Steve Williams
@steveonhilbre.bsky.social
Birder, ringer, husband, dad of four, kopite & foodie
Family, birds, footy, travel and food what more is there 🤷♂️
hilbrebirdobs.blogspot.com
Family, birds, footy, travel and food what more is there 🤷♂️
hilbrebirdobs.blogspot.com
Some more nice birds from late October on #StAgnes … #RingOuzel #Greenshank with #Redshank #Kingfisher and #BlackRedstart #Ukbirding
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Some more nice birds from late October on #StAgnes … #RingOuzel #Greenshank with #Redshank #Kingfisher and #BlackRedstart #Ukbirding
St Agnes for our usual end of October week was fairly quiet but we managed a few good birds on the islands and the mainland - #BuffbelliedPipit #Bluethroat #Hoopoe and #SteppeGreyShrike #UkBirding
November 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
St Agnes for our usual end of October week was fairly quiet but we managed a few good birds on the islands and the mainland - #BuffbelliedPipit #Bluethroat #Hoopoe and #SteppeGreyShrike #UkBirding
St Agnes for a few days mid month … Mourning Dove (with Collared), Lapland Bunting, American BuffbelliedPipit and Hoopoe were among the highlights #UKBirding
October 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
St Agnes for a few days mid month … Mourning Dove (with Collared), Lapland Bunting, American BuffbelliedPipit and Hoopoe were among the highlights #UKBirding
The seawatching over the weekend @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social was great thanks to StormAmy … I still forget to post on BlueSky 🤦🏻♂️ must try harder! Video of Leach’s Petrel #UKBirding
October 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The seawatching over the weekend @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social was great thanks to StormAmy … I still forget to post on BlueSky 🤦🏻♂️ must try harder! Video of Leach’s Petrel #UKBirding
This #SlavonianGrebe was found on West Kirby Marine Lake last night by John Willams, fortunately it was still there this morning when I checked the lake out #UKBirding
September 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
This #SlavonianGrebe was found on West Kirby Marine Lake last night by John Willams, fortunately it was still there this morning when I checked the lake out #UKBirding
Always a joy to hear and see the first #YellowbrowedWarbler of the autumn and this morning’s bird was in the heligoland @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social our joint second earliest ever. Autumn has properly arrived this week 🍂💥 also at least 20 Chiffchaff on the island today and a smart male Stonechat too 😍
September 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Always a joy to hear and see the first #YellowbrowedWarbler of the autumn and this morning’s bird was in the heligoland @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social our joint second earliest ever. Autumn has properly arrived this week 🍂💥 also at least 20 Chiffchaff on the island today and a smart male Stonechat too 😍
Delighted to see this #GreyPhalarope out on the edge of the East Hoyle sandbank yesterday evening. Thanks to Tim Kinch for the shout 🙏
September 23, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Delighted to see this #GreyPhalarope out on the edge of the East Hoyle sandbank yesterday evening. Thanks to Tim Kinch for the shout 🙏
Also seen @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social earlier this week two Sabine’s Gulls (video of juvenile from last Sept 🎥), Leach’s Petrels (34 on Tuesday) and a Great Northern Diver
September 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Also seen @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social earlier this week two Sabine’s Gulls (video of juvenile from last Sept 🎥), Leach’s Petrels (34 on Tuesday) and a Great Northern Diver
Some great seawatching earlier this week - three species of skua (Arctic,Bonxie and Pom) plus BlackTern
September 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Some great seawatching earlier this week - three species of skua (Arctic,Bonxie and Pom) plus BlackTern
Reposted by Steve Williams
Call in at the Bird Observatories Council stand (www.birdobscouncil.org.uk) and hear about the great work of bird observatories around Britain and Ireland and what the BOC is all about @globalbirdfair.bsky.social
July 11, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Call in at the Bird Observatories Council stand (www.birdobscouncil.org.uk) and hear about the great work of bird observatories around Britain and Ireland and what the BOC is all about @globalbirdfair.bsky.social
Back on the patch @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social … #UKBirding
April 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Back on the patch @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social … #UKBirding
April 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A great holiday on #StAgnes and the #IslesofScilly
April 19, 2025 at 8:49 AM
A great holiday on #StAgnes and the #IslesofScilly
What a glorious day to arrive on the Isles of Scilly - always a thrill just to be here ☀️🏝️🌅📸
April 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
What a glorious day to arrive on the Isles of Scilly - always a thrill just to be here ☀️🏝️🌅📸
A great day on Wirral started @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social with a fall of Chiffchaffs (including a British ringed control), my first HouseMartin of the year and our second Osprey of the day circled the Obs itself. Later I called in a couple of times to see the GreatGreyShrike at Leasowe #UKBirding
April 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
A great day on Wirral started @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social with a fall of Chiffchaffs (including a British ringed control), my first HouseMartin of the year and our second Osprey of the day circled the Obs itself. Later I called in a couple of times to see the GreatGreyShrike at Leasowe #UKBirding
The solar eclipse ☀️🌙⛅️ from the magical island 🏝️ today @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social
March 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The solar eclipse ☀️🌙⛅️ from the magical island 🏝️ today @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social
Reposted by Steve Williams
Non stop at @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social set, rise, eclipse and more maintenance.
March 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Non stop at @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social set, rise, eclipse and more maintenance.
A great couple of days @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social with our first #BlackRedstart of the year on Friday and first LittleGulls of spring on Saturday being the highlights #UKBirding
March 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A great couple of days @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social with our first #BlackRedstart of the year on Friday and first LittleGulls of spring on Saturday being the highlights #UKBirding
First #Wheatear of the year @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social found by @hilbre.bsky.social yesterday … spring has sprung! 💥 interestingly a very early female
March 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
First #Wheatear of the year @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social found by @hilbre.bsky.social yesterday … spring has sprung! 💥 interestingly a very early female
Great to catch up with the first #BlackScoter for #Wirral yesterday morning off the East Hoyle sandbank, Hoylake #UKBirding
March 7, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Great to catch up with the first #BlackScoter for #Wirral yesterday morning off the East Hoyle sandbank, Hoylake #UKBirding
Reposted by Steve Williams
It's fascinating to follow the lives of individual #birds, which is made possible through #BirdRinging. If you see a bird with a ring you can report it via the Euring portal ➡️ bit.ly/_euring Doing this contributes valuable data to our research, and you get to find out about the bird's history too. 😀
Details came back today for a colour ringed redshank we had on the Colne at Fingringhoe Wick EWT in January. It was ringed in Jan of 2012 (!) on the Orwell and recorded 29 times since, all of which before our sighting were on the Orwell. Not a bird that moves far, then.
February 24, 2025 at 3:22 PM
It's fascinating to follow the lives of individual #birds, which is made possible through #BirdRinging. If you see a bird with a ring you can report it via the Euring portal ➡️ bit.ly/_euring Doing this contributes valuable data to our research, and you get to find out about the bird's history too. 😀
Last few hours on Islay and we squeezed in our second delightfully dainty Richardson’s Cackling Goose of the week, this one at Cornabus … a lovely way to finish another brilliant trip 🎥
February 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Last few hours on Islay and we squeezed in our second delightfully dainty Richardson’s Cackling Goose of the week, this one at Cornabus … a lovely way to finish another brilliant trip 🎥
Not been a bad week for geese either - as ever the Barnacle and Greenland White-fronted Geese that make Islay special but also nice to catch up with the adult RedbreastedGoose, Russian White-front, one of the RichardsonsCacklingGoose and a leucistic Barnie as well as PbBrent and Greylag) #UKbirding
February 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Not been a bad week for geese either - as ever the Barnacle and Greenland White-fronted Geese that make Islay special but also nice to catch up with the adult RedbreastedGoose, Russian White-front, one of the RichardsonsCacklingGoose and a leucistic Barnie as well as PbBrent and Greylag) #UKbirding
It’s been an incredible week for eagles on #Islay with many WhitetailedEagle (up to six a day) around the Loch Gruinart area and up three GoldenEagle per day mainly along the road to Ardnave #UKBirding
February 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
It’s been an incredible week for eagles on #Islay with many WhitetailedEagle (up to six a day) around the Loch Gruinart area and up three GoldenEagle per day mainly along the road to Ardnave #UKBirding
Reposted by Steve Williams
Our first post here.
A great weekend for the BOC AGM hosted by @btobirds.bsky.social
Superb turnout with 16 Obs represented from Fair Isle in the north to @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social in the south. Thanks to the BTO Staff, the Theford Bell Inn & the Thetford Raj. Excellent service all round
A great weekend for the BOC AGM hosted by @btobirds.bsky.social
Superb turnout with 16 Obs represented from Fair Isle in the north to @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social in the south. Thanks to the BTO Staff, the Theford Bell Inn & the Thetford Raj. Excellent service all round
February 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Our first post here.
A great weekend for the BOC AGM hosted by @btobirds.bsky.social
Superb turnout with 16 Obs represented from Fair Isle in the north to @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social in the south. Thanks to the BTO Staff, the Theford Bell Inn & the Thetford Raj. Excellent service all round
A great weekend for the BOC AGM hosted by @btobirds.bsky.social
Superb turnout with 16 Obs represented from Fair Isle in the north to @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social in the south. Thanks to the BTO Staff, the Theford Bell Inn & the Thetford Raj. Excellent service all round