Mmm three of these common coastal birds appear to be bats!
Garden shallot harvest #garden
Congratulations Phil
Hi Ros, Bempton was hit less hard by AI than other UK colonies and there still are plenty of birds to see
Onions in and other beds prepared #allotment
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Bird ringers, we are (again) looking for dropped twite feathers.
If you have access to a population in the UK or continental Europe, please do keep us in mind.
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(Image: Richard Crossley)
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Always good to start the year with a Jack Snipe (one of 70 species recorded at @tophilllow.bsky.social today)
I’ll see your mine pie and raise you a glass of Sherry
Merry Christmas Phil
Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
Light Knot Grass from the garden trap back in June. Didn’t realise it at the time but it’s the first record for our area. #teammoth #moths
We were advised to keep it frost free I think, our greenhouse is tiny and unheated so we didn’t want to take the risk leaving it out there
Yes ours has flowered since we got it in August - outside till early October, now on a cool windowsill
Tune in at 8pm for tonight’s Folk Along the Coast for the last of the programmes of 2024 before we plunge into two seasonal specials.
Utricularia bisquamata ‘Betty’s bay’ brightening up a winter windowsill
Snipe and Jack Snipe at Tophill today
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While looking for raptors this morning, I came across this adult Swainson's hawk. I asked him why he wasn't in Argentina and he said that Argentina is too cold, bordering on Chile. #birds
Lovely to stumble across this resting Little Auk by Scarborough Harbour earlier today with @grahamscott14.bsky.social. It spent a while sheltering from the northernly winds at mouth of the Harbour, before flying strongly north into a heavy squall. A Great Northern Diver also fed nearby.
It's publication day! My Poyser book on Marsh Tits & Willow Tits is now available.
Huge thanks to publishers @chiffchat.bsky.social who have been fantastic. #NatureWriting #Ornithology #ukbirding #ForestEcology #nature
I love Tibet-Butler preserve
Bempton cliffs this afternoon
Lovely morning surveying on Filey Brigg - distracted by a pod of dolphin - quadrats full of Fucus and Pelvitia
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First redwing of the year ringed
