Rich

One of the most incredible WTF!! moments I have witnessed in 41 years birding Belvide. 8 White-rumped Sandpiper on the north shore between 4pm-5.30pm. Just short of a British Record of 11 on the outer Hebrides. Thought I'd lost the plot when I saw them. Still pinching myself. #UKbirding

Many thanks to Mandy Gregory for sending on these images of the white throated needletail over @tophilllow.bsky.social yesterday. Perhaps it remembers where East Yorkshire’s premier insect diner is…

@flamboroughbird.bsky.social

I'm finding the #chirpity app great for quickly processing #nocmig recordings. Had to laugh this morning when it identified me bringing in the recorder as a Bearded Tit 🤣 @chirpity-nocmig.bsky.social

Great bird, great find, great photos 👍

My Cascada jacket didn’t keep me dry from day 1

No way!

Juv Sabine's Cogden found b.y @notquitescilly.bsky.social it flew east at around 9.00am...

Very quiet day at Southfield Res. A couple of Hobbies went south, a Common Sand and 200+ hirundines were the highlights.

A look through my 2026 calendar

Great blog Justin

Potteric Carr: what it lacks in birds it makes up for in chips 😋

Stanford Reservoir - the ringing group deliver again. In crappy conditions with low bird numbers a 1st for the site & for Northants - BARRED WARBLER. Well deserved for the dedicated efforts of the group in their 50th year ringing at the site. Haven’t sweared so much for a while!!

Sergeant Fiskies Lonely Spurn Club Band!!

Dual camera/scope setup mounted in parallel

2cy Caspian Gull in flight

3cy Caspian Gull, distant crop from video

Black Tern, distant crop from video

Farmoor last night, 2 Caspian Gulls and a Black Tern. No sketching as testing out a dual scope/camera setup for seawatching but seemingly very useful for gull roosts as well. The 3cy Casp and Black Tern are crops from very distant video (35x mag) - the 2cy Casp is a normal photo #ukbirding

A drake Garganey, vermiculations don’t get much better. #birds #ukbirds #phonescoping vimeo.com/813700534

Mine was just like this Mirador 20-45x60

One of my favourite species - the Spotted Flycatcher. This pair nested in a half coconut shell we put up behind climbing undergrowth on my friends house. #birds #ukbirds #ornithology vimeo.com/568545027

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

Contact the Zeiss approved UK repairer binocular-repair.co.uk. They are excellent!

What a beauty!

Dark-eyed Junco in a private garden in Ely on July 9th, which was unfortunately not seen again thereafter. This is the first ever American passerine species recorded in Cambs! @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social #ukbirding

It looks like that’s a birdfair special offer which has now ended. The £24 is for 1st year then its 79.99. Looks like I’m staying with Birdguides

If it’s cheaper than Birdguides I might switch when it renews in September for £64.99

Buston Links Teal - 3 months on and this is what she now looks like. Seems to have got a bit greyer ??? The bill still looks big but looking more BWT ??. I thought I had this case closed as a hybrid (BWT x Shoveler) but today's views have put my head back a fuzz. #NEbirding #birdhybrids

Great talk yesterday afternoon. My non-birder wife also found it interesting

I know what you mean. I hate driving. #lowcarbonshopping

7.5 miles to Hatfield Moors and 4.5 to nearest site

A most unexpected European Nightjar recorded over the garden last night. I don't live close to a breeding site so maybe its a migrant. #ukbirding #nocmig