird populations in the UK and in England Annual trends in wild bird populations in the UK and England.

Latest DEFRA report with @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social confirms what #ukbirding 🪶 community knows from experience, wild bird populations continue to 📉 The extent of nature depletion in my lifetime is 💔, that it continues at pace is 😡 www.gov.uk/government/s...

Pagham Harbour at high tide from Church Norton in September

Beautiful late morning Church Norton on rising tide 9 Spoonbills, 1 Curlew Sandpiper (others reported many more), the 100s of swallows attracted a Hobby, Yellow Wagtail over, lots of Meadow Pipits in #birds #ukbirding #sussexbirding @selseybirder.bsky.social

Spotted Crake still at Sandwich New Downs pool ✅ also Green Sandpiper #kentbirding #ukbirding #birds 👇my view and the Crake’s view 😉

Reculver towers on north Kent coast afternoon sunshine

Reculver this pm walked constantly surrounded by Swallows (c2000?). On land: 2 Wheatear under the towers also Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat, Willow Warbler. Over sea: 1 Guillemot east #kentbirding #ukbirding #birds

Oare Marshes view of Swale looking east from Harty Ferry slipway

Oare Marshes this pm, close view of Bonaparte’s Gull east of the slipway & distant view of Curlew Sandpiper west of the slipway #birds #ukbirding #kentbirding

Water Lilly pond Monet garden Giverny France late August

Excellent few days in Seine valley Normandie 🇫🇷 #LowCarbonBirding via Eurostar SNCF-Nomad & local buses 🚇🚊🚌 #birds highlights Short toed Treecreepers and Pied Flycatchers

End of an era but hopeful for the future of the Ferry Pool. The old “era” brought me sp Red Necked Phalarope x2, Black Necked Stilt, pr Ruddy Shelduck. I’m sure @selseybirder.bsky.social @sussexornitholo.bsky.social will have many more memories #birds #ukbirding #sussexbirding

Gatekeeper butterfly

Pulborough Brooks RSPB reserve view over north brooks from Netleys in August low water levels

Pulborough RSPB - Green Sandpiper from Jupps best of the #birds. Thank you to @rspb.bsky.social volunteers for helping this complete beginner with butterflies 🦋 I think this is a Gatekeeper👇 (don’t laugh) @savebutterflies.bsky.social #ukbirding #sussexbirding

Weirwood Reservoir dam East Sussex

Weirwood Reservoir: 2 Common Sandpipers on the dam, GBB Gull pair and their now brute of a juvenile. No raptors for me this pm #birds #ukbirding #sussexbirding

My first Yellow-legged Gull of the “season” on Eastbourne seafront this evening #ukbirding #sussexbirding #birds

Barnum and Bailey 🎪

Way past time to end Grouse shooting and to have proper protection for
Hen Harriers #birds

'A new era:' World court issues landmark ruling in biggest ever climate court case Judges at the International Court of Justice in the Hague say failing to protect the planet from climate change may breach international law, and could open up routes for reparations. Campaigners say ...

The door to future #climate reparations been opened little by International Court of Justice #ICJ in Den Haag today. Case that started as campaign by group of law students in Vanuatu 🇻🇺
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