Rob Wilton
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Bird news from the Lowestoft area and occasionally beyond...
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Found this abherrant Stoecnat at Lowestoft today, some Leucistic Feathers ,Pink legs and bill. #stonechat #ukbirding #suffolkbirds #lowestoftbirds
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Found this abherrant Stoecnat at Lowestoft today, some Leucistic Feathers ,Pink legs and bill. #stonechat #ukbirding #suffolkbirds #lowestoftbirds
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It's nearly 18 yrs since I found a Franklin's Gull at Torr Res, Somerset. Back then I spent 100s/hrs yearly scanning gulls at the res, landfill and fields. Today's Vatersay bird was easier, landing on the road in front of us as we headed for the beach...to go check the gulls. #BirdingScotland
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It's nearly 18 yrs since I found a Franklin's Gull at Torr Res, Somerset. Back then I spent 100s/hrs yearly scanning gulls at the res, landfill and fields. Today's Vatersay bird was easier, landing on the road in front of us as we headed for the beach...to go check the gulls. #BirdingScotland
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Just when we thought autumn was done, birding would be quieter and that was that, this vision of larid loveliness landed in the road in front of us! A cracking adult Franklin's Gull, the first record for Vatersay. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Just when we thought autumn was done, birding would be quieter and that was that, this vision of larid loveliness landed in the road in front of us! A cracking adult Franklin's Gull, the first record for Vatersay. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK
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An unexpected twist to a walk looking for Dipper on the Horton Burn! This Little Bittern was discovered late morning at North Shields in a bit of a sorry state. Pictured here at handover to a rescue team. Looking healthy (and drier), hopefully it will recuperate overnight for a release…
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November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
An unexpected twist to a walk looking for Dipper on the Horton Burn! This Little Bittern was discovered late morning at North Shields in a bit of a sorry state. Pictured here at handover to a rescue team. Looking healthy (and drier), hopefully it will recuperate overnight for a release…
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Hume's Warbler in Southwold churchyard brought up 220 for my patch this year, then almost immediately went to 221 with a Richard's Pipit that flew south calling - a scarce bird nowadays #ukbirding #suffolkbirding
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Hume's Warbler in Southwold churchyard brought up 220 for my patch this year, then almost immediately went to 221 with a Richard's Pipit that flew south calling - a scarce bird nowadays #ukbirding #suffolkbirding
Right, I have decided that tomorrow is THE day! It's the day a Hume's Warbler is going to appear in front of me. Microsite birding here I come. This is it! I believe...
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Right, I have decided that tomorrow is THE day! It's the day a Hume's Warbler is going to appear in front of me. Microsite birding here I come. This is it! I believe...
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Still 7 Shorelarks near the Pakefield Coastguard lookout also about 30 Snow Buntings further south but ranging along the coast
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Still 7 Shorelarks near the Pakefield Coastguard lookout also about 30 Snow Buntings further south but ranging along the coast
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Dusky Warbler! This morning's sunny and calm weather provided the perfect window of bird-finding opportunity. So my pre-work visit to Brancaster turned out to be a good call, when I found this little chap 'tuk'ing away in a hedgerow near the Branodunum Roman Fort. #ukbirding #norfolkbirding
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Dusky Warbler! This morning's sunny and calm weather provided the perfect window of bird-finding opportunity. So my pre-work visit to Brancaster turned out to be a good call, when I found this little chap 'tuk'ing away in a hedgerow near the Branodunum Roman Fort. #ukbirding #norfolkbirding
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Both Hume's Leaf warblers are still present on my patch today, within half a mile of each other. Since it was sunny I spent a lot of time trying to photograph them. It's amazingly difficult! I took about 1000 photos and these are a couple of the only half-decent ones. #ukbirding #norfolkbirding
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Both Hume's Leaf warblers are still present on my patch today, within half a mile of each other. Since it was sunny I spent a lot of time trying to photograph them. It's amazingly difficult! I took about 1000 photos and these are a couple of the only half-decent ones. #ukbirding #norfolkbirding
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Jack snipe have been showing well from Bishop’s hide at Cley NWT this autumn. Great to eventually catch up with one today and spent an enjoyable morning sketching it along with 6 water pipits that dropped in. Quality!
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Jack snipe have been showing well from Bishop’s hide at Cley NWT this autumn. Great to eventually catch up with one today and spent an enjoyable morning sketching it along with 6 water pipits that dropped in. Quality!
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Our walk today from Covehithe to Benacre Broad. Highlights: 9 Snow Bunting & Great Northern Diver south.
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Our walk today from Covehithe to Benacre Broad. Highlights: 9 Snow Bunting & Great Northern Diver south.
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Shorelark
Kessingland beach, 20/11/2025
7 today with 25 snow bunting.
Kessingland beach, 20/11/2025
7 today with 25 snow bunting.
November 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Shorelark
Kessingland beach, 20/11/2025
7 today with 25 snow bunting.
Kessingland beach, 20/11/2025
7 today with 25 snow bunting.
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Didactic video featuring two species which have declined catastrophically due to disease transfer at feeding stations. Birds infected with Trichomonas struggle to eat and will drop food items from their beaks, which are then eaten by healthy birds, hence RSPB no longer sells table feeders #UKBirding
Greenfinch pair at Scaling Dam this morning @teesbirds.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social #birds
November 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Didactic video featuring two species which have declined catastrophically due to disease transfer at feeding stations. Birds infected with Trichomonas struggle to eat and will drop food items from their beaks, which are then eaten by healthy birds, hence RSPB no longer sells table feeders #UKBirding
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Isabelline shrike (possibly Daurian)
North Warren RSPB, Suffolk,
Hunting wasp and bees during the morning of 17/11/2025. May have moved on yesterday am when the bracken in its favoured feeding area was cut. #birds
North Warren RSPB, Suffolk,
Hunting wasp and bees during the morning of 17/11/2025. May have moved on yesterday am when the bracken in its favoured feeding area was cut. #birds
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Isabelline shrike (possibly Daurian)
North Warren RSPB, Suffolk,
Hunting wasp and bees during the morning of 17/11/2025. May have moved on yesterday am when the bracken in its favoured feeding area was cut. #birds
North Warren RSPB, Suffolk,
Hunting wasp and bees during the morning of 17/11/2025. May have moved on yesterday am when the bracken in its favoured feeding area was cut. #birds
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With thanks to @lowestoftlizards.bsky.social @perilsofbirding.bsky.social for inspiration& information, I speedbirded 10 minisites in Gorleston,Caister,Gt Yarmouth today. Migrants at all sites, but Meadow Park the best (Pallas’s!). Totals: 1 Woodcock, 5 Firecrest, Willow Warbler, 18 Chiff #ukbirding
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
With thanks to @lowestoftlizards.bsky.social @perilsofbirding.bsky.social for inspiration& information, I speedbirded 10 minisites in Gorleston,Caister,Gt Yarmouth today. Migrants at all sites, but Meadow Park the best (Pallas’s!). Totals: 1 Woodcock, 5 Firecrest, Willow Warbler, 18 Chiff #ukbirding
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Both Hume's Leaf Warbler still on the patch today. Here are some shots of the second one. Hume's is brilliant species I think - different from YBW in quite a few ways, and such a soft shade of green - I’d like to paint my lounge the same colour 😀. How many must there be here this autumn?
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Both Hume's Leaf Warbler still on the patch today. Here are some shots of the second one. Hume's is brilliant species I think - different from YBW in quite a few ways, and such a soft shade of green - I’d like to paint my lounge the same colour 😀. How many must there be here this autumn?
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Divers still at Covenham Reservoir this morning
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November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Divers still at Covenham Reservoir this morning
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Wintering flocks of Long-tailed Ducks off Barra seem a little later in building up this year; there were c80 off Allasdale today. Our unexpected highlight of the day was 2 Grey Phalaropes struggling into a northerly gale past Brevig late afternoon. #BirdingScotland
November 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Wintering flocks of Long-tailed Ducks off Barra seem a little later in building up this year; there were c80 off Allasdale today. Our unexpected highlight of the day was 2 Grey Phalaropes struggling into a northerly gale past Brevig late afternoon. #BirdingScotland
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Isabelline (Daurian?) shrike
North Warren RSPB, Suffolk, 17/11/2025
Showed well today.
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North Warren RSPB, Suffolk, 17/11/2025
Showed well today.
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November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Isabelline (Daurian?) shrike
North Warren RSPB, Suffolk, 17/11/2025
Showed well today.
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North Warren RSPB, Suffolk, 17/11/2025
Showed well today.
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This Swallow at Balranald, N Uist this afternoon appears to be the American subspecies: erythrogaster due to the lack of a dark band across the lower throat.
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This Swallow at Balranald, N Uist this afternoon appears to be the American subspecies: erythrogaster due to the lack of a dark band across the lower throat.
Worrying reports are coming in that Norfolk is sinking under the weight of eastern phylloscs. Thankfully Suffolk remains a safe space!
November 17, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Worrying reports are coming in that Norfolk is sinking under the weight of eastern phylloscs. Thankfully Suffolk remains a safe space!
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Incredible a'noon at Caister. First a Pallas's flitting through in a huge tit flock. Then another glimpsed warbler, silent & elusive. After a heard only bird at Thornham y'day I wondered if I just hallucinate Hume's Warblers. Till it popped up calling. And a Dusky calling too!
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Incredible a'noon at Caister. First a Pallas's flitting through in a huge tit flock. Then another glimpsed warbler, silent & elusive. After a heard only bird at Thornham y'day I wondered if I just hallucinate Hume's Warblers. Till it popped up calling. And a Dusky calling too!
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The immature shrike at North Warren RSPB. Identification of birds this age to species is not often possible, but a suite of features visible suggest Daurian Shrike (Lanius isabellinus) in this case IMHO - comments in alt text #RareBirdsUK #SuffolkBirding #UKBirding
November 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The immature shrike at North Warren RSPB. Identification of birds this age to species is not often possible, but a suite of features visible suggest Daurian Shrike (Lanius isabellinus) in this case IMHO - comments in alt text #RareBirdsUK #SuffolkBirding #UKBirding
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Yesterday with Sibe Phylloscs all around the best I could find was a late Willow Warbler. Today at Holkham I made up for it: first up a Hume’s was soon followed by a Pallas’s and concluded when they were joined in a flock by a Yellow-browed, a Sibe Chiff, a Firecrest & 3 Chiffchaff! #NorfolkBirding
November 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Yesterday with Sibe Phylloscs all around the best I could find was a late Willow Warbler. Today at Holkham I made up for it: first up a Hume’s was soon followed by a Pallas’s and concluded when they were joined in a flock by a Yellow-browed, a Sibe Chiff, a Firecrest & 3 Chiffchaff! #NorfolkBirding
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Great morning on patch - found a Hume's Warbler, v active and calling along a track at the edge of the village. I contacted some local birders who duly arrived, and as we were waiting for it to reappear a Dusky Warbler flew over a fence and landed at the base of the same tree! Both v hard to photo!
November 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Great morning on patch - found a Hume's Warbler, v active and calling along a track at the edge of the village. I contacted some local birders who duly arrived, and as we were waiting for it to reappear a Dusky Warbler flew over a fence and landed at the base of the same tree! Both v hard to photo!