Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Dawn Erskine

@dawnbirder.bsky.social

740 followers 660 following 1.5K posts

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

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Reposted by Dawn Erskine

Dawn Balmer @debalmer.bsky.social · 5d

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

2 54

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 10h

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

1 1

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 1d

Gwaak is the perfect sound effect 😅👍

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

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

3 3

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

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 🙃

1 1

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

😅👍

1 1

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

😅👍

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

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 🪶

2 27

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

Nice one 👍

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

😁

Reposted by Dawn Erskine

Birdingprof @birdingprof.bsky.social · 2d

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

1 9 31

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you 🙏

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

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

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 1d

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 🪶

3 1 27

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 2d

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

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 4d

They're my usual days for going there, so I'll keep you posted 🙏

1 1

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 4d

The Casp can get about a bit. It was on a tern platform on Church Pond when I phonescoped it. It's usually on Clifton Pit, which is where the YLG was. A quick scan of water bodies on the way thru Attenborough reserve (I forgot to mention that 😅) will normally shed light on it if it's not on Clifton

1 1

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 4d

These 2 patch gulls are keeping me happy on lean days this week. Returning now adult Caspian & an adult YLG. Both lured by the promise of crayfish
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding

1 18

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 4d

My local bus service wins awards. But I still notice drivers fly past people at times, especially students. You've got no chance if you're standing at a stop and you don't put your hand out. Yet in some places: e.g. south Wales & Norfolk, there's not even a bus stop to stand at. And still, they stop

Dawn Erskine @dawnbirder.bsky.social · 4d

I enjoyed watching a Whinchat & a Stonechat alongside each other at the weekend. I feel like I hadn't fully appreciated the difference in tail action between the 2 species before

Reposted by Dawn Erskine

Gary Watton @garywatton.bsky.social · 6d

Rather than post the usual shots of the Rutland Baird's Sandpiper I thought I'd offer up some alternative angles of what must be currently the most photographed bird in the UK.
@rarebirdalertuk.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social

2 1 20