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Mal
I met Mal for the first time around 2010, perhaps a year either side, I cannot remember the exact date. It just feels like we were always fr...
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Please check out my tribute to the late, great Malcolm Fairley. A much missed birder and friend...
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I haven’t seen one of these in a while: a female Ruddy Duck on my patch at Denston, Suffolk, was a surprise this morning! #Ukbirding #suffolkbirds
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
I haven’t seen one of these in a while: a female Ruddy Duck on my patch at Denston, Suffolk, was a surprise this morning! #Ukbirding #suffolkbirds
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May 9th 2023 on a slight easterly I found this Dark Eyed Junco at Rattray. A first for mainland Aberdeenshire and around the 11th record for Scotland. This bird prompted me to buy a camera as it vanished for 45mins before anyone else saw it prior to reappearing and showing well. #BirdingScotland
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
May 9th 2023 on a slight easterly I found this Dark Eyed Junco at Rattray. A first for mainland Aberdeenshire and around the 11th record for Scotland. This bird prompted me to buy a camera as it vanished for 45mins before anyone else saw it prior to reappearing and showing well. #BirdingScotland
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SOSSwifts has received donations so can offer 10 free Swift Community Sets for prominent elevations of public buildings. We also have some free nest boxes for you to install adjacent to existing Swifts’ nest, we want to create Swift streets @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
SOSSwifts has received donations so can offer 10 free Swift Community Sets for prominent elevations of public buildings. We also have some free nest boxes for you to install adjacent to existing Swifts’ nest, we want to create Swift streets @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social
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It has taken a bit of legwork to get this GW Egret at Alton Water decoded (well done to Laurence Potter for tip-off that we had a bangled one there). Turns out it is from NE Poland, border with Lithuania. I've seen a couple of reports from Belarus, so fits the pattern. #UKBirding
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It has taken a bit of legwork to get this GW Egret at Alton Water decoded (well done to Laurence Potter for tip-off that we had a bangled one there). Turns out it is from NE Poland, border with Lithuania. I've seen a couple of reports from Belarus, so fits the pattern. #UKBirding
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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 12:58 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
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Isabelline Shrike North warren Suffolk this morning #phonescoped.
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Isabelline Shrike North warren Suffolk this morning #phonescoped.
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Amazing views of the Isabelline Shrike at North Warren today.
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Amazing views of the Isabelline Shrike at North Warren today.
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Still wondering whether to visit the new Fair Isle Bird Obs in 2026? We are open for bookings 20th May to 31st October. Although there is only limited availability in May-July, we still have plenty of space from early August until the end of October. Our website includes information on how to book.
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Still wondering whether to visit the new Fair Isle Bird Obs in 2026? We are open for bookings 20th May to 31st October. Although there is only limited availability in May-July, we still have plenty of space from early August until the end of October. Our website includes information on how to book.
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f you have ever reported a colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit, you have helped to establish connections that cross national and continental boundaries.
Here's how the Wash links to other sites.
Draw your local map using a ShinyApp:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
#UKbirding
Here's how the Wash links to other sites.
Draw your local map using a ShinyApp:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
#UKbirding
November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
f you have ever reported a colour-ringed Black-tailed Godwit, you have helped to establish connections that cross national and continental boundaries.
Here's how the Wash links to other sites.
Draw your local map using a ShinyApp:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
#UKbirding
Here's how the Wash links to other sites.
Draw your local map using a ShinyApp:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/01/09/h...
#UKbirding
Blogs are dropping at a rate of knots - I need to calm down. At this point I am ambidextrous...
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#Science #ColourRing #Recoveries @wildkenhill.bsky.social @curlewaction.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
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#Science #ColourRing #Recoveries @wildkenhill.bsky.social @curlewaction.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
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Headstarted Curlew
Colour-ringed Curlew - Titchwell 09th November 2025 This is one of my least impressive colour-ring recovery records, my scientific prowess a...
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November 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Blogs are dropping at a rate of knots - I need to calm down. At this point I am ambidextrous...
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#Science #ColourRing #Recoveries @wildkenhill.bsky.social @curlewaction.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
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#Science #ColourRing #Recoveries @wildkenhill.bsky.social @curlewaction.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
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Top detour thanks to Great Bustard Group on way back from some non-birdy doings down south- these two big boyz on Salisbury Plain standing tall in sluicing rain I guess so water doesn't puddle on their mighty backs #BirdArt
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Top detour thanks to Great Bustard Group on way back from some non-birdy doings down south- these two big boyz on Salisbury Plain standing tall in sluicing rain I guess so water doesn't puddle on their mighty backs #BirdArt
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Another great bird from our final birding in Namibia before heading to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe was this stunning Rosy-throated Longclaw.😍 #Birds #Namibia #WiseBirding
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Another great bird from our final birding in Namibia before heading to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe was this stunning Rosy-throated Longclaw.😍 #Birds #Namibia #WiseBirding
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37 years of pain (well, mild irritation) gone. After dipping one in ‘87, I’ve finally seen Daurian Shrike in Suffolk.
Weather closed in and got darker and windier as I arrived. But hey ho, you have to take what you’re given.
#365 for Suffolk. Amazingly the last three Suffolk ✅ were all Shrikes. 🤷🏻♂️
Weather closed in and got darker and windier as I arrived. But hey ho, you have to take what you’re given.
#365 for Suffolk. Amazingly the last three Suffolk ✅ were all Shrikes. 🤷🏻♂️
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
37 years of pain (well, mild irritation) gone. After dipping one in ‘87, I’ve finally seen Daurian Shrike in Suffolk.
Weather closed in and got darker and windier as I arrived. But hey ho, you have to take what you’re given.
#365 for Suffolk. Amazingly the last three Suffolk ✅ were all Shrikes. 🤷🏻♂️
Weather closed in and got darker and windier as I arrived. But hey ho, you have to take what you’re given.
#365 for Suffolk. Amazingly the last three Suffolk ✅ were all Shrikes. 🤷🏻♂️
I've blogged off. Particularly impressed with this post. It reeks of sleep deprivation...
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all fear the Sentinel
Great Grey Shrike - Knettishall Airfield, November 02nd 2025 Whilst out birding with Nick on Sunday 02nd November, we found a Great Grey Shr...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I've blogged off. Particularly impressed with this post. It reeks of sleep deprivation...
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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 4:09 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
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With no access to either site, it looked like the birding gods had decided we would not be seeing the Endangered White-winged Nightjar!
But driving up to the gate and begging for entry got us a fantastic evening in Paraguayan Cerrado!
Known from only 5 sites, it is a rare bird!
But driving up to the gate and begging for entry got us a fantastic evening in Paraguayan Cerrado!
Known from only 5 sites, it is a rare bird!
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
With no access to either site, it looked like the birding gods had decided we would not be seeing the Endangered White-winged Nightjar!
But driving up to the gate and begging for entry got us a fantastic evening in Paraguayan Cerrado!
Known from only 5 sites, it is a rare bird!
But driving up to the gate and begging for entry got us a fantastic evening in Paraguayan Cerrado!
Known from only 5 sites, it is a rare bird!
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Juvenile American Golden Plover
Titchwell RSPB
November 9 2025
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#NorfolkBirding
Titchwell RSPB
November 9 2025
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#NorfolkBirding
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Juvenile American Golden Plover
Titchwell RSPB
November 9 2025
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#NorfolkBirding
Titchwell RSPB
November 9 2025
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#NorfolkBirding
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Headed up the coast for the first time in a month to see this cracking first-winter Isabelline Shrike at North Warren, my second ever in Suffolk. A superb find by Julian Flowers whilst doing his WEBS count earlier in the day #suffolkbirding #ukbirding
November 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Headed up the coast for the first time in a month to see this cracking first-winter Isabelline Shrike at North Warren, my second ever in Suffolk. A superb find by Julian Flowers whilst doing his WEBS count earlier in the day #suffolkbirding #ukbirding
No. You had an enjoyable Sunday.
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Shit hot Titchwell. Absolutely shit hot 💩🔥
#NorfolkBirding #ShitHot
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Shit hot Titchwell. Absolutely shit hot 💩🔥
#NorfolkBirding #ShitHot
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
No. You had an enjoyable Sunday.
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Shit hot Titchwell. Absolutely shit hot 💩🔥
#NorfolkBirding #ShitHot
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Shit hot Titchwell. Absolutely shit hot 💩🔥
#NorfolkBirding #ShitHot
November 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Had a couple of hours birding late PM on Yell today.
Managed 3 Blue Tits, 2 fem Northern Bullfinch, 5 Siberian & 1 CC, Redpoll, Sparrowhawk and a fem Common Scoter.
Then at last knockings found a Pallas’s Warbler, strangely scarce on Shetland, whilst checking a flock of 50+ Twite #shetlandbirding
Managed 3 Blue Tits, 2 fem Northern Bullfinch, 5 Siberian & 1 CC, Redpoll, Sparrowhawk and a fem Common Scoter.
Then at last knockings found a Pallas’s Warbler, strangely scarce on Shetland, whilst checking a flock of 50+ Twite #shetlandbirding
November 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Had a couple of hours birding late PM on Yell today.
Managed 3 Blue Tits, 2 fem Northern Bullfinch, 5 Siberian & 1 CC, Redpoll, Sparrowhawk and a fem Common Scoter.
Then at last knockings found a Pallas’s Warbler, strangely scarce on Shetland, whilst checking a flock of 50+ Twite #shetlandbirding
Managed 3 Blue Tits, 2 fem Northern Bullfinch, 5 Siberian & 1 CC, Redpoll, Sparrowhawk and a fem Common Scoter.
Then at last knockings found a Pallas’s Warbler, strangely scarce on Shetland, whilst checking a flock of 50+ Twite #shetlandbirding
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Olive-backed Pipit from South Gare today. Cleveland’s 5th record following hot on the heels of the 2023 Hartlepool bird. This one showed very well at times and a nice “grip back” for a few locals that missed out previously. A well marked bird, just look at those legs! Great find by NAP. #NEbirding
November 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Olive-backed Pipit from South Gare today. Cleveland’s 5th record following hot on the heels of the 2023 Hartlepool bird. This one showed very well at times and a nice “grip back” for a few locals that missed out previously. A well marked bird, just look at those legs! Great find by NAP. #NEbirding
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Griffon Vultures crossing The #Straits yesterday- pure migratory magic! ….or youth dispersal magic 😉 1,687 Griffon Vultures crossed over our heads!
November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Griffon Vultures crossing The #Straits yesterday- pure migratory magic! ….or youth dispersal magic 😉 1,687 Griffon Vultures crossed over our heads!
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2 new release for UK Birding Pins this month:
176-Red-throated Pipit
177-Slavonian Grebe
176-Red-throated Pipit
177-Slavonian Grebe
November 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
2 new release for UK Birding Pins this month:
176-Red-throated Pipit
177-Slavonian Grebe
176-Red-throated Pipit
177-Slavonian Grebe
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Thrilled to be watching a superb overhead Pallid Swift at North Foreland when it was unexpectedly joined by another of its kind. Pandemonium ensued as birders had to decide which way to look first! Pic: Vincent Clarke #ukbirding
November 8, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Thrilled to be watching a superb overhead Pallid Swift at North Foreland when it was unexpectedly joined by another of its kind. Pandemonium ensued as birders had to decide which way to look first! Pic: Vincent Clarke #ukbirding