Thank you Peter! For a change, I'll be going in early May this year instead of late June - the landscape will look more colourful with bluebells and red campion flowering, but the puffins won't come in with beaks full of fish... you can't have it all!
Today is International Puffin Day, celebrating the arrival of Atlantic puffins back at their coastal breeding colonies and raising awareness for their conservation. Last year there were a record >43,000 puffins on Skomer Island, I can't wait to visit again! #BirdingWales
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Thank you Peter! Always difficult to get close to, at Gwenffrwd Dinas and elsewhere... this was one actually in Cardiff, I was lucky enough to be able to watch it on and off for a few weeks.
Thank you Kevin! No, this one was local, on Garth Hill.
Thanks a lot Alan!
For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #ManMadePerch set by
@alan678.bsky.social I have chosen a Common Redstart on a fence, I look forward to their return any day now! #birdingWales #ukbirding #birdphotography
Thanks a lot Helen!
Thank you Peter! It's been hard going this spring...
The Hawfinches haven't had a great year so far in my local woods in north Cardiff, but this morning I got lucky with a male that posed very nicely!
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Thank you Colin! No, unfortunately not, two very fleeting views, only the one usable photo.
Thank you Peter! 🙏
I got very lucky at Forest Farm this morning: my first otter there! #wildlifephotography
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It's been a poor winter for Short-eared Owls in the southwest of the UK, so I was glad to see three at Steart Marshes, without any rain!
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Thank you Paul! Yes, definitely worth visiting this site again in a few weeks.
Thank you John!
Thank you Peter!
I was beginning to wonder whether I'd manage to photograph a Firecrest this winter... Alexandra Park, Penarth
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Glossy Ibis at Catcott NR yesterday afternoon, looking great in the light coming from the strange yellow object in the sky!
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That's fantastic, lucky you!
Thank you Kevin, yes it is!
Thank you Peter! Yes, a very sad state of affairs; loss of nest sites (tree holes), predation, being outcompeted by Blue Tits and Great Tits which use manmade nest boxes (which they don't)
Two-tailed Pasha (Charaxes jasius) © Jon Dunn
Knapweed Fritillary (Melitaea phoebe) © Jon Dunn
Apollo (Parnassius apollo) © Jon Dunn
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The Willow Tit is one of the most endangered breeding birds in the UK (90% decline in the last 30 years); I was happy to see two at Garwnant in the Brecon Beacons yesterday, my first in a few years. #BirdingWales #birds #BirdsSeenIn2026
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Thank you Peter! Yes, needs must...
Thank you John! Maybe climate change will lead to a range expansion?
Thank you Jon!
I revisited the Aust Wetlands with
@kev4nature.bsky.social yesterday, in much better weather than the first time (before Christmas) - the 3 Penduline Tits were still there and looking great!
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Christmas Kingfisher at Forest Farm, Cardiff posing very nicely in the sun
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Cheers Kevin!