Jon Heath

A low carbon lifer! Excellent work 😄

Nice one John 😄

Great to see RBBP data being used in work led by @btobirds.bsky.social that improves our knowledge on the status of Little Egrets in the UK… there are more than we thought!

Hi Joe, the problem with Ferruginous Ducks is there have been several roaming escaped birds from wildfowl collections. So it is now very difficult to know if a bird is genuinely wild or not. Either way it's still a nice bird to have on patch 😄

Nice! Started well, it will be interesting to see how many you can get

Thanks Rudy, I've been enjoying all your recent colourful bird photos!

Glad you saw it Noah. Are you doing a local year list for Cambridge?

Drake Ferruginous Duck at Milton CP

Drake Scaup at Milton CP

Female Goosander, a patch tick at Cambridge Research Park

White-fronted Geese at Cambridge Research Park

A drake Ferruginous Duck at Milton CP today was a real surprise, whatever its origin, and topped off an excellent few days of local birding @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social #ukbirding

A drake Scaup asleep

Drake Ferruginous Duck

A four Aythya lunchbreak - as well as Tufted Duck and Pochard, drake Scaup and Ferruginous Duck at Milton Country Park. Top find by @jonheath.bsky.social #UKBirding

Great find! Sounds like pretty good birding

An excellent #patch tick with 2 Greater White-fronted Geese showing well at the Cambridge Research Park this morning. Many thanks to @jonheath.bsky.social for finding. An adult female Goosander also present #birds #PWC2026 #photography @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Cheers Matt 😊

drake Scaup

small ice-free area on Todd's Lake

A drake Scaup late this afternoon on a small ice free area of Todd's Lake at Milton CP. After being well out of finding form recently it was nice to get something good on patch for a change @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social #ukbirding

Great photo, really nice light 👌

Indeed it must be the same across the country. Some of the scarce winter visitors and passage migrants are now less than annual. At least we are having the best Goose winter for a long time!

I think anything above 190/200 and you've done very well. Getting near the 210/220 mark is more difficult than it was 10 or so years ago

Happy New Year! Some of the best birds seen and favourite pics from locally around Cambs this year. One of my highlights was recording over 100 species in April at my Tev Fen patch, though the habitat there and then interesting birds soon dried up @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Makes a bit of change from local birding!

Black-winged Kite in flight

Black-winged Kite eating vole

Eastern Black Redstart

Some cold birders optimistically seawatching at Sheringham

Great day out in Norfolk yesterday. After a bit of a wait the Black-winged Kite started hunting at Ludham Bridge and quickly caught a vole. Later on the Eastern Black Redstart showed brilliantly in the winter sunshine at Sheringham @mrm27.bsky.social #ukbirding

Good visit to Norfolk today, 30/12/25, for the Black-winged Kite with @jonheath.bsky.social and a nameless friend, good views, then a bit of a seawatch at Sheringham with the E Black Redstart as an incentive, finishing with some nice wild swans. #birds 🪶🐦

Hopefully it will follow the Swans deeper into the Fens into Cambs 😅

Climate-driven range contractions in species like Twite and Citril Finch can't be fixed by releases www.birdguides.com/news/citril-... #Ornithology ##UKBirding 🪶

Absolutely shocking.

We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.

We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.

A flock of Bewick's Swans by Ben Cherry/WWT

📉 Our new paper shows Bewick’s Swan numbers in NW/NE Europe have fallen to ~12,900 birds - a 56.7% decline since 1995, with further losses predicted by 2026 unless survival or breeding success improves. Flyway-wide conservation is urgent. 🦢 Download paper > tidsskrift.dk/Wildfowl/art... #Ornithology

Thanks Rachel! Really nice to see one so close

1st-winter Red-necked Grebe still showing really well at Fen Drayton Lakes today, often diving between submerged tree branches on the eastern side of Ferry Lagoon. The last one at this site was over 10 years ago @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Sorry to hear Steve. 16 years, what a great life he must have had and no doubt a decent bird list!

There must be some particularly good Shoveler food just out of reach at Milton CP as most of the over-wintering birds there have switched to a diving feeding technique @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

Photo montage of Tinamus resonans sp. nov., a new species of tinamou from the montane forests of the Serra do Divisor, western Amazonia, Brazil. The species is distinguished by a unique combination of plumage pattern, vocal repertoire, and ecological characteristics, including a conspicuous dark slate facial mask, vivid rufous-cinnamon underparts, and a uniform brownish-gray back. Its vocalizations are remarkable, consisting of long and powerful songs that echo strikingly across the steep montane slopes, producing a characteristic resonant effect. The species was documented exclusively at higher elevations within a transitional zone between submontane and stunted forests, where the understory is densely structured by root mats. A preliminary population estimate, based on field detections and spatial extrapolation, suggests approximately 2,106 individuals restricted to the Serra do Divisor massif. Although no immediate anthropogenic pressures were observed within its range, the species may be highly vulnerable to climate change and to proposed infrastructure projects that threaten the integrity of this federally protected region. The discovery of T. resonans highlights the biological uniqueness of the Serra do Divisor, reinforces its status as a center of montane endemism, and underscores the critical importance of maintaining its long-term conservation.

Huge News from the Western Amazon: it's the year 2025 and we are still describing entirely new, strikingly-distinctive large-bodied bird species! Behold Tinamus resonans sp. nov. the Slaty-masked Tinamou mapress.com/zt/article/v... #Ornithology @tetzoo.bsky.social 🪶

This time, the washes were ready! 🦢✅
After a 570km U-turn north to Aberdeenshire, likely due to low water at the Ouse Washes, the same swan has migrated south again & arrived to restored, higher levels. A real-world example of landscape-scale habitat assessment by migratory birds.