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Simon 📹 🎸📷

@therockinbirder.bsky.social

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Great Guitar player 🎸 Average Birder, Good togger 📷 R7 Pulsar Axion XQ30P And the odd twitch UK LL 401 Patch LL 129 Dorset 🍻 ♒ Joined March 2024

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 7h

Baikal teal Abbotsbury @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 1d

Red-backed shrike on Portland this Am 🦉 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social #dorsetbirds #ukbirding #ornithology

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Kate R. @kredp.bsky.social · 5d

The aftermath, still smouldering in places. #muirburn #cnpa #dinnetnnr #tarland

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 5d

Why Aren’t We Using Bird-Safe Glass? www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/I...

Why Aren’t We Using Bird-Safe Glass?

Decades of research show that simple design choices can prevent millions of bird deaths each year – yet most buildings remain deadly

www.rarebirdalert.co.uk

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 6d

📣You really couldn't make this up!

On the day Scottish Govt announces it is delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing, this happens...

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/09/b...

Breaking news….’out of control muirburn’ on grouse moor in Cairngorms National Park

You couldn’t make this up if you tried… Breaking News….on the day the Scottish Government announced it was delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing af…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 6d

Female Crossbill #ukbirding #dorsetbirds 🦉

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 9d

That one could have well beaten the record if some 🧠less moron hadn't shot it.

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 10d

Yes

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 10d

Not an easy bird to see in Dorset, Pink-footed goose. I've seen two this year 🦉 #dorsetbirds #ukbirding @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 13d

It's always a challenge getting close to these (Green sandpipers) and I didn't really manage it this time. 🦉 #dorsetbirds #ukbirding @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 15d

This Yellow wagtail had a rather full looking tic behind its eye, but it didn't seem to bother it, lets hope it falls off while its half way across the channel 🦉 #dorsetbirds #ukbirding #ornithology @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Dorset Bird Tours @dorsetbirdtours.bsky.social · 16d

The Heights Hotel, Isle of Portland, Dorset. Birdwatching Weekend Breaks for 2026.
Join me on the Isle of Portland and at Weymouth's premier RSPB Nature Reserves to witness migration and wintering birds. Link for more details: dorsetbirdtours.com/news/f/the-h... @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 20d

Wheatear & Common Buzzard from a walk around Maiden Castle this Am #ukbirding #dorsetbirds 🦉 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 21d

Common Redstart on Portland yesterday 🦉 #ukbirding #ukbirds #ornithology @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 24d

A pair of Whinchat and a Piedfly on my patch this AM, that takes my total to 102 for the year, #dorsetbirds #ukbirding #ornithology
🦉 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 28d

2 of 17 Cattle egret off Lubbecke way Dorchester yesterday, found by @luvaducksbutt.bsky.social and a big 👏 to the RAF 🚁 for flushing the lot 5mins after I arrived 🤨 #dorsetbirds #ukbirding 🦉

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · Sep 8

Cleaned up Booted warbler pic Portland #dorsetbirds #ukbirding 🦉 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hasn't been seen for 45mins Oli, its gone to ground near the obs quarry

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · Sep 8

Booted warbler Portland L ✔️🙏 #ukbirding #dorsetbirds 🪶 @rarebirder.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · Sep 6

Distant Marsh harrier end of July.

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · Sep 6

It's been a really good year for seeing raptors from my garden, apart from the usual suspects being Buzzard, Peregrine, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel & Red kite, I've added Honey buzzard, Marsh harrier & this Hobby from yesterday 🦉 #ukbirding #dorsetbirds #birds #ornithology

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · Sep 4

About 9:15 Chris

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · Sep 4

Glossy ibis was in the field on the right to the footpath to Bluebridge flew towards Dorchester show ground. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social #dorsetbirds #ukbirding

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · Sep 2

Over priced crap clogging the roads up, with people who can't drive the rubbish.

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · Aug 25

Just been sent this from a m8, Storks over Dorchester heading east 15 mins ago #dorsetbirds @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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