When you manage to get most of your #ornithology team in one photo. 24/32 present in this one for team survey training and should have been 26 but for a wrong turn and nobody to take the picture! Very proud to lead these guys.

Completed the 'seven-Heron slam' this evening (coined by @andyfmears.bsky.social). A beaky septet of Bittern, Grey, Purple, and Night Herons, Little, Cattle, and Great White Egrets - with a side of Fudge and Red-footed Falcon too! #somersetbirding

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Pleased to re-find the female red-footed falcon hawking south of RSPB Ham Wall. Best viewed from the southeast corner of Walton's reedbed loop looking towards Durston's Peatworks (or the opposite). Lots of four-spotted chasers too. #somersetbirding

Firecrest outside my partners house and a Dartford Warbler along the undercliff in Barton on Sea this weekend

Pleasant walk at Ham Wall on my lunch break today with both Yellow-browed Warblers still present with a melee Long-tailed Tits, Chiffchaffs, and Goldcrests.
It's worth continuing past the warblers as the roving Finch flock frequents the far end of the reserve #SomersetBirding

Have setup a feed for #SomersetBirding and a Somerset Birding Starter Pack go.bsky.app/2aVsGeM.

If you're a Somerset birder and want adding to the pack let me know by replying to this message.

Mudeford Quay (Dorset) 1330-1630 this afternoon was a gamble that paid-off. 1 Cory’s Shearwater (first CHOG area record since 1988), 1 Little Gull, 5 Kittiwake, 7 Med Gull, 2 Com Gull, 18 Com Scoter & 3 Brent Geese. #DorsetBirds

Had a great weekend of winter birding in Pembrokeshire with @phelpstoby.bsky.social