Good to see you both too. Yes, lovely scope views & watched it inflight in better light. Sorry you weren't able to walk there too, but it's ahard slog!
05.12.2025 08:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Adult type Lesser Crested Tern settled on muddy estuary
The photos not going to win any prizes, but the Dawlish Warren Lesser Crested Tern was my first British tick since the Baikal Teal in 2022 (I don't twitch much these days!) #DevonBirds
04.12.2025 17:47 — 👍 36 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Nice one, Tim. Glad you were successful 👍
04.12.2025 15:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Lesser Crested Tern still at Dawlish Warren, settled on mud, best viewed from hide 10:50 @birdguides.bsky.social
04.12.2025 10:51 — 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two Redhead Goosander with drake just behind, all perched on fallen tree trunk.
Now two Redhead & a drake Goosander at #ChardRes Photo taken at dusk this evening. @somersetbirds.bsky.social
03.12.2025 18:12 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Well worn Red Admiral sunning on my house wall.
A rather tatty Red Admiral in my garden in Chard today 3rd Dec!
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
03.12.2025 18:09 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Drake Goosander
Redhead & Drake Goosander
Drake & Redhead Goosander
Drake Goosander having a flap after bathing.
The drake & Redhead Goosander showed quite well from the dam at #ChardRes early this am, shame the light was so poor! #PWC2025 @somersetbirds.bsky.social
27.11.2025 22:18 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks. It doesn't need to be rarity to give a thrill, the beauty of patch birding!
27.11.2025 10:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Red Kite inflight in bright sunshine
Dipper in stream in late afternoon gloom.
Red Kite over the Dorset patch this am, also Brambling heard inflight. Dipper on a Somerset stream near Chard late this pm. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @somersetbirds.bsky.social
26.11.2025 17:27 — 👍 23 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
No sign of Scaup this am. Didn't realise the significance of my find yesterday...this is the first record at #ChardRes for 24 years & the largest group since the 1950's! #PWC2025Mega @patchbirding.bsky.social #LocalPatchBirding
26.11.2025 12:06 — 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
3 sleeping Scaup, a female, drake & 1st winter drake.
drake Goosander & Redhead at dusk
3 Scaup still present at #ChardRes at dusk. Also drake & redhead Goosander & 14 Tufties. @somersetbirds.bsky.social
25.11.2025 17:20 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Planning and Infrastructure Bill - sadly about to clear its final hurdle. With disastrous implications for our already nature-depleted land
#Biodiversity #Planning
24.11.2025 18:29 — 👍 66 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 2
Female Desert Wheatear on concrete, showing while rump.
The Desert Wheatear at Wyke Regis was a Dorset tick & 8 years since my last, the showy Thurlstone bird in South Devon in Jan 2017. Thx to Brett @luvaducksbutt.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
24.11.2025 17:53 — 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Desert Wheatear still showing at Bridging Camp, Wyke Regis....but we've just been told to move on by the camp security! @birdguides.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
24.11.2025 11:54 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Red Admiral butterfly nectaring on Orange Ball Buddleia.
Red Admiral still visiting my Orange Ball Buddleia daily... 23rd November & after several hard frosts! Chard, South Somerset. #inverts @savebutterflies.bsky.social
23.11.2025 14:04 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Juvenile Redhead Goosander perched on tree branch in early morning sunshine.
At least 41 Great Crested Grebe at #ChardRes this am in awful weather. Redhead Goosander also still present (photo taken yesterday in much better conditions!) #PWC2025 @somersetbirds.bsky.social
22.11.2025 11:09 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Getting more & more scarce as time goes on!
20.11.2025 23:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Redhead Goosander in bright sunlight, swimming away from camera.
Redhead Goosander again at #ChardRes this morning. #PWC2025 @somersetbirds.bsky.social
20.11.2025 13:23 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hi Steve, thanks for your input. Here's another photo, all taken into the bright sun unfortunately!
20.11.2025 13:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Interesting, Geoff. When I saw it I thought the shape of the head/neck didn't look quite right for N Pintail.
19.11.2025 19:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Brush-cut meadow with scattered Oak & Hawthorn trees.
Brush-cut woodland glade, with boardwalk over boggy ground with reed fringed pond to right
Felled oak logs stacked for wildlife habitat, oak & willow trees behind, with patches of bramble.
Stacked Ash logs, with bramble & holly shrub layer.
Very productive EuCan Conservation Workday yesterday at my Dorset patch, with meadows & glades brush-cut. 15 Ash dieback felled, 5 Oak with major squirrel damage, 4 large leaning willow soon to block footpath & a few Silver Birch. Also several Hazel coppiced to allow more light. Thx to 11 volunteers
19.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Female Pintail in strong sunlight.
Female Pintail on the Dorset patch this morning, only the second record this year after a pair in February (which were the first for 5 years at the site!) #PWC2025 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
19.11.2025 17:52 — 👍 28 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Nice! Spectacular birds!
19.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just received details of this bird from Roy Dennis Foundation: G834 a male that fledged from a nest in Dorset this year!
Thx for the very quick reply Zoe Smith at RDF.
19.11.2025 14:20 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poor photo of 3 Pochard, half hidden in reeds.
It might be just 3 Pochard, but they're the first of the year on my 10km #PWC2024 !! Seen at #ChardRes this morning. 131st species for the patch to date (153 points) @somersetbirds.bsky.social @patchbirding.bsky.social
18.11.2025 17:09 — 👍 28 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Very nice! That would have been a 'genuine vagrant' WTE too, not one of the IOW reintroduction birds!
17.11.2025 16:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Huge wingspan of a White-tailed Eagle
Immature WTE soaring at height!
WTE drifted slowly south, high over my inland Dorset patch at Chard Junction at 11:00 this am. My second record here. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @patchbirding.bsky.social #PWC2025
17.11.2025 12:29 — 👍 44 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 2
Rusty-dot Pearl
Dark Arches
Beautiful Plume
Feathered Thorn
Probably my last moth trap of the year gave 9 species, singles of Rusty-dot Pearl, Dark Arches, Red & Yellow-line Quakers, Beautiful Plume, Epirrita sp & 2 Feathered Thorn. Chard, Somerset VC5 #Teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social
16.11.2025 17:37 — 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mine is a tiny garden in a housing estate on outskirts of Chard at quite high altitude. I've had decent numbers earlier in the summer, so maybe just local weather conditions weren't great last night🤔
13.11.2025 23:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dorset birder, Assistant Recorder for Dorset Bird Club, keen on lots of other stuff but this is all about birds and wildlife.
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