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Birder, Real Ale/Craft Beer Blogger
Birder and lover of music, RSPB and BTO volunteer living in Norfolk UK. Views my own.
Birder / Photographer
BOU life list 371
Often out with my wife Fiona and meeting many other birders on our travels. You may know us as the deaf couple 😊
Middlesex birder transitioning from Twitter (@seaninpinner). Also keen supporter & volunteer at Northwood FC
Bucks Birder, long suffering Huddersfield Town fan and lover of miserable music .
Birder, architect, father and husband
Norwich-based birder, scientist (computational biologist), and football fan (Stoke City). Birding patches are Waxham, Potter Heigham Marshes, and Heigham Waterworks. Frequent Shetland and N. America visitor. BOU 512, BOU self-found 323, ABA 688. OM1 user.
Wildlife enthusiast - birds, mammals, orchids, dragonflies, butterflies, moths...and everything else when time permits. Often armed with a camera.
Ecologist | Birder | Photographer | Moth-er
Some ol' birder dude from S. Gloucestershire...
UK species and forms - 6️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ - 😉
My most recent addition:
MOURNING DOVE - October 15th 2025, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly!
Based in south Essex. Enjoy twitching (BOU 500+) as well as local patch birding.
I like to spend time birding in Norfolk, too.
Easily distracted by mammals (esp cetaceans), reptiles, amphibians & butterflies.
No politics on here, just wildlife!
Assistant Ranger - Bradgate Park NNR | Naturalist & Conservationist | Birds - Dragonflies - Butterflies - Reptiles & Amphibians | C-Permit Bird Ringer (Views and opinions my own)
Norfolk based birder and retired dentist. Past Chair of Oriental Bird Club. Pittaphile! Trying to see 600 species in UK before I depart this world!!
Birder from Mersea Island in Essex.
Birder, Bird Guide, Loves Football and Rugby League, Food and Music. Dislike Fascism #ukbirding #birding #vc55birds #vc55moths
https://shrikebirdingtours.com/
Casual and impatient 'photobirder'. I enjoy taking pictures of birds - if we happen to be in the same place at the same time. Devon, Norfolk and places vaguely in between. http://microbirdology.uk
Norfolk boy, family, birds, books, cycling. Norwich City season ticket holder..
Naturalist, author, editor, photographer. Written 15 books, won two awards, but happiest when avoiding the computer. Norfolk. jameslowen.com
Birds and Moths. Weymouth, Portland and Abbotsbury Swannery. Sometimes further afield.
Retired former Global Marketing Manager at BirdLife International. Now birding daily in my home county of Norfolk.
Wire Bird Artist , Nature Addict, Suffolk Birds and Beyond. Website: www.paulgreenwildwire.co.uk
Amateur bird spotter living in norfolk
Previously @iPterodroma on Twitter. Birding and general wildlife. Ex-consultant ecologist now secondary school Head of Biology. Guernsey-born, residing in Norfolk for 20 years.
The BOU Avi List January 2026: 7️⃣5️⃣3️⃣ (636 species and 117 subspecies)
Most recent additions:
Species: BOOTED EAGLE - August 2025
Subspecies: East Siberian White Wagtail - June 2022
Birdwatcher, lister, sometime twitcher. Living on Somerset's Mendip Hills.
Birder, Twitcher & ex-scientific illustrator. Cambridge United & P’boro Panthers Speedway
Dad, Husband, Business Owner. Twitcher
when I can, local patch and Oxfordshire listing. BOU 5️⃣4️⃣6️⃣, BOU/IRBC 5️⃣5️⃣8️⃣, Oxon 2️⃣7️⃣5️⃣
Retired teacher & Kent birder (VP of the KOS) but obsessive about birding Cadiz Province. Editor/author @ Crossbill Guides
Birder, Ecological surveyor, Bird tour leader, Academic Researcher and Conservationist
Mod Weller Northern Soul Motown SKA Norwich City FC Birder BOU 520
Severn Beach Patch visitor since first visit in 1973. Retired NHS Chief Biomedical Scientist. BTO WeBS counter since 1984, Vismigger & Twitcher (BOU 508). Alotmenteer. See http://www.severnsidebirds.co.uk/index.html
Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory, Sandwich Monks Wall Nature Reserve, RSPB, BTO, Kent Ornithological Society, Kent Moth Group, Kent Wildlife Trust, Butterfly Conservation UK/Europe, British Dragonfly Society, Western Palearctic pan-lister. UNICEF, MSF.
Birds, moffs and CPFC. Kentishman currently residing in the Kingdom of Fife.
Retired marine scientist. Birding mainly Kessingland, Suffolk & Runwell, Essex. https://chrisdarbyimages.blogspot.com/
Natural History, Conservation, Travel, Bird Identification, Pro-EU. He/Him. #FavershamCreek
Birder from Manchester.
Irregular blog at: https://themanchesterbirder.blogspot.com
Based in West Norfolk. Looks at birds
and sometimes takes photos of them.
Birder,Norfolk. Likes sketching-also swimming, park run and empty beaches
NPWS Conservation Ranger Cork. SouthWest Ireland Ringing Group bird ringer, moth-er, general naturalist + ecologist. Irish Cuckoo Tagging Project. Ex-Warden of Cape Clear Bird Observatory 2016/17.
Birds. Lincs & Norfolk mainly
UK: 311/636 BOU *Canvasback*
Lincs: 212
2026: 158 UK / 112 Lincs
2025: 281
Nerd. Fakenham, Norfolk.
Photography + birds, music, movies, football, news, politics and coffee. #mot #norfolkbirding #UKbirding
Norfolk based birder/naturalist. Also enjoys a bit of gardening | growing fruit/veg | listening to rock | a good pint of beer and the occasional twitch. BOU 465.
Birder & little critter watcher now based in North Norfolk
Birder, Ecologist & Wildlife Conservationist. Views my own. Born when CO2 was at c.337 parts per million. #selffoundbirding #kentbirding
Birding Kent, chasing migration
📍King George Park
Ecologist | Long-term Volunteer: Spurn, Bardsey & Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory
Improve wildlife habitats and promoting nature in the coast and countryside around Rye in SusseX, UK, where fishing boats show the RX registration.
Whale loving, bass playing, cricket watching Nature Geek. North Yorkshire, UK. https://birdingdad.blogspot.com
All opinions are my own and do not represent the organizations that I work for, volunteer for, or am affiliated to.
Birder. Freelance Ornithologist. Part time
Project Officer, Birds on the Edge, North York Moors NP @north_dove. York. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social .
#vismig #waders #flightshot
Birding Grafham Water from Aug 1997 (236 for the patch) | WeBS counter | Cambs List 302 (233 self-found) | Former County Recorder | terrible photographer
Healthcare scientist, naturalist, spotterish
Omnivorous reader and book collector (modern firsts, nature writing, climate fiction)
He / Him
Fediverse presence: @privateshufti@mastodon.social
No DMs
Norfolk Birder. Expect posts of bird news from Happisburgh Obs, the Yare Valley and further afield including foreign trips (plus a bit of mothing!)
Birder, Environmentalist, Book Reader ........ love a bit of Theology
Notts birder.
Landlocked #PatchBirding
Banner pics = patch finds + 4 Common Cranes & a Garganey
Walk/Bird/Learn/Repeat
Mostly #LowCarbon choices
#UKBirding
#Vegan
North London Birder (184) and Norfolk when I can, but mostly KGV Res (130) Member of the Royal Opera Chorus, won't be found without my binoculars.
Site Manager, WWT Welney Wetland Centre.
Guardian to Robin the border collie 🐾
Birding through the hellscape.
Increasingly concerned about AI
https://ebird.org/profile/MjMzNDk1NA
Birds, science, politics. Reader Man Met Uni, Associate Cornell Lab of #Ornithology, Chair BOURC, Trustee @bou.org.uk SC @ras-network.bsky.social. Usually found in the #PeakDistrict or #Amazonia, he/him. Views own.
Championing nature recovery in London, repairing our lost connection to the natural world since 1981.
#LondonWildlifeTrust
https://www.wildlondon.org.uk/
Patch birder, Climping west sussex. Photography, Golf and a big Manufan.
https://Climpingbirds.blogspot.com
Norfolk birder usually found patching or volunteering in the Mid-Yare Valley (TG40). Views are my own.
*TV Sports Broadcaster * Host * MLB International * Diamonds Are A Girl’s Best Friend *
#ChiefsKingdom
Former voice of the Toronto Blue Jays, current Toronto Star baseball columnist and host of the Deep Left Field podcast (you should subscribe). Loves stand-up comedy, ‘80s music and my two incredible kids!
we could talk about baseball..
Toronto Blue Jays reporter for MLB.com
Author of "The Franchise: Toronto Blue Jays" (2025)
Just a bit of amateur photography
Birding - BOU #333 (two Redpolls, a Crow and a Stonechat stolen), #98 for 2026, cycling, THFC, out of focus photography. RSPB, LACS, EBWS, EWT and BTO member. Prefer to be @ White Hart Lane or in The Cairngorms.
Bristol-based sports journalist with a passion for birding. Mostly retired now and spending more time on my local Severnside patch, though still prone to twitching on occasion.
Oxon
PWC 3km² Day's Lock/Bishop's Court Farm
"I live by the river"
544
Dungeness Bird Observatory has been monitoring birds on the Kent coast since 1952, with hostel style accommodation available to all. Follow for info on the obs and sightings from the local area. More info on our website: http://www.dungenessbirdobs.org.uk
Early retired ecologist, nature enthusiast and conservation volunteer now living in Sussex. Botany, butterflies, birds and mammals mostly. Monty Python and Michael Palin fan.
Somerset birder but stationed in Norfolk, 'A' ringer, amateur photographer, Somerset cricket
Birder and Local Patcher, Ecologist, London - Met Essex Peregrines and a Rugby Union man- Sarries!
Enthusiastic wildlife photographer in my spare time. Enjoying life with Peter Revel Walsh. Spotting kingfishers in east London has become a slight obsession!
Local Birding + coastal and downland natural history. Sightings from occasional trips further afield. Previously on Twitter/X @CharmouthBirder
Mainly Bramber/Steyning, West Sussex
Posts about coastal wildlife with history & science mixed in. Seabirds, saltmarsh & shorebirds, particularly on the Solent coast.🐤🌊
A club for bird nerds to share their love of our avian overlords!
Podcasting, blogging, fundraising & birdmerch creating for kicks.
BTO Bird Ringer. Seabird Research Assistant, Alderney Bird Observatory Spring 2025/6, Spurn Bird Observatory LTV 2023.
Birding for 60 years in UK and across world. Should be a lot better at it. Write monthly bird round up for Walthamstow Wetlands in London on walthamstowbirders.blogspot.com Fortunate to have birded St Agnes every year since 1981
Lydd on Sea resident, now happily Retired, enthusiastic observer of Birds, Moths, Butterflies, Dragonflies & some plants plus photography, usually found in the Dungeness area or close by.
Elmley NNR Warden & Lead Nature Guide. Wildlife Tour Leader and lifelong birder.
Kent birder though interested in most natural history.
Organiser for BTO bird surveys - WeBS (Medway) & BBS (Kent).
#kentbirding #ukbirding #ukreptiles
