Martyn Hayes
@martynhayes.bsky.social
Some ol' birder dude from S. Gloucestershire. . .
UK species and forms - 625 😉
My most recent addition: MOURNING DOVE - 15/10/2025 St Agnes, Isles of Scilly!
UK species and forms - 625 😉
My most recent addition: MOURNING DOVE - 15/10/2025 St Agnes, Isles of Scilly!
November 16th:
GREY-CHEEKED THRUSH
Catharus minimus
AGE: A 1st winter
DATE: November 16th 2005
LOCATION: Northaw Great Wood, Hertfordshire
BRITISH RECORD: 46th
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GREY-CHEEKED THRUSH
Catharus minimus
AGE: A 1st winter
DATE: November 16th 2005
LOCATION: Northaw Great Wood, Hertfordshire
BRITISH RECORD: 46th
#UKbirding
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 AM
November 16th:
GREY-CHEEKED THRUSH
Catharus minimus
AGE: A 1st winter
DATE: November 16th 2005
LOCATION: Northaw Great Wood, Hertfordshire
BRITISH RECORD: 46th
#UKbirding
GREY-CHEEKED THRUSH
Catharus minimus
AGE: A 1st winter
DATE: November 16th 2005
LOCATION: Northaw Great Wood, Hertfordshire
BRITISH RECORD: 46th
#UKbirding
November 13th:
A pleasant 'Team Saga' amble around Slimbridge WWT then seconds of the Northwick Warth Penduline Tit...
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A pleasant 'Team Saga' amble around Slimbridge WWT then seconds of the Northwick Warth Penduline Tit...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
November 13th:
A pleasant 'Team Saga' amble around Slimbridge WWT then seconds of the Northwick Warth Penduline Tit...
#UKbirding
A pleasant 'Team Saga' amble around Slimbridge WWT then seconds of the Northwick Warth Penduline Tit...
#UKbirding
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
November 12th:
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - Calidris fuscicollis
Slimbridge, Gloucestershire in 2023.
❌'Dipped' ❌
Scarlet Tanager in 2024 at Shelf, W. Yorkshire. 🤦♂️
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WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - Calidris fuscicollis
Slimbridge, Gloucestershire in 2023.
❌'Dipped' ❌
Scarlet Tanager in 2024 at Shelf, W. Yorkshire. 🤦♂️
#UKbirding
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
November 12th:
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - Calidris fuscicollis
Slimbridge, Gloucestershire in 2023.
❌'Dipped' ❌
Scarlet Tanager in 2024 at Shelf, W. Yorkshire. 🤦♂️
#UKbirding
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER - Calidris fuscicollis
Slimbridge, Gloucestershire in 2023.
❌'Dipped' ❌
Scarlet Tanager in 2024 at Shelf, W. Yorkshire. 🤦♂️
#UKbirding
November 11th:
ROSS’S GOOSE
Anser rossii
AGE: Juvenile
DATE: November 11th 2000
LOCATION: In fields near Stanhope, Norfolk
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ROSS’S GOOSE
Anser rossii
AGE: Juvenile
DATE: November 11th 2000
LOCATION: In fields near Stanhope, Norfolk
#UKbirding
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
November 11th:
ROSS’S GOOSE
Anser rossii
AGE: Juvenile
DATE: November 11th 2000
LOCATION: In fields near Stanhope, Norfolk
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ROSS’S GOOSE
Anser rossii
AGE: Juvenile
DATE: November 11th 2000
LOCATION: In fields near Stanhope, Norfolk
#UKbirding
November 10th:
What a delight to catch up with this 1st winter Penduline Tit on Aust Warth this morning... A S. Glos. ✔
Company excellent, weather atrocious... 🌧☔
Just the 2nd record of this diminutive tit in S. Glos. The first was on March 11th 2015 at Dyrham Park. ⬇
#UKbirding
What a delight to catch up with this 1st winter Penduline Tit on Aust Warth this morning... A S. Glos. ✔
Company excellent, weather atrocious... 🌧☔
Just the 2nd record of this diminutive tit in S. Glos. The first was on March 11th 2015 at Dyrham Park. ⬇
#UKbirding
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
November 10th:
What a delight to catch up with this 1st winter Penduline Tit on Aust Warth this morning... A S. Glos. ✔
Company excellent, weather atrocious... 🌧☔
Just the 2nd record of this diminutive tit in S. Glos. The first was on March 11th 2015 at Dyrham Park. ⬇
#UKbirding
What a delight to catch up with this 1st winter Penduline Tit on Aust Warth this morning... A S. Glos. ✔
Company excellent, weather atrocious... 🌧☔
Just the 2nd record of this diminutive tit in S. Glos. The first was on March 11th 2015 at Dyrham Park. ⬇
#UKbirding
November 8th:
A self-found Great Grey Shrike in 1987 at CVLake, Somerset 😊, a Lesser Scaup at Helston, a Paddyfield Pipit 😱 and an American Pipit in 2019 at Sennan, Cornwall. . . !!!
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A self-found Great Grey Shrike in 1987 at CVLake, Somerset 😊, a Lesser Scaup at Helston, a Paddyfield Pipit 😱 and an American Pipit in 2019 at Sennan, Cornwall. . . !!!
#UKbirding
November 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
November 8th:
A self-found Great Grey Shrike in 1987 at CVLake, Somerset 😊, a Lesser Scaup at Helston, a Paddyfield Pipit 😱 and an American Pipit in 2019 at Sennan, Cornwall. . . !!!
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A self-found Great Grey Shrike in 1987 at CVLake, Somerset 😊, a Lesser Scaup at Helston, a Paddyfield Pipit 😱 and an American Pipit in 2019 at Sennan, Cornwall. . . !!!
#UKbirding
November 7th:
PALLID SWIFT - Apus pallidus
A juvenile/ 1st winter from Weybourne Beach, Norfolk in 1999
SNOWY EGRET - Egretta thula - 2001
A 1st winter at Balvicar, Seil Island, Argyll in 2001 - the first British record
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PALLID SWIFT - Apus pallidus
A juvenile/ 1st winter from Weybourne Beach, Norfolk in 1999
SNOWY EGRET - Egretta thula - 2001
A 1st winter at Balvicar, Seil Island, Argyll in 2001 - the first British record
#UKbirding
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
November 7th:
PALLID SWIFT - Apus pallidus
A juvenile/ 1st winter from Weybourne Beach, Norfolk in 1999
SNOWY EGRET - Egretta thula - 2001
A 1st winter at Balvicar, Seil Island, Argyll in 2001 - the first British record
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PALLID SWIFT - Apus pallidus
A juvenile/ 1st winter from Weybourne Beach, Norfolk in 1999
SNOWY EGRET - Egretta thula - 2001
A 1st winter at Balvicar, Seil Island, Argyll in 2001 - the first British record
#UKbirding
November 6th:
A very welcomed S. Gloucestershire tick with this Glossy Ibis on Pilning Wetlands, New Passage in 2015.
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A very welcomed S. Gloucestershire tick with this Glossy Ibis on Pilning Wetlands, New Passage in 2015.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
November 6th:
A very welcomed S. Gloucestershire tick with this Glossy Ibis on Pilning Wetlands, New Passage in 2015.
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A very welcomed S. Gloucestershire tick with this Glossy Ibis on Pilning Wetlands, New Passage in 2015.
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November 6th:
Red-flanked Bluetail - 1993 - Winspit Valley, Dorset
📸 © Dave Rimes
Also:
Pallas's Warbler - 1994 - Avalanche Road, Portland, Dorset
Black Duck - 1999 - Bowcombe Creek, Kingsbridge, Devon
Isabelline Wheatear - Wernffrwd, Llanmorlais, W. Glamorgan
#UKbirding
Red-flanked Bluetail - 1993 - Winspit Valley, Dorset
📸 © Dave Rimes
Also:
Pallas's Warbler - 1994 - Avalanche Road, Portland, Dorset
Black Duck - 1999 - Bowcombe Creek, Kingsbridge, Devon
Isabelline Wheatear - Wernffrwd, Llanmorlais, W. Glamorgan
#UKbirding
November 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
November 6th:
Red-flanked Bluetail - 1993 - Winspit Valley, Dorset
📸 © Dave Rimes
Also:
Pallas's Warbler - 1994 - Avalanche Road, Portland, Dorset
Black Duck - 1999 - Bowcombe Creek, Kingsbridge, Devon
Isabelline Wheatear - Wernffrwd, Llanmorlais, W. Glamorgan
#UKbirding
Red-flanked Bluetail - 1993 - Winspit Valley, Dorset
📸 © Dave Rimes
Also:
Pallas's Warbler - 1994 - Avalanche Road, Portland, Dorset
Black Duck - 1999 - Bowcombe Creek, Kingsbridge, Devon
Isabelline Wheatear - Wernffrwd, Llanmorlais, W. Glamorgan
#UKbirding
November 4th:
ISABELLINE WHEATEAR
Oenanthe isabellina
DATE: November 4th 2016
LOCATION: Gun Hill, Burnham Overy, Norfolk
BRITISH RECORD: 40th
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ISABELLINE WHEATEAR
Oenanthe isabellina
DATE: November 4th 2016
LOCATION: Gun Hill, Burnham Overy, Norfolk
BRITISH RECORD: 40th
#UKbirding
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
November 4th:
ISABELLINE WHEATEAR
Oenanthe isabellina
DATE: November 4th 2016
LOCATION: Gun Hill, Burnham Overy, Norfolk
BRITISH RECORD: 40th
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ISABELLINE WHEATEAR
Oenanthe isabellina
DATE: November 4th 2016
LOCATION: Gun Hill, Burnham Overy, Norfolk
BRITISH RECORD: 40th
#UKbirding
November 4th:
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER
Setophaga coronata
DATE: November 4th 1994
LOCATION: Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire
BRITISH RECORD: 9th
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YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER
Setophaga coronata
DATE: November 4th 1994
LOCATION: Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire
BRITISH RECORD: 9th
#UKbirding
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
November 4th:
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER
Setophaga coronata
DATE: November 4th 1994
LOCATION: Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire
BRITISH RECORD: 9th
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YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER
Setophaga coronata
DATE: November 4th 1994
LOCATION: Ramsey Island, Pembrokeshire
BRITISH RECORD: 9th
#UKbirding
October 31st:
MASKED SHRIKE
Lanius nubicus
AGE: A juvenile/ 1st winter
DATE: October 31st 2004
LOCATION: Kilrenny Common, Kilrenny, Fife
BRITISH RECORD: 1st
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MASKED SHRIKE
Lanius nubicus
AGE: A juvenile/ 1st winter
DATE: October 31st 2004
LOCATION: Kilrenny Common, Kilrenny, Fife
BRITISH RECORD: 1st
#UKbirding
October 31, 2025 at 7:54 AM
October 31st:
MASKED SHRIKE
Lanius nubicus
AGE: A juvenile/ 1st winter
DATE: October 31st 2004
LOCATION: Kilrenny Common, Kilrenny, Fife
BRITISH RECORD: 1st
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MASKED SHRIKE
Lanius nubicus
AGE: A juvenile/ 1st winter
DATE: October 31st 2004
LOCATION: Kilrenny Common, Kilrenny, Fife
BRITISH RECORD: 1st
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October 30th:
Richard’s Pipit - 1998 - Chingford Plain, London
Snowy Owl - 2001 - Felixstowe, Suffolk
📸 Many thanks to Paul Gale.
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Richard’s Pipit - 1998 - Chingford Plain, London
Snowy Owl - 2001 - Felixstowe, Suffolk
📸 Many thanks to Paul Gale.
#UKbirding
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
October 30th:
Richard’s Pipit - 1998 - Chingford Plain, London
Snowy Owl - 2001 - Felixstowe, Suffolk
📸 Many thanks to Paul Gale.
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Richard’s Pipit - 1998 - Chingford Plain, London
Snowy Owl - 2001 - Felixstowe, Suffolk
📸 Many thanks to Paul Gale.
#UKbirding
October 29th:
Franklin's Gull - 1998 - Port Talbot
Two-barred Greenish Warbler, Pallas’s Warbler, two Dusky Warblers and Pallid Swift in 2023 on Flamborough Head, Yorkshire...
...and a candidate Holboell’s Red-necked Grebe in 2024 in Portland Harbour, Weymouth.
#UKbirding
Franklin's Gull - 1998 - Port Talbot
Two-barred Greenish Warbler, Pallas’s Warbler, two Dusky Warblers and Pallid Swift in 2023 on Flamborough Head, Yorkshire...
...and a candidate Holboell’s Red-necked Grebe in 2024 in Portland Harbour, Weymouth.
#UKbirding
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
October 29th:
Franklin's Gull - 1998 - Port Talbot
Two-barred Greenish Warbler, Pallas’s Warbler, two Dusky Warblers and Pallid Swift in 2023 on Flamborough Head, Yorkshire...
...and a candidate Holboell’s Red-necked Grebe in 2024 in Portland Harbour, Weymouth.
#UKbirding
Franklin's Gull - 1998 - Port Talbot
Two-barred Greenish Warbler, Pallas’s Warbler, two Dusky Warblers and Pallid Swift in 2023 on Flamborough Head, Yorkshire...
...and a candidate Holboell’s Red-necked Grebe in 2024 in Portland Harbour, Weymouth.
#UKbirding
October 27th:
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER
Setophaga fusca
A 1st winter male in Popplestone Fields, Bryher, Isles of Scilly
on October 27th 2022.
Also:
Great Knot - Cleveland
Great Grey Shrike - S. Gloucestershire
Lesser Yellowlegs - Somerset
American Golden Plover - Pembrokeshire
#UKbirding
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER
Setophaga fusca
A 1st winter male in Popplestone Fields, Bryher, Isles of Scilly
on October 27th 2022.
Also:
Great Knot - Cleveland
Great Grey Shrike - S. Gloucestershire
Lesser Yellowlegs - Somerset
American Golden Plover - Pembrokeshire
#UKbirding
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
October 27th:
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER
Setophaga fusca
A 1st winter male in Popplestone Fields, Bryher, Isles of Scilly
on October 27th 2022.
Also:
Great Knot - Cleveland
Great Grey Shrike - S. Gloucestershire
Lesser Yellowlegs - Somerset
American Golden Plover - Pembrokeshire
#UKbirding
BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER
Setophaga fusca
A 1st winter male in Popplestone Fields, Bryher, Isles of Scilly
on October 27th 2022.
Also:
Great Knot - Cleveland
Great Grey Shrike - S. Gloucestershire
Lesser Yellowlegs - Somerset
American Golden Plover - Pembrokeshire
#UKbirding
October 25th:
RED-HEADED BUNTING
Emberiza bruniceps
A 1st winter male on Northcliff Marsh, Flamborough Head, E. Yorkshire on October 25th 2023.
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RED-HEADED BUNTING
Emberiza bruniceps
A 1st winter male on Northcliff Marsh, Flamborough Head, E. Yorkshire on October 25th 2023.
#UKbirding
October 25, 2025 at 10:57 AM
October 25th:
RED-HEADED BUNTING
Emberiza bruniceps
A 1st winter male on Northcliff Marsh, Flamborough Head, E. Yorkshire on October 25th 2023.
#UKbirding
RED-HEADED BUNTING
Emberiza bruniceps
A 1st winter male on Northcliff Marsh, Flamborough Head, E. Yorkshire on October 25th 2023.
#UKbirding
October 23rd:
BROWN SHRIKE
Lanius cristatus
A 1st winter from Manor Farm track, Calartha Farm, Pendeen, Cornwall on October 23rd 2021.
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BROWN SHRIKE
Lanius cristatus
A 1st winter from Manor Farm track, Calartha Farm, Pendeen, Cornwall on October 23rd 2021.
#UKbirding
October 23, 2025 at 7:23 AM
October 23rd:
BROWN SHRIKE
Lanius cristatus
A 1st winter from Manor Farm track, Calartha Farm, Pendeen, Cornwall on October 23rd 2021.
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BROWN SHRIKE
Lanius cristatus
A 1st winter from Manor Farm track, Calartha Farm, Pendeen, Cornwall on October 23rd 2021.
#UKbirding
October 23rd:
EASTERN CROWNED WARBLER
Phylloscopus coronatus
A 1st winter on October 23rd 2009 in Trow Quarry, County Durham. The 1st British record!
#UKbirding
EASTERN CROWNED WARBLER
Phylloscopus coronatus
A 1st winter on October 23rd 2009 in Trow Quarry, County Durham. The 1st British record!
#UKbirding
October 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
October 23rd:
EASTERN CROWNED WARBLER
Phylloscopus coronatus
A 1st winter on October 23rd 2009 in Trow Quarry, County Durham. The 1st British record!
#UKbirding
EASTERN CROWNED WARBLER
Phylloscopus coronatus
A 1st winter on October 23rd 2009 in Trow Quarry, County Durham. The 1st British record!
#UKbirding
October 22nd:
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL
Tarsiger cyanurus
DATE: October 22nd 1999
LOCATION: Rame Head, Cornwall
📸 © Paul Gale
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RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL
Tarsiger cyanurus
DATE: October 22nd 1999
LOCATION: Rame Head, Cornwall
📸 © Paul Gale
#UKbirding
October 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
October 22nd:
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL
Tarsiger cyanurus
DATE: October 22nd 1999
LOCATION: Rame Head, Cornwall
📸 © Paul Gale
#UKbirding
RED-FLANKED BLUETAIL
Tarsiger cyanurus
DATE: October 22nd 1999
LOCATION: Rame Head, Cornwall
📸 © Paul Gale
#UKbirding
October 22nd:
CHIMNEY SWIFT
Chaetura pelagica
AGE: A juvenile/ 1st winter
DATE: October 22nd 1999
LOCATION: Millbrook, Rame Head, Cornwall
BRITISH RECORD: 9th
📸 © George Reszeter
#UKbirding
CHIMNEY SWIFT
Chaetura pelagica
AGE: A juvenile/ 1st winter
DATE: October 22nd 1999
LOCATION: Millbrook, Rame Head, Cornwall
BRITISH RECORD: 9th
📸 © George Reszeter
#UKbirding
October 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
October 22nd:
CHIMNEY SWIFT
Chaetura pelagica
AGE: A juvenile/ 1st winter
DATE: October 22nd 1999
LOCATION: Millbrook, Rame Head, Cornwall
BRITISH RECORD: 9th
📸 © George Reszeter
#UKbirding
CHIMNEY SWIFT
Chaetura pelagica
AGE: A juvenile/ 1st winter
DATE: October 22nd 1999
LOCATION: Millbrook, Rame Head, Cornwall
BRITISH RECORD: 9th
📸 © George Reszeter
#UKbirding
October 19th:
Did you see this one?
NUTCRACKER - Nucifraga caryocatactes
Cocknage Wood, Stoke-on-Trent from October 14th to November 9th 1991.
#UKbirding
Did you see this one?
NUTCRACKER - Nucifraga caryocatactes
Cocknage Wood, Stoke-on-Trent from October 14th to November 9th 1991.
#UKbirding
October 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
October 19th:
Did you see this one?
NUTCRACKER - Nucifraga caryocatactes
Cocknage Wood, Stoke-on-Trent from October 14th to November 9th 1991.
#UKbirding
Did you see this one?
NUTCRACKER - Nucifraga caryocatactes
Cocknage Wood, Stoke-on-Trent from October 14th to November 9th 1991.
#UKbirding
October 19th:
What a spanking couple of weeks 'filthy twitching' that included a pair of 'lifer' grip-backs... ☺️
White-throated Needletail 8th (© Simon King), Baird's Sandpiper 10th (© Matthew Deans) and Mourning Dove 15th (© Will Wagstaff). Many thanks! 👍🏻
#UKbirding
What a spanking couple of weeks 'filthy twitching' that included a pair of 'lifer' grip-backs... ☺️
White-throated Needletail 8th (© Simon King), Baird's Sandpiper 10th (© Matthew Deans) and Mourning Dove 15th (© Will Wagstaff). Many thanks! 👍🏻
#UKbirding
October 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
October 19th:
What a spanking couple of weeks 'filthy twitching' that included a pair of 'lifer' grip-backs... ☺️
White-throated Needletail 8th (© Simon King), Baird's Sandpiper 10th (© Matthew Deans) and Mourning Dove 15th (© Will Wagstaff). Many thanks! 👍🏻
#UKbirding
What a spanking couple of weeks 'filthy twitching' that included a pair of 'lifer' grip-backs... ☺️
White-throated Needletail 8th (© Simon King), Baird's Sandpiper 10th (© Matthew Deans) and Mourning Dove 15th (© Will Wagstaff). Many thanks! 👍🏻
#UKbirding
September 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
September 1st:
A super Buff-breasted Sandpiper at CVLake, Somerset today was a very welcome start to the autumn passage.
It was performing nicely on and off on Nunnery Point despite the, sometimes, torrential rain.
Here's one from a past encounter!
A super Buff-breasted Sandpiper at CVLake, Somerset today was a very welcome start to the autumn passage.
It was performing nicely on and off on Nunnery Point despite the, sometimes, torrential rain.
Here's one from a past encounter!
September 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
September 1st:
A super Buff-breasted Sandpiper at CVLake, Somerset today was a very welcome start to the autumn passage.
It was performing nicely on and off on Nunnery Point despite the, sometimes, torrential rain.
Here's one from a past encounter!
A super Buff-breasted Sandpiper at CVLake, Somerset today was a very welcome start to the autumn passage.
It was performing nicely on and off on Nunnery Point despite the, sometimes, torrential rain.
Here's one from a past encounter!