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A #patchbirding challenge across the UK and Ireland, + Dutch and Belgium mini-league, where the aim is to see and find as many birds as possible on your patch. For more info, go to our pinned post. Join our Bluesky buzz by tagging us in your posts #PWC2025
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Hopefully birders have been out today on their patches, starting up for a big #PWC2025! Here is the sign up and score sheet. Please follow the instructions, and then add your patch to the sign up sheet. Any questions, please get in touch! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Hopefully some #PWC2025 participants are enjoying the nice weather this Sunday. It feels like autumn has been replaced by winter in the last week or so!
As it's the last day of November, remember to get your scores and highlights in pronto ready for the review to be written from the 7th Dec.
As it's the last day of November, remember to get your scores and highlights in pronto ready for the review to be written from the 7th Dec.
November 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Hopefully some #PWC2025 participants are enjoying the nice weather this Sunday. It feels like autumn has been replaced by winter in the last week or so!
As it's the last day of November, remember to get your scores and highlights in pronto ready for the review to be written from the 7th Dec.
As it's the last day of November, remember to get your scores and highlights in pronto ready for the review to be written from the 7th Dec.
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Another day of wintry showers, giving some impressive cloud formations out to the North. Been quiet for white winged gulls so far, so nice to find three adult Glaucous Gulls in the North Wick, before flying out towards Mull Head #BirdingOrkney #PWC2025
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Another day of wintry showers, giving some impressive cloud formations out to the North. Been quiet for white winged gulls so far, so nice to find three adult Glaucous Gulls in the North Wick, before flying out towards Mull Head #BirdingOrkney #PWC2025
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There's been a few Taiga Beans in the county since late Sept but nearly all (all?) have moved on. So 19 (min) here on Westray today is a surprise! Hard to get close to tho as they're by a road in amongst some flitty Greylags. iPhone and Leica APO Televid 82 to the rescue 🙂 #WestrayBirding #PWC2025
November 20, 2025 at 3:38 PM
There's been a few Taiga Beans in the county since late Sept but nearly all (all?) have moved on. So 19 (min) here on Westray today is a surprise! Hard to get close to tho as they're by a road in amongst some flitty Greylags. iPhone and Leica APO Televid 82 to the rescue 🙂 #WestrayBirding #PWC2025
We had been having issues with posts not getting added to the feed, but we have now fixed this issue with manually adding your posts to the Patchwork Challenge #patchbirding feed. Remember to check the feed to see what others are getting on their patches!
November 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
We had been having issues with posts not getting added to the feed, but we have now fixed this issue with manually adding your posts to the Patchwork Challenge #patchbirding feed. Remember to check the feed to see what others are getting on their patches!
We have now pulled together the update for October #PWC2025 and it is live on the blog! Go check it out to see the highlights and where you sit in the rankings! patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com
Remember to keep us updated by regularly updating your scores and by tagging us in your posts!
Remember to keep us updated by regularly updating your scores and by tagging us in your posts!
November 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We have now pulled together the update for October #PWC2025 and it is live on the blog! Go check it out to see the highlights and where you sit in the rankings! patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com
Remember to keep us updated by regularly updating your scores and by tagging us in your posts!
Remember to keep us updated by regularly updating your scores and by tagging us in your posts!
It's been a fantastic few days of November birding for finding late autumn scarce and rare birds with Yellow-browed, Pallas's and Dusky Warblers, Pallid Swifts and Olive-backed Pipits with rarer stuff too! What will you find on your #patchbirding over the next few days? #PWC2025
November 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM
It's been a fantastic few days of November birding for finding late autumn scarce and rare birds with Yellow-browed, Pallas's and Dusky Warblers, Pallid Swifts and Olive-backed Pipits with rarer stuff too! What will you find on your #patchbirding over the next few days? #PWC2025
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The first #patchbirding walk of Nov-25. A new ‘from the garden ✅’ as I left the house… a Green Sandpiper flew north over Godinton Park. On route to the Hothfield Waterfall Lake, Mipits mobbing a Sparrowhawk, the flock of Goldfinches & Siskins, Redwings, Mistle Thrush & vocal Green Woodpeckers.
November 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
The first #patchbirding walk of Nov-25. A new ‘from the garden ✅’ as I left the house… a Green Sandpiper flew north over Godinton Park. On route to the Hothfield Waterfall Lake, Mipits mobbing a Sparrowhawk, the flock of Goldfinches & Siskins, Redwings, Mistle Thrush & vocal Green Woodpeckers.
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2 November, text from SPP and I've at last managed to catch up on the 2025 crossbill influx! Around a dozen Common Crossbills at Swalla this pm, #134 on the green patch yearlist 😃
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @mike-carr.bsky.social @whitleybirder.bsky.social @yellowbrow.bsky.social
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @mike-carr.bsky.social @whitleybirder.bsky.social @yellowbrow.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
2 November, text from SPP and I've at last managed to catch up on the 2025 crossbill influx! Around a dozen Common Crossbills at Swalla this pm, #134 on the green patch yearlist 😃
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @mike-carr.bsky.social @whitleybirder.bsky.social @yellowbrow.bsky.social
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @mike-carr.bsky.social @whitleybirder.bsky.social @yellowbrow.bsky.social
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Pure #PatchGold!
10 Crossbill @bibbeyswildfarms.bsky.social this morning!
It is so energising, inspiring and uplifting to fall in love with nature every day!
Every experience feels just as powerful as the first.
I would highly recommend that you fall in love with nature too! 😎
10 Crossbill @bibbeyswildfarms.bsky.social this morning!
It is so energising, inspiring and uplifting to fall in love with nature every day!
Every experience feels just as powerful as the first.
I would highly recommend that you fall in love with nature too! 😎
October 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Pure #PatchGold!
10 Crossbill @bibbeyswildfarms.bsky.social this morning!
It is so energising, inspiring and uplifting to fall in love with nature every day!
Every experience feels just as powerful as the first.
I would highly recommend that you fall in love with nature too! 😎
10 Crossbill @bibbeyswildfarms.bsky.social this morning!
It is so energising, inspiring and uplifting to fall in love with nature every day!
Every experience feels just as powerful as the first.
I would highly recommend that you fall in love with nature too! 😎
Amazing!
Unfortunately, with bonfire night approaching, it's not uncommon to see some waterfowl displacement. Don't forget to check any bodies of water in your patch this week to see what turns up...
Unfortunately, with bonfire night approaching, it's not uncommon to see some waterfowl displacement. Don't forget to check any bodies of water in your patch this week to see what turns up...
Proper #patchgold today in St Fittick's Park with this drake Gadwall on the main marsh. It's only my fourth ever record here and the first for five years.
#Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding #UKWildlife
#Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding #UKWildlife
November 3, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Amazing!
Unfortunately, with bonfire night approaching, it's not uncommon to see some waterfowl displacement. Don't forget to check any bodies of water in your patch this week to see what turns up...
Unfortunately, with bonfire night approaching, it's not uncommon to see some waterfowl displacement. Don't forget to check any bodies of water in your patch this week to see what turns up...
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Show me your bubblegum feet!
Bonaparte's Gull on my patch on #Texel completed its fifth week
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Bonaparte's Gull on my patch on #Texel completed its fifth week
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November 2, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Show me your bubblegum feet!
Bonaparte's Gull on my patch on #Texel completed its fifth week
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Bonaparte's Gull on my patch on #Texel completed its fifth week
@patchbirding.bsky.social @birdingclimate.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social
We have reached the end October so can #PWC2025 participants fill in their last October scores to the spreadsheet ready for the download on the 7th November!
Good luck to everyone out birding over the weekend. November can certainly be an exciting month providing many rarities & varied migration!
Good luck to everyone out birding over the weekend. November can certainly be an exciting month providing many rarities & varied migration!
October 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
We have reached the end October so can #PWC2025 participants fill in their last October scores to the spreadsheet ready for the download on the 7th November!
Good luck to everyone out birding over the weekend. November can certainly be an exciting month providing many rarities & varied migration!
Good luck to everyone out birding over the weekend. November can certainly be an exciting month providing many rarities & varied migration!
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#Patchbirding after work and with the clocks now back, light levels are always challenging. A quiet stroll around Singleton Lake & rural Godinton… a couple of Chiffchaffs, Grey Wagtail, Linnet, Goldcrests, Kestrel, C Buzzard, Jay & the usual suspects.
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
#Patchbirding after work and with the clocks now back, light levels are always challenging. A quiet stroll around Singleton Lake & rural Godinton… a couple of Chiffchaffs, Grey Wagtail, Linnet, Goldcrests, Kestrel, C Buzzard, Jay & the usual suspects.
WOODPIGEON VISMIG!! We are approaching the best time of year to witness Woodpigeon passage on your #patchbirding visits, with the peak time being over the next couple of weeks!
Beautiful start to the day at Titchfield Haven with decent vis mig including Redpolls, 5 Glossy Ibis, and an elusive Yellow-browed Warbler still at southern end of Canal Path (found by @frannobirder2024.bsky.social y'day) #PWC2025 #LowCarbonBirding
October 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
WOODPIGEON VISMIG!! We are approaching the best time of year to witness Woodpigeon passage on your #patchbirding visits, with the peak time being over the next couple of weeks!
Hello, we have been working hard all year to keep this challenge running and would love to hear your feedback!
Let us know of anything that we can do to make the challenge even better so we can have a think ready for PWC 2026.
#pwc2025#patchbirding
Let us know of anything that we can do to make the challenge even better so we can have a think ready for PWC 2026.
#pwc2025#patchbirding
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Hello, we have been working hard all year to keep this challenge running and would love to hear your feedback. Let us know of anything that we can do to make the challenge even better so we can have a...
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October 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Hello, we have been working hard all year to keep this challenge running and would love to hear your feedback!
Let us know of anything that we can do to make the challenge even better so we can have a think ready for PWC 2026.
#pwc2025#patchbirding
Let us know of anything that we can do to make the challenge even better so we can have a think ready for PWC 2026.
#pwc2025#patchbirding
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A big pipit flicking around in the trees in the Balephuil, Tiree garden this morning turned out to be a Rock Pipit! - the first record for this wooded garden - it was flushed away by a Robin
@patchbirding.bsky.social #BirdingScotland
@patchbirding.bsky.social #BirdingScotland
October 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
A big pipit flicking around in the trees in the Balephuil, Tiree garden this morning turned out to be a Rock Pipit! - the first record for this wooded garden - it was flushed away by a Robin
@patchbirding.bsky.social #BirdingScotland
@patchbirding.bsky.social #BirdingScotland
The September #PWC2025 review is now out on the blog!
There has been plenty to write about! So take a look at where you finished by the end of September, plus what others saw and found on their patches: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com #patchbirding
There has been plenty to write about! So take a look at where you finished by the end of September, plus what others saw and found on their patches: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com #patchbirding
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October 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The September #PWC2025 review is now out on the blog!
There has been plenty to write about! So take a look at where you finished by the end of September, plus what others saw and found on their patches: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com #patchbirding
There has been plenty to write about! So take a look at where you finished by the end of September, plus what others saw and found on their patches: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com #patchbirding
It's the end of September so please get your scores up to date ready for the month's review! We will download it on the evening of the 7th.
We look forward to seeing your highlights. Did you find a Yellow-browed Warbler or perhaps something rarer this September? #PWC2025
We look forward to seeing your highlights. Did you find a Yellow-browed Warbler or perhaps something rarer this September? #PWC2025
September 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It's the end of September so please get your scores up to date ready for the month's review! We will download it on the evening of the 7th.
We look forward to seeing your highlights. Did you find a Yellow-browed Warbler or perhaps something rarer this September? #PWC2025
We look forward to seeing your highlights. Did you find a Yellow-browed Warbler or perhaps something rarer this September? #PWC2025
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Stanford Reservoir - more #patchgold when I found this moulting eclipse drake Lesser Scaup, first for the site & for Northants. Also, 3 Glossy Ibis, Bittern, 2 Pintail, Common Tern, Common Sand & Great Egret. @lrosbirds.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Stanford Reservoir - more #patchgold when I found this moulting eclipse drake Lesser Scaup, first for the site & for Northants. Also, 3 Glossy Ibis, Bittern, 2 Pintail, Common Tern, Common Sand & Great Egret. @lrosbirds.bsky.social
August's round-up of #PWC2025 is now live on the blog! We hope you enjoy reading it and good luck with your patch birding this September! patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com
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An awesome month, with autumn migration now in full swing with no stopping in sight! Some patch birders succeeded with finding some mega rare birds on their patches yielding them fifteen well earned points! This just showing that working a patch, birders will one day be justly rewarded, let that be either a national mega bird or a locally good bird that you have always wanted to grace your patch.
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September 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
August's round-up of #PWC2025 is now live on the blog! We hope you enjoy reading it and good luck with your patch birding this September! patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com
East coast migration of Meadow Pipits really kicked off this weekend, and with the first Pink-footed Geese on the move too creating some exciting vismig sessions! #patchbirding
Another great morning of vis-mig at Tynemouth with birds heading south in a light SW wind. Totals by 11.30 included:
4 marsh harriers (!)
3 buzzards
1,925 mipits
225 house martin
125 swallow
150 pink footed geese
80+ siskins
20+ redpolls
23 skylarks
7 swifts
5 grey wags
1 wheatear
1 reed bunting
4 marsh harriers (!)
3 buzzards
1,925 mipits
225 house martin
125 swallow
150 pink footed geese
80+ siskins
20+ redpolls
23 skylarks
7 swifts
5 grey wags
1 wheatear
1 reed bunting
September 15, 2025 at 1:20 PM
East coast migration of Meadow Pipits really kicked off this weekend, and with the first Pink-footed Geese on the move too creating some exciting vismig sessions! #patchbirding
With so many Grey Phalaropes all over the country, it's worth checking any water bodies on your patch.
Dave struck gold with his first record on his inland patch in Dorset:
Dave struck gold with his first record on his inland patch in Dorset:
#PatchGold on Sunday evening, I found a 1st w Grey Phalarope on my inland Dorset patch, the first record here. Amazingly it stayed 4 days & departed last night (private area with no public access) @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @patchbirding.bsky.social #PWC2025
September 5, 2025 at 7:36 PM
With so many Grey Phalaropes all over the country, it's worth checking any water bodies on your patch.
Dave struck gold with his first record on his inland patch in Dorset:
Dave struck gold with his first record on his inland patch in Dorset:
A reminder to everyone for their #PWC2025 August scores to be inputted into the spreadsheet or be sent to us ready for the evening of the 7th September, so the August round-up can begin to be written.
You can start to input all your September scores after - thank you and happy birding!
You can start to input all your September scores after - thank you and happy birding!
September 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A reminder to everyone for their #PWC2025 August scores to be inputted into the spreadsheet or be sent to us ready for the evening of the 7th September, so the August round-up can begin to be written.
You can start to input all your September scores after - thank you and happy birding!
You can start to input all your September scores after - thank you and happy birding!
There is FREE delivery on all orders on the Patchwork Challenge shop until midnight tonight!
So it's a perfect time to check out some of our merchandise, and the money raised will be used to fund the #PWC2025 prizes!
To browse and order, use this link: patchwork-challenge.teemill.com
So it's a perfect time to check out some of our merchandise, and the money raised will be used to fund the #PWC2025 prizes!
To browse and order, use this link: patchwork-challenge.teemill.com
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August 31, 2025 at 11:26 AM
There is FREE delivery on all orders on the Patchwork Challenge shop until midnight tonight!
So it's a perfect time to check out some of our merchandise, and the money raised will be used to fund the #PWC2025 prizes!
To browse and order, use this link: patchwork-challenge.teemill.com
So it's a perfect time to check out some of our merchandise, and the money raised will be used to fund the #PWC2025 prizes!
To browse and order, use this link: patchwork-challenge.teemill.com
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August 28, 2025 at 12:09 PM