Dawn Erskine
@dawnbirder.bsky.social
Notts birder.
Work/Gym/Bird/Repeat
#UKBirding
Mostly #LowCarbon choices
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished 💚
Landlocked patch birder
#Vegan
Work/Gym/Bird/Repeat
#UKBirding
Mostly #LowCarbon choices
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished 💚
Landlocked patch birder
#Vegan
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising.
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising.
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
Lots to enjoy at the patch.
Scaup, Siskins, Caspian Gull, 8 Snipe, 2 Green Sand, showy Water Rail, Goldeneye displaying & calling.
At dusk Goosander numbers are increasing 45+ so far & a small murmuration of Starlings. Pied Wag roost building at the train station
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
Scaup, Siskins, Caspian Gull, 8 Snipe, 2 Green Sand, showy Water Rail, Goldeneye displaying & calling.
At dusk Goosander numbers are increasing 45+ so far & a small murmuration of Starlings. Pied Wag roost building at the train station
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Lots to enjoy at the patch.
Scaup, Siskins, Caspian Gull, 8 Snipe, 2 Green Sand, showy Water Rail, Goldeneye displaying & calling.
At dusk Goosander numbers are increasing 45+ so far & a small murmuration of Starlings. Pied Wag roost building at the train station
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
Scaup, Siskins, Caspian Gull, 8 Snipe, 2 Green Sand, showy Water Rail, Goldeneye displaying & calling.
At dusk Goosander numbers are increasing 45+ so far & a small murmuration of Starlings. Pied Wag roost building at the train station
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
Today is World Vegan Day! If you are concerned about climate change, reducing meat and dairy in your diet is one of the most powerful individual actions you can take.
"The effect of our modern meat production on the environment is truly terrifying." Jane Goodall news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...
"The effect of our modern meat production on the environment is truly terrifying." Jane Goodall news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...
Why I Went Plant-Based (And Why We Should All Eat Less Meat)
Dr. Goodall went plant-based after confronting what that meat represents: pain. Since, she learned more reasons why the work to #eatmeatless is important.
news.janegoodall.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Today is World Vegan Day! If you are concerned about climate change, reducing meat and dairy in your diet is one of the most powerful individual actions you can take.
"The effect of our modern meat production on the environment is truly terrifying." Jane Goodall news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...
"The effect of our modern meat production on the environment is truly terrifying." Jane Goodall news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...
Cracking female Red-backed Shrike at Rimac, Lincs late morning.
Checked out the view from the salt marsh platform & spotted an interesting flood. Went for a closer look & a Water Pipit stood out nicely.
My first Fieldfares of the winter on the flood & in flight too
@lincsbirding.bsky.social 🪶
Checked out the view from the salt marsh platform & spotted an interesting flood. Went for a closer look & a Water Pipit stood out nicely.
My first Fieldfares of the winter on the flood & in flight too
@lincsbirding.bsky.social 🪶
November 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Cracking female Red-backed Shrike at Rimac, Lincs late morning.
Checked out the view from the salt marsh platform & spotted an interesting flood. Went for a closer look & a Water Pipit stood out nicely.
My first Fieldfares of the winter on the flood & in flight too
@lincsbirding.bsky.social 🪶
Checked out the view from the salt marsh platform & spotted an interesting flood. Went for a closer look & a Water Pipit stood out nicely.
My first Fieldfares of the winter on the flood & in flight too
@lincsbirding.bsky.social 🪶
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
No Country for Old Bollocks
October 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
No Country for Old Bollocks
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
Photos to make a change from my shaky cam clips of behaviour.
Happened upon a bench with food on it, not the best for birds, but I watched for a few minutes. Interesting to note the long, slightly undulating flight of the Marsh tit. Nuthatch & a Kes next to the train tracks too
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Happened upon a bench with food on it, not the best for birds, but I watched for a few minutes. Interesting to note the long, slightly undulating flight of the Marsh tit. Nuthatch & a Kes next to the train tracks too
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
October 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Photos to make a change from my shaky cam clips of behaviour.
Happened upon a bench with food on it, not the best for birds, but I watched for a few minutes. Interesting to note the long, slightly undulating flight of the Marsh tit. Nuthatch & a Kes next to the train tracks too
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Happened upon a bench with food on it, not the best for birds, but I watched for a few minutes. Interesting to note the long, slightly undulating flight of the Marsh tit. Nuthatch & a Kes next to the train tracks too
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
This weekend's focus has been checking local tit & finch flocks to see what else they may hold. Answer: a couple of Chiffys & many Goldcrests!
Best today were 3 Crossbills, a flock of Siskin & Redpolls, a Marsh Tit & the carrier flocks of LTTs are lovely, of course.
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Best today were 3 Crossbills, a flock of Siskin & Redpolls, a Marsh Tit & the carrier flocks of LTTs are lovely, of course.
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
October 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This weekend's focus has been checking local tit & finch flocks to see what else they may hold. Answer: a couple of Chiffys & many Goldcrests!
Best today were 3 Crossbills, a flock of Siskin & Redpolls, a Marsh Tit & the carrier flocks of LTTs are lovely, of course.
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Best today were 3 Crossbills, a flock of Siskin & Redpolls, a Marsh Tit & the carrier flocks of LTTs are lovely, of course.
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Attenborough NR today intending to look more at 1w large gulls. Soon got distracted by the BHGs, GWE & 19 Goosander.
Spotted the first ♂️ Marsh Harrier I've seen there.
The returning Adult Caspian Gull was present, as was at least one 1w.
Still no Jack snipe for me.
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
Spotted the first ♂️ Marsh Harrier I've seen there.
The returning Adult Caspian Gull was present, as was at least one 1w.
Still no Jack snipe for me.
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
October 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Attenborough NR today intending to look more at 1w large gulls. Soon got distracted by the BHGs, GWE & 19 Goosander.
Spotted the first ♂️ Marsh Harrier I've seen there.
The returning Adult Caspian Gull was present, as was at least one 1w.
Still no Jack snipe for me.
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
Spotted the first ♂️ Marsh Harrier I've seen there.
The returning Adult Caspian Gull was present, as was at least one 1w.
Still no Jack snipe for me.
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
Decent morning at Holme with 72 species recorded. A Red-necked Grebe on the sea was my first of the year. Redwings, Fieldfare and 81 Brambling counted as they migrated overhead.
#NorfolkBirding
#NorfolkBirding
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Decent morning at Holme with 72 species recorded. A Red-necked Grebe on the sea was my first of the year. Redwings, Fieldfare and 81 Brambling counted as they migrated overhead.
#NorfolkBirding
#NorfolkBirding
Hits & misses round North Point Pools & Warham.
Fascinated watching Cattle Egret murdering frogs when it was photobombed by a Glossy Ibis. Yellow brows 2 Humes 0.
2 distant Spoonbills.
Thought Pallid might show, I was busy enjoying a Barn Owl.
Cranes on a train & perched Marsh Harriers from a bus 🪶
Fascinated watching Cattle Egret murdering frogs when it was photobombed by a Glossy Ibis. Yellow brows 2 Humes 0.
2 distant Spoonbills.
Thought Pallid might show, I was busy enjoying a Barn Owl.
Cranes on a train & perched Marsh Harriers from a bus 🪶
October 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hits & misses round North Point Pools & Warham.
Fascinated watching Cattle Egret murdering frogs when it was photobombed by a Glossy Ibis. Yellow brows 2 Humes 0.
2 distant Spoonbills.
Thought Pallid might show, I was busy enjoying a Barn Owl.
Cranes on a train & perched Marsh Harriers from a bus 🪶
Fascinated watching Cattle Egret murdering frogs when it was photobombed by a Glossy Ibis. Yellow brows 2 Humes 0.
2 distant Spoonbills.
Thought Pallid might show, I was busy enjoying a Barn Owl.
Cranes on a train & perched Marsh Harriers from a bus 🪶
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
www.artsobservasjoner.no/Image/3005980
This is news to me. The regular Northumberland wintering Black Scoter spends the summer off Varanger, Norway.
This is news to me. The regular Northumberland wintering Black Scoter spends the summer off Varanger, Norway.
October 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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This is news to me. The regular Northumberland wintering Black Scoter spends the summer off Varanger, Norway.
This is news to me. The regular Northumberland wintering Black Scoter spends the summer off Varanger, Norway.
Just added Common Crane to the train list.
Large flock just north west of Manea, Cambs train station.
Couldn't help but say, "Wow!" out loud on a train full of people 😅 🩶
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Large flock just north west of Manea, Cambs train station.
Couldn't help but say, "Wow!" out loud on a train full of people 😅 🩶
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
October 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Just added Common Crane to the train list.
Large flock just north west of Manea, Cambs train station.
Couldn't help but say, "Wow!" out loud on a train full of people 😅 🩶
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Large flock just north west of Manea, Cambs train station.
Couldn't help but say, "Wow!" out loud on a train full of people 😅 🩶
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
These 2 patch gulls are keeping me happy on lean days this week. Returning now adult Caspian & an adult YLG. Both lured by the promise of crayfish
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding
October 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
These 2 patch gulls are keeping me happy on lean days this week. Returning now adult Caspian & an adult YLG. Both lured by the promise of crayfish
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
Rather than post the usual shots of the Rutland Baird's Sandpiper I thought I'd offer up some alternative angles of what must be currently the most photographed bird in the UK.
@rarebirdalertuk.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@rarebirdalertuk.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Rather than post the usual shots of the Rutland Baird's Sandpiper I thought I'd offer up some alternative angles of what must be currently the most photographed bird in the UK.
@rarebirdalertuk.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@rarebirdalertuk.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
Headed to Flamborough for the start of migration week. Somehow it took me 3 hours to walk 1.5 miles from Bempton train station.
Best bird was Whinchat. Those broad field margins were cracking too & no doubt why there were dozens of Yellowhammers 💛
Whooper, Gannet chick, 100s of Tree Sparrrows too 🪶
Best bird was Whinchat. Those broad field margins were cracking too & no doubt why there were dozens of Yellowhammers 💛
Whooper, Gannet chick, 100s of Tree Sparrrows too 🪶
October 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Headed to Flamborough for the start of migration week. Somehow it took me 3 hours to walk 1.5 miles from Bempton train station.
Best bird was Whinchat. Those broad field margins were cracking too & no doubt why there were dozens of Yellowhammers 💛
Whooper, Gannet chick, 100s of Tree Sparrrows too 🪶
Best bird was Whinchat. Those broad field margins were cracking too & no doubt why there were dozens of Yellowhammers 💛
Whooper, Gannet chick, 100s of Tree Sparrrows too 🪶
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
'Photographic ornithology'
How can bird photographers contribute to shorebird research?
New WaderTales blog based on paper by Winfried & Wolfgang Daunicht, published in Wader Study journal.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
#ornithology @waderstudy.bsky.social
How can bird photographers contribute to shorebird research?
New WaderTales blog based on paper by Winfried & Wolfgang Daunicht, published in Wader Study journal.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
#ornithology @waderstudy.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:00 AM
'Photographic ornithology'
How can bird photographers contribute to shorebird research?
New WaderTales blog based on paper by Winfried & Wolfgang Daunicht, published in Wader Study journal.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
#ornithology @waderstudy.bsky.social
How can bird photographers contribute to shorebird research?
New WaderTales blog based on paper by Winfried & Wolfgang Daunicht, published in Wader Study journal.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
#ornithology @waderstudy.bsky.social
@trumpetdust.bsky.social
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I am much happier listening to stuff like this these days
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I am much happier listening to stuff like this these days
I Am Coming to Paris (To Kill You)
YouTube video by Timber Timbre - Topic
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October 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
@trumpetdust.bsky.social
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I am much happier listening to stuff like this these days
youtu.be/QG1_pYpdz6Y?...
I am much happier listening to stuff like this these days
Second visit to Unst was better birding.
Thought I'd found a couple of Glossy Ibis till the dread word 'still' got added on bird guides.
Nice to watch 2 Red-throated Divers close in & see juvenile Common Gulls on the beach. A flock of Twite in the fields & a probable 4th YBW in Helligarth wood 🪶
Thought I'd found a couple of Glossy Ibis till the dread word 'still' got added on bird guides.
Nice to watch 2 Red-throated Divers close in & see juvenile Common Gulls on the beach. A flock of Twite in the fields & a probable 4th YBW in Helligarth wood 🪶
October 10, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Second visit to Unst was better birding.
Thought I'd found a couple of Glossy Ibis till the dread word 'still' got added on bird guides.
Nice to watch 2 Red-throated Divers close in & see juvenile Common Gulls on the beach. A flock of Twite in the fields & a probable 4th YBW in Helligarth wood 🪶
Thought I'd found a couple of Glossy Ibis till the dread word 'still' got added on bird guides.
Nice to watch 2 Red-throated Divers close in & see juvenile Common Gulls on the beach. A flock of Twite in the fields & a probable 4th YBW in Helligarth wood 🪶
Eshaness, Shetland. An unexpected place to see a Red-breasted Flycatcher. Very different to Flamborough willows or behind the Crown & Anchor. Bird, a tiny dot against the backdrop of volcanic cliffs. Fulmars looking more at home.
RB Fly was species 250 for the year, goal reached.
#microblogging 🪶
RB Fly was species 250 for the year, goal reached.
#microblogging 🪶
October 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Eshaness, Shetland. An unexpected place to see a Red-breasted Flycatcher. Very different to Flamborough willows or behind the Crown & Anchor. Bird, a tiny dot against the backdrop of volcanic cliffs. Fulmars looking more at home.
RB Fly was species 250 for the year, goal reached.
#microblogging 🪶
RB Fly was species 250 for the year, goal reached.
#microblogging 🪶
Back in blighty, hoping to keep up the post-Shetland energy.
The returning Casp can have yellow legs, but this bird more so. Bill spot, pale iris, that crop bulging with crayfish, a YLG.
The first duck I looked at (apart from all the Wigeon) was a Garganey.
2 Goldeneye & 2 Goosander
#PatchBirding 🪶
The returning Casp can have yellow legs, but this bird more so. Bill spot, pale iris, that crop bulging with crayfish, a YLG.
The first duck I looked at (apart from all the Wigeon) was a Garganey.
2 Goldeneye & 2 Goosander
#PatchBirding 🪶
October 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Back in blighty, hoping to keep up the post-Shetland energy.
The returning Casp can have yellow legs, but this bird more so. Bill spot, pale iris, that crop bulging with crayfish, a YLG.
The first duck I looked at (apart from all the Wigeon) was a Garganey.
2 Goldeneye & 2 Goosander
#PatchBirding 🪶
The returning Casp can have yellow legs, but this bird more so. Bill spot, pale iris, that crop bulging with crayfish, a YLG.
The first duck I looked at (apart from all the Wigeon) was a Garganey.
2 Goldeneye & 2 Goosander
#PatchBirding 🪶
Today was all about the 1w ♂️ Sibe Thrush. Took some time but eventually got good enough views 🤍
Pics: Shetland Purple Sandpiper. Brief showy Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll was the best bird on a visit to Unst.
Yesterday was lovely weather for Ring-necked ducks & Wheatears.
3 YBW so far.
#UKBirding
Pics: Shetland Purple Sandpiper. Brief showy Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll was the best bird on a visit to Unst.
Yesterday was lovely weather for Ring-necked ducks & Wheatears.
3 YBW so far.
#UKBirding
October 2, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Today was all about the 1w ♂️ Sibe Thrush. Took some time but eventually got good enough views 🤍
Pics: Shetland Purple Sandpiper. Brief showy Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll was the best bird on a visit to Unst.
Yesterday was lovely weather for Ring-necked ducks & Wheatears.
3 YBW so far.
#UKBirding
Pics: Shetland Purple Sandpiper. Brief showy Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll was the best bird on a visit to Unst.
Yesterday was lovely weather for Ring-necked ducks & Wheatears.
3 YBW so far.
#UKBirding
A few snaps from an enjoyable first day in Shetland. Got the year list up to 245 with Rustic Bunting, Twite & Barred Warbler.
A true record shot of the latter, with a couple of ID features. Bird did pop out for a split second!
93 species for the trip so far
#UKBirding
A true record shot of the latter, with a couple of ID features. Bird did pop out for a split second!
93 species for the trip so far
#UKBirding
September 29, 2025 at 6:56 AM
A few snaps from an enjoyable first day in Shetland. Got the year list up to 245 with Rustic Bunting, Twite & Barred Warbler.
A true record shot of the latter, with a couple of ID features. Bird did pop out for a split second!
93 species for the trip so far
#UKBirding
A true record shot of the latter, with a couple of ID features. Bird did pop out for a split second!
93 species for the trip so far
#UKBirding
Ace afternoon at Musselburgh lagoons enjoying my first lifer for yonks, the smart Marsh Sandpiper. Curlew Sand, Spotshanks, Snipe & Ruff.
On the sea: Velvets & a distant snorkelling diver, with white patches at the rear end.
Elsewhere, my first skeins of Pink-footed Geese this autumn #UKBirding
On the sea: Velvets & a distant snorkelling diver, with white patches at the rear end.
Elsewhere, my first skeins of Pink-footed Geese this autumn #UKBirding
September 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Ace afternoon at Musselburgh lagoons enjoying my first lifer for yonks, the smart Marsh Sandpiper. Curlew Sand, Spotshanks, Snipe & Ruff.
On the sea: Velvets & a distant snorkelling diver, with white patches at the rear end.
Elsewhere, my first skeins of Pink-footed Geese this autumn #UKBirding
On the sea: Velvets & a distant snorkelling diver, with white patches at the rear end.
Elsewhere, my first skeins of Pink-footed Geese this autumn #UKBirding
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
A lovely film of Leicestershire’s first confirmed breeding by Goshawks, filmed under licence by county recorder Carl Baggott
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Goshawks
YouTube video by Carl Baggott
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September 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
A lovely film of Leicestershire’s first confirmed breeding by Goshawks, filmed under licence by county recorder Carl Baggott
youtu.be/FhI39qG4pQo?...
youtu.be/FhI39qG4pQo?...