Stewart

Not big enough for water vole.

Nah, it's either...I think it was a damp Siberian after consideration...

The Goose is 15 years in the making ! Back then we just sacked them as escapes but it shows the importance of note taking at the time...

On Writing Long-tailed Skua Descriptions One of the more disappointing aspects of county birding in recent years has been the relegation from the county description list of Long-tailed Skua. The species has long had a chequered history in th...

#Norfolkbirding

It’s that time of year again. With LTS no longer on the county description list, here’s a few thoughts on writing them and also the descriptions of the five off here on Aug 30 2020. 1/2

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Just had word that a couple of my records to BBRC have been accepted -
Ross’s Goose Ad Howick 03/12/10
Siberian / Amur Stonechat 1 Howick 07/10/23
Both #LocalPatch records, the latter from my kitchen window!
#LowCarbonBirding #Northumberland

But it's now on Fair Isle...🙂

Here is an example Dave.
This female Barred Buttonquail was upset with me getting close to her male. She turned, looked straight at me, fluffed up feathers, bowed down & called out. This 'bluffing behavior' is to threaten a perceived 'predator'. She won.

😆

So we'll get more Knot than usual...😆

🤷🏽‍♂️ time will tell. It's certainly shook things up....

Cheers Tom, they've been loving it this year...even the paint brush gets mobbed!

Looking for an Old Lady and the art of Sugaring. I have been moth trapping in our garden on a regular basis since 2009. Over the years a respectable number of species have turned up includi...

Can recommend this recipe from @stewchat.bsky.social boulmerbirder.blogspot.com/2018/08/look...

There's consequences to having GBBG on the river- but hats off to this Shelduck who has successfully defended seven chicks for a week without loss despite daily check ups from the beast. #BirdArt

I wonder if #StormFloris has blown anything in? Seabirds? American Waders? ...
Yellow Warbler? 🤔

#UKBirding

That lass is bored. Really bored.

When we did constant effort ringing peak times for movements of Warbler/ juv birds was half an hour after sunrise, with birds 'vanishing' by 8am..

Three hour seawatch with good friend Justin Carr yesterday morning at @flamboroughbird.bsky.social not lots of birds but good close views of a Cory’s Shearwater and the below adult Pomarine Skua with spoons Digiscoped through a Swarovski STX85 @donnybirding.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Southern Small White (Pieris mannii) © Will Brame, Landguard Bird Observatory, 3 August 2025

Huge news! A new species of butterfly for Britain found today at Landguard Bird Observtory by Will Brame - Southern Small White!

Will's kindly shared his photo with us - what an excellent find by him.

It's not been seen since the time of finding, but surely more will follow...

Male Lumpsuckers can pink up when breeding, I've seen them like that in rock pools near us.

Well I wasn't expecting to see Zitting Cisticola on the patch when I set out this morning - 1 km south of Walberswick - record shots #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

Blue-Winged Teal - Blast From The Past Finds Blue-Winged Teal is a true "birder's bird" especially when you find them as juveniles in some far flung western location.  I first saw Blue...

Blast from the Past - Blue-Winged Teal. A true "Birder's bird", but I've always found them charming. 😍😎
And when you find them off the back of epic #seawatching like this? 👨‍🍳😘 #birds 🪶 #birding #birdwatching #irishrarebirds #wildfowl #seabirds
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Watercolour painting of rocks and fossils found on the beach at Redcar, northeast England - bivalves, ammonites, crinoids, calcite-veined mudstone, Gryphaea, banded limestone, ironstone and a mix of marine fossils in limestone.

Redcar rocks and fossils - though it’s only a few miles south of where I live, the geology of Redcar is completely different, and younger; Jurassic marine fossils are ridiculously easy to find lying on the beach.
(Watercolour; others still on show at Redcar Contemporary Art Gallery)
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#art #nature

Indeed, some people @tomcad.bsky.social did...

*can't!

The colour of the pollen brush helps, yellow or orange though I can remember which ones...

The highlight of a few days back at Boulmer, 3 Poms N yesterday eve.

Also 20 Sooties across the days, and a YLG and Casp at Bothal Pond on the way back south.
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That's the difference between here and Boulmer, I was looking down on them...

Aye they were more distant for me than at Newbiggin...maybe half way out..

A bit of #seawatching last night, it was nice to get 3 spoonied Poms that had been tracked up the coast. 2 fully tailed, one seemed less so. #Northumberland #Lowcarbonbirding #birdart