Helsinki Birder
@helsinkibirder.bsky.social
Irish Birder Transplanted to Finland. Rare Bird Finder/Identifier. Interested in Raptors, Seabirds & visible migration.
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Yesterday I saw in #Malaga the Herring #gull of the last week, but a new good candidate for fuscus! An adult bird. Perhaps one day I will see one ringed! : ) #gulls #larusfuscus #rarebirds
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Pygmy Owl! Looks like we have one setting up shop in our garden for the winter again. 😍😎 Sound up 🔊
#birds #birding #birdwatching #owls #SuperbOwl
#birds #birding #birdwatching #owls #SuperbOwl
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Pygmy Owl! Looks like we have one setting up shop in our garden for the winter again. 😍😎 Sound up 🔊
#birds #birding #birdwatching #owls #SuperbOwl
#birds #birding #birdwatching #owls #SuperbOwl
Galveston, upper Texas coast this am. What appears to be a Vega Gull, the recently split Siberian counterpart of the Herring Gull complex. We had a good gull day.
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
After a month of research in #Porcupinebank on board #VizcondedeEza in the wild waters west of #Ireland, we're finally at home! The most amazing #seabird sighting was a South Polar skua! @rspb.bsky.social @irishbirds.bsky.social @ieo-cadiz.bsky.social Ireland waters are always a box of surprises!
November 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
😂 I full on belly laughed at this one!
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
😂 I full on belly laughed at this one!
In my memories today. 14 years ago was that huge influx of Common Crane into #ireland #irishrarebirds. Including my only self found bird over Cork City. It was an incredible late autumn for Cork. Video by Rónán McLaughlin.
#birds #birding #birdwatching
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#birds #birding #birdwatching
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Eurasian Cranes
YouTube video by ronanmclaughlin1
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November 16, 2025 at 5:45 AM
In my memories today. 14 years ago was that huge influx of Common Crane into #ireland #irishrarebirds. Including my only self found bird over Cork City. It was an incredible late autumn for Cork. Video by Rónán McLaughlin.
#birds #birding #birdwatching
youtu.be/rUPqdC6TRHc?...
#birds #birding #birdwatching
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Some shots of the female Lesser Scaup at Swithland Reservoir yesterday. One with a Tufted Duck for comparison. #vc55birds #ukbirding
November 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Pine Bunting seen briefly with mobile Yellowhammer flock at St Aldhelm's Head Quarry at 1030hrs & not relocated as of 1250hrs. Ltd parking available in Renscombe car park, otherwise park in Worth Mattravers village car park and walk down, staying out of private fields @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Pallas's Warbler - Blast From The Past Finds. I've said it before. And I say it again. You're nothing in #birding if you've never found a Pallas's! 😉 Spectacular #birds #birdwatching #irishrarebirds
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Pallas's Warbler - Blast From The Past Finds
I've said it many times. You're nothing in birding if you've never found a Pallas's Warbler . Nothing I tells ya! 😉 There is no gem so ico...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Pallas's Warbler - Blast From The Past Finds. I've said it before. And I say it again. You're nothing in #birding if you've never found a Pallas's! 😉 Spectacular #birds #birdwatching #irishrarebirds
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I was glad to see the 2 Taiga Bean Geese last week at Dooey in West Donegal. Having managed brief views of 1 of the 9 Taiga's that had been at Inch, it was a great opportunity to be able to take in the structure and details.
A Pink-footed sleeping in a roadside field made for a much better subject.
A Pink-footed sleeping in a roadside field made for a much better subject.
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I completed the Swainson's and Grey-cheeked Thrush illustration over the weekend. It was really enjoyable to work on these 2 subtle American vagrants that I was lucky to see earlier this Autumn close to home. #donegalbirding
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I completed the Swainson's and Grey-cheeked Thrush illustration over the weekend. It was really enjoyable to work on these 2 subtle American vagrants that I was lucky to see earlier this Autumn close to home. #donegalbirding
November 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
God, Spitting image was brilliant. I miss it.
30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel.
Now no one dares.
Now no one dares.
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
God, Spitting image was brilliant. I miss it.
A big surprise on Saturday was a Bittern appearing at Inch Island, Donegal. I had just started sketching an American Golden Plover when the Bittern flew in and landed infornt of us. Although typically skulky, it was on show regularly until darkness allowing some sketching.
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Black Woodpecker. Oldies from the memories file. What absolute beasts these #birds are! 😍😎 I remember watching this bird demolish that branch. Within a minute it had hacked right through it. #woodpecker
#birding #birdwatching #finland
#birding #birdwatching #finland
November 10, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Black Woodpecker. Oldies from the memories file. What absolute beasts these #birds are! 😍😎 I remember watching this bird demolish that branch. Within a minute it had hacked right through it. #woodpecker
#birding #birdwatching #finland
#birding #birdwatching #finland
14/10: RADDE’S WARBLER ringed in the willow garden, Brownstown Head this morning (PMW) - the 3rd ringed in same garden in the last 10 Octobers (2016-2025), 6th Co Waterford (& 3rd Brownstown) record
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
A few more of today’s Radde’s Warbler - part of a good catch of 66 new birds including 14 Chiffs, 3 Blackcaps, 7 Goldcrests, 16 Goldfinches & 2 Meadow Pipits
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 AM
8/11: Red-breasted Flycatcher & Firecrest ringed today along with 3 Blackcaps & 5 Chiffchaffs (AA)
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
9/11: a few shots of the lingering Red-breasted Flycatcher & Pallas’s Warbler on Helvick Head today (PMW)
November 10, 2025 at 3:49 AM
...and that bird of the day was...
Baltic Gull ~ an outrageously black-backed adult with minimal mirrors, an almost cachinnans-vibe around the head, a colour tone like nothing else on the scrapes, a brown wash on the tertials, bright bare parts...
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
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Baltic Gull ~ an outrageously black-backed adult with minimal mirrors, an almost cachinnans-vibe around the head, a colour tone like nothing else on the scrapes, a brown wash on the tertials, bright bare parts...
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
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November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
A comparison of three species of juvenile tern at Minsmere today: Arctic, Common and Sandwich #ukbirding #suffolkbirding
November 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Boom! All the 'red-tailed shrikes' done in Suffolk this year with Isabelline Shrike at N Warren this afternoon. Made sweeter as it is a grip back for me too, having missed the previous birds. No matter what anyone says to me, I can't see such pale birds not being isabellinus
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM