Trial underway for man accused of dumping 50 dead hares & two raptors outside Broughton village shop in Hampshire in March 2024.
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#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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Happy World Curlew Day! 🎉
Good rant tbf. Big lenses being waved out of hides is another rant for me. When I first started birding a hundred years ago I stuck my small scope out of a hide window. Boy did I get some stick from the regulars…
Watching low dark clouds appearing over #uptonwarren brought down what I was hoping to see. My first Swift of the year!
A few more moths in the garden this morning - a total of 6 of 4 species. The first Brimstone and I am sure many of Shuttle Shaped Darts to come! 2 Brindled Beauty nice to see. I know it’s common but Brimstone is a fabulous thing #VC37 #teammoth
2 Willow Warbler in song at the park we back on to this morning. Always nice to hear #worcsbirds
Tough as old boots Brindled Beauty, the only moth this morning after a night of freezing temperatures again. Lovely things. VC37 #teammoth
Worth half an hour of your life #ukbirding youtube.com/watch?v=r0gs...
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Yesterday’s mothing session with @wheatearlp.bsky.social at #uptonwarren produced just 4 species, Silver Cloud was new for the reserve. Highlights this am; 3 Willow Warblers, 2 Grasshopper Warbler at the Moors still, Yellow Wagtail & Common Tern (DJ) through at the Flashes. #teammoth #worcsbirds
A picture of a male Tufted Duck floating on calm water with the heading 'April WeBS Core Count TODAY!'. Underneath is the WeBS logo and web address www.bto.org/webs
Today is the April WeBS Priority Core Count! WeBS data contributes towards reporting how our wetland birds are faring and the latest WeBS report, Waterbirds in the UK 2024/25, was published this week and can be read here - www.bto.org/wituk!
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#birding UK/IRE
#uptonwarren highlights this am;
Flashes; Dunlin yesterday replaced by 2 Common Sandpiper today. Lesser Whitethroat showing well. Common Tern through.
Moors; 2 Grasshopper Warbler still, Whitethroat, 2 Red Kite over, 8 Buzzard, Common Sandpiper, Nuthatch east track.
Tricky things aren’t they! I’d say that’s a juv Herring Gull. Have a look at the one I posted which Dave Jackson photographed. Has a lot of good features and was accepted as a Casp by long standing birders - pale underwing, long legs, sloping forehead, beady eye, long bill etc 👍
Thanks to the #worcsbirds birders who have contributed to this 👌👌
A major DDoS attack (I had to google it!) apparently, but fixed now I think 🤞🤞
Yesterday’s outing on the Severn Valley Railway. Features a nice Stout, a man with a Cockatoo and some Steam Engines. (I made a video so Brian can show it to his fellow inmates, as he calls them)
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Not trapped for over 3 weeks in the garden as just no point. Nor was last night it seems with just a soggy Muslin next to the trap. In other news, a Wren is building a nest in the Christmas Wreath I made. Which is nice #teammoth
Traditionally Sedge Warbler arrives first by a few days at Upton Warren. This year both arrived overnight on the same day on the 8th April. I guess with the climate in a mess, nothing is predictable anymore
😂 Can’t hear it on the vid as too far away
…and here giving it the full beans. Not sure I’ve ever seen one that showy at Upton Warren #worcsbirds
The Grasshopper Warbler from the Jacob’s Hide at Moors, Upton Warren is a lot more showy this morning. An additional GW at the entrance to the west track still reeling. #worcsbirds
Tonight at 8pm. Worth turning the Telly on for #ukbirding
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The nearest I’ve got to one this year so far in #worcsbirds
The Grasshopper Warbler in front of the Jacob’s Hide at the Moors Upton Warren which arrived on the 11th April was showing well this morning. Joined by another reeling by the car park. Also Med Gull still, LRP, 2 Avocet #worcsbirds
Yesterday’s first singing Lesser Whitethroat, back of the Flashes, Upton Warren although I saw a male Redstart which confused the hell out of me! Redstart heard singing briefly at the end of the clip too #worcsbirds
This morning’s nice 2s Caspian Gull found and photographed by Dave Jackson at the Flashes, Upton Warren. Also Whitethroat at the Moors and Grasshopper Warbler still but no sign of the Spotted Crake. #worcsbirds
Great isn’t it to see some migration 👍
