Eddie Bathgate

Great to see these 12 Swift boxes up on Langer Primary School in Felixstowe, they will be switching on the 240V call system early May to attract in the non-breeding Swifts looking for a future place to nest. We have more Sets to donate @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social

The Bawdsey Manor sea defences were taking a pasting this afternoon, Suffolk.

Suffolk Bird Group have these excellent talks next Thursday 29th, Save Our Suffolk Swifts will be there with nest boxes, we can have a swift Swift chat for guidance in a break. @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

Lost the green beam, now a rosé glow

The sky is beaming over Woodbridge

No joy with finding any owl species at Shingle Street this afternoon but happened upon a big mixed flock of mostly Fieldfare with a few Redwing too @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

@wheatear9.bsky.social And breathe… what a match

A nicely timed low tide this morning in Poole Harbour, before the dog walkers & water sports brigade. Many Oystercatchers & Bar-tailed Godwits with Brent Geese, Sanderlings & Turnstones the best of the rest.

Revered and reviled, cats in the crosshairs on Christmas Island On a speck of land in the Indian Ocean, one of the world's most ambitious wars is being waged against feral cats. But not everyone is celebrating.

An interesting Australian article about feral cats in an island. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

In just one day, volunteers found hundreds of birds that crashed into GTA buildings | CBC News More than 300 birds that had crashed into windows across the Greater Toronto Area were found last Wednesday by a volunteer-based organization that finds and keeps records on bird safety. Most did not ...

An interesting Canadian article about migrating birds crashing into windows
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Going extinct ‘right under our noses’: the quiet plight of Australia’s rarest bird of prey Restricted now to the tropical north, the mysterious red goshawk is fast disappearing as a result of climate change and habitat loss

An interesting Red Goshawk article here www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Still 3 pairs of Swifts in nest boxes here. One in a camera box with 2 young, they relaid after an intruder caused a fight. The other 2 pairs are new, in nest boxes not used previously. I can hear multiple young chirping in each from eggs laid early July. 6 pairs bred in total, 3 pairs in 2024

All was going so well with my Swifts, this box is newly used and now paired up. We’ve had a clueless Swift circling this evening, trying to work out how to land, crashing into the brickwork many times. It has now ended up in with the pair and is getting a beating from both.

As of 2pm this afternoon this Swift nest box now has a pair getting to know each other. This nest box hasn’t hosted Swifts before, did have a wasp nest inside though last year. The neighbouring nest box was used and that pair have yet to arrrive, I’m hoping they still will and they aren’t these ones

This is my second Swift nest box to be colonised, now a pair in there re-establishing their bonds. 6 Swifts screaming around the house this evening without calls being played, which is very good for this early in the Swift season here @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @sosswifts.bsky.social

2nd Swift into a box last night, a box not used by Swifts before. Last year the box hosted a wasp nest and had to be cleared out in the winter. I wouldn’t have known either Swift was there without cameras, sneaky blighters. @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social

My first Swift has returned back here to a nest box used last year, it was my second of my boxes to be taken up. Now playing The Cramps, ‘Let’s Get Fluffed Up’ very loudly in celebration. @sosswifts.bsky.social

An adult Swift prospecting a new nest box, one of many installed around the Suffolk

Save Our Suffolk Swifts have a full project update talk next Thursday 24th April in Hintlesham Community Centre IP8 3PS at 7:30pm. 231 Suffolk boxes were used in 2022 & 263 in 2023. How many in 2024? @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social Suffolk Swift lovers are most welcome.

Trap is fired up!

Thrilled to see an article on our project in this weekends EADT! @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #suffolkbirding

We also still have a small number of free nest cups for Dedham Vale NL - please get in touch asap if you have a nearby House martin colony and you are interested in free nest cups !

Whimbrels, Sanderling, Bar-tailed Godwits, Ruff and Red-breasted Mergansers the best of a rising tide off Sandbanks this afternoon. Turnstones and Oystercatchers boosted the numbers and entertained in miserable weather. #PooleHarbour

This is a lovely write up, he was a super gent.

That was @wildlifegig.bsky.social, near Stonner Pt. I’m looking forward to next WeBS

Hopes second-ever discovery of night parrot egg will aid conservation Researchers hope the discovery of a night parrot egg in WA, second only to one found in Queensland, means the once-thought-extinct bird's population is beginning to recover.

An interesting Australian Night Parrot article here #WorldBirding www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Help needed to save the last cockatoos restricted to this region The deadly Wangary bushfire 20 years ago appears to have been the final nail in the coffin for yellow-tailed black cockatoos in South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. Ecologists are calling for urgent acti...

An interesting Australian article here; conserving Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos #Conservation www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Alabama refuge is a paradise for birders and thousands of migrating sandhill cranes Flooded cornfields near the Tennessee River in northern Alabama are a paradise for birders who flock to see tens of thousands of migrating sandhill cranes every winter.

An interesting US article here apnews.com/article/sand...

Plovers in a dangerous time: Endangered bird may be making a comeback on N.B. shores | CBC News Kouchibouguac National Park welcomed six pairs of piping plovers in 2024, which resulted in 16 fledglings — the highest annual production in seven years.

An interesting Canadian article here on conserving beach nesting Piping Plovers; human activity and dogs off leads on the main issues there. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Billionaire couple focus their fortune on conservation — and profit In the middle of Tasmania sits a 5,000-hectare property once used for sheep grazing. But when the sheep farmers left, an unlikely buyer moved in.

An interesting Australian article here #Conservation www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

Super icy stroll today up the Deben, once the freezing fog lifted. Colour ringed Avocets, Kingfisher, Bar-tailed Godwit and Spotted Redshank the best amongst a nice selection of waders and wildfowl. #SuffolkBirding #UKBirding @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social