@fifebirdnews.bsky.social 08/07/25 Anstruther Whimbrel 1 (W)

The future of driven grouse shooting will be debated in the Westminster parliament on 30 June.

Many thanks to all who made this possible.

#grouse #burning #raptor #killing #floods #smoke #climate #ghg #peat #nationalparks #defra

Pooter

Natural England quietly releases intriguing grouse moor location where two shot brood meddled hen harriers found dead Just before Christmas 2024, Natural England published a blog that included information on the fates of two satellite-tagged brood-meddled hen harriers that had previously been listed as ‘Miss…

Natural England quietly releases intriguing grouse moor location where two shot brood meddled hen harriers found dead raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/03/05/n...

@fifebirdnews.bsky.social #birdingfife #Anstruther 04/03/2025 Whooper Swan 18 north at 9am

@birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingLothian #Musselburgh Excellent winter day's birding with Great Northern Diver, Slavonian Grebe (7 off Fisherrow + 13 off Musselburgh Lagoons), 5 Puffins, adult Med Gull plus the displaying Long-tailed Ducks and usual good selection of waders

Dead Bird Count in Koprivshtitsa Surpasses 1,000 One thousand seven dead and 31 injured birds is the result of the New Year's Eve fireworks in the town of Koprivshtitsa, Dr Hristina Klisurova of the Green Balkans Wildlife Rescue Centre told BNR. Hal...

Over 1000 of birds died due to stress from fireworks during New Year in a Bulgarian town, Green Balkans wildlife rescue center said. The necropsy shows that the death of the mountain finches was caused by stress. Massive haemorrhaging was found in the birds' abdomens/skulls bnr.bg/en/post/1020...

#birdingFife male Blackcap in #Anstruther garden (2nd record in 17 years)

Microneta viaria

Woodland denizen, leaf litter lurker, Microneta viaria.
#Arachnids #Spiders #VC55 #UKWildlife #macrophotography #macro #Linyphiidae

@fifebirdnews.bsky.social #Anstruther 20 Whooper Swans just flown south calling

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Birders asked to help track Greylag Geese Birders in Orkney and north-east Scotland are being asked to look out for Greylag Goose with GPS collars. The birds are part of a project to understand more about the Icelandic population of the speci...

Birders in Orkney and north-east Scotland are being asked to look out for Greylag Geese with GPS collars: bit.ly/4ez5QCu

@birdingFife No sign of any Black Redstart but Merlin hunting at The Bowhouse

Beardie

#birdingFife First chance to catch up with Fife's first Spotted Sandpiper but the obliging bird has stayed around for 6 days so eventually on my Fife list today!

Cover and two inset page layouts for the new click-beetle atlas, with message "Available from FSC Publications - EARLY BIRD OFFER: save 20% on orders placed by 31 OCTOBER 2024"

New atlas published 🎉 Many congratulations to Howard Mendel, author of the new atlas of click-beetles, the latest in the series of recording scheme atlases supported by the @ukceh.bsky.social Biological Records Centre. Early-bird discount available at www.field-studies-council.org/shop/publica...

A long time since I enjoyed one bird as much as the Dunbar Steppe Grey Shrike today! #birdingScotland

No Gt. W. Egret at Angle Park but found my 4th Fife Marsh Harrier of the autumn. This one was a second summer male. When I was starting out you had to go to East Anglia to see one! #birdingFife

Some over the Isle of May today #birdingFife

Some over the Isle of May today

Happy to relocate only my second Fife Wryneck along track down from Crail Golf Club car park to Fife Ness road at back of cottages at 17.30 #birdingFife

OK, thanks

@fifebirdnews.bsky.social Daily Swifts over Anstruther up to 1/9/24 but none today

@FifeBirdNews.bsky.social 29.8.24 Anstruther Marsh Harrier hunting fields by Waid Academy and Coop for at least 3 hours