Matthew
@mattbirder.bsky.social
Birder and lover of music, RSPB and BTO volunteer living in Norfolk UK. Views my own.
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One more shot of the Hoopoe at Titchwell on Monday evening. What an incredible bird to see on a chilly afternoon in Norfolk #UKBirding #norfolkbirding #ukwildlife #birds
November 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
One more shot of the Hoopoe at Titchwell on Monday evening. What an incredible bird to see on a chilly afternoon in Norfolk #UKBirding #norfolkbirding #ukwildlife #birds
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...I didn't connect with 100s of Suffolk gulls late this afternoon but the flocks I did get to enjoy held several smart argentatus Herring Gulls amongst them, including this fine adult. Always so beefy! Always super smart.
#SuffolkBirding
#gulling
#SuffolkBirding
#gulling
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
...I didn't connect with 100s of Suffolk gulls late this afternoon but the flocks I did get to enjoy held several smart argentatus Herring Gulls amongst them, including this fine adult. Always so beefy! Always super smart.
#SuffolkBirding
#gulling
#SuffolkBirding
#gulling
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Had a spare few hours today so headed to a very chilly SWT Lackford Lakes to see the drake Green-winged Teal that has been on the Slough for a few days, there were also a pair of Goldeneye on the Sailing Lake & at least 4 Crossbills beside Plover Lake plus lots of Siskin and Redwing #Suffolkbirding
November 20, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Had a spare few hours today so headed to a very chilly SWT Lackford Lakes to see the drake Green-winged Teal that has been on the Slough for a few days, there were also a pair of Goldeneye on the Sailing Lake & at least 4 Crossbills beside Plover Lake plus lots of Siskin and Redwing #Suffolkbirding
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Latest BirdTrack data show Woodcock arriving en masse over the the last fortnight. Sadly, Woodcock are prone to colliding with buildings while they migrate. If you find a dead Woodcock in these circumstances, please add the record to BirdTrack or email details to woodcock@bto.org
#ukbirding
#ukbirding
November 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Latest BirdTrack data show Woodcock arriving en masse over the the last fortnight. Sadly, Woodcock are prone to colliding with buildings while they migrate. If you find a dead Woodcock in these circumstances, please add the record to BirdTrack or email details to woodcock@bto.org
#ukbirding
#ukbirding
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Sadly, we have seen a big increase in avian flu cases in the UK - particularly in waterfowl
Whilst the risk to the public remains assessed as very low, Government advice is not to touch any visibly sick or dead birds, and to keep pets away
Read on for ways to help:
📷Ben Andrew
Whilst the risk to the public remains assessed as very low, Government advice is not to touch any visibly sick or dead birds, and to keep pets away
Read on for ways to help:
📷Ben Andrew
November 19, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Sadly, we have seen a big increase in avian flu cases in the UK - particularly in waterfowl
Whilst the risk to the public remains assessed as very low, Government advice is not to touch any visibly sick or dead birds, and to keep pets away
Read on for ways to help:
📷Ben Andrew
Whilst the risk to the public remains assessed as very low, Government advice is not to touch any visibly sick or dead birds, and to keep pets away
Read on for ways to help:
📷Ben Andrew
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Volume up 🔊...
The wonderful sound of a couple of hundred Twite - known here in Shetland as 'Linties' - at Loch of Spiggie in one of the 40 'Bumblebird' wildlife-friendly crops grown by crofters and the Shetland Species on the Edge team in 2025. 👏
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
The wonderful sound of a couple of hundred Twite - known here in Shetland as 'Linties' - at Loch of Spiggie in one of the 40 'Bumblebird' wildlife-friendly crops grown by crofters and the Shetland Species on the Edge team in 2025. 👏
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
November 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Volume up 🔊...
The wonderful sound of a couple of hundred Twite - known here in Shetland as 'Linties' - at Loch of Spiggie in one of the 40 'Bumblebird' wildlife-friendly crops grown by crofters and the Shetland Species on the Edge team in 2025. 👏
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
The wonderful sound of a couple of hundred Twite - known here in Shetland as 'Linties' - at Loch of Spiggie in one of the 40 'Bumblebird' wildlife-friendly crops grown by crofters and the Shetland Species on the Edge team in 2025. 👏
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife
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Sorry, is that the Denmark that Labour’s brains trust are determined to emulate? Oh...
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
Oh
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Sorry, is that the Denmark that Labour’s brains trust are determined to emulate? Oh...
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3 adult Bewick’s (#169 for my patch year) & 4 Whooper Swans at Grafham Water today. Unusual to have 3 swan sp. here on same day. Also 3 adult Great N Divers still @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social #ukbirding
November 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
3 adult Bewick’s (#169 for my patch year) & 4 Whooper Swans at Grafham Water today. Unusual to have 3 swan sp. here on same day. Also 3 adult Great N Divers still @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social #ukbirding
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Suffolk: male GREEN-WINGED TEAL still on The Slough at Lackford Lakes SWT Reserve mid afternoon. #suffolkbirding
November 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Suffolk: male GREEN-WINGED TEAL still on The Slough at Lackford Lakes SWT Reserve mid afternoon. #suffolkbirding
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As soon as a UK government of any party appoints a brown female politician as a Home Secretary my heart sinks because I know the only way she has reached that position is a willingness to cheerlead the most racist , cruel inhumane policies that no senior white male MP would dare to announce.
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 AM
As soon as a UK government of any party appoints a brown female politician as a Home Secretary my heart sinks because I know the only way she has reached that position is a willingness to cheerlead the most racist , cruel inhumane policies that no senior white male MP would dare to announce.
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
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After an exceptionally mild week across many areas, we are going to get a taste of winter as cold Arctic air plunges down from the north
So it's probably time to get the big coat out 🥶
So it's probably time to get the big coat out 🥶
November 15, 2025 at 12:32 PM
After an exceptionally mild week across many areas, we are going to get a taste of winter as cold Arctic air plunges down from the north
So it's probably time to get the big coat out 🥶
So it's probably time to get the big coat out 🥶
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The immature shrike at North Warren RSPB. Identification of birds this age to species is not often possible, but a suite of features visible suggest Daurian Shrike (Lanius isabellinus) in this case IMHO - comments in alt text #RareBirdsUK #SuffolkBirding #UKBirding
November 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
The immature shrike at North Warren RSPB. Identification of birds this age to species is not often possible, but a suite of features visible suggest Daurian Shrike (Lanius isabellinus) in this case IMHO - comments in alt text #RareBirdsUK #SuffolkBirding #UKBirding
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Incredible a'noon at Caister. First a Pallas's flitting through in a huge tit flock. Then another glimpsed warbler, silent & elusive. After a heard only bird at Thornham y'day I wondered if I just hallucinate Hume's Warblers. Till it popped up calling. And a Dusky calling too!
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Incredible a'noon at Caister. First a Pallas's flitting through in a huge tit flock. Then another glimpsed warbler, silent & elusive. After a heard only bird at Thornham y'day I wondered if I just hallucinate Hume's Warblers. Till it popped up calling. And a Dusky calling too!
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Isabelline (Daurian?) shrike
North Warren RSPB, Suffolk, 17/11/2025
Showed well today.
@suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #birds
North Warren RSPB, Suffolk, 17/11/2025
Showed well today.
@suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #birds
November 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Isabelline (Daurian?) shrike
North Warren RSPB, Suffolk, 17/11/2025
Showed well today.
@suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #birds
North Warren RSPB, Suffolk, 17/11/2025
Showed well today.
@suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #birds
This Moorhen might have more water now! #BirdOfTheDay!
November 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This Moorhen might have more water now! #BirdOfTheDay!
What a difference a day makes! had a pleasant wander around the Santon Downham area yesterday in warm sunshine and calm conditions. Lots of Common Crossbills around showing well, I counted at lest 12, but there were probably more, a 50 plus flock of Siskin and a first Mandarin Duck of the year.
November 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
What a difference a day makes! had a pleasant wander around the Santon Downham area yesterday in warm sunshine and calm conditions. Lots of Common Crossbills around showing well, I counted at lest 12, but there were probably more, a 50 plus flock of Siskin and a first Mandarin Duck of the year.
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One of the nicest sights y'day was watching a local Barn Owls quartering meadows along the edge of the valley. This is a species that still seems to be struggling to return to numbers seen in previous years. One step forward, two steps back...
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
#cleybirds
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
#cleybirds
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
One of the nicest sights y'day was watching a local Barn Owls quartering meadows along the edge of the valley. This is a species that still seems to be struggling to return to numbers seen in previous years. One step forward, two steps back...
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
#cleybirds
@linnetincley.bsky.social
#NorfolkBirding
#cleybirds
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Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand (2009 Remaster)
Listen to Cowgirl in the Sand (2009 Remaster) on TIDAL
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November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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We have reached the end October so can #PWC2025 participants fill in their last October scores to the spreadsheet ready for the download on the 7th November!
Good luck to everyone out birding over the weekend. November can certainly be an exciting month providing many rarities & varied migration!
Good luck to everyone out birding over the weekend. November can certainly be an exciting month providing many rarities & varied migration!
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We have reached the end October so can #PWC2025 participants fill in their last October scores to the spreadsheet ready for the download on the 7th November!
Good luck to everyone out birding over the weekend. November can certainly be an exciting month providing many rarities & varied migration!
Good luck to everyone out birding over the weekend. November can certainly be an exciting month providing many rarities & varied migration!
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Hello, we have been working hard all year to keep this challenge running and would love to hear your feedback!
Let us know of anything that we can do to make the challenge even better so we can have a think ready for PWC 2026.
#pwc2025#patchbirding
Let us know of anything that we can do to make the challenge even better so we can have a think ready for PWC 2026.
#pwc2025#patchbirding
Patchwork Challenge Feedback
Hello, we have been working hard all year to keep this challenge running and would love to hear your feedback. Let us know of anything that we can do to make the challenge even better so we can have a...
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October 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Hello, we have been working hard all year to keep this challenge running and would love to hear your feedback!
Let us know of anything that we can do to make the challenge even better so we can have a think ready for PWC 2026.
#pwc2025#patchbirding
Let us know of anything that we can do to make the challenge even better so we can have a think ready for PWC 2026.
#pwc2025#patchbirding
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A little trip to Abberton today. Lovely weather was a surprise, female Goosanders have arrived, a Marsh Harrier disturbed a large flock of Lapwing with accompanying Dunlin plus 3/4 Little Stint too (FFY). Lots of ducks, Great & L Egrets, Cormorants, Grebes. #essexbirding
November 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A little trip to Abberton today. Lovely weather was a surprise, female Goosanders have arrived, a Marsh Harrier disturbed a large flock of Lapwing with accompanying Dunlin plus 3/4 Little Stint too (FFY). Lots of ducks, Great & L Egrets, Cormorants, Grebes. #essexbirding
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Such an amazing crowd reaction and very happy band last night in Boulder!
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Such an amazing crowd reaction and very happy band last night in Boulder!
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Lack of wildlife crime convictions opening the door to other serious crimes raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/11/l...
Lack of wildlife crime convictions opening the door to other serious crimes
Press release from Wildlife & Countryside Link (Wildlife Crime sub-group) Lack of wildlife crime convictions opening the door to other serious crimes Wildlife and Countryside Link has today rel…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Lack of wildlife crime convictions opening the door to other serious crimes raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/11/l...