My rant in hides is when they stand the tripods across the seats, so no-one can sit down! 🙄 Don't mind how long the lens is (get gr8 pics!), as long as they're considerate. 😀

I didn't get close enough and I'm always wary of getting into an argument with someone when I'm alone & a long way from help... I should have taken a photo tho'. It is happening everywhere now....🥺😡

I'm having a rant.. Yester I spent a few hrs on Exmoor watching Cuckoos. I tucked into gorse, under camo. Saw & heard 5 males in 2 spots. A man with long lens camera, walked down 2wds me, pulled out phone & started playing Cuckoo bait calls. NOT fieldcraft! They need to feed & breed!! 😠 #UKBirding

Thanks Brett. A grand day out!

I had to brace myself....🤣 But was in & out like stealth bomber, then having a wonderful time pottering about from 7a.m. I just thought I'd probably never see one....

Cettis Warbler along the River Frome

Little Ringed Plover near Wareham this morning

Red-Spotted Bluethroat at Swineham, Dorset this morning

One of many Reed Warblers along the River Frome at Wareham this morning.

Only my 2nd-ever twitch, to see the Red-spotted Bluethroat. I was in & out b4 the crowds! Gr8!! Then walked along the river to Wareham. Never seen so many Cettis. Also Reed & Sedge warbs, Chiffs, Reed Buntings, a pair of LRPs, Sika, Swans etc. Then Morden Bog - 2 Cuckoos, Whitethroat. #UKBirding

Thank you! It was unusually obliging.....they do like to skulk 😃

Black-crowned Night Heron at Borrow Pit, Seaton Marsh, Devon

I'd been away for a week filming, so I was thrilled that a local birder spotted a Black-Crowned Night Heron early this a.m. I got the bus in to Seaton and it was showing brilliantly. Pink legs, because it's the breeding season, they're usually yellowish! #UKBirding

My first Exmoor Cuckoo of the year! Excuse my heavy breathing, I'd climbed a hill 🤣🤣 #Ukbirding

Superb morning on Exmoor. Frosty, blue sky, no wind. Cuckoo, Wheatears, Linnets, Red Deer, Hare etc #UKBirds

Thanks Brett! Got there early, before the hoards....😃

Pied Wagtail on a mossy stone

A Wren singing loudly on top of a stone

A male Common Redstart on a rock

A male Common Redstart on a mossy rock

Cracking morning up on Dartmoor. Gr8 to see that the Common Redstarts are back, there were a fair few. Also Willow Warblers singing all over. Mipits, Linnets, GSW, Stonechats, Marsh Tits, Ravens, Wheatear. No Cuckoo yet for me..... #UKBirding

On site b4 the Wilts Stone Curlews were up yesterday. They didn't surface till 6.30am!! So I give you the all-singing, all-dancing Stone Curlew pair. NOT! They move in slow-mo and have no facial expression and I bloody love them. I'm surprised that they don't fence the sheep off? #UKBirding

Hadn't thought of that! 🤣

4am start and it was ICY!! Off to Wilts and Hants for a bit of bird questing. Stone Curlews first (without last wks heat haze), then Great Bustards displaying (which they weren't doing last week). Success on both counts. Fabulous. Also Corn Buntings, Red Kites, Grey Partridge, Skylarks #UKBirding

It's great when you can join up the dots! Glad you saw the Bustards!

Beautiful day on Salisbury Plain. I saw loads of wildlife - Gr8 Bustards, Stone Curlews, Red Kites, Yellowhammers, Corn Buntings, Roe Deer, Hares, Red Deer and more. Only problem? The weather was too good!! All pics & videos were badly affected by heat haze. End clip? 3 Stone Curlews 😂 #UKBirding

Fantastic!

Oh, how fantastic! I've only had that when I stayed in a cottage in Cumbria and in the evenings they'd be sitting on the fenceposts. 😍

Are they close to your house, Ian?

Apart from Jackdaws, Skylarks and Mipits, Fulmars (related to Albatross) seemed to be one of the most visible birds on the section of Cornish coast that I have just visited. Very windy, so it was great to watch their acrobatics. Excuse the wobble - very windy & they were very distant!! #UKBirding

Did anybody used to play Pick-up Sticks? These Choughs on the Cornish coast are really into it!! Spent a few days on the coast path and watched four vocal pairs flying into the fields, collecting sticks and then soaring into the deep cliff clefts. Fantastic!! #UKBirding

Pulse of Swallows coming from ENE over Holywell, Cornwall this morning. #UKBirding

Having a great few days in Cornwall at Holywell Bay. 😃 So far I've watched a lot of Fulmars, Skylarks, a few Choughs, Ravens & half a dozen Wheatears (all male). This morn I spotted my first Osprey of the season!! Could I get the camera to focus? No!! 🥺 #UKBirding

Male Siskin in the willow catkins

Spring seems to be well under way in Dorset. Walked along the River Asker, Bridport this morn and there were Chiffchaffs chiff chaffing, Blackcaps in full song, Egret, Treecreepers, Nuthatches, Coal, Great, Long-Tailed and Blue tits everywhere, Buzzards displaying, Siskins very vocal. #UKBirding

Canon....not Cannon....🤣

Thanks Rob! I find it very frustrating when the Nikon won't focus fast enough....... I shall go back to Cannon next time....🤞🤞

Gr8 morn, so I got early bus to Weymouth. Walked round Radipole for a cpl of hours & saw virtually nothing. Siskins, 3 Marsh Harriers & then a flying barn door came & circled for a bit b4 flying over Weymouth. White-Tailed Sea Eagle. Bad vid - tracking focus didn't track OR focus! 😂#UKBirding

Thanks Brett! Couldn't nearly get them all in shot, but was fantastic to watch. 😃

That's only a small section! I couldn't nearly get them all in...