Tim Jones

Would have been hard to not use a foot to get there...

Monster!

Spring has broken in The Straits! 🌸🦅

The first Black Kites are crossing from Africa, joined by Barn Swallows, House Martins, and majestic White Storks.

Witness the greatest show on earth with our migration tours: www.ingloriousbustards.com

#IngloriousBustards #TheStraits #Migration #Birding

What’s the 2026 predictions?!

Pond Restoration Training: 25th & 26th June 2026 — Freshwater Biological Association Ponds are increasingly being recognised as critical to biodiversity conservation in UK landscapes. This new two-day course will introduce participants to pond restoration science and best practice. Gr...

This @freshwaterbio.bsky.social #pond restoration training course 25th, 26th June is well worth attending. Learn how to restore degraded existing ponds & #ghostponds with Norfolk Ponds Project founders Carl Sayer & Helen Greaves:

www.fba.org.uk/shop/p/pond-...

May I ask how you have ID’d it as halimodendri then?

We’re recruiting at Spurn Bird Observatory 🐦

Head Little Tern Warden + 2 Assistant roles available at Beacon Ponds this season.

Details here 👉 spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news

Do you have any open tail pics of you Lesser Whitethroat? Interested in the halimodendri ID? (Not saying it isn’t one, just curious!) cheers

A very wet day for our @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social Winter Wetlands tour in the Lower Derwent Valley, but these gorgeous Barnacle Geese with 320+!! White-fronted Geese at North Duffield Carrs really brightened our morning. Nice find by Tim Jones
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Bishopthorpe Parish Council want to sell a small wildlife oasis hosting rare wildflowers like Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem to a developer. This field belongs to the people of Bish who cherish its wildlife. Please sign this petition to stop them doing this. Thanks 😊 c.org/syGKBRcGBY

Now at least 380! Quick estimate, someone want to count better from video?

Pulled up to scan a goose flock at North Duffield, could hear WFronts as I was setting up the scope, only to realise whole flock was WFronts, at least 307 with some out of view, also 2 Barnacle Geese, best viewed from along path to Garganey Hide @birdguides.bsky.social @yorkbirding.bsky.social

A group of adults birdwatching at a nature reserve in London.

The School of Urban Birding is about to go LIVE! Learn all the basics of how to become a birder.

Launch on Feb 14th. That's right, its on Valentine's Day - especially for all you bird lovers. 😀❤️🦉

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#DiscoverLondon #BirdWatching #GuidedTours #NatureInTheCity

Donate to Save the Beacon Ponds Little Tern Project, organized by Spurn Bird Obs Without urgent support, the Beacon Ponds Little Tern Project may not be able … Spurn Bird Obs needs your support for Save the Beacon Ponds Little Tern Project

Attention birders! @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social have launched an urgent appeal to protect the Little Tern colony, one of the most successful in the UK. An unexpected funding gap means they need funds sharpish - a few quid goes a long way!

Donate: tinyurl.com/2s3k5exe

Learn more: tinyurl.com/2cnc9br4

Yorkshires only Little Tern colony relies on paid wardens to protect them from predators and disturbance, the team have achieved amazing numbers of fledglings in recent years and it would be a great shame if it doesn’t run this year, much appreciated if you can help out with this funding gap 🙏

Drake Black Scoter off Bambrugh Castle just now with c30 Commons @ntbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social @rossahmed.bsky.social

Is that an assumed repair bill or actual quote?

Anyone know of a good spot to photograph Jays relatively close to York please? 🙏

Ross’s Gull at Swalecliffe

What a way to start the year on my local patch. Landed on the beach for a few minutes then flew off west.

A brilliant bird filled day in @ldvnnr.bsky.social. An afternoon watching a White-tailed Eagle thanks to a phone call from @ldvbirder.bsky.social, preceded by finding 5 Eurasian White-fronted Geese in the vast Greylag herds. LDV hooching with birds, absolutely fantastic. #UKbirding #Birds

The superb juvenile White-tailed Eagle in the @ldvnnr.bsky.social yesterday, looking absolutely massive lumbering around flushing the thousands of Wildfowl and Waders currently on site, unringed/untagged so presumably continental origin @yorkbirding.bsky.social

A Mediterranean Short-toed Lark (Alaudala rufescens) currently just across the Channel near Calais www.faune-france.org/index.php?m_... another species overdue re-entry onto the British List #UKBirding 🪶

The Taiga Bean Goose at Loch Heilen was ringed in E. Finland in July 2020. Usually wintering in S. Sweden, it was sighted in Norway (26th Sept) before Caithness. Full details can be found here submit.cr-birding.org/animals/1417... #CaithnessBirds

Not sure if vid. works on repeat, but anyway this should be one of the juv GNDs on the Stour this week losing its rag with a fish way too big to swallow and hammering it with its beak. #BirdArt

The Isles of Scilly Wildlife Trust is looking for a manager for their seabird recovery programme. www.wildlifetrusts.org/jobs/project...

This is cool. Gotta love a Jack Snipe #motus #migration #ukbirding

It has taken a bit of legwork to get this GW Egret at Alton Water decoded (well done to Laurence Potter for tip-off that we had a bangled one there). Turns out it is from NE Poland, border with Lithuania. I've seen a couple of reports from Belarus, so fits the pattern. #UKBirding

Apparent Pine Bunting perched amongst Elder twigs.

Apparent Pine Bunting perched amongst Elder twigs.

Pine Bunting seen briefly with mobile Yellowhammer flock at St Aldhelm's Head Quarry at 1030hrs & not relocated as of 1250hrs. Ltd parking available in Renscombe car park, otherwise park in Worth Mattravers village car park and walk down, staying out of private fields @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

🌿 Love wildlife and winter landscapes?
We’re looking for two Winter Volunteers to help care for Spurn Bird Observatory and its beautiful surroundings this season.

Be part of something wild. 🕊️

👉 Learn more & apply: spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news/winter-...

NEW JOB in #ornithology and #conservation promoting the amazing work of @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social across global #flyways: buff.ly/NNQNpRs