Casual Birder Podcast
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Sharing the joy of watching wild birds. Official podcast account. Host: Suzy (She/Her). IG: CasualBirderPodcast. Hampshire, UK
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New Episode!
Dale Forbes shares how his curiosity and desire for discovery have shaped his approach to birding.
He also reveals his perspective on enjoying nature, emphasizing the importance of finding your own path to connect with the natural world.
casualbirder.com/episode145
Dale Forbes shares how his curiosity and desire for discovery have shaped his approach to birding.
He also reveals his perspective on enjoying nature, emphasizing the importance of finding your own path to connect with the natural world.
casualbirder.com/episode145
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, in Cambridgeshire:
1. Beautiful male Northern Pintail
2. Two Crows bathing at the lake side
3. Great Egret flying low over the water
4. Raven calling
5. Golden Plover flying in a ‘v’ overhead
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Mine, in Cambridgeshire:
1. Beautiful male Northern Pintail
2. Two Crows bathing at the lake side
3. Great Egret flying low over the water
4. Raven calling
5. Golden Plover flying in a ‘v’ overhead
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November 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, in Cambridgeshire:
1. Beautiful male Northern Pintail
2. Two Crows bathing at the lake side
3. Great Egret flying low over the water
4. Raven calling
5. Golden Plover flying in a ‘v’ overhead
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Mine, in Cambridgeshire:
1. Beautiful male Northern Pintail
2. Two Crows bathing at the lake side
3. Great Egret flying low over the water
4. Raven calling
5. Golden Plover flying in a ‘v’ overhead
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, in Cambridgeshire:
1. First of year Cattle Egrets
2. Common Cranes flying in towards dusk
3. Big flock of Fieldfare chattering overhead
4. Surprise sighting of a Bittern in flight
5. Huge numbers of Lapwing taking flight
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Mine, in Cambridgeshire:
1. First of year Cattle Egrets
2. Common Cranes flying in towards dusk
3. Big flock of Fieldfare chattering overhead
4. Surprise sighting of a Bittern in flight
5. Huge numbers of Lapwing taking flight
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November 16, 2025 at 10:12 AM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, in Cambridgeshire:
1. First of year Cattle Egrets
2. Common Cranes flying in towards dusk
3. Big flock of Fieldfare chattering overhead
4. Surprise sighting of a Bittern in flight
5. Huge numbers of Lapwing taking flight
🪶
Mine, in Cambridgeshire:
1. First of year Cattle Egrets
2. Common Cranes flying in towards dusk
3. Big flock of Fieldfare chattering overhead
4. Surprise sighting of a Bittern in flight
5. Huge numbers of Lapwing taking flight
🪶
New Episode!
Dale Forbes shares how his curiosity and desire for discovery have shaped his approach to birding.
He also reveals his perspective on enjoying nature, emphasizing the importance of finding your own path to connect with the natural world.
casualbirder.com/episode145
Dale Forbes shares how his curiosity and desire for discovery have shaped his approach to birding.
He also reveals his perspective on enjoying nature, emphasizing the importance of finding your own path to connect with the natural world.
casualbirder.com/episode145
November 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
New Episode!
Dale Forbes shares how his curiosity and desire for discovery have shaped his approach to birding.
He also reveals his perspective on enjoying nature, emphasizing the importance of finding your own path to connect with the natural world.
casualbirder.com/episode145
Dale Forbes shares how his curiosity and desire for discovery have shaped his approach to birding.
He also reveals his perspective on enjoying nature, emphasizing the importance of finding your own path to connect with the natural world.
casualbirder.com/episode145
Another from my Australian vacation last year: a Pacific Gull eating a crab.
This large gull can be identified by a dark back, heavy bill with a red spot on both mandibles, and a black band on the tail.
Seen at Adventure Bay, #tasmania
#wildoz #Ausbirds #australianbirds #ozbirds 🪶
This large gull can be identified by a dark back, heavy bill with a red spot on both mandibles, and a black band on the tail.
Seen at Adventure Bay, #tasmania
#wildoz #Ausbirds #australianbirds #ozbirds 🪶
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Another from my Australian vacation last year: a Pacific Gull eating a crab.
This large gull can be identified by a dark back, heavy bill with a red spot on both mandibles, and a black band on the tail.
Seen at Adventure Bay, #tasmania
#wildoz #Ausbirds #australianbirds #ozbirds 🪶
This large gull can be identified by a dark back, heavy bill with a red spot on both mandibles, and a black band on the tail.
Seen at Adventure Bay, #tasmania
#wildoz #Ausbirds #australianbirds #ozbirds 🪶
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New blog post.
This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn.
You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post.
www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn.
You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post.
www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 AM
New blog post.
This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn.
You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post.
www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
This week, @marycolwell1 gave the eulogy to the Slender-billed Curlew at the AEWA meeting of parties in Bonn.
You can now read the eulogy on our new blog post.
www.curlewaction.org/the-bird-wit...
It’s almost a year since I visited Australia.
I’ve been rewatching the videos I filmed and will share my faves with you.
Here is a magical moment: a female Superb Fairywren bathing in raindrops on a fern.
- Mount Field National Park, Tasmania
#australia #fairywren
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I’ve been rewatching the videos I filmed and will share my faves with you.
Here is a magical moment: a female Superb Fairywren bathing in raindrops on a fern.
- Mount Field National Park, Tasmania
#australia #fairywren
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November 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
It’s almost a year since I visited Australia.
I’ve been rewatching the videos I filmed and will share my faves with you.
Here is a magical moment: a female Superb Fairywren bathing in raindrops on a fern.
- Mount Field National Park, Tasmania
#australia #fairywren
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I’ve been rewatching the videos I filmed and will share my faves with you.
Here is a magical moment: a female Superb Fairywren bathing in raindrops on a fern.
- Mount Field National Park, Tasmania
#australia #fairywren
🪶
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, from my garden:
1. Jay burying an acorn in a flowerbed
2. Hearing migrating Redwings call at night
3. Bullfinch eating rowan berries
4. Robin visiting window feeder
5. Magpie on my windowsill trying to get to the window feeder
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Mine, from my garden:
1. Jay burying an acorn in a flowerbed
2. Hearing migrating Redwings call at night
3. Bullfinch eating rowan berries
4. Robin visiting window feeder
5. Magpie on my windowsill trying to get to the window feeder
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November 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, from my garden:
1. Jay burying an acorn in a flowerbed
2. Hearing migrating Redwings call at night
3. Bullfinch eating rowan berries
4. Robin visiting window feeder
5. Magpie on my windowsill trying to get to the window feeder
🪶
Mine, from my garden:
1. Jay burying an acorn in a flowerbed
2. Hearing migrating Redwings call at night
3. Bullfinch eating rowan berries
4. Robin visiting window feeder
5. Magpie on my windowsill trying to get to the window feeder
🪶
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, from my garden:
1. Wren bathing in one of the bird baths
2. Robin singing a sub-song
& in Sussex
3. First of year Corn Bunting
4. Lovely view of 3 Ravens low overhead
5. Heard a Yellow-browed Warbler (now I want to see one!)
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Mine, from my garden:
1. Wren bathing in one of the bird baths
2. Robin singing a sub-song
& in Sussex
3. First of year Corn Bunting
4. Lovely view of 3 Ravens low overhead
5. Heard a Yellow-browed Warbler (now I want to see one!)
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November 2, 2025 at 8:58 AM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, from my garden:
1. Wren bathing in one of the bird baths
2. Robin singing a sub-song
& in Sussex
3. First of year Corn Bunting
4. Lovely view of 3 Ravens low overhead
5. Heard a Yellow-browed Warbler (now I want to see one!)
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Mine, from my garden:
1. Wren bathing in one of the bird baths
2. Robin singing a sub-song
& in Sussex
3. First of year Corn Bunting
4. Lovely view of 3 Ravens low overhead
5. Heard a Yellow-browed Warbler (now I want to see one!)
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It’s the 1st of November! Here in Hampshire it’s a calm and dry morning, after a stormy night!
The first bird I heard was a Robin, singing in the first light.
The first bird I saw was a Woodpigeon sitting on a neighbour’s roof.
What was your 1st bird of the month?
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The first bird I heard was a Robin, singing in the first light.
The first bird I saw was a Woodpigeon sitting on a neighbour’s roof.
What was your 1st bird of the month?
🪶
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In the upper half of the graphic grey/blue text which reads: #1stBirdOfTheMonth
NOVEMBER [This word is in orange text and capitals for emphasis]
What was the first bird you heard or saw today?
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November 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
It’s the 1st of November! Here in Hampshire it’s a calm and dry morning, after a stormy night!
The first bird I heard was a Robin, singing in the first light.
The first bird I saw was a Woodpigeon sitting on a neighbour’s roof.
What was your 1st bird of the month?
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The first bird I heard was a Robin, singing in the first light.
The first bird I saw was a Woodpigeon sitting on a neighbour’s roof.
What was your 1st bird of the month?
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, in East Sussex:
1. Seeing a Peregrine catch a pigeon
2.Song Thrush, Robin, Goldfinch & House Sparrow bathing together in a puddle
3. Ravens
4. First of season Redwing
And in my garden:
5. Robin putting leaves in the nest box
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Mine, in East Sussex:
1. Seeing a Peregrine catch a pigeon
2.Song Thrush, Robin, Goldfinch & House Sparrow bathing together in a puddle
3. Ravens
4. First of season Redwing
And in my garden:
5. Robin putting leaves in the nest box
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October 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, in East Sussex:
1. Seeing a Peregrine catch a pigeon
2.Song Thrush, Robin, Goldfinch & House Sparrow bathing together in a puddle
3. Ravens
4. First of season Redwing
And in my garden:
5. Robin putting leaves in the nest box
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Mine, in East Sussex:
1. Seeing a Peregrine catch a pigeon
2.Song Thrush, Robin, Goldfinch & House Sparrow bathing together in a puddle
3. Ravens
4. First of season Redwing
And in my garden:
5. Robin putting leaves in the nest box
🪶
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Robin bathing after dark - seen on wildlife camera
& in Dorset:
2. Swallows appearing to bathe in a calm sea
3. Gannets diving amongst leaping Tuna
4. Flying Buzzard showing talons to a Raven
5. Dust-bathing House Sparrows
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Mine:
1. Robin bathing after dark - seen on wildlife camera
& in Dorset:
2. Swallows appearing to bathe in a calm sea
3. Gannets diving amongst leaping Tuna
4. Flying Buzzard showing talons to a Raven
5. Dust-bathing House Sparrows
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October 19, 2025 at 10:39 AM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Robin bathing after dark - seen on wildlife camera
& in Dorset:
2. Swallows appearing to bathe in a calm sea
3. Gannets diving amongst leaping Tuna
4. Flying Buzzard showing talons to a Raven
5. Dust-bathing House Sparrows
🪶
Mine:
1. Robin bathing after dark - seen on wildlife camera
& in Dorset:
2. Swallows appearing to bathe in a calm sea
3. Gannets diving amongst leaping Tuna
4. Flying Buzzard showing talons to a Raven
5. Dust-bathing House Sparrows
🪶
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, in Dorset:
1. A beautiful Little Owl
2. Black Redstart - UK species number 200 of my year!
3. Big flock of Golden Plover
4. Short-eared Owl flying overhead
5. Pelagic birding trip with a fab mix of seabird species
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Mine, in Dorset:
1. A beautiful Little Owl
2. Black Redstart - UK species number 200 of my year!
3. Big flock of Golden Plover
4. Short-eared Owl flying overhead
5. Pelagic birding trip with a fab mix of seabird species
🪶
October 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, in Dorset:
1. A beautiful Little Owl
2. Black Redstart - UK species number 200 of my year!
3. Big flock of Golden Plover
4. Short-eared Owl flying overhead
5. Pelagic birding trip with a fab mix of seabird species
🪶
Mine, in Dorset:
1. A beautiful Little Owl
2. Black Redstart - UK species number 200 of my year!
3. Big flock of Golden Plover
4. Short-eared Owl flying overhead
5. Pelagic birding trip with a fab mix of seabird species
🪶
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It is 7 years ago today my first Podcast interview on @casualbirderpod.bsky.social was released, you can listen here casualbirder.com/episode48
October 8, 2025 at 12:27 PM
It is 7 years ago today my first Podcast interview on @casualbirderpod.bsky.social was released, you can listen here casualbirder.com/episode48
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Close views of a Buzzard on the verge as I drove by
2. Rooks and Jackdaws flying to their roost
3. Blue Tit bathing in the birdbath
4. Long-tailed Tits calling in the garden
5. Jays calling, looking for acorns
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Mine:
1. Close views of a Buzzard on the verge as I drove by
2. Rooks and Jackdaws flying to their roost
3. Blue Tit bathing in the birdbath
4. Long-tailed Tits calling in the garden
5. Jays calling, looking for acorns
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October 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Close views of a Buzzard on the verge as I drove by
2. Rooks and Jackdaws flying to their roost
3. Blue Tit bathing in the birdbath
4. Long-tailed Tits calling in the garden
5. Jays calling, looking for acorns
🪶
Mine:
1. Close views of a Buzzard on the verge as I drove by
2. Rooks and Jackdaws flying to their roost
3. Blue Tit bathing in the birdbath
4. Long-tailed Tits calling in the garden
5. Jays calling, looking for acorns
🪶
It’s the 1st of October! Here in Hampshire it’s a calm and cloudy morning.
The first bird I heard was a Robin, singing in the darkness.
The first bird I saw was a Woodpigeon sitting on the fence.
What was your 1st bird of the month?
The first bird I heard was a Robin, singing in the darkness.
The first bird I saw was a Woodpigeon sitting on the fence.
What was your 1st bird of the month?
![Square graphic, with pale peach background and orange wavy-edged bands at top and bottom.
In the upper half of the graphic grey/blue text which reads: #1stBirdOfTheMonth
OCTOBER[This word is in orange text and capitals for emphasis]
What was the first bird you heard or saw today?
In the lower half of the graphic, a line drawing of a generic small bird with question marks to the right of its head.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6twpk6cj76p3y37elts6y2gr/bafkreifqyhstgpkpofnd7znnplmnjftzioqyidsyvxla2fubnwlkhnm4oy@jpeg)
October 1, 2025 at 7:06 AM
It’s the 1st of October! Here in Hampshire it’s a calm and cloudy morning.
The first bird I heard was a Robin, singing in the darkness.
The first bird I saw was a Woodpigeon sitting on the fence.
What was your 1st bird of the month?
The first bird I heard was a Robin, singing in the darkness.
The first bird I saw was a Woodpigeon sitting on the fence.
What was your 1st bird of the month?
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Robin singing in my garden each morning
2. Woodpigeon comically trying to bathe in a tiny plant saucer
3. 1st Blackbird seen since the start of August
4. 2 Great White Egrets with 4 Little Egrets
5. Lots of Stonechats
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Mine:
1. Robin singing in my garden each morning
2. Woodpigeon comically trying to bathe in a tiny plant saucer
3. 1st Blackbird seen since the start of August
4. 2 Great White Egrets with 4 Little Egrets
5. Lots of Stonechats
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September 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Robin singing in my garden each morning
2. Woodpigeon comically trying to bathe in a tiny plant saucer
3. 1st Blackbird seen since the start of August
4. 2 Great White Egrets with 4 Little Egrets
5. Lots of Stonechats
🪶
Mine:
1. Robin singing in my garden each morning
2. Woodpigeon comically trying to bathe in a tiny plant saucer
3. 1st Blackbird seen since the start of August
4. 2 Great White Egrets with 4 Little Egrets
5. Lots of Stonechats
🪶
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, at Titchfield Haven, Hampshire:
1. Lucky spot of a flying Glossy Ibis
2. Kingfisher speeding past the hide
3. Sparrowhawk tussling with a Magpie
4. Curlew Sandpiper
5. Single Sanderling feeding with Turnstones
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Mine, at Titchfield Haven, Hampshire:
1. Lucky spot of a flying Glossy Ibis
2. Kingfisher speeding past the hide
3. Sparrowhawk tussling with a Magpie
4. Curlew Sandpiper
5. Single Sanderling feeding with Turnstones
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September 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, at Titchfield Haven, Hampshire:
1. Lucky spot of a flying Glossy Ibis
2. Kingfisher speeding past the hide
3. Sparrowhawk tussling with a Magpie
4. Curlew Sandpiper
5. Single Sanderling feeding with Turnstones
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Mine, at Titchfield Haven, Hampshire:
1. Lucky spot of a flying Glossy Ibis
2. Kingfisher speeding past the hide
3. Sparrowhawk tussling with a Magpie
4. Curlew Sandpiper
5. Single Sanderling feeding with Turnstones
🪶
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If you’re like me (and I know I am) then you like podcasts and like birds and so podcasts about birds are the best! Here’s a thread of my favorite bird podcasts, including the number of episodes currently available and average episode length according to the Podcast Addict app 🪶🌿
September 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
If you’re like me (and I know I am) then you like podcasts and like birds and so podcasts about birds are the best! Here’s a thread of my favorite bird podcasts, including the number of episodes currently available and average episode length according to the Podcast Addict app 🪶🌿
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine on Brownsea Island, Poole:
1. Close views of Greenshank
2. Little Stint - first of year and species 197 on my year list!
3. 2 Bar-tailed Godwits
4. Preening Nuthatch
5. Eurasian Spoonbill bathing
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Mine on Brownsea Island, Poole:
1. Close views of Greenshank
2. Little Stint - first of year and species 197 on my year list!
3. 2 Bar-tailed Godwits
4. Preening Nuthatch
5. Eurasian Spoonbill bathing
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September 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine on Brownsea Island, Poole:
1. Close views of Greenshank
2. Little Stint - first of year and species 197 on my year list!
3. 2 Bar-tailed Godwits
4. Preening Nuthatch
5. Eurasian Spoonbill bathing
🪶
Mine on Brownsea Island, Poole:
1. Close views of Greenshank
2. Little Stint - first of year and species 197 on my year list!
3. 2 Bar-tailed Godwits
4. Preening Nuthatch
5. Eurasian Spoonbill bathing
🪶
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Osprey mobbing a White-tailed Eagle in Poole Harbour!
2. Curlew Sandpiper - 1st of year
3. Black-tailed Godwits in afternoon sunlight
4. Blue Tits on my window feeder
5. Over 100 Cormorants at Hanningfield Reservoir, Essex
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Mine:
1. Osprey mobbing a White-tailed Eagle in Poole Harbour!
2. Curlew Sandpiper - 1st of year
3. Black-tailed Godwits in afternoon sunlight
4. Blue Tits on my window feeder
5. Over 100 Cormorants at Hanningfield Reservoir, Essex
🪶
September 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Osprey mobbing a White-tailed Eagle in Poole Harbour!
2. Curlew Sandpiper - 1st of year
3. Black-tailed Godwits in afternoon sunlight
4. Blue Tits on my window feeder
5. Over 100 Cormorants at Hanningfield Reservoir, Essex
🪶
Mine:
1. Osprey mobbing a White-tailed Eagle in Poole Harbour!
2. Curlew Sandpiper - 1st of year
3. Black-tailed Godwits in afternoon sunlight
4. Blue Tits on my window feeder
5. Over 100 Cormorants at Hanningfield Reservoir, Essex
🪶
New episode!
Our recent birding adventure in Wiltshire and Hampshire was filled with highs, near-misses, and surprises!
From the awe-inspiring great bustards to the elusive quail and the unexpected grey partridges, each sighting and sound added to the experience.
casualbirder.com/episode144
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Our recent birding adventure in Wiltshire and Hampshire was filled with highs, near-misses, and surprises!
From the awe-inspiring great bustards to the elusive quail and the unexpected grey partridges, each sighting and sound added to the experience.
casualbirder.com/episode144
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September 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
New episode!
Our recent birding adventure in Wiltshire and Hampshire was filled with highs, near-misses, and surprises!
From the awe-inspiring great bustards to the elusive quail and the unexpected grey partridges, each sighting and sound added to the experience.
casualbirder.com/episode144
🪶
Our recent birding adventure in Wiltshire and Hampshire was filled with highs, near-misses, and surprises!
From the awe-inspiring great bustards to the elusive quail and the unexpected grey partridges, each sighting and sound added to the experience.
casualbirder.com/episode144
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It’s the 1st of September! Here in Hampshire it’s a calm and sunny morning.
The 1st bird I heard was a Magpie, making a loud warning call.
It was also the 1st bird I saw (I looked out to see the reason for the noise! I couldn’t pinpoint any threat, though)
What was your 1st bird of the month?
The 1st bird I heard was a Magpie, making a loud warning call.
It was also the 1st bird I saw (I looked out to see the reason for the noise! I couldn’t pinpoint any threat, though)
What was your 1st bird of the month?
![Image description: Square graphic, with pale peach background and orange wavy-edged bands at top and bottom.
In the upper half of the graphic grey/blue text which reads: #1stBirdOfTheMonth
SEPTEMBER [This word is in orange text and capitals for emphasis]
What was the first bird you heard or saw today?
In the lower half of the graphic, a line drawing of a generic small bird with question marks to the right of its head.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6twpk6cj76p3y37elts6y2gr/bafkreib5ubc6cbvfeo66yd3hjfppksijh243n5qsrozle3qj5glfs55ztu@jpeg)
September 1, 2025 at 6:40 AM
It’s the 1st of September! Here in Hampshire it’s a calm and sunny morning.
The 1st bird I heard was a Magpie, making a loud warning call.
It was also the 1st bird I saw (I looked out to see the reason for the noise! I couldn’t pinpoint any threat, though)
What was your 1st bird of the month?
The 1st bird I heard was a Magpie, making a loud warning call.
It was also the 1st bird I saw (I looked out to see the reason for the noise! I couldn’t pinpoint any threat, though)
What was your 1st bird of the month?
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine - all in Suffolk
1. Lifer Black Stork!
2. Ruff - first of year
3. Flock of Golden Plover
4. Unexpected juvenile Guillemot in Aldeburgh on the River Alde
5. Common and Sandwich Terns at RSPB Boyton Marsh
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Mine - all in Suffolk
1. Lifer Black Stork!
2. Ruff - first of year
3. Flock of Golden Plover
4. Unexpected juvenile Guillemot in Aldeburgh on the River Alde
5. Common and Sandwich Terns at RSPB Boyton Marsh
🪶
August 31, 2025 at 6:01 AM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine - all in Suffolk
1. Lifer Black Stork!
2. Ruff - first of year
3. Flock of Golden Plover
4. Unexpected juvenile Guillemot in Aldeburgh on the River Alde
5. Common and Sandwich Terns at RSPB Boyton Marsh
🪶
Mine - all in Suffolk
1. Lifer Black Stork!
2. Ruff - first of year
3. Flock of Golden Plover
4. Unexpected juvenile Guillemot in Aldeburgh on the River Alde
5. Common and Sandwich Terns at RSPB Boyton Marsh
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Ruddy Shelduck - first of year!
2. Zitting Cisticola - first breeding pair in the UK!
3. Beautiful Wheatear
4. Huge flock of Swallows and House Martins
5. Great Tits in my garden exploring the Robin nest box for bugs
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Mine:
1. Ruddy Shelduck - first of year!
2. Zitting Cisticola - first breeding pair in the UK!
3. Beautiful Wheatear
4. Huge flock of Swallows and House Martins
5. Great Tits in my garden exploring the Robin nest box for bugs
🪶
August 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Ruddy Shelduck - first of year!
2. Zitting Cisticola - first breeding pair in the UK!
3. Beautiful Wheatear
4. Huge flock of Swallows and House Martins
5. Great Tits in my garden exploring the Robin nest box for bugs
🪶
Mine:
1. Ruddy Shelduck - first of year!
2. Zitting Cisticola - first breeding pair in the UK!
3. Beautiful Wheatear
4. Huge flock of Swallows and House Martins
5. Great Tits in my garden exploring the Robin nest box for bugs
🪶
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. 4 juvenile Woodpigeons using my garden as a creche
2. Buzzard calling - heard from my bedroom
3. Herring Gulls flying over my garden
4. Chiffchaff calling on a park walk &
5. Downy cygnets following their parents on the lake
🪶
Mine:
1. 4 juvenile Woodpigeons using my garden as a creche
2. Buzzard calling - heard from my bedroom
3. Herring Gulls flying over my garden
4. Chiffchaff calling on a park walk &
5. Downy cygnets following their parents on the lake
🪶
August 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. 4 juvenile Woodpigeons using my garden as a creche
2. Buzzard calling - heard from my bedroom
3. Herring Gulls flying over my garden
4. Chiffchaff calling on a park walk &
5. Downy cygnets following their parents on the lake
🪶
Mine:
1. 4 juvenile Woodpigeons using my garden as a creche
2. Buzzard calling - heard from my bedroom
3. Herring Gulls flying over my garden
4. Chiffchaff calling on a park walk &
5. Downy cygnets following their parents on the lake
🪶