Best day so far this autumn for me. Lovely wander around Holkham & Overy with @sconebirding.bsky.social busy skies with 300+ Redwing, 40+ Brambling, 2500+ Starlings, 1-2s Fieldfare, Siskin, 20+ Blackbirds, flushed a SE Owl, Peregrine & 2 Yellow-browed Warblers.

Went to see the stunning Turkestan Shrike today with @sconebirding.bsky.social, seeing it catch beetles, tipulids and even a hawker dragonfly. Also lots of singing Dartford Warblers, a Woodlark and 24 Crossbills. But no joy with the Zitting Cisticolas so couldn't pull off a two-tick day #UKBirding

Thank you so much @btobirds.bsky.social for another BRILLIANT Bird Sound ID course! My grandson (Indy) and I went to a spot on the River Fowey to see if we could hear any of the warblers. We heard loads of Willow Warblers... and we think/hope the last bird in this clip is a Garden Warbler? #birds

Pick your own superlative for this morning's first-calendar-year Caspian Gull at @btobirds.bsky.social #NunneryLakes reserve this morning. 😄
#birding #ukbirding #norfolkbirding

Any tips to help focus your concentration in the field? I have a standard game: How long can I keep the species total on my #BirdTrack list at/above my total minutes #birding? Today, I started at 06:50 and ran aground at 43 spp/07:33. Need something for beyond that!

Admittedly, it might just be me.

It may not be a coastal migrant-magnet, but I'm lucky that I can walk my patch from home. 15 #BirdTrack lists so far in Sept: Green Sandpiper every time, 3 Whinchat, Swift 13/9, Marsh Harrier, Woodlark, 13 Kingfisher recs, 2 each of Great White Egret & Hobby. #lowcarbonbirding #NunneryLakes #birding

A touch of frost in the Brecks, for the third consecutive day. ❄️

Apparently, 'kleptoparasitism' doesn't qualify as a word with multiple letter t's and containing p, o, l.
I'm not angry – just disappointed. @levparikian.bsky.social

Do you ever get that sense of dowitchà vu?

Uplifting to be surrounded by common migrants yesterday!
For the record, not *all* birds face left on Scolt Head.
#birding #norfolkbirding

Surely *one* of the migrant birds that arrived in East Anglia over the last 72 hours will have been dropped into the #NunneryLakes by the pre-dawn rain?! 🙏 Pretty sure the 6 Green Sandpipers were already here...
#birding

⚠️ Warning @daily-mail.bsky.social & anyone buying Shutterstock bird pics: many 📷 by Tahseenamjad are AI-generated! This is NOT Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus), but rather Big Fictional Gull (L. madeupensis). Shame; the other images in this piece are right: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

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Our online Waterbird ID course, run by our expert team, could be just the thing for you! Discover dates and book a place ➡️ www.bto.org/training #Ornithology #BirdID

How accurate do I find the forecast? Let's just say I wish I'd ignored it and worn a raincoat...
#birding...

The results are in: an equal number of RPs (2) and Likes (9) on both platforms! However, £40 donated by kind folk who saw this here (thank you! 😍), £0 via X.

The sample size is inconclusive, but perhaps indicates people's willingness to act on what they see on this new, more positive platform?

A great Knot find by @arcanelove.bsky.social at
@btobirds.bsky.social #NunneryLakes yesterday evening (not to be confused with a Great Knot find)!

As usual, the local Lapwings were intolerant of anything different.

A very early start for high tide at Snettisham with @sconebirding.bsky.social. A good selection of waders inc 3+ Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Little Stint, 8 Spotted Redshank, and c150 Med Gulls #UKbirding

Doing my first (only?!) triathlon on Sunday, raising much-needed funds for The Red Hen Project. What better way to test the power of this platform against 'the one that shall not be mentioned'?! 🙏

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