Peter Stronach
@macstronach.bsky.social
ornithology, wildlife, photography and ecology!
#highlandbirds #ornithology #teammoth #birdingScotland #seabirds
Highlands of Scotland 🏴
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#highlandbirds #ornithology #teammoth #birdingScotland #seabirds
Highlands of Scotland 🏴
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A close but no Cigar-tailed Tit from Durness today! #highlandbirds #birdingscotland
October 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A close but no Cigar-tailed Tit from Durness today! #highlandbirds #birdingscotland
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A 1st winter male SIBERIAN RUBYTHROAT caught on North Ronaldsay!!!
#RareBirdsUK
#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding
#RareBirdsUK
#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
A 1st winter male SIBERIAN RUBYTHROAT caught on North Ronaldsay!!!
#RareBirdsUK
#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding
#RareBirdsUK
#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding
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Beavers have returned to Glen Affric, 400 years after their extinction in Scotland :beaver: A family of five beavers and a beaver pair were released last Friday at two sites on Loch Beinn a’ Mheadhoin in the Glen Affric National Nature Reserve 🦫
Full story 👇
treesforlife.org.uk/beavers-rele...
Full story 👇
treesforlife.org.uk/beavers-rele...
October 27, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Beavers have returned to Glen Affric, 400 years after their extinction in Scotland :beaver: A family of five beavers and a beaver pair were released last Friday at two sites on Loch Beinn a’ Mheadhoin in the Glen Affric National Nature Reserve 🦫
Full story 👇
treesforlife.org.uk/beavers-rele...
Full story 👇
treesforlife.org.uk/beavers-rele...
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Well chuffed to add this to the 'self-found' list today..... Unfortunately, this bird has lost its tail, but this somehow just seems to add to its charm! #YellBirding #Shetland #RareBirdsUK
October 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Well chuffed to add this to the 'self-found' list today..... Unfortunately, this bird has lost its tail, but this somehow just seems to add to its charm! #YellBirding #Shetland #RareBirdsUK
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'“well over” 1,000 dead cranes have been found “in a short period of time” at a major resting place in Linum, Germany. “We have been working with many volunteers in managing this bird migration gathering place for 25 years & have never experienced anything like this,”'
www.unmc.edu/healthsecuri...
www.unmc.edu/healthsecuri...
Germany: Never experienced anything like this”: Avian flu devastating crane populations, experts say
Global News Video Scientists in Germany are warning about the devastating impact the avian flu is having on migrating crane populations across Europe. Norbert Schneeweiss, a biologist who heads the…
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October 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
'“well over” 1,000 dead cranes have been found “in a short period of time” at a major resting place in Linum, Germany. “We have been working with many volunteers in managing this bird migration gathering place for 25 years & have never experienced anything like this,”'
www.unmc.edu/healthsecuri...
www.unmc.edu/healthsecuri...
Some pretty harrowing scenes of bird flu hitting the Common Crane population coming out of Germany!
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY
Avian flu “real disaster” as over 1K cranes found dead at key German roosting spot: experts
YouTube video by Global News
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Some pretty harrowing scenes of bird flu hitting the Common Crane population coming out of Germany!
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY
youtu.be/sRJeCLgzcKY
Finally got around the last few nights to editing photos from the Challenger Expedition to the continental shelf edge in September, as well as the previously mentioned Madeiran Petrels here are a few highlights...
October 24, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Finally got around the last few nights to editing photos from the Challenger Expedition to the continental shelf edge in September, as well as the previously mentioned Madeiran Petrels here are a few highlights...
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It all kicked off yesterday afternoon on North Ron with a Radde’s Warbler trapped at the obs! And then a Northern Bullfinch caught at HH
I didn’t think it could get any better until Alison and I found this Black-throated Thrush in a net during the roost catch!
#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding
I didn’t think it could get any better until Alison and I found this Black-throated Thrush in a net during the roost catch!
#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding
October 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It all kicked off yesterday afternoon on North Ron with a Radde’s Warbler trapped at the obs! And then a Northern Bullfinch caught at HH
I didn’t think it could get any better until Alison and I found this Black-throated Thrush in a net during the roost catch!
#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding
I didn’t think it could get any better until Alison and I found this Black-throated Thrush in a net during the roost catch!
#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding
The White House currently being demolished to be used to make golf bunkers, what a time to be alive!
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The White House currently being demolished to be used to make golf bunkers, what a time to be alive!
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Scilly’s first EYEBROWED THRUSH in 32 years!
A real Scilly ‘Golden Era’ grip back for those of us not fortunate enough, or old enough, to be around for the remarkable run of SIX through the 80s & 90s.
A proper stonker of a bird & a long overdue mega eastern thrush for the islands!
#ScillyBirds
A real Scilly ‘Golden Era’ grip back for those of us not fortunate enough, or old enough, to be around for the remarkable run of SIX through the 80s & 90s.
A proper stonker of a bird & a long overdue mega eastern thrush for the islands!
#ScillyBirds
October 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Scilly’s first EYEBROWED THRUSH in 32 years!
A real Scilly ‘Golden Era’ grip back for those of us not fortunate enough, or old enough, to be around for the remarkable run of SIX through the 80s & 90s.
A proper stonker of a bird & a long overdue mega eastern thrush for the islands!
#ScillyBirds
A real Scilly ‘Golden Era’ grip back for those of us not fortunate enough, or old enough, to be around for the remarkable run of SIX through the 80s & 90s.
A proper stonker of a bird & a long overdue mega eastern thrush for the islands!
#ScillyBirds
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Bit of excitement on the CEFAS Endeavour this morning when we saw this Fea's-type Petrel 17nm off the Cornish coast as we were heading towards Lundy to shelter for the next day or so.
#ukbirding #birds
#ukbirding #birds
October 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Bit of excitement on the CEFAS Endeavour this morning when we saw this Fea's-type Petrel 17nm off the Cornish coast as we were heading towards Lundy to shelter for the next day or so.
#ukbirding #birds
#ukbirding #birds
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3 Northern Long-tailed Tits showing well on Yell today. Got a feeling there may be a few decent photos of these birds appearing, as they're very accommodating! 😎👍 #YellBirding #Shetland #RareBirdsUK #Birdguides
October 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
3 Northern Long-tailed Tits showing well on Yell today. Got a feeling there may be a few decent photos of these birds appearing, as they're very accommodating! 😎👍 #YellBirding #Shetland #RareBirdsUK #Birdguides
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💥'Northern' Long-tailed Tit💥... 3 of these stunning birds seen in fading light this evening in West Yell. Cheers to Adrian for spreading the word!...... Genuinely one of my most wanted birds since I first picked up the original Collins Guide! 😍😎👍 #YellBirding #Shetland #RareBirdsUK
October 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
💥'Northern' Long-tailed Tit💥... 3 of these stunning birds seen in fading light this evening in West Yell. Cheers to Adrian for spreading the word!...... Genuinely one of my most wanted birds since I first picked up the original Collins Guide! 😍😎👍 #YellBirding #Shetland #RareBirdsUK
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Cropped clip from the trail cam
October 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Cropped clip from the trail cam
The mosquito Culiseta annulata which made the headlines recently with the first Iceland records, on my moth sugar last Friday in Strathspey! #teammoth
October 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The mosquito Culiseta annulata which made the headlines recently with the first Iceland records, on my moth sugar last Friday in Strathspey! #teammoth
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October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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A remarkable Eastern Nightingale at Rattray Head yesterday. It's behaviour was most un-nightingale-like, sitting in the open and pumping its tail. A real crowd-pleaser!
October 21, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A remarkable Eastern Nightingale at Rattray Head yesterday. It's behaviour was most un-nightingale-like, sitting in the open and pumping its tail. A real crowd-pleaser!
The Eastern Nightingale from yesterday, arriving on scene even more surreal than usual even at Rattray with heavy smoke drifting across the area, hooded figures, late 90's techno blaring and an air raid siren soundtrack! Luckily bird unfazed... #birdingscotland
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The Eastern Nightingale from yesterday, arriving on scene even more surreal than usual even at Rattray with heavy smoke drifting across the area, hooded figures, late 90's techno blaring and an air raid siren soundtrack! Luckily bird unfazed... #birdingscotland
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Boom 💥 lightening strikes twice @kevinshetland.bsky.social and I have just found Isabelline Wheatear on Fair Isle. @fairislebirdobs.bsky.social #UKBirding
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Boom 💥 lightening strikes twice @kevinshetland.bsky.social and I have just found Isabelline Wheatear on Fair Isle. @fairislebirdobs.bsky.social #UKBirding
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After a dawn raid on the Point, this little beauty was cowering in the buckthorn on my birding walk back, not far south of the Breach at Spurn. Thomas Willoughby’s brilliant pic. Bird of a lifetime. A British tick as well 😂
October 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
After a dawn raid on the Point, this little beauty was cowering in the buckthorn on my birding walk back, not far south of the Breach at Spurn. Thomas Willoughby’s brilliant pic. Bird of a lifetime. A British tick as well 😂
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Featuring a Desertas petrel that stunned scientists by chasing a tropical storm (see their incredible chase mapped here!), tiny nightingales that cross the Sahara twice a year, and Bewick's swans that have changed their stopovers and diet
October 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Featuring a Desertas petrel that stunned scientists by chasing a tropical storm (see their incredible chase mapped here!), tiny nightingales that cross the Sahara twice a year, and Bewick's swans that have changed their stopovers and diet
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October moths
Even now it’s not too late to cling to the last remnants of summer and go looking for moths. These are some of the species that can still be seen in Finland & elsewhere in Northern Europe, drawn after my own photos.
Even now it’s not too late to cling to the last remnants of summer and go looking for moths. These are some of the species that can still be seen in Finland & elsewhere in Northern Europe, drawn after my own photos.
October 12, 2025 at 4:57 PM
October moths
Even now it’s not too late to cling to the last remnants of summer and go looking for moths. These are some of the species that can still be seen in Finland & elsewhere in Northern Europe, drawn after my own photos.
Even now it’s not too late to cling to the last remnants of summer and go looking for moths. These are some of the species that can still be seen in Finland & elsewhere in Northern Europe, drawn after my own photos.
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Oh lawdy...!!!
White-throated Needletail showing a bit well here at Bempton RSPB reserve @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
White-throated Needletail showing a bit well here at Bempton RSPB reserve @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Oh lawdy...!!!
White-throated Needletail showing a bit well here at Bempton RSPB reserve @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
White-throated Needletail showing a bit well here at Bempton RSPB reserve @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
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Having had a quiet 5 days birding in the Spurn area, news broke of a White- Throated Needletail further North. We dashed to Hornsea Mere hoping to find it there when it was then reported further North at Bempton cliffs. 35 minutes late and Bingo. What a cracking bird. A borrowed pic attached.
October 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Having had a quiet 5 days birding in the Spurn area, news broke of a White- Throated Needletail further North. We dashed to Hornsea Mere hoping to find it there when it was then reported further North at Bempton cliffs. 35 minutes late and Bingo. What a cracking bird. A borrowed pic attached.