A #bigsit
My PNW Hooded Mergansers are beautiful everytime.
Reached the quiet part of the day, so here’s our list so far! 47 species with two or three likely species still possible before sundown!
#BigSit #GlobalBigDay #birds
Staring the #BigSit off right by leaving camera and binoculars at home! At least I have 4 fully charged camera batteries with me!🙃
(I do have some binoculars on hand, that we loan out, but really need mine which are better in low light.)
#BirderProblems
I went #birding for over 8 HOURS today! 🪽
And I STILL got work done in between checklists! 🤳🏽
I'm calling today a WIN! 💪🏽
Check out my #GlobalBirdWeekend Trip Report to see where I'm starting before birding and doing my first group #BigSit for #OctoberBigDay tomorrow!
ebird.org/tripreport/4...
Today is the start of #GlobalBirdWeekend, which incorporates tomorrow's #OctoberBigDay (I'm going to my first ever #BigSit!).
I'll share my October Big Day Trip Report link tomorrow…but if you want to follow along the whole weekend, I created a report for all three days!
ebird.org/tripreport/4...
51 species yday from a #bigsit at #salopobs: the usual(!) Gos mid morning, a probing Woodcock after dark, and this clear #nocmig Little Grebe just before midnight https://www.xeno-canto.org/629659
https://ebird.org/checklist/S83557481
Garden tick 130 today, highlight of an intermittent #bigsit from the home-school window 🤓
#salopobs #lockdownbirding #whitefronts
https://ebird.org/checklist/S80030339
Third garden record of Little Egret this evening (see it?!) got today's impromptu #bigsit total to 46
#salopobs #gardenbirding #autumn
All set for another garden #bigsit tomorrow, in lieu of the #WestMidsAllDayer that should've been this weekend. 54 to beat 🤞
#AllDayMayBigSit
54 on the 5/4 -- a new garden record from today's #bigsit. 2 northbound Ospreys the obvious highlight, along with ♂️Goosander and the year's first House Martin #vismig #lockdownbirding
Rallying after the mid afternoon lull: Shelduck brings today's garden #lockdownbirding #bigsit total to 54 by 5pm
And Peregrine makes 50 by midday!
#gardenbirdwatch #bigsit #lockdownbirding
Spot the Sparrowhawk! 36 on the #bigsit list by 0815...
#Shropshire #selfisolationbirding #lockdownbirding
Glorious Sunday dawn from the garden, 15spp on the list already for the #selfisolationbirding #bigsit
And Tawny Owl makes 50. Not a bad total for today's garden #bigsit. Highlight was this Corn Bunting, our first in 8 years, garden tick 112 ✔