As a birder with 90% hearing loss, Merlin is indispensable for me. You just need to use it with a little bit of common sense and not take each match as gospel.

Hooded Crow flying

Hooded Crow

Grey Wagtail

Hooded Crow west at #Sidestrand this morning . Also Spoonbill, Marsh Harrier, Grey wagtail and other bits to keep the interest. Hoody with nice clean underparts down to the vent/undertail coverts. Once a common sight in Norfolk in winter but alas no more. #ukbirding #norfolkbirding 🪶#vismig

Western Cattle Egret

Tundra Bean Geese

Tundra Bean Geese

European White fronted Goose

Productive day heading out in to east Norfolk for work this morning - Random pair of Cattle Egret next to the road at Worstead, then some handsome Tundra Bean Geese & European White-fronted geese with about 250 Pinks near Hickling. #Norfolkbirding #UKbirding 🪶

One of 2 Brambling currently frequenting our garden feeder here this week. #norfolkbirding

Couple of the less regular wildfowl around the TG23 square this weekend, with 2 adult European White-fronted goose on Hungry Hill (3rd day today) and this female Mandarin at Gimingham Lakes
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Had this bird off Whitby/ Scarborough in August 2012. Could conceivably be the same bird? I wonder if bill pattern can change with age?

If you told me when I was a kid I would be able to watch wild otters a few miles from where I live, I wouldn't believe you - they were near mythical in East Anglia. #otters #wildlifeuk

Russian White-fronted goose Anser albifrons

Russian White-fronted Goose. Always a treat to this species in our corner of Norfolk where they are generally very scarce, being away from their preferred wide-stretching grazing land. Such a dapper looking goose too! #norfolkbirds 🪶

2 Little Auk, GND and Little gull the only notables for me from Trimingham this morning - surf was definitely up! #norfolkbirding #seabirds #ukbirding

I was gutted not to see any of these gems when we went for a short pre- Christmas break to Helsinki a few years ago.

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Keeping you warm at night - t @themarshtit.bsky.social

Ah yes! That's much better. Cheers Tim👍

Ok, so how do I get rid of all the cat posts on my ‘discover’ feed on here, I’ve even put block the word cat but every other post is a bloody moggy!

One of Sidestrand's little foibles, the Green Woodpeckers appear to stare longingly out to sea! 🤣 #birds 🪶

First seen as an adult in Feb 2019, our local Little Gull has once again returned for the winter to Hungry Hill in Norfolk, which is an unremarkable collection of random arable fields. I don't know why it keeps coming back, just glad it does! The worlds smallest gull species. #birds 🪶

Added mine from 1979, I’m up to 2014 now - best way to spend the long winter nights.

Not a common bird in the UK, and this was by far the most confiding one I've seen.

The ridiculously tame Eurasian Hoopoe on an urban garden lawn in North Walsham, Norfolk UK #bird 🪶

Siberian Stonechat Cromer October 5th. #bird 🪶#birding

Black-capped Petrel. This endangered pelagic bird breeds on a few Caribbean islands but ranges north into the Atlantic off of Florida where this one was seen in the Sargasso Sea #birds #birding #seabirds #pelagic

Crested Caracara

Crested Caracara. Distinctive raptor of open fields in Florida, I invariably see this species in pairs.

Barred Owl

Barred Owls often hunt during the daylight hours, this was one of two watched hunting from branches/snags in Florida #birds

Superb 👏👏👏

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Gull-fest mid- week with a boat trip out of Wells, motoring as far Overstrand and back a few miles offshore. Up to 15 Caspian Gulls, 6 YLG + Bonxies, Arctic Skua and a juv Puffin. Unfortunately devoid of tube-noses but a great day never the less

Pied Flycatcher

This Pied Flycatcher flew in over the fields and my head to land in the wood at Sidestrand this week and started preening, having just crossed the North Sea - still amazes me what this little sprites can do!

Although it felt like After the Lord Mayors Parade this morning, a nice scattering of migrants at Sidestrand with 2 Redstart, 2 Pied fly and singles of Garden, Reed & Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Swift, Wheatear in off, and the sun on my back. Best of the autumn so far.