I'm on board for this year's #lockdownlisting #nocmig #scoterfest with 3 common scoter heard (and a wigeon) over the house (Liverpool) in the last half hour @RSPBLiverpool @NMBiodiversity

Red-Crested Pochard, Gadwall & m Marsh Harrier new in at Worlington Fishing Pit 🎣 The former #162 for my #5MR list and #137 for #lockdownlisting 1+ Goosander still present. Elsewhere, earlier, Goshawk and Woodlark. A decent afternoon.

If you’re a birder disappointed by the lockdown extension, grab a copy of @BirdwatchExtra and check out @Godalming_birds account of his inland local patching for a dash of inspiration. #lockdownlisting

Just dropped car in to get a new tyre fitted and wandered over to pit top rather than sit about. Watching a Peregrine batter feral pigeons at the grain store to north then this monster drops in 40m away. #lockdownlisting

This Meadow Pipit, one of a handful in frozen, flooded fields 8km inland brought up 80 species within 5km of home in 2021. Gets harder from here, Snipe, Kingfisher, Little Egret, Brambling, Crossbill and Released Gaudy Partridge all need some attention. #lockdownlisting

Long eared and barn owl on the 5m #lockdownlist tonight at Garston Coastal Reserve @NMBiodiversity @yoeGreenspace @RSPBLiverpool #lockdownlisting

Successful ‘exercise walk’ Exertion + persistence + providential timing netted me the 2 EWFG and Barnacle Goose, new for #Lockdownlisting
Bonus yeartick-age; m Merlin chasing hundreds of Linnets and 16+ Grey Partridge. Redshank in flooded field.
3 Teal from the garden, natch! 🙄

Caught up with the Sefton Park gadwall just before dark today, #lockdownlisting mega! @RSPBLiverpool @LiverpoolParks @NMBiodiversity @yoeGreenspace

Looking like it’s time to dust off and bring up to date my #lockdownlisting finished on 120 after the last one, I guess there must be some stuff that I added during the last 5 months, and possibly some new additions to come. #alwayslookonthrbrightside etc, etc

Just added storm petrel, knot (2) and marsh harrier (across the river over Port Sunlight River Park) to the 3km #lockdownlist whilst the boys amused themselves putting their coats on backwards and jumping out on passers by 🙄 #lockdownlisting @RSPBLiverpool @NMBiodiversity

Just boosted to the next level of #lockdownlisting Yellowhammer taking me to 60 following yesterday’s Hobby 😁@DJRBirder

#120 and quite possibly my last #lockdownlisting ✔️ A pair of Spotted Flycatchers on The Royal Worlington Golf Course. Seven weeks and 230 miles on foot. I’m looking forward to a little more (responsible) freedom from tomorrow.

#lockdownlisting MEGA!
A totally unexpected Dipper at Greenbank Park Liverpool, first in the City for over 20 years! Caused a local social distancing twitch. No idea where it has come; feeding voraciously reminiscent of a newly arrived migrant
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Mersey Mega! 3 pairs of Eider off Otterspool prom, along with 3 Common Scoter, 2 Peregrine and a Little Egret...thanks for the tip off @xbirder and @birderjack
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No sign of the Eiders at Cressington this evening but still some decent birds in the shore with sanderling, 50 Dunlin, Curlew and psirs of Shelduck, Oystercatcher + Lapwing, also an interesting gull, possibly Caspian, thoughts?
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Garden #lockdownlisting now largely complete with the appearance of House Martins this afternoon, putting me on 52 species which ain’t too bad for urban Newark - and #nocmig adds another 12. Anything else is going to be a bonus... @DJRBirder

Total Black Kite free zone around here. (Map from @RareBirdAlertUK ) Looks like everyone else is getting them on their #lockdownlisting Garden list. Though am I the only one who finds it a bit suspicious that no one has picked even just one up on #nocmig
Just saying 🤔

Just flushed a Drake Mandarin off the River Lark not far from A11 Fiveways roundabout. Another NFY and #119 for #lockdownlisting

Ah, Hobby, right on cue, circling with 3 Buzzards over Turf Fen but then moved off West. #118 and new for #lockdownlisting and the year.

10-12 Red Deer on the edge of Cavenham Heath this lunchtime, en route home, with a measly 1 #lockdownlisting ✅ Still, there’s time for a Hobby, or better, yet.

Today’s bonus, which I dared only dream about getting on #lockdownlisting Grey Partridge. I think it might even be a year tick to boot

MEGA patch tick with a hobby darting through low along the Mersey Shore at Otterspool with large numbers of swallows in front of a rain front. A tern fest offshore with sandwich, Arctic and common and 6 porpoises @RSPBLiverpool @NMBiodiversity @yoeGreenspace #lockdownlisting 106

Two of the most promising parts of my lockdown patch delivering tonight, with a Common Sand on the borrow pit and 3 Wheatears in the paddocks, including a splendid male (Wheatears 3 to 5 of the spring here). A Whinchat soon, I’m sure...🤞#lockdownlisting

The Swift fairy has been ! Single Swift over the garden heading towards you @DJRBirder #lockdownlisting

One would like to confirm that one is still in a Swift free zone 👍🏻 #islasisolators #lockdownlisting

Barn Owl tonight takes #LockdownListing garden total to 56 species (~12 heard only) of which 2 were garden ticks, i.e. Water Rail and Tree Pipit (now 108 all-time total), and "patch", including Longniddry/Seton shore, #LockdownBirding to 100 species:...

Glad to see everyone’s got Swift on their lockdown list today 👍🏻....ask me if I’ve got one 😁 #lockdownlisting #islasisolators

Swifts overhead whilst barbecuing in Newark, a few days off the pace but a fine way to (finally!) bring up number 50 for the garden #lockdownlisting total.

This morning’s Lesser Whitethroat (and Nightingale) was still there and still singing. #116 for #lockdownlisting

A serendipitous Garden Warbler, on the way to this morning’s Lesser Whitethroat, was #115 for #lockdownlisting
Same general area, alongside R. Lark behind Fiveways roundabout Barton Mills, my new favourite site.