@mike-carr.bsky.social
Birder, Ecologist & Raptor Worker, into most forms of nature, genetically engineered to follow The Toon
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17.11.2025 21:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nice one Adam🙂👍
16.11.2025 20:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When they got there, the cupboard was bare!
Four Sparrowhawk and a Merlin were knocking about on HI today but very few migrants were present - 28 Robins, a couple of Goldcrest and the Hume's Warbler, which was seen by others this morning, were some of the snacks on offer #NEbirding #UKbirding
Quiet on Holy Island today, some combined totals with Andy Mould were 8 Woodcock & 2 Chiff. The LTT flock still totals 11 with sadly, no nominate caudatus interlopers. Offshore, there was a noticeable 240/hr northerly passage of Kittiwake with 3 Little Gull in the mix #NEbirding #UKbirding
14.11.2025 19:50 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Eye Eye
14.11.2025 18:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Brill🙂
Not the the same as the Arnold Layne Memorial Reserve
Takes two to know
It was a wonderful day Paul and, as often the case, by a really nice twist of fate, the Hume’s was exactly 30 years to the day since Eric Meek had had one at Hauxley
08.11.2025 17:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Quiet on Holy Island today with Andy Mould, Ian Davison & Ian Kerr, nothing really new just less of yesterday's birds. Good to pop in for second helpings of the Dusky Warbler and this time manage to get some photos albeit with lots of difficulty🙂 #UKbirding #NEbirding
08.11.2025 16:55 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Holy Island today: Dusky Warbler, SEO, 9 Woodcock, 1 Chiff, 1 Blackcap, 2 Goldcrests plus good numbers of Blackbirds. A special date for me, it came up trumps with the Dusky😀 (no photos sadly☹️) The 25th anniversary of finding a Pallas's, Dusky & Hume's Warbler at Hauxley
07.11.2025 21:12 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Canny sunrise
07.11.2025 08:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Presumed Continental Coal Tit (nominate subspecies ater) Bamburgh Castle Golf Course, Northumberland today #UKbirding #NEbirding
06.11.2025 20:16 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Holy Island, selected highlights from today:
18 Little Gull, 2 Merlin, 872 Redwing, 86 Fieldfare, 54 Blackbird, 117 Rock Pipit, 3 Long-tailed Duck #UKbirding
In amongst the Phragmites #UKbirding
01.11.2025 21:36 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nice to see a Bittern basking in the late afternoon sunshine at Gosforth NR #UKbirding
01.11.2025 17:02 — 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0It’d be like a Milky Way to that brute, a snack you can eat between meals
01.11.2025 07:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Holy Island, selected highlights today:
Pallas’s Warbler, 4 Goldcrest, Blackcap, 11 Brambling, 2 Woodcock, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, 96 Redwing, 19 Fieldfare, 99 Blackbird & ca40 Twite #UKbirding
A couple of chats at lunchtime
30.10.2025 21:43 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Three years ago today, a couple of Pallas’s & a YBW were brightening up the Lough, Holy Island #UKbirding
21.10.2025 07:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Most likely it’s the same bird
19.10.2025 21:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Holy Island today with @currucanana.bsky.social Andy Mould, Alan Hall, Ian Davison, Richard Drew & Steve Rippon - highlights included 3 YBW, LEO, Ring Ouzel, 3 Woodcock (inc this bird in the Vicar’s Garden) - a Bonaparte’s Gull at Sandham Bay was the star bird (but not twitched by me) #UKbirding
19.10.2025 20:28 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Holy Island today, selected highlights:
1055 Blackbird, 783 Redwing, 300 Fieldfare, 1 Shore Lark, 1 Snow Bunting, 1 Sibe Chiff, 1 YBW, 5 Chiff, 6 Blackcap, 9 Goldcrest, 1 Sibe Lesser Throat, 1 SEO, 6 Twite (plus another 2 YBW, Barred Warbler & Woodcock seen by others) #UKbirding
Catching the light yesterday morning at Cullivoe, Yell - a bonny Red-breasted Flycatcher with @yellowbrow.bsky.social #UKbirding
17.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yellow-browed Warbler at Valyie, Unst yesterday #UKbirding
15.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A few from yesterday
14.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bluethroat from yesterday - great birds #UKbirding
14.10.2025 07:25 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blackpoll Illuminations - from a few days ago with @yellowbrow.bsky.social #UKbirding
13.10.2025 12:17 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yesterday, it became very birdable in the afternoon on Unst but no monster birds gave themselves up #UKbirding
12.10.2025 07:12 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A typical autumn day in Shetland - a group of three Glossy Ibis at Norwick, Unst - about as far north as you can get in the UK #UKbirding
10.10.2025 20:19 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🤣
10.10.2025 12:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0….. they were flourescent😎
09.10.2025 20:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
