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Dawn Erskine

@dawnbirder.bsky.social

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Notts birder. Work/Gym/Bird/Repeat #UKBirding Mostly #LowCarbon choices Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished 💚 Lazy landlocked patch birder #Vegan

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Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

Good luck with Caspian Gulls 🙏🤍

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

This is a really good start to the working week. Taking all those enjoyable moments with me, rather than them being lost. Thank you 🙏

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

My #Top5Birds from last week:
1 Cranes out of a train window.
2 Glossy appearing while watching Cattle egrets.
3 1w Caspian Gull poss 2nd but I would've felt greedy 😅
4 ♂️ Marsh Harrier patch tick.
5 Tits. Looking through flocks & being startled by a Blue & Great tit tapping above my bedroom window 🪶

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Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

Give the girl some bins

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Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

You're kidding me

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

Attenborough NR today intending to look more at 1w large gulls. Soon got distracted by the BHGs, GWE & 19 Goosander.
Spotted the first ♂️ Marsh Harrier I've seen there.
The returning Adult Caspian Gull was present, as was at least one 1w.
Still no Jack snipe for me.
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶

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Dawn Balmer @debalmer.bsky.social · 7d

Decent morning at Holme with 72 species recorded. A Red-necked Grebe on the sea was my first of the year. Redwings, Fieldfare and 81 Brambling counted as they migrated overhead.
#NorfolkBirding

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Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 2d

Deffo, my little film reference 😅
I saw Face/Off recently, but I've never seen Snakes on A Plane 🐍

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Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

I've looked for them a few times, particularly when passing by Lakenheath station. But, no joy.
Yesterday, I wasn't birding out the train window like I normally do. The light was so dull. Saw Buzzards, Red Kites, deer.
I happened to look up from a TV program I was watching & did a real double-take 😅

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing has really changed with regard to oppression & all types of bullying in our society. Misogyny is just as present as it ever was.
I was sadly unsurprised that girls not feeling safe is a big part of their park usage dropping.

We do have pockets of positive change tho, which is excellent 👏

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Many of us are working class & don't have a lot of disposable income. So maybe that's why the split save apps like trainline are set up the way they are.
Happy travels 🙏

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

I buy advance singles despite them being for a specific train, because it's cheaper.
On the trainline app, if you select the default split save/advance singles, it then gives you the option to buy more expensive tickets that offer flexibility. Sorry, you probably know this by now. Good luck 🙏

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Gwaak is the perfect sound effect 😅👍

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

29 regular Cattle Egrets & this one. Same energy as a GBBG ragging a Puffin

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Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

If you'd seen this particular Cattle Egret in action, you would understand 😅
All the others were bimbling around the Cattle like butter wouldn't melt 🙃

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Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

😅👍

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Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

😅👍

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Hits & misses round North Point Pools & Warham.
Fascinated watching Cattle Egret murdering frogs when it was photobombed by a Glossy Ibis. Yellow brows 2 Humes 0.
2 distant Spoonbills.
Thought Pallid might show, I was busy enjoying a Barn Owl.
Cranes on a train & perched Marsh Harriers from a bus 🪶

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Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Nice one 👍

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

😁

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Birdingprof @birdingprof.bsky.social · 4d

www.artsobservasjoner.no/Image/3005980

This is news to me. The regular Northumberland wintering Black Scoter spends the summer off Varanger, Norway.

Regular English/Norwegian Black Scoter.

📸 Kjell Isaksen

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Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you 🙏

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Amazing stuff 👏
I can't make the link work to find out more, but great to know 👍

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Just added Common Crane to the train list.
Large flock just north west of Manea, Cambs train station.
Couldn't help but say, "Wow!" out loud on a train full of people 😅 🩶
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶

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Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 4d

I like the slightly different settings for the Kingfisher and the Marsh Harrier. Not quite like they've swapped habitats, but something like that