Asian Leopard
Dohl or Indian Wild Dog
Tickell's Blue Flycatcher
Tiger
Central India trip report is now up and online www.oriolebirding.com/wp-content/u... @oriolebirding.bsky.social
Excellent views of female Lesser Spotted Woodpecker in the Brecks today for @oriolebirding.bsky.social. #UKBirding #NorfolkBirding
Wallcreeper
Lammergeier
Great Bustards
Alpine Accentor
We have just completed a very successful Pyrenees tour with all realistic targets seen plus plenty of others! A few of the highlights are attached below.
Bookings are now open for our 2027 Pyrenees tour: www.oriolebirding.com/tour/spanish...
Tufted Coquette
Brown Violetear
Copper-rumped Hummingbird
Long-billed Starthroat
Just back from a great scouting trip to Trinidad for @oriolebirding.bsky.social. The hummingbirds were a big highlight of course, and a few of my favourites are attached below.
We recently returned from a very successful scouting trip to Trinidad ahead of our new tour there starting in 2027. To read about our visit and check out the 2027 tour details visit our website: www.oriolebirding.com/birding-diar...
📸by @jonathanfarooqi.bsky.social
Back at Sheringham for more excellent views of the Eastern Black Redstart for @oriolebirding.bsky.social winter tour. Plus a textbook 2cy Caspian Gull on the beach there. #NorfolkBirding #UKBirding
Kalimera. While I am still out here in #lesvos I think I should give a plug for the @oriolebirding.bsky.social tour that I am leading from 26th April. www.oriolebirding.com/tour/lesvos-... Come and join me for a wildlife filled week in the Aegean. There are still places available.
Great Northern Diver
Red-necked Grebe
Snow Goose
Eastern Black Redstart
A top first few days for our first Norfolk (with a bit of Lincs and Cambs!) Winter tour of the year.
More on the Birding Diary here: www.oriolebirding.com/birding-diar...
Spaces still available for 18-23 Jan!
#NorfolkBirding #UKbirding
White-throated Needletail © Graham Jepson
Siberian Thrush
American Black Tern
Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll
It's been quite the year for rarities on our UK tours so we've put together a blog post looking back on some our favourites. We can't wait to see what next year has in store! #UKBirding
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Red and White Antpitta
Urubamba Antpitta
Leymebamba Antpitta
A top Antpitta day for our Peru group with Red and White, Urubamba and Leymebamba all seen at point blank range at Wayqecha Biological Station, Manu Road
A fantastic day for our Peru group visiting a Harpy Eagle nest in the lower Amazonian reaches of the Manu Road. A long trip to get there and a tense two hour wait to find the now fledged chick in the nest vicinity but eventually mega views!
A mega moment for our Peru group this morning on the trails at Owlet Lodge as we found the nest of an Ochre-fronted Antpitta by chance. We also managed to film the adult feeding the well grown single chick but it spent most of its time brooding in the heavy rain
This fabulous Royal Sunangel was a highlight today for our group while birding at Fundo Alto Nieva in Northern Peru
An exciting moment for our Oman group yesterday as they found the country's 6th Red Collared Dove!
Our South Africa tour enjoyed a spectacular pelagic out of Cape Town yesterday, including 4 species of albatross, both Giant Petrels, Pintado and Spectacled Petrels and Cape Gannets!
📷 by Neil Colgate and @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social
Narina Trogon
Our first tour to the Western Cape going well, the forests have delivered. We are currently sitting on 224 species with more yet to come!
A nice find on our Durham & Northumberland tour today was this moulting adult American Golden Plover roosting on the rocks off the east end of the Crooked Lonnen, Holy Island
#UKBirding
Well that’s a turn up! Eye-browed Thrush at Porthloo duck pond this morning for our Scilly tour group!
We’ve had a good run of Oriole UK lifers this autumn with this hot on the heels of the Needletail, Sibe Thrush and Mourning Dove
📷 credit Simon Knight
#UKbirding
Our group refound the East Yorkshire White-throated Needletail at Bempton Cliffs this afternoon. Unbelievable moment when it shot through as we were watching a Barn Owl! Raced down to cliffs to relocate and initially no sign, but it then reappeared and we had it flying over our heads 🤯🤯
Siberian Thrush for both of our Shetland groups today! 👇
It was a good day for our Shetland tour on Yell and Unst. Highlights included Common Rosefinch, Hawfinch, 4 Glossy Ibis and, perhaps best of all, this confiding Short-toed Lark.
📸 by @jonathanfarooqi.bsky.social
#UKBirding #ShetlandBirding
Marsh Sandpiper
White-winged Scoter
Surf and Velvet Scoters
It’s been a good start to our @oriolebirding.bsky.social Shetland tour as a stop at Musselburgh on the way up to Aberdeen produced the long-staying Marsh Sandpiper, White-winged Scoter, Surf Scoter and plenty more! #UKBirding
We spent the rest of our final morning on Shetland y’day checking spots up the west side of Mainland, including the burn of Geosetter. Just a Blackcap seen on the way up, but coming back down this stunning Wood Warbler popped out!
Pic by @chrisddarby.bsky.social
#UKbirding
The Blue-winged Teal at Hillwell y’day kicked off the final day of our 1st group to Shetland of the season. We were lucky as it flew in from the south with a group of Teal just as we arrived. Certainly a lot easier to pick out in flight than on the deck!
#UKbirding
Pic by @chrisddarby.bsky.social
Taxonomy didn’t ruin the excitement for our Shetland group this morning when we stumbled on this absolutely stunning Hornemann’s Arctic Redpoll up at North Roe with the Isbister sparrow flock! Hopefully a sign that more will be on the way!
#UKbirds #UKbirding
Marsh Warbler at Hillswick this afternoon was a just reward for our Shetland group after sticking out some pretty grim weather for most of the day! Very elusive but eventually showed ok - a really buttery one which at times looked more like a Garden or pale Icterine!
#UKbirding #UKbirds
Ad ♂ Honey Buzzards
Juvenile Black Stork
Adult female Montagu’s Harrier
Adult Booted Eagle
A few pics from @oriolebirding.bsky.social tour to Andalucia last week. Amazing day 3 as 17000 Honey Buzzards passed, we personally enjoyed around 8k in an awesome morning mixed with Marsh & Montagu’s Harriers, Booted & Short-toed Eagle, White & Black Storks & hundreds of Bee-eaters! #birding
Black-winged Kite #norfolkbirding
Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social 11 Sept 25
My day started in the Broads where the Black-winged Kite performed before meeting up with the clients at Titchwell for an intense but very rewarding three hours out on the reserve before dinner. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/norf... #Birds
Pectoral Sandpiper
Grey Phalarope
Glossy Ibis
Osprey
It is fair to say the @oriolebirding.bsky.social trip to Wexford is going well. Sabine’s on the crossing, loads of waders including Buff-breasted, Pectoral, White-rumped Sands and Grey Phals. Glossy Ibises galore and a pair of fishing Ospreys at the mighty Tacumshin.
Pics by @cianbirder.bsky.social
Our 2025 Panama tour running 29 Nov-15 Dec is just ONE BOOKING away from guaranteed departure. If you fancy seeing some iconic Central American birds, including a visit to a Harpy Eagle nest then press the link below for more information!
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Photo: Alan Harrison
