Mmm three of these common coastal birds appear to be bats!

Garden shallot harvest #garden

Congratulations Phil

Hi Ros, Bempton was hit less hard by AI than other UK colonies and there still are plenty of birds to see

An allotment plot with a shed and prepared vegetable beds

Onions in and other beds prepared #allotment

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Two twite sat on a wire. #UKBirding

Bird ringers, we are (again) looking for dropped twite feathers.
If you have access to a population in the UK or continental Europe, please do keep us in mind.

Images of Nightingale, Moorhen and Dotterel. Wording reads: 2025 annual conference. Saturday 1 March, Manchester. Book your place today.

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Petrels flying over the sea in the Indian Ocean

PhD opportunity on individual flight behaviour of petrels in the tropical Indian Ocean! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

(Image: Richard Crossley)

#birds

A Jack Snipe among reeds

Always good to start the year with a Jack Snipe (one of 70 species recorded at @tophilllow.bsky.social today)

I’ll see your mine pie and raise you a glass of Sherry

Merry Christmas Phil

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

Light Knot Grass from the garden trap back in June. Didn’t realise it at the time but it’s the first record for our area. #teammoth #moths

We were advised to keep it frost free I think, our greenhouse is tiny and unheated so we didn’t want to take the risk leaving it out there

Yes ours has flowered since we got it in August - outside till early October, now on a cool windowsill

Tune in at 8pm for tonight’s Folk Along the Coast for the last of the programmes of 2024 before we plunge into two seasonal specials.

Utricularia bisquamata ‘Betty’s bay’ brightening up a winter windowsill

A Snipe on the edge of a Reed bed

A Jack snipe hidden amongst reeds

Snipe and Jack Snipe at Tophill today

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We are looking for competent birders to join our directory for paid, adhoc survey work in 2025/beyond - no need for commercial experience.

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Grey and brown Swainson's hawk, puffed up and perching on a utility pole.

While looking for raptors this morning, I came across this adult Swainson's hawk. I asked him why he wasn't in Argentina and he said that Argentina is too cold, bordering on Chile. #birds

Lovely to stumble across this resting Little Auk by Scarborough Harbour earlier today with @grahamscott14.bsky.social. It spent a while sheltering from the northernly winds at mouth of the Harbour, before flying strongly north into a heavy squall. A Great Northern Diver also fed nearby.

It's publication day! My Poyser book on Marsh Tits & Willow Tits is now available.
Huge thanks to publishers @chiffchat.bsky.social who have been fantastic. #NatureWriting #Ornithology #ukbirding #ForestEcology #nature

I love Tibet-Butler preserve

Bempton cliffs this afternoon

Lovely morning surveying on Filey Brigg - distracted by a pod of dolphin - quadrats full of Fucus and Pelvitia

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First redwing of the year ringed