Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds this week are difficult to narrow down 🥴
Having organised a birding trip with pals #TollesburyWick & #Abberton #Essex
1) Bearded (tit) reedling
2) Red breasted merganser
3) Greater scaup
4) Sand martin
5) Barn owl
All new for year ✅
Had 79 species for the day
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, on an evening farmland walk:
1. Yellowhammer
2. Red-legged Partridge
3. Common Pheasant calling & drumming its wings loudly
4. Dunnocks singing softly in the hedge
5. Blackbirds calling their sharp metallic note as dusk fell
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Square graphic design. Pale mint green with greyish blue wavy-edged bands at top and bottom. Portrait format photo on the middle left with greyish blue text to the right. Photo shows: Close up of a Penduline Tit perched on a branch, eating from catkins. The bird’s body is facing away from the camera showing the reddish-brown mantle, grey wings and grey head. The bird’s head is turned to the left of the frame showing the black mask on its face. The background is blue. Caption below the photo reads: Penduline Tit Text on the right reads: #Top5Birds What were your best bird moments from the past week?
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Lifer Penduline Tit in France 🌟 and
2. First of year Swallows
And back home:
3. Herring Gull chasing a Heron over our garden
4. Blackbird singing in the morning
5. Common Buzzard soaring in the blue sky
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Hey Suzy you’re obviously still on the continent …. My #Top5Birds this week includes
1) Kingfisher pair *
2) Snipe *
3) Shoveler pair *
4) Little grebe *
5) Lapwing *
* all seen with a dear friend & colleague who had never seen these before & her favourite bird is Kingfisher oh her face 🥰
Square graphic design. Pale mint green background with blue/grey wavy-edged bands at top and bottom. No Landscape format photo in the lower middle with grey/blue text above. Text reads: #Top5Birds What were your best bird moments from the past week? Photo shows: Male Red-crested Pochard. A large duck with a ginger-orange head and crest, black throat and breast, brown back and white sides. The bird is shown on water andis facing towards the right of the frame. Caption below the photo reads: Red-crested Pochard (male)
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine - in France
1. Close views of Red-crested Pochard
2. First of Year Brambling
3. Lots of Hawfinch sightings
4. Rock Bunting - such striking markings
5. A 3 woodpecker day- Great Spotted, Eurasian Green, and Black!
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Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds this week includes
1) Nuthatch of work feeders
2) Redwing still hanging on
3) Common gull
4) Little grebe
5) Chiffchaff Chiffchaff’ing
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine - from a foggy weekend in Estonia:
1. Lifer Grey-headed Woodpecker ⭐️
And from the French Alps
1. First of Year Hawfinch
2. Alpine Choughs soaring together
3. Small Serin flock
4. Singing Blackcaps
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Little Egret in the curve of a river with the tide out. seen from a distance. Blue sky. no one else around.
Sounds like a good day!
We spent some time watching this Little Egret while we were on a walk in Essex.
Also saw and heard skylark, curlew, cetti's warbler.
A bird watcher we talked to was raving about the number of avocets.
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Wow Suzy that impressive I assume you’ve been on your travels 🤷🏼♂️
My #Top5Birds this week includes
1) Nuthatch
2) Song thrush
3) Blackbird
4) Green Sandpiper
5) Lapwing
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine - all from a very foggy day in Estonia:
1. Great Grey Shrike perching by the roadside
2. Lifer Steller’s Eider ⭐️
3. First Brambling of the year
4. 2 White-tailed Eagles feeding on the beach
5. Hearing Long-tailed Ducks calling
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Hey Suzy it seems to come around quicker every week my #Top5Birds this week includes
1) Blackbird
2) Greenfinch
3) Blue tit
4) Goldfinch
5) Redwing
All the colours 🌈
Square graphic design. Pale mint green background with blue/grey wavy-edged bands at top and bottom. Landscape format photo in the lower middle with grey/blue text above. Text reads: #Top5Birds What were your best bird moments from the past week? Photo shows: Two Eurasian Spoonbills preening each other. The background is a grassy and stoney shore Caption below the photo reads: Eurasian Spoonbill
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine - all 1st of year sightings:
1. 17 Eurasian Spoonbills in the rain
2. 4 Slavonian Grebes
3. Common Gull amongst Black-headed Gulls
4. Dunlin and Common Ringed Plovers feeding together
5. Spotted Redshank at the water’s edge
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Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds this week were a little more surprising than of late with a birdwatching trip (homemade cake) with pals locally
1) Goldeneye M&F
2) Smew M
3) Goosander F
4) Raven
5) Common Scoter M&F
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, on Cambs / Lincs border & all First of Year birds:
1. An amazing 3-owl day with Little Owl, Short-eared Owl and Long-eared Owl
2. Surprise Glossy Ibis
3. Greater Scaup
4. Common Cranes
5. Great White Egret
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Essex again cheeky 🤣
My #Top5Birds this week includes
1) Peregrine
2) Common gull
3) Common Snipe
4) Song thrush
5) Fieldfare
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, at Abberton Reservoir, Essex:
1. Lifer Smew, duck & drake
2. Big flock of Greater White-fronted Geese landing on the water
3. Several Ruff with beautiful plumage
4. First of year Cetti’s Warbler
5. Close views of Goldeneye
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Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds this week includes
1) Teal
2) Common Snipe (15)
3) Song thrush serenading
4) Dunnock singing
5) Wren
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1. This pair, in the park
2. Louder bird song now
3. Herring gulls watching from a roof
4. Our first blackbird song of the year
5. A noisy wren
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Buzzard flying alongside the road
2. Cheeky Magpie eating from a feeder
3. 1st of year Tawny Owl calling in the early hours
4. Noticing the dawn chorus featuring Blackbird, Robin and Wren
5. Nighttime call from Canada Goose
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Not sure I want to list my #Top5Birds after seeing your amazing list 🥴
1) Nuthatch (1,2&3 in work garden)
2) Treecreeper
3) Great spotted woodpecker
4) Redwing large flocks
5) Fieldfare
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Finally seeing the long-staying Great-tailed Grackle. So pleased to see it’s in such great condition
2. Lifer Killdeer!
3. First of year Little Gull and
4. Mediterranean Gull
5. Wonderful close views of a Common Snipe
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Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds this week includes
1) Snipe
2) Redpoll (in a flock of Siskin)
3) Siskin
4) Goldcrest
5) Lapwing
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Singing Mistle Thrush
2. Magpie carrying a twig. Maybe nest-building?
3. Lots of bird song in a woodland setting
4. Big flocks of Fieldfare and Redwing flying over
5. Singing male Crossbill, seen against a blue sky! Stunning!
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Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds this week included
1) Goldcrest close up
2) Pochard Diving
3) Red kite gliding
4) Teal sleeping
5) Redwing flying
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine-
At WWT Welney, Norfolk:
1. First of Year Tree Sparrow
2. Two Bewick’s Swans with Whooper Swans
3. Watching Greylags land on ice
And at Hayling Island, Hants:
4. First Purple Sandpiper for 4 years
5. Nice views of Goldeneye
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Hey Suzy mine not so glamorous in species or location 🧐 #Top5Birds
1) Goldcrest close up again
2) Pochard M&F
3) Redwing
4) Kestrel 4 in a short car journey
5) Greenfinch on our feeders
Square graphic design. Pale mint green background with blue/grey wavy-edged bands at top and bottom. Landscape format photo in the lower middle with grey/blue text above. Text reads: #Top5Birds What were your best bird moments from the past week? Photo shows: Close view of an Eastern Black Redstart perched on a rooftop, showing its rufous breast and black face and throat. Bird is facing to the left of the frame. Caption below the photo reads: Eastern Black Redstart
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, in Norfolk:
1. Beautiful Eastern Black Redstart
2. Lifer Taiga Bean Goose
3. Close views of a Treecreeper foraging
4. First of year Firecrest and
5. Jack Snipe
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Hey Suzy my #Top5Birds this week were
1) Red legged Partridge covey
2) Song thrush in song
3) Greenfinch on feeder
4) Pochard Diving
5) Red kite gliding
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What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine, in Norfolk:
1. Barn Owl flying with a large rodent in its beak
2. Three Meadow Pipits bathing together
3. Huge flock of Pink-footed Geese flying over
4. Herring Gull attacking a Red-breasted Merganser
5. Hand-feeding wild Robins
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Hey Suzy I’ve been a little quiet on the bird front this week but still my #Top5Birds included
1) Song thrush singing on many days
2) Nuthatch upside down feeding
3) Herring gull
4) Common gull
5) Coal tit calling
