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Rob Laughton
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Dad, Birder 🐧, Twitcher 📟, Photographer 📸Moth Botherer 🦋. Area Sales manager for Opticron UK 🟢 Bristol City Supporter 🔴⚽️. Views are my own. BOU 519. Founder of ABNG.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Dipper
November 5, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Lammergeier !!!
October 31, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Not a bad list of birds up on the Gemmipass this morning!!!
October 31, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Wallcreeper!!! Saint-Oyen, Italian Alps
October 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Redwing from Hanham this afternoon
February 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
OTD 9 years ago….
January 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
3 new life birds in 2024. Yellow Warbler, Scarlet Tanager & Pale legged Leaf Warbler. Not as many as in 2023 but that was a bumper year nowadays. Quality over quantity.
December 31, 2024 at 11:19 PM
So my local 10km list ends on a record 119 species, beating the previous by 23! Let’s see what we can do next year but it will be a hard total to beat! #UKBirding
December 31, 2024 at 6:22 PM
My retinas are still recovering - Yellow Warbler - New Hythe, Kent 27th Dec. 9th Record for the UK and only the second mainland record. #UKBirding
December 28, 2024 at 2:44 PM
My third lifer of the year. The stunning American Yellow Warbler at New Hythe in Kent. #UKBirding
December 27, 2024 at 2:50 PM
I went back with a camera. Siberian Chiffchaff - Compton Dando. #UKBirding
December 24, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Today’s Siberian Chiffchaff from Compton Dando Sewage Works. Also 3+ Colybitta. #UKBirding
December 23, 2024 at 4:22 PM
The local 10km list now up to 119 species with the addition of Hawfinch and a surprising find of a Sibe Chiffchaff this afternoon. #UKBirding
December 23, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Well it was brief but good views of the Scarlet Tanager this morning in West Yorkshire. Unfortunately no photographs, apart from the crowd.
November 12, 2024 at 5:09 PM
An unexpected pair of Pintail on Broadmead Flash Keynsham increased the local 10km list to 112 species.
October 20, 2024 at 8:37 PM
OTD in 2001. It was a quick dash over to St Martins for a Rose breasted Grosbeak. We had a brief but good view before it dived back into cover and was only seen once again the next day. (Photo Steve Blain)
October 19, 2024 at 10:35 AM
OTD in 2022 - Blackburnian Warbler on Bryher IOS!!! Mental, bloody mental!!!!
October 18, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Crimson Speckled
October 14, 2024 at 7:41 AM
Graceful Prinia - Turkey
October 14, 2024 at 7:40 AM
Great white Egret on Bristol Science Park Lake this afternoon takes my 10km local list up to 111 species.
October 7, 2024 at 1:28 PM
Some record shots of the Pale legged Leaf Warbler from this morning at Bempton Cliffs #UKBirding
September 30, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Alpine Chough - Swiss Alps
September 23, 2024 at 7:51 PM
1st year Lammergeier, Swiss Alps.
September 23, 2024 at 7:50 PM
OTD in 2011.....St Mary's, was, in rarity terms on FIRE!!! 🔥🐧🔥

Northern Waterthrush 1
Solitary Sandpiper 1 (on the same pool as the Waterthrush)
Blk & W Warbler 1
Baltimore Oriole 1
Bee Eater 1
Buff breasted Sandpiper 4

And we missed Blue winged Teal, Woodchat and a Red eyed Vireo by 5mins!
September 21, 2024 at 9:44 AM