Ivan L
@marshdagger.bsky.social
Birder. Moths and all other wildlife
A lovely winter's day at the Crook of Baldoon with a raptor fest through the day with 3 Hen Harrier, SEO, 2 Merlin, Barn Owl, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, 3 Red Kite and Peregrine, with the backdrop of the snow peaks of cumbria @rspbscotland.bsky.social #birdingscotland @dgbirdnews.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lovely winter's day at the Crook of Baldoon with a raptor fest through the day with 3 Hen Harrier, SEO, 2 Merlin, Barn Owl, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk, 2 Kestrel, 3 Red Kite and Peregrine, with the backdrop of the snow peaks of cumbria @rspbscotland.bsky.social #birdingscotland @dgbirdnews.bsky.social
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Shorelark & Glossy Ibis : Shorelark on the beach between Southerness Point & RSPB Mersehead boundary (or near!). Plus Glossy Ibis?!
Nov.10/2025🕒04:27pm
Nov.10/2025🕒04:27pm
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Shorelark & Glossy Ibis : Shorelark on the beach between Southerness Point & RSPB Mersehead boundary (or near!). Plus Glossy Ibis?!
Nov.10/2025🕒04:27pm
Nov.10/2025🕒04:27pm
Lesser Scaup female at Auchenreoch Loch D&G this lunch time has generated some discussion. Also, great to see good numbers of Goosander fishing joined by a few Goldeneye @dgbirdnews.bsky.social ##birdingscotland ##rarebirdsuk @gavinchambers.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Lesser Scaup female at Auchenreoch Loch D&G this lunch time has generated some discussion. Also, great to see good numbers of Goosander fishing joined by a few Goldeneye @dgbirdnews.bsky.social ##birdingscotland ##rarebirdsuk @gavinchambers.bsky.social
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Some of the birds at Pagham Harbour RSPB yesterday; a flight of Pintail & Brent geese (good numbers of juvs in family groups - easily told from adults by pale edged feathers on upper wings). Also a Peregrine perched on top of the very tall comms mast at the Ferry, there's often one up there...
November 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Some of the birds at Pagham Harbour RSPB yesterday; a flight of Pintail & Brent geese (good numbers of juvs in family groups - easily told from adults by pale edged feathers on upper wings). Also a Peregrine perched on top of the very tall comms mast at the Ferry, there's often one up there...
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Yesterday I sat & watched the changing light on Chichester Cathedral from Church Norton benches, Pagham Hbr RSPB as the tide rose & the birds in the harbour moved around...sounds of waders, Brent etc.
I must have spent many hours sitting here watching & listening over the years...wonderful place.
I must have spent many hours sitting here watching & listening over the years...wonderful place.
November 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Yesterday I sat & watched the changing light on Chichester Cathedral from Church Norton benches, Pagham Hbr RSPB as the tide rose & the birds in the harbour moved around...sounds of waders, Brent etc.
I must have spent many hours sitting here watching & listening over the years...wonderful place.
I must have spent many hours sitting here watching & listening over the years...wonderful place.
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Lochmaben : Castle Loch ; Very little & any Bittern present a no-show this pm to 4pm. Apart from a flyover GWE, 3 GC Grebe, c50 Wigeon, c40 Tufted Duck, about half a dozen Goldeneye, c12 Mutes, 2 Goosander. Kirk Loch ; probably the same GWE fishing well i... see Blog.
Nov.07/2025🕒05:15pm
Nov.07/2025🕒05:15pm
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Lochmaben : Castle Loch ; Very little & any Bittern present a no-show this pm to 4pm. Apart from a flyover GWE, 3 GC Grebe, c50 Wigeon, c40 Tufted Duck, about half a dozen Goldeneye, c12 Mutes, 2 Goosander. Kirk Loch ; probably the same GWE fishing well i... see Blog.
Nov.07/2025🕒05:15pm
Nov.07/2025🕒05:15pm
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Couple of hours @rspbscotland.bsky.social Crook of Baldoon where we were greeted by this stunner of a male Hen Harrier quartering the pools. Tree Sparrows present and correct for another year plus large numbers of Fieldfare and Redwing. #birdingScotland #UKWildlife #birds @dgbirdnews.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Couple of hours @rspbscotland.bsky.social Crook of Baldoon where we were greeted by this stunner of a male Hen Harrier quartering the pools. Tree Sparrows present and correct for another year plus large numbers of Fieldfare and Redwing. #birdingScotland #UKWildlife #birds @dgbirdnews.bsky.social
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Petition: Stop the Guga Hunt. Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for killing young Gannets.
Please sign and Repost.
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
Please sign and Repost.
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
PE2202 Stop the Guga Hunt
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for taking Gannets on Sula Sgeir.
www.parliament.scot
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Petition: Stop the Guga Hunt. Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for killing young Gannets.
Please sign and Repost.
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
Please sign and Repost.
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
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Various reports : 1 Water Rail, 1 Kingfisher, 40 Twite & 2 Redwing at RSPB Mersehead. Slav Grebe & RTD plus P-b Brents at Loch Ryan. 2 Greenshank & a Merlin seen Kirkconnell Merse side of Nith from near Glencaple.
Oct.30/2025🕒01:00pm
Oct.30/2025🕒01:00pm
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Various reports : 1 Water Rail, 1 Kingfisher, 40 Twite & 2 Redwing at RSPB Mersehead. Slav Grebe & RTD plus P-b Brents at Loch Ryan. 2 Greenshank & a Merlin seen Kirkconnell Merse side of Nith from near Glencaple.
Oct.30/2025🕒01:00pm
Oct.30/2025🕒01:00pm
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Loch Ryan - The Wig 25th : 200 P-b Brent Geese, roosting on the Wig. Whooper Swan 7, Red-breasted Merganser 2, Golden Plover 11, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe 1, Great Crested Grebe 1, European Shag 150. Reported by Roger Coutu.
Oct.26/2025🕒07:59pm
Oct.26/2025🕒07:59pm
October 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Loch Ryan - The Wig 25th : 200 P-b Brent Geese, roosting on the Wig. Whooper Swan 7, Red-breasted Merganser 2, Golden Plover 11, Horned (Slavonian) Grebe 1, Great Crested Grebe 1, European Shag 150. Reported by Roger Coutu.
Oct.26/2025🕒07:59pm
Oct.26/2025🕒07:59pm
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The world's deadliest wind farm for birds must be stopped.‼️
We need clean energy, but not like this.
Add your voice: seabird.org/cancel-berwi...
We need clean energy, but not like this.
Add your voice: seabird.org/cancel-berwi...
Berwick Bank could kill more birds than any other windfarm on Earth, devastating colonies of Gannets, Puffins and Kittiwakes off Scotland’s coast. 🚨
We support renewables, but not at catastrophic cost to seabirds already in crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JE...
We support renewables, but not at catastrophic cost to seabirds already in crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JE...
Add your voice to a campaign to stop an offshore wind farm that threatens seabirds
YouTube video by RSPB
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The world's deadliest wind farm for birds must be stopped.‼️
We need clean energy, but not like this.
Add your voice: seabird.org/cancel-berwi...
We need clean energy, but not like this.
Add your voice: seabird.org/cancel-berwi...
Moved down from Scotland, for a few days in Northumberland, before returning home. Caught up with the Black Scoter at Chiswick but no luck with the Bonaparte's on Holy Island. Great to see imm Glaucous Gull on trip, but generally quiet. #NEbirding
October 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Moved down from Scotland, for a few days in Northumberland, before returning home. Caught up with the Black Scoter at Chiswick but no luck with the Bonaparte's on Holy Island. Great to see imm Glaucous Gull on trip, but generally quiet. #NEbirding
Well, made it in time to see this beauty at Musselburgh. Sweating over the last few weeks, it left it appears, at couple days later. A supporting cast of Velvet Scoter, RN Grebe, YBW and Pom Skua over a few days around Lothian. #birdingscotland @gavinchambers.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Well, made it in time to see this beauty at Musselburgh. Sweating over the last few weeks, it left it appears, at couple days later. A supporting cast of Velvet Scoter, RN Grebe, YBW and Pom Skua over a few days around Lothian. #birdingscotland @gavinchambers.bsky.social
Whilst birding in eastern England, my wife sent me this from Bulgaria, very envious as always wanted to see one.
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Whilst birding in eastern England, my wife sent me this from Bulgaria, very envious as always wanted to see one.
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The First Minister must stop this project.
There's still time to stop Berwick Bank...but only if we make ourselves heard.
Add your voice and tell them.
Scotland can lead on renewables without sacrificing its seabirds. 👇
www.seabird.org/cancel-berwi...
There's still time to stop Berwick Bank...but only if we make ourselves heard.
Add your voice and tell them.
Scotland can lead on renewables without sacrificing its seabirds. 👇
www.seabird.org/cancel-berwi...
Take Action Now - Cancel Berwick Bank
Please take action now - tell SSE and the First Minister to Cancel Berwick Bank.
www.seabird.org
October 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
The First Minister must stop this project.
There's still time to stop Berwick Bank...but only if we make ourselves heard.
Add your voice and tell them.
Scotland can lead on renewables without sacrificing its seabirds. 👇
www.seabird.org/cancel-berwi...
There's still time to stop Berwick Bank...but only if we make ourselves heard.
Add your voice and tell them.
Scotland can lead on renewables without sacrificing its seabirds. 👇
www.seabird.org/cancel-berwi...
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Berwick Bank could kill more birds than any other windfarm on Earth, devastating colonies of Gannets, Puffins and Kittiwakes off Scotland’s coast. 🚨
We support renewables, but not at catastrophic cost to seabirds already in crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JE...
We support renewables, but not at catastrophic cost to seabirds already in crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JE...
Add your voice to a campaign to stop an offshore wind farm that threatens seabirds
YouTube video by RSPB
www.youtube.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Berwick Bank could kill more birds than any other windfarm on Earth, devastating colonies of Gannets, Puffins and Kittiwakes off Scotland’s coast. 🚨
We support renewables, but not at catastrophic cost to seabirds already in crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JE...
We support renewables, but not at catastrophic cost to seabirds already in crisis.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JE...
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Black-throated Diver : One offshore from the Isle of Whithorn late pm.
Oct.20/2025🕒08:37pm
Oct.20/2025🕒08:37pm
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Black-throated Diver : One offshore from the Isle of Whithorn late pm.
Oct.20/2025🕒08:37pm
Oct.20/2025🕒08:37pm
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Wigtown LNR : 20/10/25. Water Rail this morning. Kev & Sue Richardson.
Oct.20/2025🕒09:00pm
Oct.20/2025🕒09:00pm
October 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Wigtown LNR : 20/10/25. Water Rail this morning. Kev & Sue Richardson.
Oct.20/2025🕒09:00pm
Oct.20/2025🕒09:00pm
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Fieldfare : Coming to your garden soon... 2 at Makbrar Meuse, Dumfries. Reported by Simon Burton.
Oct.19/2025🕒09:30am
Oct.19/2025🕒09:30am
October 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Fieldfare : Coming to your garden soon... 2 at Makbrar Meuse, Dumfries. Reported by Simon Burton.
Oct.19/2025🕒09:30am
Oct.19/2025🕒09:30am
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Sooty shearwater east 1524, juv pom skua east 1550 at the Bill
October 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Sooty shearwater east 1524, juv pom skua east 1550 at the Bill
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First Fieldfare back at Pagham hbr
October 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
First Fieldfare back at Pagham hbr
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Some incredible news has hit the headlines today. 📰
A new population of one of the world’s oldest living animal species, the Tadpole Shrimp, has returned to RSPB Scotland’s Mersehead nature reserve after 75 years. 🕰️
🧵
📸: Roger Key
A new population of one of the world’s oldest living animal species, the Tadpole Shrimp, has returned to RSPB Scotland’s Mersehead nature reserve after 75 years. 🕰️
🧵
📸: Roger Key
October 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Some incredible news has hit the headlines today. 📰
A new population of one of the world’s oldest living animal species, the Tadpole Shrimp, has returned to RSPB Scotland’s Mersehead nature reserve after 75 years. 🕰️
🧵
📸: Roger Key
A new population of one of the world’s oldest living animal species, the Tadpole Shrimp, has returned to RSPB Scotland’s Mersehead nature reserve after 75 years. 🕰️
🧵
📸: Roger Key
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Conservation Pays Off for England's Smallest Seabird
RSPB projects and local volunteers deliver the strongest breeding results for Little Terns in over half a century. @Natures_Voice #seabirds
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/C...
RSPB projects and local volunteers deliver the strongest breeding results for Little Terns in over half a century. @Natures_Voice #seabirds
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/C...
Conservation Pays Off for England’s Smallest Seabird
RSPB projects and local volunteers deliver the strongest breeding results for Little Terns in over half a century
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Conservation Pays Off for England's Smallest Seabird
RSPB projects and local volunteers deliver the strongest breeding results for Little Terns in over half a century. @Natures_Voice #seabirds
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/C...
RSPB projects and local volunteers deliver the strongest breeding results for Little Terns in over half a century. @Natures_Voice #seabirds
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/C...
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Mein Water : 3 Green Sandpiper standing with 3 Common Snipe and 2 remaining Common Sandpiper this morning. Also a Kingfisher and a fly over Red Kite. Bill Jamieson.
Oct.12/2025🕒11:55am
Oct.12/2025🕒11:55am
October 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Mein Water : 3 Green Sandpiper standing with 3 Common Snipe and 2 remaining Common Sandpiper this morning. Also a Kingfisher and a fly over Red Kite. Bill Jamieson.
Oct.12/2025🕒11:55am
Oct.12/2025🕒11:55am
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Today is #WorldMigratoryBirdDay !🌏🐦
Celebrate the wonder of bird migration by birdwatching in your local area – every bird counts!🙌
You can contribute to conservation science and raise vital funds!🔎
Want to get involved? There’s still time!
Find out more👉 www.birdlife.org/getcounting/ #WMBD2025
Celebrate the wonder of bird migration by birdwatching in your local area – every bird counts!🙌
You can contribute to conservation science and raise vital funds!🔎
Want to get involved? There’s still time!
Find out more👉 www.birdlife.org/getcounting/ #WMBD2025
October 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Today is #WorldMigratoryBirdDay !🌏🐦
Celebrate the wonder of bird migration by birdwatching in your local area – every bird counts!🙌
You can contribute to conservation science and raise vital funds!🔎
Want to get involved? There’s still time!
Find out more👉 www.birdlife.org/getcounting/ #WMBD2025
Celebrate the wonder of bird migration by birdwatching in your local area – every bird counts!🙌
You can contribute to conservation science and raise vital funds!🔎
Want to get involved? There’s still time!
Find out more👉 www.birdlife.org/getcounting/ #WMBD2025