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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · 2h

You might think the most exciting yellow rectangle of the autumn would be the glowing arseplaster of a Pallas's Warbler- but no- it has to be the flag on Knot VXY arriving a week early on the Stour for at least its twelfth consecutive season #UKbirding

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Ana Lucía González @anlugonz.bsky.social · 10h

Featuring a Desertas petrel that stunned scientists by chasing a tropical storm (see their incredible chase mapped here!), tiny nightingales that cross the Sahara twice a year, and Bewick's swans that have changed their stopovers and diet

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · 4d

Making the most of mild adversity- I’m grounded with a dinged back, but discover my walking stick doubles nice as a brush rest.#Birdart

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · 6d

Little rascals still busy this week- here one trying to swipe a mouse off the Kestrel, which foiled it by flipping onto the roof slope and holding the mouse out of sight. #BirdArt

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · 13d

That's very kind!

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · 13d

Rainy day paint project- here's three bandits doing a backlit autumnal thing earlier in the week. #Birdart

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · 20d

Yes indeed- these 3 have spent a lot of time last couple of weeks happily sitting out on the field, usually 50M apart from but occasionally together. Don't know why but have done it at this site before- NE Essex arid agri-desert so not many trees, maybe also wind not so strong at ground level.

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · 20d

Today the Hobby kits have been learning about crows- no protection on hand from the adults as the female is long departed and the male doesn't do child minding except for feeding... happy ending as the grabbed bird got rescued in fine style by its siblings. #UKbirding

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · 28d

GBBG looking pleasingly like a Lammergeier whilst chugging a flattie yesterday afternoon.

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Sep 10

Some weather at last! Curlew Sand being biffed by the wind on the roost today before nipping round the corner to get in the leeside of things. #UKbirding

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Aug 23

First few juv Knot coming through here- must be bloody irritating to make it 4,000Km from Ellesmere Island or wherever and then have a Manila clam (I guess) clamp onto your hind toe when you land. #UKbirding

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Aug 12

Plovers scuttling about on the baked crust of the salting this evening- here's lumpen juv Ringed Plover versus elfin juv Little Ringed Plover #UKbirding

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Aug 6

Air defence systems still active this week. #BirdArt

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Aug 4

Just to confirm that the young GBBG is now the size of small donkey.

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Jul 29

Been doing a bit of long overdue taxonomy catch-up. I've got my head around divers no longer being at the front of the bird book, but cuckoos between bustards and sandgrouse is going to take a bit of getting used to. #UKbirding

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Jul 15

Some weather at last! Not enough rain to lay the dust, but four inbound Knot plopped in and hauled out behind the Co-op. #UKBirding

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Jul 12

There's consequences to having GBBG on the river- but hats off to this Shelduck who has successfully defended seven chicks for a week without loss despite daily check ups from the beast. #BirdArt

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Jul 5

A bit of late season chickery down on the roost- Redshanks hatched in last week, so after the first godwits are back. The gatepost has been there since at least 1900 so has hosted more than 125 years of yelping Redshanks. #UKbirding

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Jul 5

Shame you can't paint sounds- had a Peregrine follow me across a field and who00osh straight over my shoulder trying to take a Skylark. #BirdArt

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Jun 27

Tempting to think that all gulls are rampant everywhere, but GBBG is still staying classy- as far as i can tell there's none pairs in Essex, just a couple in Suffolk inc. this one which escorted me off the premises whilst I was trying to count the early season Curlew. #UKbirding

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Jun 23

smart returning godwit! have you tracked down the contact for it OK?

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Jun 13

That’s very cool

Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · Jun 8

Gripping photo of one of the Swedish Wilson's Snipe displaying showing diagnostic two outer tail feathers extended on each side

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · Jun 8

Its that tricky week when there don't seem to be any waders going north or south, so attention wanders to other things. Here's a grebeling at Ardleigh with a heart-shaped red spot on its forehead.

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · May 30

I thought y’all would be excited to get an update. Fledgie 1 lasted <24 hours and was nobbled by a Tawny Owl before it could even get itself into the Buzzard zone. Fledgie 2 is a lot nimbler so fleeting photos, but it does have a white eyebrow like a Siberian Thrush.

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Ed Keeble @edkeeble.bsky.social · May 26

A bit quiet round here on the birding front but the Jackdaws have just fledged a white un out of the back of my shed

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