Blue sky 🌞 but a nasty 12kt Westerly blowing for today's stroll on Maiden Castle #Dorchester #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
Very quiet! Just 2 pairs of Stonechat, small flock c10 Linnet on the set-aside. Raven, Buzzard, Kestrel. Plenty of Crows arguing about nest space & a single singing Robin.
Very Peaceful ❤️
Misty Badbury Rings & High Wood #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
2 Yellowhammer, small flocks Linnet & Goldfinch. Bullfinch, Treecreeper, 2 Nuthatch, c30 Redwing, several Chiffchaff & Chaffinch. 11 Stonechat, Kestrel, 5 Goldcrest, 2 Wren, 4 Skylark.
3 Green Woodpecker, GSW.
Mallards on pond.
Tits, Gulls, Corvids.
Excellent shot!
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Sea Mist, Seaton Wetlands #Devonbirds 🇬🇧 🪶
Peregrine, Buzzard, Kestrel, Sparrowhawk. 50+ Redshank, 20+ Curlew, 2 Blackwit, Oyc.
Lots Shelduck, Teal. Shoveler, Gadwall, Mallard, 3 LtGrebe, Grey Heron, 2 LtEgret.
2 Stonechat, tits&finches.
4 Lesser BBGull in the flock, Cormorant.
Several Chiffchaff 🎶
Lovely 🌞 Spring day for a walk at Culpepper's Dish #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
Looking for Crossbills; pleased with a flock of nine including a magnificent red-plumage male in the conifer overhead.
Also, flock of Siskin, Mistle Thrush singing, Sparrowhawk, Buzzard. A Marsh Tit heard, but couldn't locate it...
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Blustery grey Thursday at Silverlake #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
Peregrine Falcon having breakfast, 2 Stonechat, Dartford, Red Kite, Raven, Egyptian Goose, 20+ Canada, Pochard, 4 Tuftie, 2 GreatCrested Grebe, Lt Grebe, 10+ LBBGull.
Thorncombe Wood had a Marsh Tit, & 2 Red-legged Partridge at Thorncombe Farm.
A Little Gull briefly on Charminster water meadows, W of Dorchester #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧🪶 also, Goldcrest, fem Blackcap, 2 LBBG.
Maiden Castle, 3 Corn Bunting, 3 Stonechat, Redwing, singing Skylarks.
Blue sky at Thorncombe Wood, 2 Firecrest, 7 Goldcrest, 5 Nuthatch, 2 Siskin, tits&finches, woodpeckers 😍
Sandsfoot Castle #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 6 Great Northern Diver, Slavonian Grebe, c15 Great Crested Grebe, several Red-breasted Merganser, lots Shag, 7 Brent.
Hamm Beach yielded 2 additional GND & 4 Black-necked Grebe in a group.
Ferrybridge had several Dunlin & Ringed Plover & Mediterranean Gulls & Brent.
Dry, bright & still at Studland #DorsetBirds 🪶 🇬🇧
Middle Beach, Black-necked Grebe, Great Northern Diver, GC Grebe, lots Shag.
Bramble Bush Bay & Jerry's Point, 10 BNG, 4 GND, c25 Red-breasted Merganser, 20+ GCG. 20 Turnstone, 24 Sanderling, 11 Dunlin, Redshank, Sparrowhawk.
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Blue sky 💙 at Thorncombe Wood #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
7 Lesser Redpoll 😍
2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker, 5 Goldcrest, 6 Nuthatch, 3 Treecreeper, large flocks of Siskin & Chaffinch.
3 Raven, 2 Greenfinch (male), 2 Song Thrush, several Wren, Dunnock. Lots of Blue, Great, Long-tailed Tits. Et al
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High water level at Silverlake #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶 3 Pintail, several Pochard, Gadwall, 2 Gt Crested Grebe. Dunnock singing 🎶 few Coot, Canada. Cormorant.
Brighter at Thorncombe Wood, Marsh Tit, numerous Gt, Blue & Coal Tits. 3 Goldcrest, 2 Nuthatch. Several Stock Dove, Siskin, Wren. Buzzard over.
Lovely pics, Viv... great birding at Seaton 😊 🪶 #Devonbirds
Blue Sky at ARNE #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧
🪶 high tide Middlebere NT c200 Avocet, 2 RB Merganser, Pintail, c10 Redshank, 3 Snipe, Sparrowhawk, 2 Curlew, many Shelduck, Teal & Canada. MistleThrush. Chaffinches singing.
Arne Bay RSPB, 20+ Spoonbill, more Avocet, Blackwits.
Grey Heron!
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Thorncombe Wood #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧
🪶 2 Firecrest 😍, 9 Goldcrest, 2 Treecreeper, Nuthatch, male Bullfinch ♥️, lots Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Siskin.
2 Buzzard, Raven, Kestrel.
Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Wood, 2 MistleThrush, SongThrush, 4 Redwing.
Lots Tits; Blue, Great, Coal, Long-tailed. Stock Doves.
and after the rain; evening sky, now at #Dorchester #Dorset England 🇬🇧
A mooch in the mizzle, Maiden Castle #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
446 Golden Plover keeping their heads down in field to East of car park 😊
A single Corn Bunting, Kestrel, Raven & small flock of Goldfinch.
female Blackcap in the home garden #Dorchester
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thanks to @nickyhoar.bsky.social who first spotted yesterday's Slavonian Grebe, very distant towards the harbour entrance!
Masses of birds at Brands Bay too:
100s of Wigeon & Dunlin, numerous Grey Plover, Shelduck, Pintail, Teal, Canada. Several Curlew, GCG, Redshank 😃
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Jerry's Point & Bramble Bush Bay @harbourbirds.bsky.social #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧
4 Great Northern Diver, Slavonian Grebe. 30+ RBM, several GCG. c20 Turnstone, c50 Dunlin, 2 CmSandpiper, Grey Plover, 3+ Ringed Plover.
Shell Bay had another G N Diver & a Black-necked Grebe.
200+ Brent Geese off Knoll Beach.
Blue sky, almost Spring #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧
🪶 Portland Harbour had at least 5 Great Northern Diver & a Black-throated Diver ➕️ 3 Black-necked Grebe & 12 Red-breasted Merganser.
Ferrybridge had c70 Brent Geese, 1 RBM, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 1 GND, 7 MediterraneanGulls ,5 Coot, Turnstone, 6 Oystercatcher
Thanks to @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social for organising the Winter excursion to Brownsea Island #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 today.
🪶 many Avocet, 70+ Grey Plover, 100s Blackwit, c10 Barwit, 5 Turnstone, Curlew, 100s Dunlin, 2 Greenshank, several Redshank. Lots Shelduck, Brent, Cormorant.
3 Red Squirrel 😍
Buzzard!
Hints of Blue Sky, Bradbury Rings #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
4 Skylark, 5 Stonechat, c10 Redwing, Green Woodpecker, Nuthatch, Buzzard, Kestrel, Raven, Tit flocks.
Kingston Lacy had another Green Woodpecker, flock of 70 Greenfinch, SongThrush, Tits & Chaffinches, several StockDove.
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Grey damp day at lovely Lodmoor #Weymouth #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
Water level high!
3 Avocet, 12 Snipe, 100s Lapwing, c400 Golden Plover.
Marsh Harrier, Raven.
Mysterious cross, Shelduck-Ruddy?
Lots Shelduck, Canada, Wigeon, Teal, Mallard, Gadwall, Shoveler, Tufted Duck.
Kingfisher.
c20 Mediterranean Gull.
Damp & dull, Studland #DorsetBirds
Jerry's Point, 2 GND, 3 BNG, 3 Goldeneye, Razorbill, Raven, Curlew, Oycs. 30+ RBM, lots GCG.
Bramble Bush Bay, 50+ Brent, 2 Redshank, Lt Egret.
🪶 Shell Bay, 200+ Brent, c20 Sanderling. Lots Shag.
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Brands Bay, WTEagle, many Pintail, Wigeon.
White Tailed Eagle settled in Brands Bay 1500hr
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Bleak mid-winter at Stourhead #NT #Wiltshire 🇬🇧
🪶 20+ flock of Siskin on beech mast, c80 Lapwing, 2 GreyWagtail, numerous Tits, several Chaffinch flock Goldfinch. Redwing.
Red Kite, 2 Raven.
Nuthatch, Treecreeper, lots Wren. P Wag.
Grey Heron, 2 TuftedDuck, Mallards.
Sparrowhawk at Wincanton A303.
Excellent Phil! 😃
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Winter wonder, Thorncombe Wood #DorsetBirds 🪶 🇬🇧
2 Marsh Tit, numerous Blue, Great, Coal & Long-tailed Tit.
2 Goldcrest, one watched us from 3 feet away 😍
8 Nuthatch, 2 Treecreeper, 6 Redwing.
Buzzard, pair Raven, Mistle Thrush, 3 Wren, just 2 female Chaffinch, c10 Goldfinch. 2 Pheasant. Lots Robin.
