Lovely Drake Ring-necked Duck - Victoria Park, St Helens #ukbirding 🪶

Sadly yes :( was hoping for it to show up again whilst in the area but no luck! Was hoping for the super slam of WB diver, the Lapwing and Ross’s Gull but the curse continues

Still happy to have caught up with the Yank pipit though

American Buff-bellied Pipit ✅

Not the red letter day we was hoping for in Northumberland but this bird sure made up for it, showed incredibly well at the beautiful Ross Bank Sand.

Also another bonus lifer bogey bird Grey Plover ✅ also tried for the Black scoter with no luck #ukbirding #bird 🪶

Started 2025 the way I mean to go on! With a lifer, Red-necked Grebe✅ at leeshaw reservoir.

Braved the atrocious weather but ended up seing the bird really well, challenging to get any digiscope footage though.

Nice chatting to the other birders there.

Great start to 2025

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2024- Hasn’t been my best year birding wise but still some amazing memories. 13 British Lifers and a trip to Estonia to see Ural & Pygmy Owl

Favourite birds of the year has to be Stellar’s Eider in Estonia and the showy Pallas Warbler @flamboroughbird.bsky.social

#Ukbirding #birding #birds 🦉🪶

I love mine! Captured so many record shots when birds are just too far for a DSLR

Going to have to try again! It’s becoming my bogey bird, missed one two years ago too

Mega Dip day for me today, 7 hours and 400 miles! Spend 6 hours for the Grey-headed Lapwing at East Chevington with no luck, it was in the ploughed field but only showed itself for 10 seconds in flight whilst I was there 😭 then tried for the Surf Scoter at Druridge bay but again no luck #ukbirding

Two Greylag geese with Neck bands #ringing #birdringing #waterfowl #birds #waterfowlbands #geese #ornithology

Drake Pintail

One of my favourite British duck species the Pintail 🪶 #ukbirding #birds #waterfowl #ornithology

African Fish Eagle - Botswana

What a stunning species of Eagle a truly special experience as I saw this individual from a dug out canoe out on the Delta surrounded by Hippos. The Fish Eagles call is so distinctive, whenever I here one takes me straight back to this moment 🪶

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Lovely Sanderling shot I captured at Durness Beach Scotland 🪶

#ukbirding #birds #Ornithology #wader #waderquest #birdphotography

Tawny Antpitta

Ochre-breasted antpitta

Antpitta’s known as the Ghosts of the forest, are my favourite family of birds. I have seen around 6/7 species currently but planning to travel too see more!

Paz de las Aves in Ecuador will always have a special place in my heart as it is where I first laid eyes on a Giant Pitta! 🪶

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My favourite bird I have seen in Britain to date. The famous Black-browed Albatross at Bempton cliffs.

What an amazing experience it was watching this bird at close range

#bird #ornithology #seabirds #seabird #albatross #wildlife 🪶

Male Torrent Duck

Female Torrent Duck

Torrent Duck - Ecuador

My favourite duck I have seen, such stunning contrast between the Drakes and Females. Such interesting behaviour diving in and about of extreme river currents. Truly an amazing species of duck. I was super excited to have seen them!! Look at the spiny tail feathers
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Rainy days like this in the Uk make me dream of being back in Botswana in the bush! Here’s one of my favourite photos I got of a beautiful female Leopard #bigcat #wildlifephotography #mammal #botswana #leopard #nature

Snow Bunting on a Snowy Day ❄️

Glad to see the Snow Bunting is back again at Southport, here is a shot I got there in 2023. I really want to catch up with it and to try and photograph it again this winter, such a stunning little bird #ukbirding #northwestbirding #bird #Ornithology 🪶

Fulmar

One of my favourite Seabird photographs I have ever taken of a beautiful Fulmar #ukbirding #bird #Ornithology #seabirds 🪶

Spent the morning watching the Red-crested Pochard pair at Ridgegate Reservoir Cheshire. New bird for me in Britain so was over the moon with the views and time I could spend studying both the Drake and female ✅ #ukbirding #northwestbirding #Ornithology #wildfowl #waterfowl #bird 🪶

Went to @rspb.bsky.social Leighton Moss trying to photograph the Bearded Tits going to the Grit trays

Beardy’s have a real place in my heart as it is one of my earliest birding memories as a child over 20 years ago seeing a beautiful male in the reedbeds from public causeway footpath 🪶 #ukbirding

Giant Hummingbird shot in Ecuador coming to a flower to feed, this photo took hundreds if not thousands to finally capture!! This species is huge compared to other hummingbirds 🪶
#Ornithology #ukbirding #wildlifephotography #hummingbird #ecuador

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One of my favourite Bird photographs from Botswana this stunning juvenile Bateleur Eagle 🪶 #Ornithology #botswana #ukbirding #wildlifephotography

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Took me all day! But I managed the shot I had always imagined. Like you say classic puffin pose 😂

Puffin

I managed to get my dream shot of a Puffin last year with a beak full of Sand-eels on Farne! Such an amazing experience to do here in the UK #ukbirding #puffin

This was defo my favourite bird of the Autumn a stunning and showy Pallas’s Warbler in the heavy rain so almost had the experience to myself Such a stunning bird! @flamboroughbird.bsky.social
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A video showing how well the Shore-larks showed at the weekend at the Easington Lagoons, was over the moon with the time i got to spend with these stunning little birds @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social #ukbirding #birding #birdwatching #naturevideo #wildlifephotography #birder #lark

All the hype around the Scarlet Tanager (which I’m hopefully going to catch up with) made me think of my trip to Ecuador where I saw over 35 species of Tanager, my favourite being Flame-faced and Blue-necked which are stunning. Here’s a blue-and-yellow I managed to photograph! #scarlettanager #bird