John Poyner
@rothiemoon.bsky.social
Wildlife Guide & Birder based in the Scottish Highlands. Highland SOC Bird Recorder. Owner www.highlandnature.co.uk
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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.
Please share ! This one just needs knocking on the head once and for all.
📢Help save Coul Links!
Once again, this beautiful place is threatened by plans for a golf course which would do irreparable damage to rare habitats and wildlife. 🌱🦆🐦🦋🪰
Join us in sending a message to Scottish Ministers to stand up for nature. Add your voice: action.rspb.org.uk/page/166270/...
Once again, this beautiful place is threatened by plans for a golf course which would do irreparable damage to rare habitats and wildlife. 🌱🦆🐦🦋🪰
Join us in sending a message to Scottish Ministers to stand up for nature. Add your voice: action.rspb.org.uk/page/166270/...
September 2, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Please share ! This one just needs knocking on the head once and for all.
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Sail away this autumn! Experience autumn migration in Scotland’s Western Isles. Last two places. #Birding #birdwatching #wildlife #wildlifephotography
highlandnature.co.uk
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August 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Sail away this autumn! Experience autumn migration in Scotland’s Western Isles. Last two places. #Birding #birdwatching #wildlife #wildlifephotography
highlandnature.co.uk
highlandnature.co.uk
This one has stumped me, at 3 seconds in. PUC didn’t even give a guess, it was the Goldcrest it picked up. #BWPUC
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Soundscape August 17, 2025 08:33 @ Abernethy PUC
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August 17, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This one has stumped me, at 3 seconds in. PUC didn’t even give a guess, it was the Goldcrest it picked up. #BWPUC
app.birdweather.com/soundscapes/...
app.birdweather.com/soundscapes/...
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August Newsletter mailchi.mp/835c24399925...
August 5, 2025 at 9:01 AM
August Newsletter mailchi.mp/835c24399925...
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Join us this autumn for some spectacular Highland scenery & birding. #BirdingTours #ScotlandNature #BirdingScotland #EcoTravel #WildlifeWatching #HighlandNature
August 1, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Join us this autumn for some spectacular Highland scenery & birding. #BirdingTours #ScotlandNature #BirdingScotland #EcoTravel #WildlifeWatching #HighlandNature
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This is where a pair of Aberdeenshire #Nightjars are nesting & roosting. Not a great choice -a Red #Deer highway! Lucky the eggs/young didn't get trampled - or eaten by deer.
@scottishbirding.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social @mammalsociety.bsky.social @nesmammals.bsky.social #birdingscotland
@scottishbirding.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social @mammalsociety.bsky.social @nesmammals.bsky.social #birdingscotland
July 31, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This is where a pair of Aberdeenshire #Nightjars are nesting & roosting. Not a great choice -a Red #Deer highway! Lucky the eggs/young didn't get trampled - or eaten by deer.
@scottishbirding.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social @mammalsociety.bsky.social @nesmammals.bsky.social #birdingscotland
@scottishbirding.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social @mammalsociety.bsky.social @nesmammals.bsky.social #birdingscotland
Rook doing a pretty good impression of Common Crane ! #puc app.birdweather.com/soundscapes/...
Soundscape July 31, 2025 07:04 @ Abernethy PUC
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July 31, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Rook doing a pretty good impression of Common Crane ! #puc app.birdweather.com/soundscapes/...
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Scottish ministers are being urged to rethink a 'poor decision' to grant a licence to kill hundreds of gannet chicks 👇
July 16, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Scottish ministers are being urged to rethink a 'poor decision' to grant a licence to kill hundreds of gannet chicks 👇
About time this ridiculous “tradition” was forgotten. 500 Gannets to the slaughter for the sake of an all male summer booze up. Disgrace the licence was granted.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Scotland's last surviving guga hunt to resume this summer
The controversial harvest of young gannets has not been held since 2021 due to concerns around avian flu.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
About time this ridiculous “tradition” was forgotten. 500 Gannets to the slaughter for the sake of an all male summer booze up. Disgrace the licence was granted.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
No mention at all by national media. It’s only a 15km long fire in the Highlands.
June 29, 2025 at 12:05 PM
No mention at all by national media. It’s only a 15km long fire in the Highlands.
Huge fires currently burning north of Grantown on Dava Moor.
June 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Huge fires currently burning north of Grantown on Dava Moor.
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June 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Seeing as how the action figure pack is in vogue just now, was sent this earlier.
Seems legit eh - maxed out credit card, bird guide for those tricky to ID common birds that never usually get looked at, sat nav, twat Quattro, and half a brain...............
#UKbirding #twitching
Seems legit eh - maxed out credit card, bird guide for those tricky to ID common birds that never usually get looked at, sat nav, twat Quattro, and half a brain...............
#UKbirding #twitching
April 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Seeing as how the action figure pack is in vogue just now, was sent this earlier.
Seems legit eh - maxed out credit card, bird guide for those tricky to ID common birds that never usually get looked at, sat nav, twat Quattro, and half a brain...............
#UKbirding #twitching
Seems legit eh - maxed out credit card, bird guide for those tricky to ID common birds that never usually get looked at, sat nav, twat Quattro, and half a brain...............
#UKbirding #twitching
Clearly the muir burn fraternity don’t seem to understand the meaning of “High Wildfire Risk”.
April 3, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Clearly the muir burn fraternity don’t seem to understand the meaning of “High Wildfire Risk”.
April 3, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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The gulls are back inland as winter slips away.
March 15, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The gulls are back inland as winter slips away.
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Still winter at the top of Cairngorm !
March 15, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Still winter at the top of Cairngorm !
Stumbled across this House of Lords Capercaillie discussion from 1999. An interesting read for anyone interested in their history in Scotland ! api.parliament.uk/historic-han...
Capercaillie (Hansard, 28 April 1999)
Capercaillie (Hansard, 28 April 1999)
api.parliament.uk
February 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Stumbled across this House of Lords Capercaillie discussion from 1999. An interesting read for anyone interested in their history in Scotland ! api.parliament.uk/historic-han...
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Surviving the cold.
February 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Surviving the cold.
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December 19, 2024 at 12:33 PM