Noah Bailey

Lovely week on Scilly with lovely company. A few highlights from Scilly and the journey there: Bluethroat, Hoopoe, 7 Great Shears, 4 Sooty, 3 Pomarine Skuas and the Steppe Grey Shrike from Cornwall. Hope to be back next year!

Ring-necked Duck showed well yesterday at Helston Boating Lake. My second for the site

That's really good!

Brown Shrike showed well at Hollesley yesterday!

Nice!

Great to spend Sunday morning at Ditton with @lucasnature.bsky.social. Merlin NE, 153 Fieldfare, c200 Golden Plover, 143 Redwing, 119 Chaffinch, 254 Woodpig, 54 Mipit and 2 Stonechat the highlights. #Patch

Took full advantage of a teacher training day on Thursday and headed to Norfolk. Hume's Warbler, Dusky Warbler, Long-eared Owl, 3 Yellow-browed Warblers and a Glossy Ibis the highlights.

Few hours on #patch at Ditton on Thursday morning was proved worth it with a Crossbill! Also 745 Woodpigeon, 105 Mipit, 5 Redpoll, 9 Siskin, 62 Redwing, Fieldfare and 8 Lapwing.

I’ve really enjoyed birding at Landguard regularly this autumn. Y’day was great, with Jack Snipe & Long-eared Owl amongst 50+ species. Today was epic! A self-found Yellow-browed Warbler then the magic moment of relocating a Pallas’s Warbler with Will Brame which he & Bill Mackie had found earlier.

Short-toed Lark and Snettisham Spectacular from Saturday, with a supporting cast of Snow Bunting, 2 Curlew Sands, leustistic Oystercatcher and the King's Lynn Lesser Yellowlegs which had a been imprisoned by the fences.

Looking towards Horningsea

Another great morning on #patch this morning, producing Hawfinch a patch tick. Also 13 Redpoll, 4 Siskin, 3 Skylark, 6 Redwing, 2 Water Rail, 3 Stonechat, 2 Kingfisher and 2 each of Mistle and Song Thrush. #UKbirding

Thank you

The Baird's Sand showed well at Rutland Water yesterday evening! #UKbirding

The Red-tailed Shrike showed well at Dunwich this morning with @lucasnature.bsky.social so we went back for seconds later on in the day. Also saw 6 Glossy Ibis flying over and my first Yellow-browed Warbler of the autumn. #Suffolkbirding #UKbirding @rarebirder.bsky.social

A superb day, mostly at Dunwich, with @noahbai-123.bsky.social and other friends. Highlight was the super adult male Red-tailed Shrike, my 400th world bird species! Great supporting cast of Glossy Ibises, Yellow-browed and Dartford Warblers, Crossbill and a late Whinchat! #ukbirding #suffolkbirding

Good morning on the #patch. Highlight was a Greenshank which flew over East. Also 6 Golden Plover, Yellowhammer, 2 Redwing, Linnet, 3 Siskin, Hobby, 46 Swallow,4 House Martin, 63 Mipit, 11 Skylark all over, mainly South. Water Rail and 2 Kingfisher also. @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social #UKbirding

'Larder' on the left

Great to see the Lesser Grey Shrike in fading light at Winterton yesterday evening- we even got to see it using a 'larder'!

It's been a good start to the Autumn on #patch at Ditton. Early Autumn produced 2 Pied Fly, 8 Whinchat, Tree Pipit, Redstart, 6 Spotted Fly and many warblers. Since then there has been some good vismig with Hobby, Swifts Meadow Pipits, Yellow Wags, Snipe and many Hirundines.

Some classic late August birding in and around Cambridge today, with a team effort producing Redstart, Tree Pipit, Spotted Flycatchers, Whinchat, Grasshopper Warbler, Willow Warbler @noahbai-123.bsky.social @jokuwildlife.bsky.social @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Thank you. It certainly was tight!

Had a great 3 hours vismigging along the river on #patch this morning with 349 Mipits, 107 House Martins and 91 Swallows south, and a Corn Bunting east. #UKbirding @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Great to see the Gannet at Grafham Water today, however distant it stayed. Thanks to @grafhamwbirder.bsky.social for getting us on it. @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Spectacular weekend at Spurn for my third #Migfest. Highlights included this phenomenal Phalarope, over 6,500 Mipits counted during my vismig session on Sunday morning, and the great company of both old and new friends. Will definitely be back for more next year! @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social

Nice stopover in Dorset on the way to Cornwall. Highlights were Lulworth Skipper, Scarlet Darter, Clouded Yellow, Red Veined Darter and an Adder.

@david-walsh.bsky.social

Excellent day in Suffolk: started at Walberswick with @DavidWalsh22 for the Zitting Cisticola which obligingly perched, briefly, between song flights, but long enough to allow scope views and a photo. Then went to Hollesley to see the Black Stork which was very confiding.

Some of the other highlights birdwise in the Pyrenees. Rock Bunting, Bearded Vulture, Alpine Accentor, Egyptian Vultures but also Orphean Warbler, Snowfinch, Alpine Chough, Rock Thrush, Citril Finch, Golden Orioles and Bee Eaters.

Lesser Purple Emperor

Apollo

Purple-shot Copper

Léfbvres Ringlet

Some of the butterflies from the Pyrenees. Great selection, brilliant butterflies. Around 70 species.

Wallcreeper from the Pyrenees recently.

Delighted to see Large Blue a couple of weeks ago in Gloucestershire.