Geoff & Steph

Bright 🌞 day, Lanzarote, Canaries 🇪🇸 🪶

Less than salubrious Puerto del Carmen for the perfume emporiums!

Whimbrel, Turnstone, numerous Rose-ringed Parakeets & Spanish Sparrows ♥️

Two Sandwich Tern fishing along the ⛱️ beaches.

Blue Sky, hot & dry in San Sebastian, La Gomera 🇪🇸 🪶 Canary Islands.

3 Berthelot's Pipit, a 2025 tick, Common Sandpiper, numerous Canary Islands Chiffchaff. Several Spanish Sparrow.

Plenty of Yellow-legged Gulls & Rock Doves.

One metre long Sharks!

Jolly nice Little Gull when departing Madeira...

Sunny dry & hot, Santa Cruz, Tenerife 🇪🇸 🪶 with a day at the Palmetum.
2 Hoopoe, several African Blue Tit & Atlantic Canary 😍
3 Blackcap. Numerous Canary Islands Chiffchaff & some Common Chiffchaff. Greenfinch. 2 Grey Wagtail, 2 Barbary Partridge. Little Egret. Lots Spanish Sparrow. Canaries Kestrel.

Blue Sky in Madeira 🌞 🪶
Sooty Shearwater on the cruise in, 4 Madeira Kestrel & numerous Atlantic Canary plus 4 Grey Wagtail ♥️.
Insufficient time for proper Birding!

On Reids terrace watching #HebrideanSky arriving in port...

A Twitch for the 'Chickerell' Desert Wheatear at the Bridging Camp off Camp Rd, Wyke Regis today. #Dorset 🪶 view from Public Footpath!
Good company, great bird, lovely sunny 🌞 day, great photos at #DorsetBirds
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views West towards Abbotsbury 😍

Lovely Cirl Bunting ❤️
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Fabulous blue sky 🌞 day #Weymouth #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
Portland Harbour quiet with 10 Red Brested Merganser & Grey Heron!
Ferrybridge @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social 120 Dunlin, 40 Ringed Plover, 8 Turnstone, 3 Little Egret, an overflying Lapwing ❤️ numerous Mediterranean Gull, Mipit, Greenfinch, 5 Skylark.

Beautiful 🌞 sunny day at Radipole #Weymouth #DorsetBirds 🪶 🇬🇧
shame about the bitter NNW wind 🥶
4 Marsh Harrier in flight together at midday, all juvenile-female plumage.
Also, numerous Gadwall, Mallard, Tufted Duck, Teal, Coot. 3 Moorhen. One Mediterranean Gull in the Gull flock.
#Landscapes #photo

Chilly Autumn walk at Thorncombe Woods #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
Firecrest with at least 2 Goldcrest 😍.
Nuthatch.
Buzzard, Raven.
7 MistleThrush, 6 in loose group. 10+ PiedWagtail with the cattle. Jay, Chaffinch, small flock of Goldfinch, mixed Tit flock, 3 male Pheasant.
c40 noisy Greylag passing overhead.

Between one deluge 🌧 & the next, a quiet walk on Maiden Castle #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
Raven, seeing off Crows, Kestrel, Corn Bunting.
9 Stonechat, several Meadow Pipit, Chaffinch, Greenfinch.
Small flocks of Goldfinch. Large flocks (50-100) per flock of Linnet ❤️
Rooks galore & a few Herring Gulls😴

Lovely 🌞 Lodmoor 🇬🇧🪶 #DorsetBirds
c500 Golden Plover overhead 1500hr, settled in Lodmoor area.
Kingfisher, at least 3 GWE, 13 Snipe, 100s Lapwing, Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzard, 2 Raven.
2 Common Gull, 20+ Med in the Gull flock.
Reed Bunting, Stonechat, Blackwit.
Teal, Wigeon, Shoveler, Shelduck, Canada.

Fine morning at El Rompido, 🇪🇸 🪶

141 sp this visit 😍

2 Golden Plover with 20+ Grey Plover, 2 Oystercatcher, 2 Spoonbill, Dunlin, Bar-tailed Godwit, several Ringed Plover, Sanderling, Whimbrel, Redshank, Common Sandpiper, Greenshank & Turnstone.
2 Caspian Tern, 5 Sandwich Tern.
Redstart, Waxbills ❤️

Post number 250; another day in North Donaña Spain 🇪🇸 🪶
New today, Marbled Duck, Red-knobed Coot, Sparrowhawk.
Also, Impérial Eagle, Hen Harrier, 100s Griffon Vulture, 17 Black Stork, many White Stork, Spoonbill & Glossy Ibis. 3 Squacco Heron, Swamphen, CmCrane, Lesser Kestrel. 3 StoneCurlew.
Hobby!

Brief trip to Tavira, Portugal 🇵🇹 and walk along the Gilão River 🪶
2 Kingfisher, several Whimbrel, Grey Plover, Kentish Plover, Turnstone, Common Sandpiper. 2 Little Egret, Cormorants, Black-headed & Yellow-legged Gulls.
A few Sardinian Warbler & Meadow Pipit in the scrub.
Lovely town, recommended 👌

Easy Birding on the El Rompido patch. 🌞 dry & still 🇪🇸 🪶 very low tide.
Mixed flock of Tree Sparrow, Waxbill & Serin ❤️ Also, Mixed Tit flock. Nuthatch.
Iberian Grey Shrike.
2 Hoopoe, 20+ Iberian Magpie.
3 Sanderling, many Whimbrel, Dunlin & Ringed Plover. Spoonbill, Great White Egret, Green Sandpiper

Andevalo & Sierra Pelada 🇪🇸 🪶 🌞
2 Temminck's Stint, Lapwing, several Green Sandpiper, 2 Flamingo, 4 Spoonbill, 7 Egyptian Geese, several Shoveler & Gadwall.
Many Thekla & Crested Lark. Lt Owl. Dartford Warbler
2 Black-winged Kite, 100s Griffon & several Black Vulture.
Blue Rock Thrush ❤️
Lots Chough

Odiel Marshes, Huelva 🇪🇸 🌞 🪶
Jack Snipe! Cm Snipe, Water Rail, Swamphen, 2 Slender-billed Gull, 2 Sandwich Tern, 10 Black-necked Grebe, Curlew, masses Spoonbill, Kentish & Ringed & Grey Plover, BW Stilt, Whimbrel, Flamingo.

Countryside to North, Booted Eagle, Black Kite, 14 Red Kite, Hen Harrier 😍

Northern Donaña, Andalusia 🇪🇸 🪶
Best Birds: 30+ Stone-curlew, 3 Squacco Heron, Night Heron, 2 Hen Harrier mf, Spanish Impérial Eagle, Sand Martin, Lesser Short-toed Lark.
100+ GriffonVulture, BlackVulture, Wheatear, 5 Ruff, c10 Green Sandpiper, 3 BlackStork, c10 Cm Crane.
111 species so far on trip!

Splendid pictures, Phil 🪶
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Sunny 🌞 & hot, on the El Rompido patch 🇪🇸 🪶 #worldbirds
Wryneck in dispute with Woodchat Shrike, 4 Iberian Grey Shrike.
Hobby pursuing 2 Crag Martin.
Cm Whitethroat, Zitters, Sardinian Warbler.
2 Caspian Tern, 5 Sandwich Tern, Med Gull.
2 Barwit, 2 Knot, lots Whimbrel Dunlin & R Plover. 2 Greenshank.

Huelva, Palos & S Doñana 🇪🇸 🪶 🌞
New 2025 birds: Penduline Tit, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker, WoodSandpiper, TreeSparrow.

2 Ruff, Blackwit, Lapwing, 3 Snipe, 2 Swamphen, CmSandpiper, 4 GreenSandpiper, many Flamingo, BW Stilt, LtGrebe, 2 Kingfisher.
2 CrestedLark, Hoopoe, lot Waxbill.
5 Griffon Vulture.

Isla Christina 🇪🇸 🪶 🌞
10 Audouin's Gull, 2 Slender-billed Gull, YLG, BHG, LBBG, Meds. Gannet!
2 Little Stint, 4 CurlewSandpiper, GreenSand. Kentish, Ringed & Grey Plover. Few Sanderling, Dunlin, Knot. Barwit.
Short-toed Treecreeper, Crested Tit.
Osprey, Marsh Harrier, 2 Buzzard, Iberian Grey Shrike ♥️

A Portland Twitch for the Red-backed Shrike in the scrub W of The Pulpit Inn at The Bill. Beautiful co-operative bird! 🪶
See @philcheeseman.bsky.social and others for pics.. #DorsetBirds
A Little Owl in the Quarry @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social
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Cracking shots, Phil 👏
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🌞 Seaton Marsh & Wetlands 🪶 #UKbirding 🇬🇧 #Devon
Black Hole Marsh; Curlew Sandpiper, Barwit, Avocet, Ruff, 4 Dunlin, 2 Snipe, 2 Greenshank, Curlew, 50+Blackwit, c100 Lapwing, c30Redshank, 2 Shelduck.
Borrow Pit; 3 Little Grebe, 2 Moorhen, 4 Raven, 4 Buzzard, 10+ Chiffy, 2 WillowWarbler, Kingfisher ❤️

Meander along R Frome, W of #Dorchester #DorsetBirds 🪶 several trees down in river after Storm Amy 😔
Kingfisher, 3 Grey Wagtail, Jay, 2 GreyHeron, resident Buzzard.

Maiden Castle had juvenile female Sparrowhawk, 100s Linnet, 6 Corn Bunting, 6 Stonechat, flocks Mipit, Chiffy,2 Raven mobbing Kestrel.

Silverlake, East&South Lakes #DorsetBirds ♥️ 🪶
joined Kev @dorsetbirdtours.bsky.social to find the two new Pink-footed Geese, then @mick666.bsky.social on the Mound.
Also, 100s Canada, 150+ Greylag & some Egyptian. 4 redhead Goosander. Raven, Buzzard. Large Gull flock.

Site of #RAF Warmwell in WW2 🇬🇧

Lovely Lodmoor after Storm Amy #DorsetBirds 🪶 🇬🇧 🌞
1 poss 2 hunting Hobby, Marsh Harrier, Raven.
11 Blackwit, 3 Snipe, Golden Plover, several Lapwing.
Masses Teal & Canada. Little Grebe ❤️
At least 4 Great White Egret, a couple of LtEgret.
Several Mediterranean Gull.
5 Pied Wag, Cetti's, Kingfisher 😍

🌞 Middlebere #NationalTrust #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
almost no tide! 4 Avocet, Spoonbill, 2 Redshank, GWE, lots LtEgret, 2 Oyc, plenty Wigeon & Teal.
Reed Bunting, several Willow Warbler, 20+ Chiffy, 100s Mipit, 2+ TreePipit, Jay, 5 Stonechat, flocks Goldfinch.
Kestrel, Buzzard.
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A rare Twitch to 🌞 Isle of Portland 🇬🇧 #DorsetBirds 🪶 for the Barleycrates Lane Wryneck.. excellent sighting! ❤️
thanks to @philcheeseman.bsky.social for the heads-up when it reappeared 😊
good 👍 to see @mickhighfield.bsky.social
Also, 2 Wheatear, 3 Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Stonechat, several Chiffchaff.