Train/boat/bike trip to Shetland. Great hospitality as usual at Unst holiday let & B&B with Otters at bottom of garden. Other highlights inc Veery, Arctic Warblers, multiple Little Buntings a self-find tick Eastern Yellow Wagtail. #lowcarbonbirding
Bike birding in New Cut Lane area, Kirkby, Liverpool today produced 230 Fieldfares, 40 Redwing, 35 Song Thrushes, 47 Skylark, 270 Chaffinches, 6 Bramblings (pic) 11 Reed Buntings, 12 Yellowhammers, 1 Corn Bunting, 10 Tree Sparrows (pic) 14 Siskin and 2 Woodcock #lowcarbonbirding
Forgot to post these the other day... finally saw my first ever Waxwing (well 3!). Not the best pics π such stunning birds! And only a 10 min walk from my house in Welshpool! #lowcarbonbirding WaxwingsUK
A breezy 15 miler on the bike this afternoon. 2x Cattle Egret Bodymoor Heath Lane (North Warks) still, otherwise quiet. #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding Mercian Birding WestMidsBirding
with wheatear, ortolan bunting and whinchat 121 species on the #localpatch #lowcarbonbirding - spring rocks
Setting off for Falsterbo in southern Sweden for a few daysβ birding. Trying to put my money/effort where my #lowcarbonbirding advocating mouth is by going by train. Today: Cov - London - Brussels - Cologne - Hamburg. Tomorrow: Hamburg - Copenhagen - MalmΓΆ - birding.
#lowcarbonbirding on Garth Hill yesterday morning: Redstart, Tree Pipit, Whitethroat, Garden Warbler (honestly!) and many more, Cuckoo heard but not seen
#WildCardiffHour #glambirds #birdphotography #birdwatching
18 miler around the patch this afternoon. 2x Sibe Chiffchaff still, 6+ Chiffchaff (Hams Hall outflow), Peregrine, 200+ Fieldfare, Meadow Pipit, 2x Stonechat the highlights. Mercian Birding WestMidsBirding #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding
#otter this morning, steaming upstream into Beccles. 2 kingfishers before this, zipping round the boats at the quay moorings. Feel very fortunate, 15 minutes from home #LowCarbonBirding #LowCarbonOtterSpotting #LowCarbonWildlifeWatching #FeelingLuckyPunk
After spending 13 hours at #GosforthNatureReserve over the last couple of days I finally had a good view of the Purple Heron, not that you'd have guessed from my atrocious record shot π . What a bird to see on my local patch, relieved it stuck around for me! #LowCarbonBirding
Little montage of the rare White-crowned Sparrow in Sussex today π½οΈ Brilliant to finally have views long enough to get to see how it moves, feeds and interacts with bees! π #rarebird #birdguides #whitecrownedsparrow #lowcarbonbirding
A problem facing rewilding and restoration programs as the climate heats up, is wildfires. Long-term projects set back decades in a day.
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7x Waxwing this morning in Grendon, N.Warks (6x Waste Lane/A5, 1x St Nicholas Est), then a 12 miler on the bike around the patch. 2x Cattle Egret still Bodymoor Heath, PF Goose still KWP. 80 sp. for the year.
Mercian Birding West Midland Bird Club #lowcarbonbirding #birdingbybike
Great interrail trip from London to Malaga via Paris & Barcelona. Highlights inc Black Kite, Montagu's Harrier, Greater Flamingo, Black-winged Stilt, Crested Lark, Short-toed Eagle & Woodchat Shrike
#birdingbytrain #lowcarbonbirding
#biol0028 #uclecolgen
Great trip by train from Essex to Ayrshire to see the Myrtle (Yellow-rumped) Warbler in Kilwinning - the county's first Nearctic passerine.
44 spp from the train inc Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, Little Egret, Great Egret & Cattle Egret
#birdingbytrain #lowcarbonbirding #AyrshireBirds
Preening Pec Sand at Frampton Marsh today. The walk from Boston railway station through Lincs countryside was really lovely. Such freedom is genuine & priceless #LowCarbonBirding
Really stoked with my first #Faversham Creek Little Gull today! Against a beautiful backdrop of some 16 calling Mediterranean Gulls, 1 Marsh Harrier, 1 Greenshank, Cetti's, and singing Chiffchaff. #LowCarbonBirding #Faversham
