Buff-breasted blob still at CVL this morning in the usual spot. Wood Sand, two Greenshank and Glossy Ibis in Villice bay. Two Glossy Ibis in Heron Green Bay #Avonbirds

Impressive numbers of small waders roosting at Wall Common today, with >1100 Ringed Plover and >500 Dunlin. Curlew Sand, Little Stint and a few Knot and Sanderling among them. On the land a few Wheatear (photo) and a Whinchat. Perhaps my last Swift of the year passed west overhead #somersetbirding

The glow of Glastonbury festival clearly visible 14 miles away from RSPB Greylake last night. A few hundred sand martins at dusk and a few snipe chipping in the darkness #somersetbirding

A Desert Wheatear... on a playing field near Bristol... in June #rarebirdsUK

An unexpected garden tick and Somerset tick this morning in the form of a Turtle Dove!

1st summer Purple Heron showed well at Meare Heath early evening. Seen to pluck a Four-spotted Chaser from a stem and ate it before it dropped to the reed edge and started fishing. #somersetbirding

Light overhead passage at Stolford this morning, with 321 Wood pigeon east, plus 101 Meadow Pipit, 18 alba Wagtail, 29 LBBG, and single figures of a few others. My first swallow of the year powered through. #somersetbirding

Most mornings I stand in my garden with a coffee and count all the birds. In the autumn I am often treated to some light vis mig, which today included a full fat house tick in two Hawfinches south! Also my first Fieldfare of the autumn, a modest passage of redwing, and a brambling #ukbirding

My last Daurian-type Shrike was in Cambridgeshire in 2000, so this afternoon we took a short hop over the boundary to see the showy bird near Gillingham #rarebirdsuk #dorsetbirds

An excellent morning around Stert and Huntspill (Somerset) with merlin, osprey, 19 species of wader, including 3 Curlew Sand & 1 Little Stint, redstart, a fabulously confiding Sabine's Gull (📷) and topped off with a Tawny Pipit flying low overhead calling while we watched said gull 💯 #ukbirding

Drake Ferruginous Duck still at Westhay this morning, on 20 Acre. Seam out from the reeds on the south side then off towards the northwest corner.
#ukbirding #somersetbirds

A couple of hours out and about before a day of jobs (and garden centres, apparently).
Singing Willow warbler at Ham Wall plus four Garganey and a few Sand Martins giving a distictly more spring-like feel than the weather. Spotted Redshank still at Catcott. #ukbirding #somerset

My first Wheatear of the year #ukbirding

I didn't see a shrike in the UK last year, so had a day out across the border in Dorset for the Great Grey near Wareham. Great views along with a range of southern heath species on a warm and balmy day

Twitching by train is all very pleasant apart from the cost. I had some meetings in Edinburgh this week so a detour for the Myrtle Warbler cost me £9.80, with my employer generously covering the other £330 in return for some of my time in the office #ukbirding

Birding this morning on my under-watched and under-appreciated patch. Water levels up after recent rains, but 8000+ waders, 40+ egrets and a few cranes within a 10 minute walk of my front door can't be bad.