Rob Wilton
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Bird news from the Lowestoft area and occasionally beyond...
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We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to save one of the largest areas of grassland left in Lincolnshire. Can you help us purchase and protect Hawthorpe for nature before it is ploughed and lost forever?
Find out more: lincstrust.org.uk/hawthorpe-appeal
Find out more: lincstrust.org.uk/hawthorpe-appeal
November 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to save one of the largest areas of grassland left in Lincolnshire. Can you help us purchase and protect Hawthorpe for nature before it is ploughed and lost forever?
Find out more: lincstrust.org.uk/hawthorpe-appeal
Find out more: lincstrust.org.uk/hawthorpe-appeal
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December 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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It's been a long wait but an advance copy of 'Grasshoppers' has finally arrived. It's been worth the wait with excellent printing
December 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It's been a long wait but an advance copy of 'Grasshoppers' has finally arrived. It's been worth the wait with excellent printing
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Great to see this emphasis on creating and maintaining wildlife habitat here - rather than buying food and feeders....
December 1, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Great to see this emphasis on creating and maintaining wildlife habitat here - rather than buying food and feeders....
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A quick dash to Spiggie this afternoon to see this female SIBERIAN RUBYTHROAT released back in to the ‘Bumblebird’ wild bird crop. Clearly autumn isn’t over for us here in Shetland!
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife
December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A quick dash to Spiggie this afternoon to see this female SIBERIAN RUBYTHROAT released back in to the ‘Bumblebird’ wild bird crop. Clearly autumn isn’t over for us here in Shetland!
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife
#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife
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4 years to the day of a Blyth's Reed Warbler in a snow storm in Manchester City centre macaulaylibrary.org/asset/641652... #UKbirding
November 29, 2025 at 9:31 AM
4 years to the day of a Blyth's Reed Warbler in a snow storm in Manchester City centre macaulaylibrary.org/asset/641652... #UKbirding
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Cold sweat time, my first thought on seeing these images is that they are the product of Generative AI on account of missing/deformed feet. Could this however just be manipulation of a real image of an extralimital Willow Tit? Never had to even consider these issues before.... #UKBirding
November 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Cold sweat time, my first thought on seeing these images is that they are the product of Generative AI on account of missing/deformed feet. Could this however just be manipulation of a real image of an extralimital Willow Tit? Never had to even consider these issues before.... #UKBirding
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At least one Zitting Cisticola still about south of Walberswick - no others seen in a couple of hours. Silent and elusive but now fully moulted at least and plumage looking quite dark and richly hued #ukbirding #suffolkbirding
November 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
At least one Zitting Cisticola still about south of Walberswick - no others seen in a couple of hours. Silent and elusive but now fully moulted at least and plumage looking quite dark and richly hued #ukbirding #suffolkbirding
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Hume’s Leaf Warbler is a variable bird. The 3 currently inhabiting Holkham NNR all look different. The two I found on 16th: a grey/greenish rather scruffy bird (top left), & a buff/cream clean bird (top right) & Ash Saunders’ Wells bird is grey with contrasting green secondary edges #NorfolkBirding
November 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Hume’s Leaf Warbler is a variable bird. The 3 currently inhabiting Holkham NNR all look different. The two I found on 16th: a grey/greenish rather scruffy bird (top left), & a buff/cream clean bird (top right) & Ash Saunders’ Wells bird is grey with contrasting green secondary edges #NorfolkBirding
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A comparison of Hume’s Leaf Warbler (Wells Woods), left, and Yellow-browed Warbler (Holkham), right, from the last two days. Subtle but distinctive differences between these two similar Phylloscopus species supported by their quite different calls. #NorfolkBirding
November 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
A comparison of Hume’s Leaf Warbler (Wells Woods), left, and Yellow-browed Warbler (Holkham), right, from the last two days. Subtle but distinctive differences between these two similar Phylloscopus species supported by their quite different calls. #NorfolkBirding
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That's just the tip of the iceberg. How many ' Fallowfield' or 'Orchid Meadows' etc are there? Should be called Block Paved Way, Tarmac Mews or AstroTurf Ave !
The UK Is Naming Roads After Birds It's Losing
New analysis from the RSPB reveals an ironic trend of new housing developments using names of some of the UK's most threatened birds.
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/T...
New analysis from the RSPB reveals an ironic trend of new housing developments using names of some of the UK's most threatened birds.
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/T...
The UK Is Naming Roads After Birds It's Losing
New analysis from the RSPB reveals an ironic trend of new housing developments using names of some of the UK's most threatened birds
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
That's just the tip of the iceberg. How many ' Fallowfield' or 'Orchid Meadows' etc are there? Should be called Block Paved Way, Tarmac Mews or AstroTurf Ave !
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Great egret
Suffolk, 26/11/2025
Fishing in the last light
Suffolk, 26/11/2025
Fishing in the last light
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Great egret
Suffolk, 26/11/2025
Fishing in the last light
Suffolk, 26/11/2025
Fishing in the last light
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3 Cattle Egrets on Peto’s Marsh Carlton at start of bund eastern end by digger. No cows in sight!
November 27, 2025 at 11:24 AM
3 Cattle Egrets on Peto’s Marsh Carlton at start of bund eastern end by digger. No cows in sight!
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Found this abherrant Stoecnat at Lowestoft today, some Leucistic Feathers ,Pink legs and bill. #stonechat #ukbirding #suffolkbirds #lowestoftbirds
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Found this abherrant Stoecnat at Lowestoft today, some Leucistic Feathers ,Pink legs and bill. #stonechat #ukbirding #suffolkbirds #lowestoftbirds
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It's nearly 18 yrs since I found a Franklin's Gull at Torr Res, Somerset. Back then I spent 100s/hrs yearly scanning gulls at the res, landfill and fields. Today's Vatersay bird was easier, landing on the road in front of us as we headed for the beach...to go check the gulls. #BirdingScotland
November 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It's nearly 18 yrs since I found a Franklin's Gull at Torr Res, Somerset. Back then I spent 100s/hrs yearly scanning gulls at the res, landfill and fields. Today's Vatersay bird was easier, landing on the road in front of us as we headed for the beach...to go check the gulls. #BirdingScotland
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Just when we thought autumn was done, birding would be quieter and that was that, this vision of larid loveliness landed in the road in front of us! A cracking adult Franklin's Gull, the first record for Vatersay. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Just when we thought autumn was done, birding would be quieter and that was that, this vision of larid loveliness landed in the road in front of us! A cracking adult Franklin's Gull, the first record for Vatersay. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK
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An unexpected twist to a walk looking for Dipper on the Horton Burn! This Little Bittern was discovered late morning at North Shields in a bit of a sorry state. Pictured here at handover to a rescue team. Looking healthy (and drier), hopefully it will recuperate overnight for a release…
#NEbirding
#NEbirding
November 23, 2025 at 1:29 PM
An unexpected twist to a walk looking for Dipper on the Horton Burn! This Little Bittern was discovered late morning at North Shields in a bit of a sorry state. Pictured here at handover to a rescue team. Looking healthy (and drier), hopefully it will recuperate overnight for a release…
#NEbirding
#NEbirding
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Hume's Warbler in Southwold churchyard brought up 220 for my patch this year, then almost immediately went to 221 with a Richard's Pipit that flew south calling - a scarce bird nowadays #ukbirding #suffolkbirding
November 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Hume's Warbler in Southwold churchyard brought up 220 for my patch this year, then almost immediately went to 221 with a Richard's Pipit that flew south calling - a scarce bird nowadays #ukbirding #suffolkbirding
Right, I have decided that tomorrow is THE day! It's the day a Hume's Warbler is going to appear in front of me. Microsite birding here I come. This is it! I believe...
November 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Right, I have decided that tomorrow is THE day! It's the day a Hume's Warbler is going to appear in front of me. Microsite birding here I come. This is it! I believe...
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Still 7 Shorelarks near the Pakefield Coastguard lookout also about 30 Snow Buntings further south but ranging along the coast
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Still 7 Shorelarks near the Pakefield Coastguard lookout also about 30 Snow Buntings further south but ranging along the coast
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Dusky Warbler! This morning's sunny and calm weather provided the perfect window of bird-finding opportunity. So my pre-work visit to Brancaster turned out to be a good call, when I found this little chap 'tuk'ing away in a hedgerow near the Branodunum Roman Fort. #ukbirding #norfolkbirding
November 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Dusky Warbler! This morning's sunny and calm weather provided the perfect window of bird-finding opportunity. So my pre-work visit to Brancaster turned out to be a good call, when I found this little chap 'tuk'ing away in a hedgerow near the Branodunum Roman Fort. #ukbirding #norfolkbirding
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Both Hume's Leaf warblers are still present on my patch today, within half a mile of each other. Since it was sunny I spent a lot of time trying to photograph them. It's amazingly difficult! I took about 1000 photos and these are a couple of the only half-decent ones. #ukbirding #norfolkbirding
November 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Both Hume's Leaf warblers are still present on my patch today, within half a mile of each other. Since it was sunny I spent a lot of time trying to photograph them. It's amazingly difficult! I took about 1000 photos and these are a couple of the only half-decent ones. #ukbirding #norfolkbirding
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Jack snipe have been showing well from Bishop’s hide at Cley NWT this autumn. Great to eventually catch up with one today and spent an enjoyable morning sketching it along with 6 water pipits that dropped in. Quality!
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Jack snipe have been showing well from Bishop’s hide at Cley NWT this autumn. Great to eventually catch up with one today and spent an enjoyable morning sketching it along with 6 water pipits that dropped in. Quality!
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Our walk today from Covehithe to Benacre Broad. Highlights: 9 Snow Bunting & Great Northern Diver south.
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Our walk today from Covehithe to Benacre Broad. Highlights: 9 Snow Bunting & Great Northern Diver south.