4 Swallow and 6+Sand Martin over Castle Howard Lake yesterday evening battling into wind @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Drake Common Scoter still present this afternoon at Castle Howard @yorkbirding.bsky.social

Three reforms to stop the criminal killing of birds of prey – new petition to UK Minister from Friends of the Dales A new petition has been launched calling on the UK Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State (Mary Creagh MP) to bring in legal reform to help stop the illegal persecution of birds of prey. The petiti…

Three legal reforms to stop the criminal killing of birds of prey - new petition to UK Minister from @friendsofthedales.bsky.social

Details & link to petition in blog 🔽

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime 🌍

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#Birdsarebrilliant

Why include pic of Waxwing? AI creeping into research?

@anglianwater.bsky.social Important local sites need management to protect Biodiversity @lincswildlife.bsky.social

That will be one of the 10 Million released about now every year Should be moved from Cat C to Cat E as never self sustaining #UKBirding

For gentle and timeless I feel its malevolent and relentless. Acting executioner on all mankind's disregard and ignorance of the consequences, throwing back the tides of plastic and sewage we have hiden in it's depths. Just waiting for the rising waters of crisis overwhelming the calm of St Ives

Here’s to the birdwatchers! Optimistic, slightly eccentric custodians of wonder and joy and passion and love At its heart, birdwatching is an act of quiet rebellion, says Natalie Kyriacou. It is the gentle act of noticing – the willingness to see the world around you

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Fantastic report Your Tapaculos must have come from a different area. Just to prove I read to the end, should the last species list be Damsels not Dragons

Trying to be positive is your Smiths pic a forecast for next 'First'

Penelope in sneaky eclipse plumage #birdsarebrilliant

OK I'll let you have that as it includes a Wryneck and a post #RepostaWryneck

Cuckoo food Pale Tussock As a birder, moths are a dark art I try to avoid🤔

A signed copy of my book, Reynard the Fox, its accompanying journal, A Fox for All Seasons, a fine bar of Apple & Blackberry chocolate, a box of cinnamon knots, a packet of Caramelised biscuit tea & a charming & fluffy fox companion.

🍁🦊Competition time! To celebrate the coming of autumn, win a cornucopia of delights! A signed copy of my book, Reynard the Fox & accompanying journal, A Fox for All Seasons, Apple & Blackberry chocolate, cinnamon knots, Caramelised biscuit tea & a fine fox companion. Follow, like & repost to win! 🦊🍂

Fantastic total only another 1,000 to go. Couple of my favorite BBC series. 1989 for The Flooded Forest.

The Magic of Spurn ##ukbirding

Surely this is evidence of wildlife crime. @wildjustice.bsky.social No other pets are allowed to roam uncontrolled. Should be classed as a dangerous animal and owners liable Maybe all cats should be muzzled

Just back from incredible week birding Northumberland coast. Privileged to get out to iconic Farne Is. Long Nanny and Lindisfarne each with American visitor. #ukbirding

Just in time! Swift boxes up and ready for first arrivals. Cameras and caller on #swifts #ukbirding #nottsbirding

Interspecies learning incredible capture. I once saw Long tailed Tits snow bathing on a hedge watched by a Blue Tit who then copied the behaviour #ukbirding @britishbirds.bsky.social

Tunnicliffe did similar subject for the cover of "What to look for in Spring" I've been trying to find the larger work of bouncing lambs called Hooligans without sucess

Bird from last year similar jewellery

Which came first the tree or the game. I understand the fruits were used to flavour beer hence a few pubs named Chequers. #woodlandtrust

Thought Dreadlocks are Fieldfare

Short-eared owl wing-clapping and calling, with the company of some whooper swans in the background. 
 
Recorded with an SM4 at a then long-term, listening station on the Wexford coast, on the 17th Jan' 2022. 
 
This is possibly my favourite ever recording, of this seldom-heard migratory owl.

#CaspianGull brings up a few leads. Also follow @saloplarus.bsky.social

Same genus as Sea Bunny featured on 1st episode Asia Under the waves Attenborough Incredible variety and niche adaptation

#Hawfinchesuk combined feed with #waxwinguk You've chosen one of the most elusive bird to study. Plant Hornbeams