I was in the garden staring up at a bird free sky and saw what I thought was a very high Swift but bins revealed it was an even higher Hobby moving rapidly SW

Anyone missing Grasshopper Warblers this spring so far? Also seems to be a local reduction in Chiffchaffs after a good early arrival

We used to dream of having some Audubon’s but guess they would need a new name now! The saving of £8 and 10 shillings was about what my paper round brought in a year

If we push the #AMOC ocean current to collapse, experts warn that the UK will become largely unfit for agriculture.

Just let that sink in.

This new data calls for a new plan. It's no good working to 'net zero by 2050' devised nearly 20 years ago, before policymakers even knew of this threat.

Sometimes auto-focus systems amaze me and at others they annoy me - this was unusually good

Is there some irony here: sewage dumpers maybe look in Barton Haven outside their “processing” works

Nature recovers human dereliction

2cy male Sparrowhawk

First notable Blackcap arrival locally after a scatter last week

Outside they need to be on a lead - deadly cats -

On a very minor scale every time I see a farmer spraying a field or a hedge destroying flail I feel totally powerless in a world destroyed by profit, greed and plain ignorance or the science we know exists but choose to ignore

Pacific Golden Plovers wintering in Europe?
And Slender-billed Curlews?
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Fuerteventura March 2026 — Graham Catley Photography Suffering from the seemingly interminable rain and cloud of the British winter we decided to head back to Fuerteventura for a week not having been since a family trip in March 1999. Holiday booked thr...

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Grey Knot certainly not Red in March

@lincsbirding.bsky.social

Rubbish images but a classic spring littoralis at Theddlethorpe being repeatedly reported as a Water Pipit a frequent error

The Lincolnshire Lapland Bunting: how have they gone from regular to even common in winter to a rarity in my lifetime?

Tried to get some flight shots of Plain Tiger - background a bit cluttered but moderate success - it was down a steep bank so 1.4x on the Canon 100-500 lens with the R6II - Fuerteventura March 2026

Black-bellied Sandgrouse Fuerteventura March 2026 - never got anywhere near them in Spain

Fuerteventura Green-striped White endemic to the island and Lanzarote - after rains the island was quite green in early March with lost of butterflies even in the cool northerlies

Don’t give up Dave a big push seemingly this spring new sites

Is that a bit of a tongue in cheek statement only the 9th! Try Lincs 0!!!

On another grey and dismal day watching a flock of 12 glowing Yellowhammers when an unfamiliar song drifted from the adjacent scrub: bubbly and piping it went on and initially had me wondering until the penny dropped full song of the Bullfinch but how often do you hear it particularly in February

February 13th –the rise and rise of the Cetti’s Warbler on my local patch and more historical ramblings: — Graham Catley Photography Wandering around my local patch nowadays you tend to almost ignore the strident explosions from male Cetti’s Warblers but twas not long ago that such renditions would have been a source of serious exc...

What is the connection between an electric fire, Franklin's Gull, some mole hills and Cetti's Warbler? Another ramble down memory lane www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/february-13th-the-rise-and-rise-of-the-cettis-warbler-on-my-local-patch-and-more-historical-ramblings

If seems the pertinent word: short distance return presumably but 53 Skylarks back on my survey site this week after a winter with less than ten and lots of territorial activity/ song on a less wet day

Well maybe an idea not to drive up and down in your tractor flailing the hedges then ?

Finally managed to get 14 White-fronts on my patch at Barton today after a few close calls - Greylags can be useful after all @lincsbirding.bsky.social

Thanks Richard interesting

Lice not live

Is that dark patch on the underside staining or maybe live? Have seen it on disappearing groups of Tree Sparrows that have disappeared in the following spring