Viv K
@vivkeene.bsky.social
Actor, gardener, nature-lover. Based in South-West.
Hadn't been out for 3 days (winter slump!), so was pleased it was a lovely day. Walked Cogden to West Bexington. Fab to see a good flock of Yammers, with a few Cirl Buntings in the mix. Then a gd Green Finch flock (about 3 dozen), which eventually mixed with Linnets. Lots of Stonechats. #UKBirding
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Hadn't been out for 3 days (winter slump!), so was pleased it was a lovely day. Walked Cogden to West Bexington. Fab to see a good flock of Yammers, with a few Cirl Buntings in the mix. Then a gd Green Finch flock (about 3 dozen), which eventually mixed with Linnets. Lots of Stonechats. #UKBirding
I loved this post! It's the little things. My pet TV & film bugbear is vixens screaming........ Day or night, all year round, in every thriller or murder-mystery.......🙄🙄🤣
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I loved this post! It's the little things. My pet TV & film bugbear is vixens screaming........ Day or night, all year round, in every thriller or murder-mystery.......🙄🙄🤣
The GOOD news today was that I saw my first-ever Firecrest AND it was in my garden!! 😮 The BAD news was that it was 30 secs b4 I had to start a 3 hour Zoom workshop.....so no pics or following. It wasn't there when I came out, of course. 🥺🥺 But I shall be keeping 👀👀 open!! 😃#UKBirding
November 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The GOOD news today was that I saw my first-ever Firecrest AND it was in my garden!! 😮 The BAD news was that it was 30 secs b4 I had to start a 3 hour Zoom workshop.....so no pics or following. It wasn't there when I came out, of course. 🥺🥺 But I shall be keeping 👀👀 open!! 😃#UKBirding
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Even consummate migrants like Corncrakes can end up being ship-assisted, although presumably being adopted by a family and fed prawns is a rarer occurrence.... #UKBirding #Ornithology
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2563328...
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2563328...
November 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Even consummate migrants like Corncrakes can end up being ship-assisted, although presumably being adopted by a family and fed prawns is a rarer occurrence.... #UKBirding #Ornithology
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2563328...
www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2563328...
Standing in my Lyme Regis garden & there are still very large flocks of Wood Pigeons heading south....thousands.... #UKBirding
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Standing in my Lyme Regis garden & there are still very large flocks of Wood Pigeons heading south....thousands.... #UKBirding
Gd walk betwn Cogden & Swyre today. Fairly quiet, birdwise, but a cpl of Cirls, Redwings, plenty of Stonechats, Mipits and a few skylarks. Major movement of Wood Pigeons. Many insects, including dragonflies, my latest Clouded Yellow, hornets etc. Plenty of fungi & Robin's Pincushions. #UKBirding
November 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Gd walk betwn Cogden & Swyre today. Fairly quiet, birdwise, but a cpl of Cirls, Redwings, plenty of Stonechats, Mipits and a few skylarks. Major movement of Wood Pigeons. Many insects, including dragonflies, my latest Clouded Yellow, hornets etc. Plenty of fungi & Robin's Pincushions. #UKBirding
I thought that the flocks of small birds I was seeing on Exmoor yesterday were probably Linnets, but they were actually Reed Buntings. Haven't seen them like that b4. Also 5 Red Kites & male Hen Harrier #UKBirding
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I thought that the flocks of small birds I was seeing on Exmoor yesterday were probably Linnets, but they were actually Reed Buntings. Haven't seen them like that b4. Also 5 Red Kites & male Hen Harrier #UKBirding
Yester a.m turned grey, but I was thrilled to see this male Hen Harrier up on an Exmoor ridge! I was half a mile away as I watched it soar over my parked car. 😂 Gr8 to see tho. Also 5 Red Kite, 5 Buzzards & small flocks of birds that turned out to be Reed Buntings, surprisingly! #UKBirding
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Yester a.m turned grey, but I was thrilled to see this male Hen Harrier up on an Exmoor ridge! I was half a mile away as I watched it soar over my parked car. 😂 Gr8 to see tho. Also 5 Red Kite, 5 Buzzards & small flocks of birds that turned out to be Reed Buntings, surprisingly! #UKBirding
I'm enjoying strolling around my old haunts. Greenwich Park has always been a favourite. Yesterday I got gr8 views of 3 foxes, many Parakeets, a few Fallow Deer, Gt Spot Woodies, Egyptian Geese & a surprising Red Kite. 😃 #UKBirding #UKMammals
October 29, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I'm enjoying strolling around my old haunts. Greenwich Park has always been a favourite. Yesterday I got gr8 views of 3 foxes, many Parakeets, a few Fallow Deer, Gt Spot Woodies, Egyptian Geese & a surprising Red Kite. 😃 #UKBirding #UKMammals
Cat-sitting in London, so had a trip to Bushy Park yester to wildlife watch. Exhausted stags, both Fallow and Red, Green Woodpeckers, Parakeets, Stonechats & Jays mainly. #Wildlife #Mammals #Birds All deer pics from at least 50m - they're very dangerous at this time of year!
October 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Dartmoor in showery rain today, so the light was rather low. Large influx of thrush types - Fieldfares (about 70), Redwings (7), Ring Ouzels (@ 12), Blackbirds and Mistles. All VERY flighty. Also Tawny Owl calling in p.m, Greenfinches, Linnets, Stonechats, Goldcrests, Bullfinches. #UKBirding
October 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Dartmoor in showery rain today, so the light was rather low. Large influx of thrush types - Fieldfares (about 70), Redwings (7), Ring Ouzels (@ 12), Blackbirds and Mistles. All VERY flighty. Also Tawny Owl calling in p.m, Greenfinches, Linnets, Stonechats, Goldcrests, Bullfinches. #UKBirding
It was a dark grey morn, but I had a stroll on the South Dorset Ridgeway, after a Tip run. Small pulse of Swallows heading E, Stonechats, Cirl buntings, a single Wheatear, a few Skylarks and many Chiffs and Chaffs. Dreadful pics because there was a total lack of light or contrast! 🙁 #UKBirding
October 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It was a dark grey morn, but I had a stroll on the South Dorset Ridgeway, after a Tip run. Small pulse of Swallows heading E, Stonechats, Cirl buntings, a single Wheatear, a few Skylarks and many Chiffs and Chaffs. Dreadful pics because there was a total lack of light or contrast! 🙁 #UKBirding
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A slightly better shot of the Mourning Dove yesterday on St Agnes. Thanks to the landowner and birders for allowing and arranging access. This was not only a first for the Scillies but also a first for England! #UKBirding #RareBirdsUK #IoSBirding #IslesofScillyBirding
October 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
A slightly better shot of the Mourning Dove yesterday on St Agnes. Thanks to the landowner and birders for allowing and arranging access. This was not only a first for the Scillies but also a first for England! #UKBirding #RareBirdsUK #IoSBirding #IslesofScillyBirding
Up on Exmoor yesterday and I was surprised how few birds I was seeing. Plenty of holly and haw berries, but I didn't see a single Blackbird or thrush, but on Dartmoor a few days ago were plenty. A Red Kite, Linnets & Stonechats were evident. Other than that? Pheasants & Partridge. 🙁#UKBirding
October 1, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Up on Exmoor yesterday and I was surprised how few birds I was seeing. Plenty of holly and haw berries, but I didn't see a single Blackbird or thrush, but on Dartmoor a few days ago were plenty. A Red Kite, Linnets & Stonechats were evident. Other than that? Pheasants & Partridge. 🙁#UKBirding
Up on Dartmoor for dawn, hoping for a Ring Ouzel. None seen, but there was a lge flock of Meadow Pipits (@200) swirling around, that quickly dispersed. Lots of Blackbirds, Stonechats, Jays, Chiffs & a few Gt Spot Woodies. Beautiful day, but very chilly first thing! #UKBirding
September 28, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Up on Dartmoor for dawn, hoping for a Ring Ouzel. None seen, but there was a lge flock of Meadow Pipits (@200) swirling around, that quickly dispersed. Lots of Blackbirds, Stonechats, Jays, Chiffs & a few Gt Spot Woodies. Beautiful day, but very chilly first thing! #UKBirding
Gd to see a cpl of Wheatears in the churchyard, Lyme Regis, this morn and also a lge pulse of hirundines swirling along the coast. The beach was almost devoid of birds, apart from Rock Pipits & Wags - but there was a solitary juv Dunlin! Also Turnstones on the rock armour. #UKBirding
September 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Gd to see a cpl of Wheatears in the churchyard, Lyme Regis, this morn and also a lge pulse of hirundines swirling along the coast. The beach was almost devoid of birds, apart from Rock Pipits & Wags - but there was a solitary juv Dunlin! Also Turnstones on the rock armour. #UKBirding
I had a fantastic 3 hrs at #SeatonMarsh today. 2hr 58mins was spent chatting to birding mates - @dhelliar.bsky.social, Nick & Bob - and 2 mins was spent watching my favourite woodpecker - the Wryneck 😀. So glad it finally showed itself. Also gr8 views of a Sparrowhawk & Curlew. #UKBirding
September 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I had a fantastic 3 hrs at #SeatonMarsh today. 2hr 58mins was spent chatting to birding mates - @dhelliar.bsky.social, Nick & Bob - and 2 mins was spent watching my favourite woodpecker - the Wryneck 😀. So glad it finally showed itself. Also gr8 views of a Sparrowhawk & Curlew. #UKBirding
I was hoping that the strong winds yesterday might have blown a choice morsel onto the Lyme Regis beaches, but I could only find the usual suspects and they were in fewer numbers that in the past few days! Turnstones, Ringos and Sanderlings. Where are the Dunlin? #UKBirding
September 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I was hoping that the strong winds yesterday might have blown a choice morsel onto the Lyme Regis beaches, but I could only find the usual suspects and they were in fewer numbers that in the past few days! Turnstones, Ringos and Sanderlings. Where are the Dunlin? #UKBirding
Interesting trip to Cheddar Reservoir today. Water is so low! Maybe 30%. 5 Glossy Ibis, 20+ Gt White Egret, 12+ Curlew Sandpipers, Dunlin, Ringos, Grey Phalarope etc. I cldn't see Lesser Scaup or Black Tern, but I believe that they were there!
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September 13, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Interesting trip to Cheddar Reservoir today. Water is so low! Maybe 30%. 5 Glossy Ibis, 20+ Gt White Egret, 12+ Curlew Sandpipers, Dunlin, Ringos, Grey Phalarope etc. I cldn't see Lesser Scaup or Black Tern, but I believe that they were there!
#UKBirding
#UKBirding
Very high tide this morn, which meant a shortage of waders. Plenty of warblers around though - Blackcaps, Cettis, Willow and Chiffchaff mainly. Ringos, Dunlin, Redshank and Godwits. Kingfishers & Stonechats.Nice to see a few Cattle Egrets around the cattle (surprisingly). 😀#UKBirding
September 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Very high tide this morn, which meant a shortage of waders. Plenty of warblers around though - Blackcaps, Cettis, Willow and Chiffchaff mainly. Ringos, Dunlin, Redshank and Godwits. Kingfishers & Stonechats.Nice to see a few Cattle Egrets around the cattle (surprisingly). 😀#UKBirding
It's come to something when you look at a post on Bird Guides and see 'Glossy Ibis', click again for more info and say 'What?? Only ONE??!" 😮 #UKBirding
September 9, 2025 at 9:50 AM
It's come to something when you look at a post on Bird Guides and see 'Glossy Ibis', click again for more info and say 'What?? Only ONE??!" 😮 #UKBirding
Spent a good couple of hours wandering around Seaton Wetlands this morning. A couple of Wheatears at Seaton Marsh; 8 Little Grebe at Borrow Pit; a Curlew Sandpiper, 3 Common Sands, 9 Ringos, 3 Dunlin, Kingfisher, Redshanks, Blackwits, a very damaged Tern at Black Hole Marsh. #UKBirding
September 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Spent a good couple of hours wandering around Seaton Wetlands this morning. A couple of Wheatears at Seaton Marsh; 8 Little Grebe at Borrow Pit; a Curlew Sandpiper, 3 Common Sands, 9 Ringos, 3 Dunlin, Kingfisher, Redshanks, Blackwits, a very damaged Tern at Black Hole Marsh. #UKBirding
Very windy on Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis today. No Grey Phal, but still a lot of small birds. More than a dozen Sanderling, 17 Turnstone, 7 Ringos. Many Rock Pipits and Pied Wags. Quite a few Cormorants offshore. #UKBirding
September 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Very windy on Monmouth Beach, Lyme Regis today. No Grey Phal, but still a lot of small birds. More than a dozen Sanderling, 17 Turnstone, 7 Ringos. Many Rock Pipits and Pied Wags. Quite a few Cormorants offshore. #UKBirding
It was a wonderful morn in Lyme Regis. Not the spectacular sunrise that I'd hoped for, but very beautiful. The sea was flat calm, the beach was full of birds and I had a great chat with a fellow birder. Interesting to see the weed, after all of the stormy bluster......Looks like a hairdressers.
September 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It was a wonderful morn in Lyme Regis. Not the spectacular sunrise that I'd hoped for, but very beautiful. The sea was flat calm, the beach was full of birds and I had a great chat with a fellow birder. Interesting to see the weed, after all of the stormy bluster......Looks like a hairdressers.
Fab a.m in Lyme Regis. Went for dawn & found that the recent blowy weather had brought weed onto the beach & also small waders. Found a Grey Phalarope tucked in by the Cobb - watched it on & off for 3 hours. Chatted to a birder. Calm sea, blue sky. Gorgeous!! Off for a sea swim now! #UKBirding
September 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Fab a.m in Lyme Regis. Went for dawn & found that the recent blowy weather had brought weed onto the beach & also small waders. Found a Grey Phalarope tucked in by the Cobb - watched it on & off for 3 hours. Chatted to a birder. Calm sea, blue sky. Gorgeous!! Off for a sea swim now! #UKBirding