Tom Lane
@tomsconservation.bsky.social
Countryside management, Conservation advisory and Ornithological surveying at your service.
Let’s talk land and wildlife.
Let’s talk land and wildlife.
For those interested in waterbird ID, the BTO have some exciting training sessions coming up www.bto.org/our-work/tra...
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August 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
For those interested in waterbird ID, the BTO have some exciting training sessions coming up www.bto.org/our-work/tra...
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Nipped down to the hides for a while this evening where two Hobbies spent the whole time sat on the grass on Simmonds', terrific to see. Also a few Cattle Egrets, Wood Sand, 9 Green Sands, juvenile islandica, decent number of juvenile Ruffs & 2 Med Gulls.
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#NorfolkBirding
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#NorfolkBirding
August 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Nipped down to the hides for a while this evening where two Hobbies spent the whole time sat on the grass on Simmonds', terrific to see. Also a few Cattle Egrets, Wood Sand, 9 Green Sands, juvenile islandica, decent number of juvenile Ruffs & 2 Med Gulls.
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
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A positive tree planting story!!
This project has transformed the landscape of the area I was born and grew up in.
This project has transformed the landscape of the area I was born and grew up in.
National Forest nears major tree-planting milestone
August 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A positive tree planting story!!
This project has transformed the landscape of the area I was born and grew up in.
This project has transformed the landscape of the area I was born and grew up in.
Just opened the parcel I’ve been eagerly awaiting and wanted to say a huge thank you to @songbirdsurvival.bsky.social , for providing some wonderful literature and informative guides, in readiness for our junior bird surveying event!
August 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Just opened the parcel I’ve been eagerly awaiting and wanted to say a huge thank you to @songbirdsurvival.bsky.social , for providing some wonderful literature and informative guides, in readiness for our junior bird surveying event!
An influx of Peacock Butterflies on the Buddleia today!
August 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
An influx of Peacock Butterflies on the Buddleia today!
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Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶
August 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶
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A new species of Lovebird (Aves, Psittaculidae, Agapornis) from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Cradle of Humankind (Gauteng, South Africa) | www.sciencedirect.co... | Geobios | #ornithology #palaeoecology 🪶
August 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
A new species of Lovebird (Aves, Psittaculidae, Agapornis) from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Cradle of Humankind (Gauteng, South Africa) | www.sciencedirect.co... | Geobios | #ornithology #palaeoecology 🪶
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Says it all really !
May 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Says it all really !
No doubt, the most versatile nesting wader we have in the U.K.
June 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
No doubt, the most versatile nesting wader we have in the U.K.
Was fortunate enough to get this Sedge Warbler song flight right over my head
May 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Was fortunate enough to get this Sedge Warbler song flight right over my head
Hopefully you’ll hear one soon then Matthew, as it sounds like everything else is turning up nicely. Fingers crossed for a successful nesting season
April 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Hopefully you’ll hear one soon then Matthew, as it sounds like everything else is turning up nicely. Fingers crossed for a successful nesting season
First Cuckoo of the year, heard here in the highlands of Sutherland!! Still chilly though, with this easterly wind 🥶
April 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
First Cuckoo of the year, heard here in the highlands of Sutherland!! Still chilly though, with this easterly wind 🥶
First Swallow here in Star of Markinch. To see one already in Fife, four days earlier than my Sussex average over the last twenty five years, is quite indicative of the shift in the seasons! But great to see them back and the weather is set to be fair for more on arrival 😁
April 7, 2025 at 2:05 PM
First Swallow here in Star of Markinch. To see one already in Fife, four days earlier than my Sussex average over the last twenty five years, is quite indicative of the shift in the seasons! But great to see them back and the weather is set to be fair for more on arrival 😁
Recorded my first one of the year on the 20th of March, at Bonar Bridge on the Kyle of Sutherland
April 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Recorded my first one of the year on the 20th of March, at Bonar Bridge on the Kyle of Sutherland
From the wilds of surveying in Sutherland yesterday. Today brings us to the Ise of May on Puffin patrol!
April 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
From the wilds of surveying in Sutherland yesterday. Today brings us to the Ise of May on Puffin patrol!
I heard them first and was like, No Way!! Then way up on a similar flight line to the Pinks, three pairs, clear as day, calling every now and again. But where were they heading on that trajectory and so far north? I would love to know!!
April 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I heard them first and was like, No Way!! Then way up on a similar flight line to the Pinks, three pairs, clear as day, calling every now and again. But where were they heading on that trajectory and so far north? I would love to know!!
That’s interesting to know, thank you Lisa. I was surveying on the Corn Bunting patch on Monday. These Cranes were well up there and following a similar line to some of the Pinks that are coming through on passage.
First Osprey of spring recorded at Bonar Bridge on the 20th March. How about you?
First Osprey of spring recorded at Bonar Bridge on the 20th March. How about you?
April 3, 2025 at 1:57 PM
That’s interesting to know, thank you Lisa. I was surveying on the Corn Bunting patch on Monday. These Cranes were well up there and following a similar line to some of the Pinks that are coming through on passage.
First Osprey of spring recorded at Bonar Bridge on the 20th March. How about you?
First Osprey of spring recorded at Bonar Bridge on the 20th March. How about you?
Wow, wow and WOW!!! Just had 6 (3pairs) of Cranes fly over from Tain direction, over the Dornoch Firth and heading north! What a welcome surprise and a wonderful sound. @btoscotland.bsky.social @wwtworldwide.bsky.social @wildlenslife.bsky.social @kanebrides.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Wow, wow and WOW!!! Just had 6 (3pairs) of Cranes fly over from Tain direction, over the Dornoch Firth and heading north! What a welcome surprise and a wonderful sound. @btoscotland.bsky.social @wwtworldwide.bsky.social @wildlenslife.bsky.social @kanebrides.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social
31st of March sees the close of the winter bird surveying season and in 15c conditions, it couldn’t have felt any less wintery up in Fraserburgh today.
A wonderful mix of farmland birds, waders and wildfowl, including a flyover of 12 Golden Plover. Also to note, Sycamore breaking leaf already!!!
A wonderful mix of farmland birds, waders and wildfowl, including a flyover of 12 Golden Plover. Also to note, Sycamore breaking leaf already!!!
March 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
31st of March sees the close of the winter bird surveying season and in 15c conditions, it couldn’t have felt any less wintery up in Fraserburgh today.
A wonderful mix of farmland birds, waders and wildfowl, including a flyover of 12 Golden Plover. Also to note, Sycamore breaking leaf already!!!
A wonderful mix of farmland birds, waders and wildfowl, including a flyover of 12 Golden Plover. Also to note, Sycamore breaking leaf already!!!
Cleaning out the Tree Sparrow nest boxes before the beginning of April and look at the mass of material bought in to one box by a pair, in a single season!!!
March 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Cleaning out the Tree Sparrow nest boxes before the beginning of April and look at the mass of material bought in to one box by a pair, in a single season!!!
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My first Swallow of the year at 5pm this afternoon at Watch Lane Flash @sandbachflashes.bsky.social for #BirdsSeenIn2025 PN
March 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
My first Swallow of the year at 5pm this afternoon at Watch Lane Flash @sandbachflashes.bsky.social for #BirdsSeenIn2025 PN
That’s crazy!! Please, let’s hope we don’t get Arctic conditions in the next few weeks 🤞
March 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
That’s crazy!! Please, let’s hope we don’t get Arctic conditions in the next few weeks 🤞
Wow! Fledgling In March!!!
March 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Wow! Fledgling In March!!!
Skylark, Chaffinch, Yellowhammer, Wren and Linnet in spring song here in Fife, and the resident Tree Sparrows were already staking claim to their nest boxes on Saturday 1st March.
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Skylark, Chaffinch, Yellowhammer, Wren and Linnet in spring song here in Fife, and the resident Tree Sparrows were already staking claim to their nest boxes on Saturday 1st March.