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RED-TAILED (TURKISTAN) SHRIKE AT DUNWICH HEATH 5.10.25
Red-tailed (Turkistan) Shrike at Dunwich Heath 5.10.2025
Muppet forgot her digiscoping adapter when twitching so hand-held digiscoping was necessary. #ntdunwichheath #redtailedshrike lovely bird when it sat up on top. Bridge camera images were OK too. Saw the Bempton bird but this was local enough to get to and safe walking too
05.10.2025 15:35 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gosh, what a mystery. Whatever could have happened to them?
No bodies, no tags, no prosecutions, no accountability, no deterrent. This will continue.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/29/t...
Every new building in Wales could be a home for Swifts – if we make Swift bricks mandatory.
‼️The debate is in the Senedd is tomorrow. ‼️
Contact your local MS today and tell them how important it is to protect Swifts. Every voice counts!
Drake Garganey in reeds
Female Garganey with the male upending
A pair of Garganey at #StodmarshNNR right in front of the hide #britishbirding #kentbirding while bittern booms and nightingale sings
17.04.2025 18:03 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A mini break to North Wales last weekend. No joy on a known lek due to a father&son having hiked right across the centre just as I arrived! Got what I think is a female black grouse (wingbar?) on a recently cut/burned bit of moor. Goshawk nearby too. Opinions please. Bad pics!
14.04.2025 08:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is also a problem in woodlands, where people often take their dogs to brush them, leaving the fur lying around for birds to collect. Along with poisoning ponds & streams with pet treatments, and disturbance/predation by dogs off leads.
27.01.2025 11:53 — 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0County tick at Broadstairs this evening. Good views - bad video - Scops Owl - apparently the first for Kent since 1971... before my twitching career started!
28.12.2024 00:58 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
Slightly better pics sorted out. Given how incredibly flighty this little guy was, I am amazed how a bridge camera can get ok record shots
24.12.2024 23:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just got the news of the Yellow Warbler at New Hythe before I left work. Thanks for getting news out so fast or I'd have been tied up till boxing day. Not best but most interesting back of camera shots. #ukbirding my no. 473 before I lose some the lumping next year
24.12.2024 15:25 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Sewage spills in Gloucestershire’s rivers, and huge dividends paid while Thames Water are in debt, make reform of the water industry urgent | Paul Hodgkinson
@paulcotswolds.bsky.social
Drizzling and windy. Stuck in an office. Then a red kite chooses the little wood outside my office window for its morning soar about. Birds make grey days gorgeous 😊❤
10.12.2024 10:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The crew at Elmley are usually hot on who rings what. Not sure if they are on here yet. Still twitter or Facebook
04.12.2024 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fury over do-not-swim warning for Deal as water quality level downgraded to ‘poor’ by Environment Agency
A do-not-swim warning at one of Kent’s most popular beaches is “nothing short of devastating”, say furious residents.
Day off to Dungeness and a Hume's in the Obs garden was lively. Sat still for a second long enough to get this though 😊 I'll take it!
03.12.2024 14:15 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Green aurora between clouds with The Plough stars showing
Green and pink aurora through clouds
Taiga Bean Geese with Canada Geese
Taiga Bean Geese with Canada Geese
Quick escape to use up leave & my second Northern lights encounter. More green than pink. Bit of birding too as always - Taiga Beans at Slamannan. Otter and mountain hare seen - low cloud hid ptarmigan so far... rain tomorrow so sea-duck seems best bet
09.11.2024 22:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📌
21.10.2024 11:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
First clear evening I could go out since this comet turned up. Various attempts to photograph it but the camera wouldn't take long enough exposure. Showed ok on the screen so phone pic of that instead. Where there's a will...
19.10.2024 21:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Finally got to see an aurora. Not as great as some photos I've seen but this was North Kent just 51°N and with light pollution from offshore turbine farm and Essex! Previous attempts all wrong cloud cover or just not able to get out to clearer views 🌈🌌
11.10.2024 07:41 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
