Genetic Identification of Birds - The Aberdeen Wildlife DNA Lab Help Martin Collinson raise money to support University of Aberdeen Development Trust SCIO

Thank you to everyone who continues to contribute to our fundraiser. Recent greatest hits from samples sent in by ringers and birders for ID include an Atlas Flycatcher in Spain, and a Ménétries's Warbler in Poland!

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05.10.2025 10:58 — 👍 35    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

My favourite seawatch site up there was Rua Reidh lighthouse

23.09.2025 19:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was a bit late to the sabines experience in Port Talbot but was rewarded by the best birding for me in a long while.

20.09.2025 13:59 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A contender for GBC annual report Rhos. Cracking photo

13.09.2025 17:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

3 spotted flycatchers at Southerndown this morning found by Dave Ripley.

08.09.2025 13:52 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A pleasant 1/2 hour with med gulls on Porthcawl Seafront this afternoon.

03.09.2025 20:16 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I got my annual puffin fix yesterday. I am too crocked for Skomer steps so I did an 1 1/2 cruise from Martins Haven. Lovely and cool on the water.

12.07.2025 11:52 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“If someone says it’s raining and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out the fucking window and find out which is true.”

This principle should run through journalism like the words in a stick of rock. Yet somehow, day after day, it seems to evade the BBC's finest minds.

01.07.2025 07:59 — 👍 919    🔁 244    💬 22    📌 12

Last week in Dorset. Distant WTE, common tern, sandwich tern with sand eel for juvie and a corn bunting

18.06.2025 15:10 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brilliant cruise. The birds turned up on cue and the explanatory chat was interesting. We did not get soaked or frozen either!

11.06.2025 21:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Black tailed godwits, knot and ruff at WWT Llanelli yesterday

20.05.2025 20:03 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Enjoyable morning in Cowbridge Gallary. Photos and paintings by Paul Dunn from Glamorgan Heritage Coast. Landscapes butterflies and reptiles plus auroras

23.04.2025 12:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I was sitting on boardwalk this morning and cuckoo called then flew over me.

16.04.2025 15:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Black redstart in my Bridgend garden

08.04.2025 13:32 — 👍 21    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Porthcawl Seafront at high tide this morning.

01.04.2025 15:56 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0