'Just' a moorhen, but this one is Boating Lake gold!

Moorhen on Tynemouth Boating Lake today, my first there for over six years... #nebirding #patchbirding

A drake Green-winged Teal at Wheldrake Ings with the Teal flock. Also 2 Reed Warbler. A Lesser Whitethroat at Bank Island. All new #PWC2026
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Patch gold ✅ Nightingale singing from dense scrub on the old tip. #PWC2026 96/105. 10km radius 104/118. @lincsbirding.bsky.social @patchbirding.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social

🤯 #1 in the UK with 93% of last years species total already recorded on my urban Lye Valley patch, by mid-April 🤯

Even more motivation to get out and find more. The more you go, the more you find and the better it is! ❤️ patch birding

Thanks to @patchbirding.bsky.social for organising 🙌🏻

#PWC2026

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9 new ✔️ for #PWC2026 today!
Gropper in area of wetland restoration that we done in the Autumn #LadywalkNR then told by a regular that an ad male Pied Fly was in the ride we cleared a few years ago!
Finished with a drop in Kiitiwake at Shustoke res late pm during heavy shower #Warksbirds

Four Sand Martins on sandy cliff outside entrances to nest burrows.

Total of at least 12 White-billed Divers at Portsoy today, including 9 in a single scan off Redhythe Point. Viewing conditions good, but not perfect, so there's sure to be more out there.

Great to see Sand Martins fresh back at the colony.

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Hoopoe feeding in paddock at Waggs Plot, Devon

Marsh Harrier over Dorset patch & after seeing the same bird at Chard Res earlier!!

I was fortunate to refind this Hoopoe at Waggs Plot after bumping into the local farmer who found it yesterday! A nice 10km #PWC2026 Tick! The Marsh Harrier was 1st seen at #ChardRes (thx for text Gary Andrews) & later over my Dorset patch! #DevonBirds @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social #Somersetbirding

11 mile #Patchbirding dawn walk around the full circuit today. And it was a great way to start with a singing Nightingale along the River Stour by Singleton Lake. 10 Swallows and 5 singing Whitethroats across the patch too.

Cracking Spoonbill west at Branston Island this eve, new for #PWC2026. 125/156

Continental Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Glossy Ibis and LRP still.
#PatchBirding
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Male Redstart

Male Redstart just visible in young oak leaves

Male Redstart on the ground of Warneford Meadow

The Holy Grail of urban birding in spring, a male Redstart, was on Warneford Meadow, Oxford, today. It has taken eight years, but was worth every moment this morning. It even burst into song on a couple of occasions, just magical!

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Thanks to everyone who has been continuing to post using the #PWC2026, #PatchBirding and #PatchGold hashtags! Unfortunately the server for which we use our feed for is down, but they are hoping it will be fixed soon. Cheers!

Lovely stuff mate!

Ticking along nicely, Chris!

Pretty sure I've never been this close to a Wheatear before. Mancetter Hills, N.Warks this evening. Nothing else of note, Ring Ouzel seen yesterday so I was told by another birder #warksbirding #PWC2026

Golden Plovers are everywhere on Tiree's rich grasslands just now - over 6,000 here today. Also the Grey-bellied Brant & Todd's Canada Goose both still at Cornaigmore & 8 Little Terns new at Gott Bay #BirdingScotland
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Hopefully tomorrow for more south coast offshore passage...

Obscured view of a Yellowhammer in a bush

Avoiding the Weald Park crowds today I took a local walk around Crow Green and found a patch tick Yellowhammer.

#essexbirding #patchbirding

Excellent find, John!

That is superb, Tyler!

Drake Lesser Scaup

Little Ringed Plover

A patch tick Lesser Scaup was the highlight of a few hours this morning along with just my 3rd patch Curlew. Also the first few summer migrants with 2 LRP, Sedge Warbler, Willow Warbler, Swallow and House Martin. @patchbirding.bsky.social #patchgold

#Swinemoor was a challenge this morning with the remanence of the high winds, but another FOY with Sedge Warbler back on the patch. Otherwise, same species as yesterday, with a fair few Snipe now dropping in. #patchbirding #eastyorksbirding #PWC2026

Two Willow Warblers, 3 Wheatears, and 2 Sand Martins the best at Cadover at dawn. Pintail and Teal in the lower Dartmoor pits, plus the strong cold wind 🥶, reminded me it's not t-shirt weather yet! #patchbirding #10kmpatch #birding #ukbirding #birds

Not always easy to get a Wheatear on my 3k patch, so pleased to catch up with one early in the year.
A @moocher.bsky.social find earlier today at #LadywalkNR on the shoreline we cleared in Autumn.
Also added LRP for #PWC2026

Stanford Reservoir - finished on 100 species, 116 pts at end of March #PWC2026. Late run at the end of March with Tawny Owl, Feral Pigeon, Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Sand & House Martin & Swallow. April should see a decent uplift although today was dead. A few of the first quarter highlights here.

PWC 2026 scores.xls

The end of March is nearly here! So please remember to get your #PWC2026 March scores and highlights in by the evening of 7th April by putting them onto the main scores spreadsheet here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Best of luck with your April #patchbirding!

Mappleborough Green

Two present the day after the first turned up at Morton Bagot.

An excellent March was concluded with a Wheatear at Mappleborough Green today. The last 10 days have included two patch gold Morton Bagot ticks; Egyptian Geese and Cetti's Warbler (both first for the site) #PWC2026 I heard the Cetti's nine days after ringers caught it.

Loving the stats, Tom! Excellent record keeping.

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If you still need a hand signing up for #PWC2026, then you can watch the following video on the process of doing that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x9t...

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Thank you for taking part in #PWC2026!