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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 40m

Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social 15th October 2025
A bitty day where the best birds played hard to get but still very rewarding. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/norf...

I give you 'Essence of Six Glossy Ibis'

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 41m

yep with the Rockits - loads at Warham Greens yesterday

Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 23h

Norfolk for @oriolebirding.bsky.social 13th-14th October 2025
A sneaky 'legs followed by some quality accidental coastal Owling while migrant hunting. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/norf... #NorfolkBirding #Birds

Tawny Owl - my first proper look at one in the UK for many years

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 23h

Perked up a little from earlier!

Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 3d

Join me (& @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social of course) in #Estonia next March with @oriolebirding.bsky.social to experience Steller's Eiders, northern Owls, Woodpeckers & hopefully big forest mammals too www.oriolebirding.com/tour/estonia...

Hawk Owl from the last trip @jonathanfarooqi.bsky.social

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 3d

#Lowestoft Life - 7th -12th October 2025
Back to Blighty with a touch of an eastern Autumn and some garden mothing. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/lowe...
@suffolkmoths.bsky.social @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 5d

Thirty Years Ago - September 1995
A spartan month but an armchair tick in the bag ready and waiting. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/thir...

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 6d

#Estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 6 Oct '25
In 3h15m on the Sõrve peninsular we counted a staggering 27,576 Tits & 8331 Finches along with 595 Goldcrests. The mind was truly boggled and the flabber gasted. @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto...

Northern Long Tailed Tit stopping for a rest

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations. What an amazing bird.

Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 7d

#estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 5th October 2025
A day on the Sõrve Peninsular watching migration happen all around us. A notch up on Puise and a taste of things to come. @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto...

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 8d

#estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 4th October 2025
We made our way towards Saaremaa & memories of a frozen landscape 14 years ago came flooding back but were soon to be eclipsed by 300 bugling Cranes @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2025 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto...

Red Kite - one of two - a scarce Estonian bird

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 9d

#Estonia for Oriole Birding - 3rd October 2025
#BirdsSeenIn2025

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 9d

#Estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 3rd October 2025
A morning at Spithami watching the waves before the forests gave up some of their secrets as the sun set.
blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto... @birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2025

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 11d

@birdinghaapsalu.bsky.social sorry! could not do it without you!

Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 11d

#estonia for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - 1st-2nd October 2025
#BirdsSeenIn2025

A Tit-tastic first full day. Migration at its very best. A day with over 1000 snowballs on lolly sticks and so much more.
blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/10/esto...

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 14d

It is just a little before midnight here in #Estonia for the start of the @oriolebirding.bsky.social autumn tour. It is absolutely black outside as the moon has already set and a Tawny Owl is calling
The merging of day into night from the plane was breath-taking.

We head out at 0700...

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 15d

Lowestoft Life 15th-30th September 2025
A birding relict, Norfolk shrikes and some late September mothage.
blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/lowe... @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #SuffolkBirds #NorfolkBirding @suffolkmoths.bsky.social

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 17d

#mallorca for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 8 - 23rd September 2025
A final morning perambulation around the Aumallia fields and lanes before a somewhat tortuous journey home. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/mall...

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 18d

#mallorca for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 7 - 22nd September 2025
Cabrera: eyeballed by shearwaters and a picnic in a field of dreams.
blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/mall...

Wheatear, Whinchat, Redstart, Willow Warbler & Song Thrush #BirdsSeenIn2025

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 22d

#mallorca for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 6 - 21st September 2025
A day exploring the northern marshes. It was very hot and dry but at times very rewarding. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/mall... #BirdsSeenIn2025

Colour ringed Kentish Plover - Left: Yellow T1 below joint. Right: metal above and small green below. Any help appreciated

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 24d

#mallorca for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 5 - 20th September 2025
Up into the Tramuntana Mountains where Vultures soared but it was the 18 Hoopoes in two trees that won the wildlife encounter of the day! blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/mall... #BirdsSeenIn2025

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 25d

#mallorca for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 4 - 19th September 2025
#Dragonera - land of feisty lizards, endemic warblers and lithe falcons.

blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/mall...

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 26d

and also in #Mallorca for @oriolebirding.bsky.social lots of other cool wildlife with:

Lamenting Grasshopper - Eyprepocnemis plorans

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 26d

#Mallorca for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 3- 18 Sept 2025
A scorching hot day spent at s'Albufera where we dipped in & out of the shade to watch marshy birds inc Swamphen, Moustached Warbler & a bonus dashing Eleonora's Falcon #BirdsseenIn2025 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/mall...

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Howard Vaughan - blueeyedbirder.com @howardvaughanbeb.bsky.social · 27d

#Mallorca for @oriolebirding.bsky.social - Day 1 & 2 - 16th - 17th September 2025
A couple of long introductory days to the autumnal wildlife of the Mallorcan countryside. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/mall... #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birds

Mediterranean Flycatcher - regardless of whether it retains its species status! - We saw many 'normal' Spot Flys but this one did just leap out at me

Balearic Woodchat - a 1st winter with appropriate wing pose

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