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18 Sep 2018
This Honey Buzzard lifted of the ground whilst heading off to Africa - never seen one so well before - an in your face male
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ハシジロアビ落鳥 2026.6.6 12時頃
午前中から首が座らなくなり頭を水中に落とし最後は溺死と思われます。亡骸は勝浦、海の博物館の研究員の方に回収されました。剥製となり第二の人生(鳥生？)を歩むことになりそうです。人慣れしてきて、観察者をきょろきょろと見ていたのが愛おしい
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An excellent day of seawatching provided two Arctic Skua, two Puffin, 39 Fulmar, eight Balearic Shearwater, 324 Manx Shearwater and 163 Swift all passing from the Fishing Boats.
Video of Manx Shearwaters passing the Fishing Boats taken by Dave Scott. #kentbirding
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Jun 5
Sad to hear the news that @twitchertony has sadly passed away this morning. A former Herts birder who moved to Norfolk and who I last twitched with for the Scilly Red-footed Booby. RIP 😢
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💥SOIL HILL PATCH TICK💥
💥NUMBER 134💥
💥QUAIL💥
🇬🇧 FULL FAT BRITISH TICK 🇬🇧
My days of British ticks on Soil Hill were long gone, or so I thought!
Absolutely thrilled to hear (and briefly see) this Quail on the Hill today! Halifax MEGA! What a time to be alive!
#SoilHillBirding
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May 18
And on my last day....its my 4th Woodchat Shrike. 2 in Albania and 2 in Corfu
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Beachy Head: Just found an eastern subalpine warbler in cow gap @BirdGuides maps.app.goo.gl/aAtoKB3eZM31…
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Thirty years ago this week, @BillOddie and I went to @RSPBMinsmere to film the first episode of Birding with Bill Oddie. Watching @exitthelemming and @AdrianEdmondson on @channel5_tv Sam and Ade Go Birding brought it all back. Congratulations on a wonderful series, guys!
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Apr 28
Dunnocks galore!!. I've never found so many in such a short space of time.
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Remarkable! Today we can reveal we made a 'world-first' discovery yesterday as we have found Puffins nesting in trees (they normally nest underground!) The blog has the full on this remarkable story: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com/
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Mar 30
The Socotra Bunting is regarded as the hardest endemic to find & some trips have even missed it. We had no sign on our first day looking high on the Dixam plateau, but next day managed to find at least 8 in a remote vegetated wadi after hiking over a steep ridge and descending.
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Mar 31
Lovely early Greenfinch....perfect for BTO nest recording scheme
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Mar 30
Paraguay 2025 was an awesome trip, with 417 birds, 28 mammals and a host of other wildlife!
We had such a blast that the trip report required 93 pages!
I can absolutely recommend Paraguay as a fantastic birding destination!
cloudbirders.com/be4/downloa…
@NeoBirdCons
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Mar 25
Saunders’s Gull, Yangkou, Rudong Provence, China, May 2011.Whilst out on the mudflats scanning for Shorebirds I noticed a small group of these stunning Gulls fly in close and drop down right in front of me just as the incoming tide was about to push me back to the sea wall
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Mar 24
コスズガモ
漁港巡りをしようと決めた1箇所目で発見。
じっくりと観察できたため、予定していた漁港は後日となった。
赤紫の光沢が美しい…
2026年1月11日〜 道央
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Mar 23
I initially missed notifications about Common Scoters heading inland last night, so didn't start listening until 21:30!
A flock heard over the house at 21:40 convinced me to head up to Soil Hill, but after an hour I only managed a single flock of 6 birds!
#SoilHillBirding
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Mar 22
Fisher's Green NR: Tundra Bean Goose showing well amongst Greylags #londonbirds
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Mar 22
Not quite the Spring migrant we were expecting. The ringing team alerted us to some serious SBBOT patch gold, our first Marsh Tit in 30 years!
ALT Marsh Tit
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Mar 21
1,880 Chaffinches NE from Langdon hole this am, my best morning so far this March (with just over 1k y'day) 200 siskin, 5 Brambling, 10 Greenfinch. Single Black Redstart present & 2 White wagtail in off. A single Swallow y'day is my only trans-saharan migrant so far this spring
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