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Water is life
2+ Spotted Flycatchers on Gorhambury Estate, St Albans. In willows close to the floodwater pool. Patch year tick. #hertsbirds #PWC2025
06.07.2025 10:14 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Join us at 7.30pm, Tues 17 June, St Stephen Parish Centre AL2 3PJ. FREE meeting, all welcome. Guest speaker Dr Julie Battersby will tell us about toads; there'll be updates on the state of the #RiverVer & plenty of time for sewage, planning, nature & more. riverver.co.uk/open-meeting...
10.06.2025 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Get your boots on, it's still there!
13.05.2025 15:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A steady fortnight of seasonal migrants plus this Pintail today (a personal patch tick), has brought the patch total to a hundred for the year. Not too shabby for an inland #hertsbirds patch, near St Albans. @bglynn500.bsky.social @patchbirding.bsky.social
09.05.2025 11:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Yellow Wagtails aside, times are tough on the patch near St Albans at the moment. Even the Buzzards are turning vegetarian. @patchbirding.bsky.social
26.04.2025 21:13 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That's rather poor form, to say the least. Here's the story of my patch Spring so far - the odd bright spot among a pile of... @patchbirding.bsky.social @bglynn500.bsky.social
21.04.2025 14:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🤍Top garden spotting. It deserves a reply!
13.04.2025 10:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This morning's visit to a West Dorset coastal strip revealed it was alive with Willow Warblers, Chiffchaffs and my first Sedge Warblers & Whitethroats of the year. 3 Wheatears lingering but just two Swallows through. Plus two Shelduck halfway up a hill. @bglynn500.bsky.social @bexbirder.bsky.social
11.04.2025 13:49 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Up in the top bedroom this morning. Can just make out the coast! Nothing other than Chiffchaffs headed your way, so far.
09.04.2025 07:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Good to hear that you are out there. The garden here was pretty good for the locals this morning but not so good for the photographer!
06.04.2025 17:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Out with the old and in with the new today, on my @hertsbirds.bsky.social patch near St Albans. A small flock of Golden Plover (patch year tick) and a final Fieldfare were good to see, while Yellow Wagtail (another year tick) was very welcome. @patchbirding.bsky.social @bglynn500.bsky.social
06.04.2025 17:19 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
First House Martins back to the local colony near St Albans, Herts today. Four appeared at lunchtime. Just for a moment a local Buzzard made me think I was in Cornwall!
@rupertevershed.bsky.social @bglynn500.bsky.social @ukhousemartins.bsky.social @hertsbirds.bsky.social
It seems you need to sit outside more in March to me!
03.04.2025 19:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0And this afternoon, a first garden Swallow of 2025! 🥳
02.04.2025 15:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Good effort! It's all painfully slow in these easterlies. A male Reed Bunting the highlight of the regular garden birds here at the moment.
02.04.2025 06:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Brilliant. Hoopoe next...
27.03.2025 15:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Off patch and birding in West Dorset. Good to catch up with a variety of residents and new arrivals. 25 Cattle Egret (Abbotsbury) Wheatear, 4 Pintail, 2 Sandwich Tern, 4 Gannet and Cirl Bunting all along the coastal strip. Hat tip @bexbirder.bsky.social
21.03.2025 17:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
There's a great deal of enjoyment to be had from an annual garden list and today #71 turned up in the shape of two lowly but distant Greylag Geese also #81 on the local patch. Buzzard next door too. @patchbirding.bsky.social @rupertevershed.bsky.social @bglynn500.bsky.social
12.03.2025 17:13 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
