Quality Spring afternoon at Whittle Dene today with the first Common Tern, Common Sandpipers, Blackcaps. Stars of the show were one late staying male Brambling with the finch flock and 2 fresh-in Little-ringed Plovers #NEBirding
Days of Easterlies with low cloud and drizzle produced an amazing spring ringing session at the Jew’s Gate Observatory #Gibraltar. 127 new birds with day records of 28 Bonelli’s Warbler and 8 Woodchat Shrikes will be hard to beat. #birdringing #gonhs
A strange few ringing days at the #Gibraltar bird observatory. The 8th and 9th ever Goldcrests. Only the 6th ever spring Bullfinch and firsts for the year of Redstart, Bonelli’s & Subalpine Warbler and Tree Pipit. #birdringing #gonhs
A Black-headed Gull (2F06) I ringed in Southend-on-Sea in February 2023 was in a Dutch colony at Zoetermeer by the following month. It’s now back in the same colony for its fourth consecutive season, having been seen there this week! 🇳🇱🧪🌍 #EssexBirding #BirdRinging
Male Siskin
Norwegian ring
Male Siskin caught in south Staffordshire today that had been caught by others in our group 3km away on 25th January & ringed as an adult 1,169km away in Norway on 9th June 2024 #birdringing #BelvideRingingGroup @btobirds.bsky.social @westmidbirdclub.bsky.social
I hadn’t ringed Dartford Warbler here on #Gibraltar in the spring until this year and another turns up. This 2nd calendar year bird showed some interesting secondary moult. #gonhs #birdringing
Purple Sandpiper showing a glint of purple at Low Newton. 70+ here the last 2 days, it's the largest count for a while.
A marked increase in visitor disturbance/dogs at Low Newton corresponds with a reduction in these and other shorebirds over the last 20 years. 😞
#NEbirding #Lowcarbonbirding
A row of moths on green cloth. From left to right: Common Quaker, Small Quaker, 2 Twin-spotted Quakers and Hebrew Character.
The usual suspects dominated the moth trap this morning. 40 Common, 4 Small & 2 Twin-spotted Quakers plus 6 Hebrew Characters were supported by 2 March Moths & T.alternella. Durham, VC66. #TeamMoth @teesbirds.bsky.social
Just passed what must have been two Ruddy Shelducks on a flash on the east side of the A1 near Bowburn, Durham #NEbirding
Sand Martin over car park at RSPB Saltholme
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The male Greater Scaup that is currently living on the river Aln near Lesbury, Northumberland. #nebirding #birdsoftheworld
Evidence of a slight upturn in Jack Snipe numbers
Two sites visited today in different Hectads, a 6 count in a Typha swamp & an 8 at an industrial SUDS pool.
(The largest of our Ecology Whippets thinks he’s a pointer 😄🐕🎯)
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Hurworth Burn Resevoir 25 2 26, Slavonian Grebe. A day when there was a bit of sunshine for a change.
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Ruff, Water Pipit, Whooper Swan on Back Saltholme from Navigator.
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Scaup imm male RSPB Saltholme main lake in front of cafe 10.05am @teesbirds.bsky.social
Heard just my first singing 🎵 Chiffchaff of the year in trees by the railway line at Crossgate Moor, Durham City 😃. #NEbirding @teesbirds.bsky.social
Found on the beach today. I've seen the movies, if the head turns on this thing.... I'm off...😆
Stop press - the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker monitoring module is now freely available for all to use on BTO @btobirds.bsky.social Acoustic Pipeline app.bto.org/acoustic-pip...
‘The New Birds of the Sheffield Area’
The proof copy back from the printers, before it went to the bookbinders 😍
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It's World Wetlands Day!
We want to take a moment to celebrate those who work tirelessly to protect these vital landscapes.
We can't wait to gather with just a small handful of these individuals at our European Fieldworker Workshop this weekend.
📷 Jade Hopcroft @natureisakingdom
Yes am sure I had one at Whittledene Res this morning. Nearly no white spots on primaries.
I've called on the UK Government to license gamebird shooting in England and give Hen Harriers the protection they deserve.
Please help spread the word - contact your MP today and help stop the illegal killing of these incredible birds!
action.rspb.org.uk/page/185536/...
"A strange creature, with shadows pulsing across its indeterminate form, sat hunched on the seabed above eight tentacles and among sea fans and sponges."
mymba.mba.ac.uk/resource/a-r...
Carole Cadwalladr, "He's not that cuddle cosy golf club English pub figure"
"He is in a relationship with the US far right and with the European pro-Kremlin far right"
"What happened in Brexit, we saw that money that force that influence, those networks coming together"
Octopus numbers exploded around the UK’s south-west coast in 2025 – a new report explores this rare phenomenon
Great write up in @uk.theconversation.com about the Octopus Bloom
GPS tracked Icelandic Greylag Goose movements tracker link below. Greylags ‘Alastair’ and ‘Willem’ are currently in Caithness arcgis.stofa.is/portal/apps/... #CaithnessBirds
Thanks to all continuing and new members who have paid this year’s subs! Membership benefits include, for example, our detailed annual bird report and our publication, The Lek. #NEbirding
An advert for Get Birding with Sean Bean.
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