Received my award for one of the best finds of #PWC2025. Thanks to all who voted for me. Will wear it with pride. @patchbirding.bsky.social @lincsbirding.bsky.social
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Are you interested in #UKBirding and #PatchBirding? Have you checked out the blog lately? Some exciting blog posts recently with the Best Find competition and the #PWC2025 wrap up!
Head over to have a look: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com
and remember it isn't too late to sign up to #PWC2026!
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We will start to contact all #PWC2025 winners soon so prizes can be sent. We wish the best luck for everyone taking part in #PWC2026 on some good finds!
If you want to take a look at all the submissions, then take a look at the blog: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/01/best...
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The results are in on the #PWC2025 Best Find comp! Congratulations to @seanoh58.bsky.social for his Black Scoter which came in first then second place goes to @williamlambourne.bsky.social with his Black Redstart and third to @andysims49.bsky.social for his Pectoral Sandpiper. Well done you three!
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Have you taken a look at our #PWC2025 Best Find competition yet? The voting closes in a few days so why not head over to the blog to read the submissions then vote! To do so, click this link: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/01/best...
The three highest ranked finds will receive a pin badge.
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We have already had a brilliant response to the #PWC2025 Best Find comp, remember to head over to the blog to look and vote!
If you don't want to miss out on important Patchwork Challenge announcements, join this WhatsApp Community we have set up!
chat.whatsapp.com/GuwyC0cO4rD2...
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We have now made the #PWC2025 Best Find competition live on the blog! Go to the blog to read through the entries, and then at the bottom there is a link to vote on your favourite three. Voting closes on the 17th January. Thank you!
patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/01/best...
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Congrats to all the mini-league winners but a big hat tip to @tireebirder.bsky.social for a stellar performance in our islands mini-league and overall 👏🏼 #PWC2025
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THE PATCHWORK CHALLENGE 2025 ROUND-UP IS NOW LIVE ON THE BLOG!
Go head over and see where you finished #PWC2025 and sign up for #PWC2026!
The link for the blog is: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com
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Remember, get your #PWC2025 Best Find submissions in by tomorrow night!
All you have to do to enter is email a short account about the bird and circumstances to patchworkchallenge@gmail.com, and why finding that bird was special to you. It doesn't need to be a nationally rare bird for it be...
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#PWC2025 was not so good - 114 birds for 137 points,
#PaullHolmeStrays was quiet - American Golden Plover was the best bird (not seen by me). Only ticks for me were Grey Partridge and a surprise Purple Sand.
Easily my best patch bird was an American Wigeon at Newton Garth.
#YorkshireBirding
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We have just received the Patchwork Challenge prize pin badges! Take a look at how to win one in the quoted tweet below! We will also be sending them out to #PWC2025 winners soon too.
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Remember to take part in our Best Find of #PWC2025 competition, with all the details on how to take part listed in the below post! Good luck!
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There are a few Patchwork Challenge Champion pin badges up for grabs for best find over the #PWC2025 season. To be entered, please email a short account about the bird and circumstances to patchworkchallenge@gmail.com, and why finding that bird was special to you...
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A huge thank you to everyone that took part in #PWC2025! Please remember to get your final scores in by 8pm TONIGHT so we can make a start on the round-up etc. Thank you.
Winners to prizes will be announced over the next month.
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Drone picture of lake, forest on right, reed in front, hills with meadows, hedges and forest in back. 31.12.2025
2025 at #localpatch ended with #149 species, Highlights: pygmy cormorant, jack's snipe, little scaup. All three new for the patch. Looking forward what #lowcarbonbirding will bring 2026. #pwc2025
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A quiet 2025 for my patch; a low total of 135, & only one new species, a plastic one at that, Egyptian Goose. Bird of the year? Perhaps these two, viewable at close range from a footpath – sorry, when & where withheld!
#NEBirding #LowCarbonBirding #PWC2025
Yearlist thread: bsky.app/profile/nuci...
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Some of the flock of 13 Common Snipe above the Lye Valley in urban east Oxford.
All 13 Common Snipe above the Lye Valley, Oxford.
The year ends with a 💥in the Lye Valley, Oxford, with a megaflock of 13 Snipe! For context, this is only the 4th occurrence of Snipe here in the city, a cumulative total of only 6 birds in 7 years until today. What else will the cold snap bring? 🤞
@friendlyevalley.bsky.social
#PWC2025 #ukbirding
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I tried hard to pull one more out the bag today but no Black-throated Diver or any scoter which were my best chances. On totting up my year lists against my BirdTrack records I found I'd missed several off my #PWC2025 lists 😬 ending core 3km on 145 (232pts) and 10km on 174 (307pts). #WestrayBirding
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Finished on 150! for the 3k #PWC2025 @patchbirding.bsky.social added Goldeneye yesterday
Despite having the driest year at #LadywalkNR it still produced the best find in Golden Oriole in the Spring and YBW in Autumn. Patch ticks inc Goshawk,Glossy Ibis and Curlew Sand on last bit of water!
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I finished with 122 species of bird on my patch out of a possible 140 on the reserve sighting list (to be verified). Not a bad effort and enhanced by a first patch Caspian Tern, which I found and a Wryneck. Here's to more relaxed and enjoyable birding in 2026! #PWC2025
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Standout record of the year. Confirmation of successful breeding by a pair of Ruff.
One of three Wryneck that I found on 8th Sept. Probably my favourite day of the year
Glossy ibis, Common Buzzard, Tree Pipit and Redstart (single record of a dead bird) only species missed. Mistle Thrush and Curlew Sand probably the most obvious overall omissions. A very poor spring and patchy autumn with late Sept/early Oct being especially quiet #PWC2025 #OrkneyBirding
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It was a frosty start to the final dawn #patchbirding walk of #PWC2025. No new additions so 107 species noted this year, easily beating my target of 100. Always nice to end the year seeing Green Sandpiper, Kingfisher, a mixed flock of Siskin & Goldfinch, Coal Tits & Little Egret.
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It's the last day to be out there adding to your #PWC2025 year lists! Hopefully you can be out in the field today, not just to add for this year's list but also gathering info on where to start off tomorrow for #PWC2026!
Get signed up for #PWC2026, starting tomorrow docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Pleased to join the White-fronted Goose bonanza as predicted by
@tombedford.bsky.social yesterday.
11 over the patch toward Clifden Hampden and 23 on the John Allen Pit, Bishop's Court Farm.
#130 for the 3km² patch year list #PWC2025 #UKBirding
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#PWC2025 is not finished yet. Out #patchbirding after work & what a bonus! c70 Lapwings flew west over Rural Godinton Park. The first sign of hard weather movement? These were the first of 2025 so year ✅ #107. c20 Linnets, Grey Wagtail at Singleton Lake plus a few Goldcrests. Chiffchaff yesterday.
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Middelste bonte specht
Heerlijke dagen om buiten te zijn en te genieten van de natuur in de omgeving. De laatste kansen om nog een soort toe te voegen aan de local patch jaarlijst - een lijstje met vogelsoorten gezien in de uiterwaard van Wageningen. De teller staat dit jaar op 178 soorten.
#patchbirding #PWC2025
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A quiet couple of months ended with a bumper 3 year ticks today at Day's Lock area #PWC2025
Goldeneye & Med Gull on John Allen Pit, 2 Caspian Gulls in the Sailing Club Gull roost. #UKbirding
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Terrible photo of a Caspian Gull that still shows the key features - bright white head and underparts, grey mantle & shawl, brown coverts and dark tertials and primaries. It is sat on the sea which appear grey because it is overcast
Three additions to the Titchfield Haven patch list this year: Caspian Gull, Mark F's Hudsonian Godwit, and Richard L's Night Heron 🙂 Even better that the 1st Caspian Gull was followed by more! Big flock of White-fronted Geese also lovely to see. #HantsBirds #PWC2025
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