@richthomhull.bsky.social
Mainly here for the birds.
UK lifelist #303 white-throated needletail
UK lifelist #303 white-throated needletail
#BigGardenBirdwatch
Saturday morning 🌄
Despite Sparrowhawk & buzzard disruption briefly, a healthy total 40 of 15 species.
7 Long-tailed tit most difficult to count 🍭 😆
Saturday morning 🌄
Despite Sparrowhawk & buzzard disruption briefly, a healthy total 40 of 15 species.
7 Long-tailed tit most difficult to count 🍭 😆
January 24, 2026 at 12:17 PM
#BigGardenBirdwatch
Saturday morning 🌄
Despite Sparrowhawk & buzzard disruption briefly, a healthy total 40 of 15 species.
7 Long-tailed tit most difficult to count 🍭 😆
Saturday morning 🌄
Despite Sparrowhawk & buzzard disruption briefly, a healthy total 40 of 15 species.
7 Long-tailed tit most difficult to count 🍭 😆
Wet, windy &
on higher ground foggy around Wykeham & Scarborough.
6 species nfy.
Marsh tit, treecreeper, nuthatch, turnstone and in the harbour Red-throated and a great northern diver
@nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @longnabbirder.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
🪶
on higher ground foggy around Wykeham & Scarborough.
6 species nfy.
Marsh tit, treecreeper, nuthatch, turnstone and in the harbour Red-throated and a great northern diver
@nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @longnabbirder.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
🪶
January 23, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Wet, windy &
on higher ground foggy around Wykeham & Scarborough.
6 species nfy.
Marsh tit, treecreeper, nuthatch, turnstone and in the harbour Red-throated and a great northern diver
@nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @longnabbirder.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
🪶
on higher ground foggy around Wykeham & Scarborough.
6 species nfy.
Marsh tit, treecreeper, nuthatch, turnstone and in the harbour Red-throated and a great northern diver
@nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @longnabbirder.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
🪶
One of two bittern seen at @northcavewet.bsky.social by @mjthom.bsky.social
Also great spotted woodpecker amongst many others
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
Also great spotted woodpecker amongst many others
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 6:55 PM
One of two bittern seen at @northcavewet.bsky.social by @mjthom.bsky.social
Also great spotted woodpecker amongst many others
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
Also great spotted woodpecker amongst many others
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
North Duffield carrs:
Scaup, dunlin, redshank, great egret, pintail, wigeon, stonechat marsh harrier and with patience and rain eased briefly the magnificent white tailed eagle appeared out of the gloom. Flew from River bank to distant tree ~12.. honest😶🌫️
@ldvnnr.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
Scaup, dunlin, redshank, great egret, pintail, wigeon, stonechat marsh harrier and with patience and rain eased briefly the magnificent white tailed eagle appeared out of the gloom. Flew from River bank to distant tree ~12.. honest😶🌫️
@ldvnnr.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
January 18, 2026 at 10:08 PM
North Duffield carrs:
Scaup, dunlin, redshank, great egret, pintail, wigeon, stonechat marsh harrier and with patience and rain eased briefly the magnificent white tailed eagle appeared out of the gloom. Flew from River bank to distant tree ~12.. honest😶🌫️
@ldvnnr.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
Scaup, dunlin, redshank, great egret, pintail, wigeon, stonechat marsh harrier and with patience and rain eased briefly the magnificent white tailed eagle appeared out of the gloom. Flew from River bank to distant tree ~12.. honest😶🌫️
@ldvnnr.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social
Just what I said, as the One show is promoting it.
Could have helped protecting Hawks in the wild.
Could have helped protecting Hawks in the wild.
There is a lot of talk about this new film, 'H is for Hawk'. I read Helen MacDonald's book upon which this is based, and it left me very sad. I much prefer to see Goshawks away from people, in wild landscapes, where they are free. Not tethered to people, tamed and broken.
January 16, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Just what I said, as the One show is promoting it.
Could have helped protecting Hawks in the wild.
Could have helped protecting Hawks in the wild.
Highlights from @tophilllow.bsky.social 3 russian white-fronted geese first picked up on size as they flew by with greylags, then they slid in on the ice at Watton.
Quick snap of redpoll before they flew off, whoopers near Wilfholme.
@mjthom.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social
Quick snap of redpoll before they flew off, whoopers near Wilfholme.
@mjthom.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social
January 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Highlights from @tophilllow.bsky.social 3 russian white-fronted geese first picked up on size as they flew by with greylags, then they slid in on the ice at Watton.
Quick snap of redpoll before they flew off, whoopers near Wilfholme.
@mjthom.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social
Quick snap of redpoll before they flew off, whoopers near Wilfholme.
@mjthom.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social
A very icey @ldvnnr.bsky.social on Tuesday.
Didn't catch up with the white tailed eagle this visit.
Nice to see great egret & little at East Cottingwith.
Most other birds seen were flying along the river from Aughton, marsh harrier buzzard & wildfowl incl pintails wigeon & teal.
@mjthom.bsky.social
Didn't catch up with the white tailed eagle this visit.
Nice to see great egret & little at East Cottingwith.
Most other birds seen were flying along the river from Aughton, marsh harrier buzzard & wildfowl incl pintails wigeon & teal.
@mjthom.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM
A very icey @ldvnnr.bsky.social on Tuesday.
Didn't catch up with the white tailed eagle this visit.
Nice to see great egret & little at East Cottingwith.
Most other birds seen were flying along the river from Aughton, marsh harrier buzzard & wildfowl incl pintails wigeon & teal.
@mjthom.bsky.social
Didn't catch up with the white tailed eagle this visit.
Nice to see great egret & little at East Cottingwith.
Most other birds seen were flying along the river from Aughton, marsh harrier buzzard & wildfowl incl pintails wigeon & teal.
@mjthom.bsky.social
@flamboroughbird.bsky.social @northcavewet.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social 2025 list ended on 210, same as last year. Most Yorkshire or Lincs, with a trip to NW Scotland in Spring.
Outstanding birds topped by the White-throated needletail.
Eastern black redstart
Outstanding birds topped by the White-throated needletail.
Eastern black redstart
January 1, 2026 at 1:03 PM
@flamboroughbird.bsky.social @northcavewet.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social 2025 list ended on 210, same as last year. Most Yorkshire or Lincs, with a trip to NW Scotland in Spring.
Outstanding birds topped by the White-throated needletail.
Eastern black redstart
Outstanding birds topped by the White-throated needletail.
Eastern black redstart
White tailed Eagle short flight (west) from N Duffield carrs at 9:15.
Currently not viewable
@ldvnnr.bsky.social
@yorkbirding.bsky.social
Currently not viewable
@ldvnnr.bsky.social
@yorkbirding.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 9:36 AM
White tailed Eagle short flight (west) from N Duffield carrs at 9:15.
Currently not viewable
@ldvnnr.bsky.social
@yorkbirding.bsky.social
Currently not viewable
@ldvnnr.bsky.social
@yorkbirding.bsky.social
7 geese of 4 species, Tundra Bean, 3 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 pinks & barnacle in a wet field Cloughton.
GGShrike a no show.
Bar tailed godwit, turnstone redshank & purple sandpiper Scalby Mills
#Yorkshirebirding
@nybirdnews.bsky.social
@northyorksbirds.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
GGShrike a no show.
Bar tailed godwit, turnstone redshank & purple sandpiper Scalby Mills
#Yorkshirebirding
@nybirdnews.bsky.social
@northyorksbirds.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
7 geese of 4 species, Tundra Bean, 3 Russian White-fronted Geese, 2 pinks & barnacle in a wet field Cloughton.
GGShrike a no show.
Bar tailed godwit, turnstone redshank & purple sandpiper Scalby Mills
#Yorkshirebirding
@nybirdnews.bsky.social
@northyorksbirds.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
GGShrike a no show.
Bar tailed godwit, turnstone redshank & purple sandpiper Scalby Mills
#Yorkshirebirding
@nybirdnews.bsky.social
@northyorksbirds.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
Fantastic birds around Welwick & Kilnsea E. Yorkshire
Topped off by this short eared owl late on.
2 hen harriers & marsh, merlin, kestrels, buzzard, pinkfeet, brent & greylag geese. 3 great & little egrets, bl t godwit, redshank, lapwings & golden plover
#spurnbirds @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social
Topped off by this short eared owl late on.
2 hen harriers & marsh, merlin, kestrels, buzzard, pinkfeet, brent & greylag geese. 3 great & little egrets, bl t godwit, redshank, lapwings & golden plover
#spurnbirds @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social
December 28, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Fantastic birds around Welwick & Kilnsea E. Yorkshire
Topped off by this short eared owl late on.
2 hen harriers & marsh, merlin, kestrels, buzzard, pinkfeet, brent & greylag geese. 3 great & little egrets, bl t godwit, redshank, lapwings & golden plover
#spurnbirds @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social
Topped off by this short eared owl late on.
2 hen harriers & marsh, merlin, kestrels, buzzard, pinkfeet, brent & greylag geese. 3 great & little egrets, bl t godwit, redshank, lapwings & golden plover
#spurnbirds @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social
#Firstbirdofmyday a female Bullfinch on the sunflower seeds, through my new optics in great early light.
#What's yours
East Yorkshire birds 🪶
#What's yours
East Yorkshire birds 🪶
First bird of my day: a kestrel: the fluttering ribbon of wings, creating a perfect silhouette above the holly. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours
December 26, 2025 at 8:57 AM
#Firstbirdofmyday a female Bullfinch on the sunflower seeds, through my new optics in great early light.
#What's yours
East Yorkshire birds 🪶
#What's yours
East Yorkshire birds 🪶
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This is one of our favorites!
December 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This is one of our favorites!
Whooper swan family of six near Wroot. @lincsbirding.bsky.social @s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social 🪶
No sign of the black throated diver at Westwoodside. Redpoll, Goldcrest & chiffchaff best of the rest.
No sign of the black throated diver at Westwoodside. Redpoll, Goldcrest & chiffchaff best of the rest.
December 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Whooper swan family of six near Wroot. @lincsbirding.bsky.social @s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social 🪶
No sign of the black throated diver at Westwoodside. Redpoll, Goldcrest & chiffchaff best of the rest.
No sign of the black throated diver at Westwoodside. Redpoll, Goldcrest & chiffchaff best of the rest.
Dry land at a premium @ldvnnr.bsky.social North Duffield Carrs.
Pair of disrant peregrine taking time out from terrorising the flocks of lapwing & golden plover. Marsh harriers, buzzard stonechat.
Dunlin, heron, pintails, pochard, wigeon, teal, Fieldfares & Redwing. @nybirdnews.bsky.social
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Pair of disrant peregrine taking time out from terrorising the flocks of lapwing & golden plover. Marsh harriers, buzzard stonechat.
Dunlin, heron, pintails, pochard, wigeon, teal, Fieldfares & Redwing. @nybirdnews.bsky.social
🪶
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Dry land at a premium @ldvnnr.bsky.social North Duffield Carrs.
Pair of disrant peregrine taking time out from terrorising the flocks of lapwing & golden plover. Marsh harriers, buzzard stonechat.
Dunlin, heron, pintails, pochard, wigeon, teal, Fieldfares & Redwing. @nybirdnews.bsky.social
🪶
Pair of disrant peregrine taking time out from terrorising the flocks of lapwing & golden plover. Marsh harriers, buzzard stonechat.
Dunlin, heron, pintails, pochard, wigeon, teal, Fieldfares & Redwing. @nybirdnews.bsky.social
🪶
In between the rain @tophilllow.bsky.social nice to see this Otter hunting at Watton. No smew to be found,
But great numbers of duck incl Goldeneye, pintail, wigeon, teal, pochard etc.
Lots of Redwing & fieldfares in the bushes plus marsh harrier.
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
But great numbers of duck incl Goldeneye, pintail, wigeon, teal, pochard etc.
Lots of Redwing & fieldfares in the bushes plus marsh harrier.
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
In between the rain @tophilllow.bsky.social nice to see this Otter hunting at Watton. No smew to be found,
But great numbers of duck incl Goldeneye, pintail, wigeon, teal, pochard etc.
Lots of Redwing & fieldfares in the bushes plus marsh harrier.
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
But great numbers of duck incl Goldeneye, pintail, wigeon, teal, pochard etc.
Lots of Redwing & fieldfares in the bushes plus marsh harrier.
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
Stunning Eastern black redstart in Scarborough this morning.
@nybirdnews.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social
Almost 9 years since the Skinningrove bird @teesbirds.bsky.social
🪶
@nybirdnews.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social
Almost 9 years since the Skinningrove bird @teesbirds.bsky.social
🪶
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Stunning Eastern black redstart in Scarborough this morning.
@nybirdnews.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social
Almost 9 years since the Skinningrove bird @teesbirds.bsky.social
🪶
@nybirdnews.bsky.social
@rarebirder.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social
Almost 9 years since the Skinningrove bird @teesbirds.bsky.social
🪶
Skipsea to Ulrome this mild morning.
Black redstart f. opposite the church.
Black throated divers 4, great crested grebes 16 on the sea.
20 + bottle nose dolphins feeding close in then south followed by great black gulls.
Out of area for @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social
Black redstart f. opposite the church.
Black throated divers 4, great crested grebes 16 on the sea.
20 + bottle nose dolphins feeding close in then south followed by great black gulls.
Out of area for @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Skipsea to Ulrome this mild morning.
Black redstart f. opposite the church.
Black throated divers 4, great crested grebes 16 on the sea.
20 + bottle nose dolphins feeding close in then south followed by great black gulls.
Out of area for @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social
Black redstart f. opposite the church.
Black throated divers 4, great crested grebes 16 on the sea.
20 + bottle nose dolphins feeding close in then south followed by great black gulls.
Out of area for @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social
Ring necked & alexandrine parakeets in Beech woods S. Yorkshire.
Treecreeper, nuthatch, Jay, Goldcrest Long-tailed tit & fieldfares.
@s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
Treecreeper, nuthatch, Jay, Goldcrest Long-tailed tit & fieldfares.
@s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Ring necked & alexandrine parakeets in Beech woods S. Yorkshire.
Treecreeper, nuthatch, Jay, Goldcrest Long-tailed tit & fieldfares.
@s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
Treecreeper, nuthatch, Jay, Goldcrest Long-tailed tit & fieldfares.
@s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Ring necked & alexandrine parakeets in Beech woods S. Yorkshire.
Treecreeper, nuthatch, Jay, Goldcrest Long-tailed tit & fieldfares.
@s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
Treecreeper, nuthatch, Jay, Goldcrest Long-tailed tit & fieldfares.
@s-yorksbirding.bsky.social @mjthom.bsky.social
A day @flamboroughbird.bsky.social that didn't quite go to script. No dusky but woodcock over whalebone bridge, c scoter & a black redstart at S Landing.
Seawatching pm
Bonxies 2, arctic skua, Manx shearwater, Little gulls, Brent.
Leach's petrel great views slowly north
@rarebirder.bsky.social
🪶
Seawatching pm
Bonxies 2, arctic skua, Manx shearwater, Little gulls, Brent.
Leach's petrel great views slowly north
@rarebirder.bsky.social
🪶
November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
A day @flamboroughbird.bsky.social that didn't quite go to script. No dusky but woodcock over whalebone bridge, c scoter & a black redstart at S Landing.
Seawatching pm
Bonxies 2, arctic skua, Manx shearwater, Little gulls, Brent.
Leach's petrel great views slowly north
@rarebirder.bsky.social
🪶
Seawatching pm
Bonxies 2, arctic skua, Manx shearwater, Little gulls, Brent.
Leach's petrel great views slowly north
@rarebirder.bsky.social
🪶
Skeffling/ Weeton Outstrays @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social Merlin chasing dunlin, blackwits, avocet, curlew, grey & golden plover, Knot, lapwing, Whooper swans 6, l egret, heron, fieldfares Redwing, kestrel, buzzard and these Brent geese
@mjthom.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Skeffling/ Weeton Outstrays @yorkscoastnature.bsky.social Merlin chasing dunlin, blackwits, avocet, curlew, grey & golden plover, Knot, lapwing, Whooper swans 6, l egret, heron, fieldfares Redwing, kestrel, buzzard and these Brent geese
@mjthom.bsky.social
@mjthom.bsky.social
Slavonian & black-necked grebe
November 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Slavonian & black-necked grebe
Enjoyable but windy day, started at Skipsea nice covey of 14 grey partridge, stonechat & skylarks.
Highlight @flamboroughbird.bsky.social a Firecrest thanks @craigcthomas1.bsky.social for finding, last seen at pillbox near golf course willows. Fieldfares and Redwing in small flocks in off
Highlight @flamboroughbird.bsky.social a Firecrest thanks @craigcthomas1.bsky.social for finding, last seen at pillbox near golf course willows. Fieldfares and Redwing in small flocks in off
October 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Enjoyable but windy day, started at Skipsea nice covey of 14 grey partridge, stonechat & skylarks.
Highlight @flamboroughbird.bsky.social a Firecrest thanks @craigcthomas1.bsky.social for finding, last seen at pillbox near golf course willows. Fieldfares and Redwing in small flocks in off
Highlight @flamboroughbird.bsky.social a Firecrest thanks @craigcthomas1.bsky.social for finding, last seen at pillbox near golf course willows. Fieldfares and Redwing in small flocks in off