Melanitta nigra
Melanitta nigra
Melanitta nigra
Melanitta nigra
An Easter #SuperSeabirdSunday!
A sea duck features for me this week with the long staying Common Scoter at Roundhay Park, UK.
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Hydrobates leucorhous leucorhous
A lifer for #SuperSeabirdSunday!
A Leach's Storm-Petrel was found at Idle Washlands, Nottinghamshire today.
Very windy making sea like conditions with the waves on the lake. The Leach's seemed right at home.
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Phoenicurus ochruros gibraltariensis
The male Black Redstart showed well in Pontefract on Saturday. Big thanks to Hep & Abi for allowing me and @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social access to their garden.
I never thought I'd hear one singing in the UK!
#BirdingUK #YorkshireBirding #UKWildlife #UrbanBirding 🪶
Bombycilla garrulus garrulus
Bombycilla garrulus garrulus
Bombycilla garrulus garrulus
Bombycilla garrulus garrulus
I guess you could say at the eleventh hour @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I managed a pair of Bohemian Waxwings for the season near Goole, Yorkshire on Sunday.
#BirdingUK #YorkshireBirding #UKWildlife 🪶
Gavia arctica
My contribution to #SuperSeabirdSunday.
A few weeks ago on the way back from the White-Billed Diver, I stopped by Hartlepool for the Black-Throated Diver in the marina.
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Larus hyperboreus
Larus hyperboreus
Larus hyperboreus
Another gull submission for #SuperSeabirdSunday!
The juvenile Glaucous Gull at Shibdon Pond, Newcastle on Monday.
Sadly not there today when I took @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social 😭
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social #Seabirds #GullsoftheWorld #UKWildlife #GullsoftheWP #BirdingNorthEast #BirdingUK 🪶
What I thought was my first Sand Martin of the year at Shidbon Nature Reserve yesterday turned out not to be so!
I'm unsure what species of bat this is but thinking Common Pipistrelle? Hopefully someone will be able to help with ID?
#UKWildlife #Bats #IDHelp #DurhamWildlife
Gavia adamsii
Gavia adamsii
It's #SuperSeabirdSunday!
As an arctic bird lover, one of the ultimates is this adult White-Billed Diver that showed incredibly well at Blyth Harbour last Sunday.
A brute of a diver!
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#Seabird #UKWildlife #BirdingNorthEast #RareBirdsUK #BirdingUK 🪶
Larus glaucoides glaucoides
Larus glaucoides glaucoides
Larus glaucoides glaucoides
Larus glaucoides glaucoides
The usual gull entry for #SuperSeabirdSunday.
Yesterday the Iceland Gull at Roundhay Park showed like a champ! Stunning views both on the deck and in the air.
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Yep!
Larus argentatus argenteus A33:M
It's #SuperSeabirdSunday!
A ringed Herring Gull at Ravensthorpe last weekend ringed as a chick on 5/7/25 on the Calf of Man.
Reported from:
Millquarter Bay, Northern Ireland. 27/9/25
Ardglass Harbour, Northern Ireland. 10/10/25
Peel Harbour, Isle of Man. 22/10/25
#YorkshireBirding #GullsoftheWP 🪶
Netta rufina
Netta rufina
The long staying Red-Crested Pochard at @rspb.bsky.social St Aidan's showed very well in the afternoon sun shortly after New Years.
By far our best view of one!
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Eurasian Tree Sparrow (Passer montanus montanus)
Eurasian Chaffinch & Great Spotted Woodpecker (Fringilla coelebs gengleri & Dendrocopos major major)
Yellowhammer (Emberiza citrinella caliginosa)
Willow Tit (Poecile montanus kleinschmidti)
We started the new year with a trip to Big Waters, Northumberland. Sadly, we dipped the Icleand Gull as this was the day it decided to turn up very late. We did see some quality birds though.
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Chroicocephalus ridibundus ridibundus
Larus canus canus
Larus argentatus argenteus
Larus fuscus graellsii
Another gull filled #SuperSeabirdSunday!
A mid-week visit to Redcar Tarn, Yorkshire to see what was about.
A good selection of gulls; Black-Headed, Common, Herring and Lesser Black-Backed.
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Lanius excubitor
Last weekend @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I went to see the Great Grey Shrike at Fillingham, only our second one.
It was singing every so often which was a huge bonus!
@lincsbirding.bsky.social #UKWildlife #LincolnshireBirding #UKBirding #RareBirdsUK #Wildlife 🪶
Ichthyaetus melanocephalus
It's been a while since I've posted so why not come back with a #SuperSeabirdSunday post.
On Boxing Day we went to see the Newburn bridge Mediterranean Gull. At this point there was 2 but this has increased to 3!
#GullsoftheWorld @teesbirds.bsky.social #UKWildlife #Seabirds #GullsoftheWP 🪶
Funnily enough, I was talking to @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social a few hours ago about going up to see it next month!
Larus dominicanus vetula
Larus dominicanus vetula
Larus dominicanus vetula
Finishing off our South African #GullsoftheWorld for #SuperSeabirdSunday with the Cape Gull.
Not a lifer for us as we got the Grafham bird but still great to see them in their natural range.
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#Seabirds #BirdingSouthAfrica 🪶
Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus poiocephalus
Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus poiocephalus
Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus poiocephalus
Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus poiocephalus
Contuining our #GullsoftheWorld from South Africa with Grey-Headed Gull.
A surprisingly hard gull to find and get good views of around Cape Town.
#BirdingSouthAfrica #Wildlife #Seabirds 🪶
Chroicocephalus hartlaubii
Chroicocephalus hartlaubii
Chroicocephalus hartlaubii
Chroicocephalus hartlaubii
It's #SuperSeabirdSunday!
@unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I went to Cape Town last month continuing our #GullsoftheWorld tour.
The first gull ticked off was the very common Hartlaub's Gull.
#BirdingSouthAfrica #Wildlife #Seabirds
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Larus cachinnans cachinnans
Larus cachinnans cachinnans
Larus cachinnans cachinnans
Larus cachinnans cachinnans
Last Sunday @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I were in Scarborough for comic con so we had to go see the 1cy Caspian Gull in the harbour.
Very vocal and only interested in the catch of the day!
#GullsoftheWorld #YorkshireBirding #GullsoftheWP #Seabirds #BirdingUK @northyorksbirds.bsky.social
Larus michahellis michahellis
Larus michahellis michahellis
Larus michahellis michahellis
A Saturday trip to Queen's Park, Blackburn to see the long staying 1cy Yellow-Legged Gull with @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social.
Thanks to @billaspin.bsky.social for the info!
#UKBirds #BirdingUK #GullsoftheWP #GullsoftheWorld #LancashireBirding #Seabirds
That appears to be a Phylloscopus sp. Possibly a young Chiffchaff?
Anthus gustavi
After six hours, and some peer pressure to stay, the Pechora Pipit eventually gave good but brief views early evening. An insane record.
Whoever tells you to say "no" to peer pressure, must be someone happy with mediocre views!
#RareBirdsUK #BirdingNorthEast #BirdingUK #Wildlife #UKWildlife 🪶
H. trivittatus I believe. Migratory hover here in the UK.
Colias croceus croceus
A post work trip yesterday to see some local Clouded Yellows at Ledstone, Yorkshire.
3 in flight together with a possible 4th racing around in the early evening sunshine.
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#UKWildlife #YorkshireWildlife #UKButterflies #Wildlife #Butterflies 🦋
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Might need to consider this now.
Morus bassanus
Morus bassanus
Morus bassanus
Morus bassanus
A #SuperSeabirdSunday from the North Sea off @rspbbemptoncliffs.bsky.social.
Yesterday @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I had an incredible experience with diving Northern Gannets.
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#YorkshireWildlife #Wildlife #YorkshireBirding #Seabirds 🪶
Favonius quercus quercus
Favonius quercus quercus
It's been a while since @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I have targeted butterflies.
On Saturday we got Sarah's lifer Purple Hairstreaks at Roundhay Park in Leeds.
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Full credit must go to @tim-hodge.bsky.social for finding them!
We just happened to be in the right place at the right time to see them.
My full apologies for not tagging you Tim. I didn't know your full name or if you were on this platform.