Stew Hinley

14 Whoopers, counted in the moonlight, just gone south over my new garden. Can’t sleep for some reason 🔝…

98 Pinks over head just now will, I’m sure, be my final garden tick before moving house in 2 weeks time @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Some wader portraits in this evening's nice light at Redcar @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social #birds

and still attracting waders, with two Ruff dropping in there early evening 😊

Still editing... and playing with light 🙂 @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

Some portraits of Small Coppers from today @teesbirds.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social

Clouded Yellow taken locally this afternoon. Upperparts were cream, rather than yellow.. helice ? @teesbirds.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social

Still editing photos from my last holiday... Dad, Mother and cute baby Tufted Coquettes #birds

A couple more of Margrove's Pec Sand... @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social #birds

This evening's Margrove treat was this Greenshank. Pec, Ruff and LRP also still present. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social #birds

Margrove continues its purple patch... Pec Sand from this afternoon and a showy Ruff... @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social #birds

A couple of butterflies from Teesmouth today @teesbirds.bsky.social

Nice water pic, with a #birds of course 😀

That would be great thanks. I’ll start using the hashtag from now on

Margrove Ponds still looking good this evening... showy Dunlin, Common Sand, Kingfisher and two Grasshopper Warblers. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

Interesting Cairan. The LRP was there yesterday too. I could only get to 16 CSands but they were in and out of the reeds a lot. This morning, there were no C. Sands at all… maybe a different 6?

Hadn’t realise I’d only ever seen three Redwings 😊

I’ve heard people talking about 4 different birds around at the moment

Is the ‘Med Gull’ half of this pair not a hybrid itself?

Congrats Steph 😊

Marching on together 😊

Are there not official ‘guidelines’ though?

Today's challenge was to try and photograph Tufted Coquette. Of all the world's birds, only Cuba's Bee Hummingbird is smaller. To add to the degree of difficulty, they're absolute dynamos that never keep still. Anyway.... 6 hours later...

An evening boat trip at Caroni Swamp added a few dashes of colour to the trip....

Visited the wonderful Yerette gardens in Trinidad today. Lots of Hummers present (I saw 13 species including 7 new) and, as always, fun times trying to photographthem, in flight...

So on Trinidad mow and my quest for new Hummers starts again tomorrow... Meanwhile, here's my other two new ones from Tobago. Male and Female Black-throated Mango and Rufous-breasted Hermit.

Moving onto Trinidad today in search of more Hummingbirds. In the meantime, some other stuff from Tobago....

Visited a garden today renowned for attracting White-tailed Saberwings, in an effort to upgrade my pics to include flight shots...

Today's offering is Copper-rumped, which was my first new hummer of the trip. Suffers a lot from bullying, especially from the very aggressive Ruby Topaz, so it doesn't hang around long... making it a tricky one to photograph.

Ruby Topaz must win for appearance changing amongst birds. A dull dark-chocolate with a chestnut tail 99% of the time, that transforms into one of the most beautiful birds ever, at the flick of a switch. It's brief and hard to capture, as if hummer pics aren't hard enough! My efforts...