The smell is beautiful too!

Disappointing news from Sutton Park 💔

Stonechat pairs dropped from 6 to just 1 in 5 years largely due to increased dog disturbance.

These birds nest on the ground & are easily disturbed.

🐾 Please keep dogs on leads
🚶 Stick to paths

Small actions = big impact for wildlife😞

Little Ringed Plover at Edgbaston reservoir

Mallard & ducklings 🐥

Edgbaston reservoir

2 mooches around Brum pond today

LRP was a nice nugget to find
5 Common Sand
Linnet
Willow warbler
All 3 hirundines
Pair of Grey wags
Peregrine
Blackcaps & chiffs getting down to business

#UKbirding
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I was watching the Buzzards - that nest a stones throw away over the canal - from my apartment in Birmingham as they mated last week.
I got the the telescope out to get a closer look, but then felt like a pervert 😄

Springtime scene from small area of woods at Edgbaston reservoir, Birmingham

Edgbaston reservoir, Birmingham

6+ Willow warblers & a few House Martin were nfy

6 Common Sands
Swallows & Sand Ms
4 Mistle Thrush
Peregrine
Lots of Blackcaps. Counted around 12. Chiffs as well, of course

Hopefully get some tasty treats at some point 🤞

#UKbirding
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You can say that again!

View toward Wales from Brown Clee, Shropshire

Snow and hail storm at the summit of Brown Clee, Shropshire

My partner and best friend Ruth in a bracing wind looking west. near the summit of Brown Clee,Shropshire

Small lake surrounded by scrub, sedge and woodland where we eat lunch. Near the summit of Brown Clee, Shropshire

Brown Clee circular walk, Shropshire
15km of sunshine, snow, hail & strong wind! 😵‍💫
Brilliant day & beautiful as always

8+ Redstart
2 Tree Pipit
7+ Crossbill
Siskin aplenty
Red Kite, Buzzards, Kestrel & Ravens
Stonechat
Reed bunting m&f
Willow warb, Swallow, Greenfinch

#shropshirebirding
#UKbirding

Make that 2

First Willow warbler of the year for me today. Edgbaston, Birmingham

#UKbirding
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Don't mess with a mother Moose

Dawn at Edgbaston reservoir, Birmingham

Edgbaston reservoir, Birmingham.

My first real migrants of the year warmed the cockles on a chilly morning

2 Common Sand
30+ Sand Martin
2 Swallows

Several Chiffs & Blackcaps

Siskin & Redpoll
4 Mipits
2 Peregrine & a Sparrowhawk
2 Greylag
Little & GC Grebes

#UKbirding
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Another rummage around Walton Hill, Worcestshire, this morning.

Although only heard, a Brambling was the highlight.

Other bits of interest:
1 Stonechat
2 Mistle Thrush
8 Ravens
GS & Green Woodpecker
Skylark
Siskin & Redpoll
Linnets

#worcsbirds

Hey Gert. Nice to see you giving Walton a bash. Hopefully an Ouzel will make an appearance at some point 🤞

I just think it would useful - mostly for county recorders - to know who is seeing what and where.
Maybe they do if they need to follow things up, as in granted access to the account. But who knows???

It will always make me smile when I see 'anonymous and others'.
An anonymous person and other anonymous people saw stuff...yeaah!

#UKbirding

Walton Hill circular walk, Worcestershire. With Paul Croft

No target migrants of any kind. Just a few Chiffs & Blackcaps

Red Kite, Kestrel, Buzzards & Ravens enjoying the blusteriness.

8 Tufty duck & 3 Little Grebe on the pools
A few Skylark, Linnet, Siskin & Mipits here & there.

#worcsbirds

Very Bill & Ted 😉👌

Short-eared Owl at the very top of Chat Valley.

Adult Black Redstart in Chat Valley. Very active feeding. Always moving on around the hill.

The second Black Redstart found in North Valley at the top of the tree line.

Ring Ouzel (bottom right). Again in Chat Valley towards the top.

Wow!! North Hill #MalvernHills this morning. SEO dropped in briefly before being mobbed & departed W. Trying to relocate the Owl I later returned to Chat Valley to find a Black Redstart & a Wheatear followed by a Ring Ouzel. Then I found another Black Redstart in North Valley. Amazing. #WorcsBirds

Wow, superb Dan!

View across Edgbaston reservoir, Birmingham.

View across Edgbaston reservoir, Birmingham.

Edgbaston reservoir, Birmingham.

Lovely morning looking out for hirundines...alas there were none, but still a decent return for the res with a few nfy's.

Kingfisher
Redpoll & Siskin
Fieldfare & Rwings
Mipit
Peregrine & Sparrowhawk
Blackcaps & Chiffs
Shoveler x5

#UKbirding
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Grounded Skylark at Edgbaston reservoir, Birmingham

Goat Willow in flower at Edgbaston reservoir, Birmingham

Misty morning at Edgbaston reservoir, Birmingham

Eked out a couple of things from the gloom

A Skylark on the deck was nice & nfy. Only ever seen flyovers before.

3 m Shoveler
Redwings & a Mistle Thrush
4 Blackcaps singing away
2 L Grebe & 4 GCGs

Plus the usuals

#UKbirding
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Excitement out the back of the apartment. 2 Badgers just 'badgered' past the window!

We see the odd one here and there, but not well. These 2 hung around for a couple of minutes by the bushes. Lovely stuff 🦡🦡

Edgbaston, Birmingham

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This sort of thing doesn't get enough traction. He can't die soon enough. POS

Furthermore, countries around the world need to grow a backbone and call it out properly ffs

What a world we live in.....2026 and humans have reverted. And I don't say this lightly, it's cowardice!

Toured the black Country several times. An underrated musician.
Got my Dad's old Lovin Spoonful LP and it always goes down well.
Happy birthday JS ☮️

I'll have to educate myself as to who Al Jolson is, but I get the point 😊

Literally just listened to that and thought I'd missed the part where he said it was a cover. Bit odd

Photo of a Common Nighthawk, a North American species, used in an article on the BBC website about the European Nightjar, a completely different species. Just grab any old photo of something vaguely similar off the Internet - no-one will notice...

I don't think any of these are going to be churring in the South Downs National Park, BBC. Unless local birders have been keeping something very quiet! #ukbirding