5 minute walk to see 3 Great Northern Divers crabbing by Woolston Sewage Works #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding #HampshireBirding
A Curlew standing on a gravelly beach beside the water
Curlew having a vigorous clean in the water
Curlew all fluffed up after it's bath
Curlew struggling to swallow a large shellfish
Curlew enjoy a bathe followed by breakfast. Woolston Sewage Works 27.09.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding
Still some squares to cover for the Nightjar Survey in Hampshire. If you can spare two evenings, please check out the BTO website for more info:
www.bto.org/get-involved...
#HampshireBirding
Side view of a Collared Pratincole on a dry bare stream bank
Collared Pratincole in flight, showing a hint of the coloured underwing and the long tail
Less cropped side view of the Collared Pratincole standing on the parched stream bank
Distant shot showing the first views of the Collared Pratincole when first spotted. It is 1pm in full sun and the view is hazy
Collared Pratincole on the stream at Farlington Marshes this afternoon. Worth the train trip and walk ๐ 11.05.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding
Male Stonechat perched up on Scots Pine
A male Redstart on the side of a Silver Birch trunk
A Goshawk cruises the sky
A Willow Warbler sat on top of a willow, singing away
A sunny morning in the New Forest #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding
Wheatear perched on a fence post
A wheatear on the ground
Skylark perched on sea cabbage singing
A Sandwich Tern on an orange buoy
Wheatear, Skylark and Sandwich Tern. Recent arrivals at Hook With Warsash, 24 04.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding #HampshireBirding
3 Brent geese on shore. One bird has leg rings (red 5, black 1)
A Brent goose with identifying leg rings (red K, black T)
Brent geese feeding on shore
A curlew on shore, ruffled by the wind
Still a group of Brent by Woolston Sewage Works at low-tide this morning, including a couple of ringed birds I haven't seen here recently. The feeding looked good after choppy waters yesterday. Also, a fairly frail Curlew feeding. #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding
Mediterranean Gull with a yellow leg-ring with black writing reading AYYE, indicating that this bird was ringed in Leipzig, Germany in 2018
2 Mediterranean gulls, one with a green leg-ring with white writing reading R8VX, indicating this bird was ringed in Vendee region of France in 2022
Mediterranean gull with a white leg-ring with black writing reading 3TPL, indicating that this bird was ringed in Bruxelles, Belgium in 2017
Mediterrean gull with a green leg-ring with white writing reading R9UA, indicating that this bird was ringed at Vendee, France in 2022
A train and bus ride to see Mediterranean Gulls in glorious spring sunshine at Hayling Oyster Beds 18.03.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding
A Curlew out in Keyhaven Marshes
A beautiful and almost camouflaged Eurasian Curlew at Keyhaven Marshes the other day #UKBirding #HampshireBirding #birds #curlew
Wishing everyone a very happy day ๐
3 ringed birds amongst a flock of 24 by Woolston Sewage Works. None of these 3 were amongst the 5 ringed birds recorded 2 days earlier at the same site; none of those 5 were present in this group. 20.12.24 #Brent #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding
5 colour-ringed birds amongst the Brent flock by Woolston Sewage Works today. #Brent #HampshireBirding