Pied Flycatcher showing well today at Glebelands, Newport in my lunch break. Still a little baffled at the date #gwentbirding #ukbirding
December 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Pied Flycatcher showing well today at Glebelands, Newport in my lunch break. Still a little baffled at the date #gwentbirding #ukbirding
Male Blackcap in the Garden at Llandenny was a surprise. Very rare here in true winter months, also small mixed flock of Redpoll/ Siskin #gwentbirding
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Male Blackcap in the Garden at Llandenny was a surprise. Very rare here in true winter months, also small mixed flock of Redpoll/ Siskin #gwentbirding
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I certainly wasn't expecting to see Cooks Petrel and Fairy Prion on the Kaikoura Pelagic trip!! An amazing trip out with Albatross Encounters. 🪶🇳🇿
November 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I certainly wasn't expecting to see Cooks Petrel and Fairy Prion on the Kaikoura Pelagic trip!! An amazing trip out with Albatross Encounters. 🪶🇳🇿
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Incredible sea watch from the New Zealand inter-island ferry this morning. Northern royal and salvins albatross, short tailed, flesh footed, huttons, fluttering, bullers, and sooty shearwaters, westland and white chinned petrels and over 1000 fairy prions and little blue penguin 🤯
November 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Incredible sea watch from the New Zealand inter-island ferry this morning. Northern royal and salvins albatross, short tailed, flesh footed, huttons, fluttering, bullers, and sooty shearwaters, westland and white chinned petrels and over 1000 fairy prions and little blue penguin 🤯
Boat-tailed Grackle looking a bit sad in the gardens of Holbury this morning. Relatively easy short twitch with Dad #UKbirding #BetterthanaSparrow
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Boat-tailed Grackle looking a bit sad in the gardens of Holbury this morning. Relatively easy short twitch with Dad #UKbirding #BetterthanaSparrow
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Had to go over to Unst today to pick up my car that’s been there all autumn. Took the opportunity to go to look at 2 Long eared Owls, managed to find a third bird there as well!
Best I could do in dull light, the other 2 were even more obscured.#Shetlandbirding
Best I could do in dull light, the other 2 were even more obscured.#Shetlandbirding
November 18, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Had to go over to Unst today to pick up my car that’s been there all autumn. Took the opportunity to go to look at 2 Long eared Owls, managed to find a third bird there as well!
Best I could do in dull light, the other 2 were even more obscured.#Shetlandbirding
Best I could do in dull light, the other 2 were even more obscured.#Shetlandbirding
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Divers still at Covenham Reservoir this morning
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November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Divers still at Covenham Reservoir this morning
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This Swallow at Balranald, N Uist this afternoon appears to be the American subspecies: erythrogaster due to the lack of a dark band across the lower throat.
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This Swallow at Balranald, N Uist this afternoon appears to be the American subspecies: erythrogaster due to the lack of a dark band across the lower throat.
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A Purple Sandpiper this afternoon at Peterstone Pill with a Dunlin flock then flew southwest (also the female Scaup still). #gwentbirds
November 16, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A Purple Sandpiper this afternoon at Peterstone Pill with a Dunlin flock then flew southwest (also the female Scaup still). #gwentbirds
Big week of running over, Twmbarlwm terror last Sunday, Severn bridge 5 mile night race Thursday and XC Gwent league at Llandaff today. Pic from Thursday Severn bridge run- 27:49, 6th overall, first MV40/ over 40 home.
November 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Big week of running over, Twmbarlwm terror last Sunday, Severn bridge 5 mile night race Thursday and XC Gwent league at Llandaff today. Pic from Thursday Severn bridge run- 27:49, 6th overall, first MV40/ over 40 home.
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Icelandic birders have been treated to a spectacular trio of Nearctic vagrants in recent weeks, including Varied Thrush and Brown-headed Cowbird:
Rare North American vagrants thrill Icelandic birders
Iceland has enjoyed a spectacular trio of North American vagrants in late October 2025, with a juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird, a male Varied Thrush and a Sora appearing across the country. The cowbird marks the first autumn record in the Western Palearctic, while the thrush is only Iceland's second ever.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Icelandic birders have been treated to a spectacular trio of Nearctic vagrants in recent weeks, including Varied Thrush and Brown-headed Cowbird:
1'w Drk Ring-n Duck still on Helston boating lake.
October 31, 2025 at 11:56 AM
1'w Drk Ring-n Duck still on Helston boating lake.
Steppe Grey Shrike showing well at
Gunwalloe, Cornwall.
Gunwalloe, Cornwall.
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Steppe Grey Shrike showing well at
Gunwalloe, Cornwall.
Gunwalloe, Cornwall.
Sennen Cove/ Mayon/ Lands End 08:00- 11:30; Brambling, Firecrest, 5 Chough, 4 Chiffchaff, Redwing, 500+ Chaffinch, c40 Golden Plover, Stonechat #Cornwallbirding
October 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Sennen Cove/ Mayon/ Lands End 08:00- 11:30; Brambling, Firecrest, 5 Chough, 4 Chiffchaff, Redwing, 500+ Chaffinch, c40 Golden Plover, Stonechat #Cornwallbirding
Fem-type Black Redstart still Sennen Cove just east of RNLI #Cornwallbirding
October 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Fem-type Black Redstart still Sennen Cove just east of RNLI #Cornwallbirding
Nanquidno/ Gurland Farm 12:15- 14:15; 7+ Firecrest, 5 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Redwing, c40 Linnet & 2 Reed Bunting. 2 Chough Sennen feeding on grass of cliff top car park #Cornwallbirding
October 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Nanquidno/ Gurland Farm 12:15- 14:15; 7+ Firecrest, 5 Blackcap, 6 Chiffchaff, 2 Redwing, c40 Linnet & 2 Reed Bunting. 2 Chough Sennen feeding on grass of cliff top car park #Cornwallbirding
Lesser Yellowlegs still on the Truro river mouth just south of Tesco, 10+ Blackwit also #cornwallbirding
October 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Lesser Yellowlegs still on the Truro river mouth just south of Tesco, 10+ Blackwit also #cornwallbirding
Nice views and photos opportunity of Black-tailed Godwit on the Exe estuary yesterday.
October 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Nice views and photos opportunity of Black-tailed Godwit on the Exe estuary yesterday.
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Pendeen Lighthouse c.09:30-13:00: 3 Little Auk, Great Shearwater, GN Diver, 2 Common Scoter, 10,000+ Guillemot/Razorbill, 1,000+ Kittiwake plus a few Manx Shearwater, Med Gull, Fulmar, etc.
Also Chiffchaff and c.30 Chough. cc @cbwps.org.uk #cornwallbirding
Also Chiffchaff and c.30 Chough. cc @cbwps.org.uk #cornwallbirding
October 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Pendeen Lighthouse c.09:30-13:00: 3 Little Auk, Great Shearwater, GN Diver, 2 Common Scoter, 10,000+ Guillemot/Razorbill, 1,000+ Kittiwake plus a few Manx Shearwater, Med Gull, Fulmar, etc.
Also Chiffchaff and c.30 Chough. cc @cbwps.org.uk #cornwallbirding
Also Chiffchaff and c.30 Chough. cc @cbwps.org.uk #cornwallbirding
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It's been a Shrike-tacular last four weeks around Norfolk & Suffolk ~ a stunning adult Turkestan, a typically educational Brown, the isabelline overtones of Daurian, some monochrome magic of Great Grey & a classic 1w Red-backed.
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October 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It's been a Shrike-tacular last four weeks around Norfolk & Suffolk ~ a stunning adult Turkestan, a typically educational Brown, the isabelline overtones of Daurian, some monochrome magic of Great Grey & a classic 1w Red-backed.
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Single Crossbill over Llandenny #gwentbirding
October 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Single Crossbill over Llandenny #gwentbirding
Goldcliff point 07:45- 09:20; 2 ad Kittiwake, 5 Common Scoter, 20 Grey Plover & c20K Woodpigeon #gwentbirding
October 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Goldcliff point 07:45- 09:20; 2 ad Kittiwake, 5 Common Scoter, 20 Grey Plover & c20K Woodpigeon #gwentbirding
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After a dawn raid on the Point, this little beauty was cowering in the buckthorn on my birding walk back, not far south of the Breach at Spurn. Thomas Willoughby’s brilliant pic. Bird of a lifetime. A British tick as well 😂
October 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
After a dawn raid on the Point, this little beauty was cowering in the buckthorn on my birding walk back, not far south of the Breach at Spurn. Thomas Willoughby’s brilliant pic. Bird of a lifetime. A British tick as well 😂
Goldcliff pools & Point 09:00- 11:30; Little Stint (on back pool), Garganey, c20 Grey Plover, Knot, c150 Lapwing, 4 Turnstone, c300 Dunlin, 12 Snipe, c30 Fieldfare, 2 Redpoll, House Martin & 3 Swallow #gwentbirding
October 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Goldcliff pools & Point 09:00- 11:30; Little Stint (on back pool), Garganey, c20 Grey Plover, Knot, c150 Lapwing, 4 Turnstone, c300 Dunlin, 12 Snipe, c30 Fieldfare, 2 Redpoll, House Martin & 3 Swallow #gwentbirding
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Could not believe my eyes whilst surveying on Wraysbury Reservoir this morning when this juvenile Sabine’s Gull flew into view. Incredible views of a species I’ve only seen once before - just wish I had a better camera! #UKbirding @berksbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Could not believe my eyes whilst surveying on Wraysbury Reservoir this morning when this juvenile Sabine’s Gull flew into view. Incredible views of a species I’ve only seen once before - just wish I had a better camera! #UKbirding @berksbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social