A frenzy of ragged robin
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Not returned this year ?

Captains Wood @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social today , lovely to hear cuckoo , garden warbler , lesser & common whitethroat

English bluebells
#purplehaze #wildflowerhour #aldevalley

Do you know your wren from your whitethroat ? I’m leading an early bird walk next Friday - booking details below , includes breakfast ! 🥐
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SWIFFFTTT !!!!!! Grundisburgh 🙌🙌
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A few white feathers are fairly irresistible, a few scattered near the mud tray can help to get all the birds in the colony interested if they seem to be reluctant to find the mud.

Interested in finding out more about how you can help / like a talk for your local group ? Get in touch 🙂

Can you create a mud pie for house martins? It’s been pretty dry spring, making it difficult for birds building nests

Plastic plant trays can be useful for keeping the mud wet for longer, good on hard surfaces, they can even be used successfully on flat roofs if safe/ practical to do so. 1/2

HMSS in the #EADT at the weekend! Please send #SBG your house Martin records this year for our countywide census , more info soon- www.suffolkbirdgroup.org/
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Cuckoo flower
#cabbagefamily #wildflowerhour

Wood sorrel perfection
#hornerwoods #exmoor #wildflowerhour

Loved seeing lots of cow wheat in the path edges at Watersmeet, Exmoor.
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I love finding opposite leaved golden saxifrage as it always grows in such beautiful places - I saw a pair of pied flycatchers prospecting close by 😁
#wildflowerhour #exmoor

I’m leading an early morning bird walk at Shimpling Park Farm on 9th May , come along , it’ll be lovely !

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3 house martins reported over a farm near Westleton this weekend , with artificial nest cups 😁🤞

Interested in having a talk or finding out more about nest cups ? Get in touch !

More nightingales upriver, first reed warblers & this chap basking ☺️
#spring #suffolkwildlife #scrub

Stitchwort & common stork’s-bill - fairly early ?
#wildflowerhour

Moon sparkles on the sea tonight! A marine fireworks display, as Manxies soar in and shoot down their burrows to avoid being spotted by the Great Black-backed Gulls patrolling the plateau.

Moschatel, goldilocks buttercup (close by) and blackcap song 💚
#wildflowerhour #spring

Finally blackcap song ! After wandering local lanes in the evening sun , Moschatel & Goldilocks buttercup , and a swallow over 💚
#spring #suffolkwildlife

Can you help make a mud pie?
First house martins seen back in Suffolk this week !

Insanely good views of a bittern at Lakenheath fen this week 😁 WTE over too ! @rspb.bsky.social

A SOSSwift Community Set has gone to Westfield Primary School in Haverhill, Suffolk. Their pupils will decorate and number the 6 nest boxes before installation and calls will be played May-July. It will take time but a colony will develop @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

Terrible photo but so full of joy for our nearby hedgebanks full of stitchwort 💚
#wildflowerhour

@merlinsleeps.bsky.social 🙂

Basking adders (👀), sand martin , swallows freshly in, booming bittern & black redstart ! 😊 lovely spring day @rspbminsmere.bsky.social
#springhassprung

Jay on grassland with the bird's face lit up by sunlight. Image credit reads: Jay © Tom Streeter/ BTO

Sneak peek of exciting news! 😀 In April, we’re launching a new UK-wide pilot survey of birds in greenspaces & we need your help! 🐦 We’ll be looking for people to record birds in greenspaces like parks, cemeteries & sports pitches. 📝 Keep an eye on our social media for updates on how to take part.

Awesome photos ! Ta for showing us 😊

Upcoming talks;
Barton Mills this Thurs (27/03)
Transition Bures AGM 24th April

Please get in touch if you would like to book a talk for your local group

@suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @ukhousemartins.bsky.social