Ally Bunning

BARN OWL CONSERVATION OXFORDSHIRE. BTO Ringing Trainer. Encouraging Wildlife, Wellbeing & Conservation. OOS affiliated.

[Ally Bunning @Bubbally11]

First one of the season!

[Denise Wawman @SomEcoWorrier]

BTO Bird ringers, if you have been collecting flat flies for the Mapping the UK's Flat Flies Project, please can you send them to me in the next few weeks.
I'm hoping to complete the IDs over Xmas and to analyse the data in early January and it would be a pity to miss any.
@_bto

[Nick Marriner @NickMarriner1]

Massive thanks @bbowt & @UpperThamesBC & @chilternrangers for hosting & leading @ChilternsCCC #newshoots session at Yoesdon Bank NR. Great session on butterfly ID & intro. to Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey. Great butterflies incl. Chalk-hill & Adonis Blue … what top spot …

[Dan Richards @pilts1974]

Some footage from the chicks in box 24 and not long now before they fledge, I caught the adult returning too which shows the difference in appearance quite well. #Swifts

[Kartong Bird Observatory 🇬🇲 @kartongbirdobs]

Northern White-faced Owl, Ptilopsis leucotis, caught and ringed by the team very early this morning.
We have caught very few of this species as they are extremely nocturnal. Attempts to catch them at night frequently involve bi-catches of bats, which we always seek to avoid.

[Steve Dudley 🕷 @stevedudley_]

Here’s an article on what the BOURC is and what it does. I encourage all birders to read it and understand the BOURC’s work in maintaining the #BritishList - the official list of wild birds recorded for Britain. Not just British firsts but also Cat C and those pesky escapes.

[Ally Bunning @Bubbally11]

Wychwood fair. Yesterday. Lots of lovely people came to visit the Barn owl stand as well as the OOS stand.

[Kartong Bird Observatory 🇬🇲 @kartongbirdobs]

An excellent control of a KBO ringed Nightingale breeding in Somerset, England. This is the most westerly record of a Gambian ringed Nightingale. Previous records have been from Suffolk Essex and Kent. This female was ringed in January 2018 and retrapped at KBO in November 2018.

[Old Man of Minsmere @oldman65Suffolk]

A Woodlark singing in the late evening sunlight
Suffolk
29/06/2023
@OlympusUK @OMSYSTEMcameras

[Paul Watts @paulwatts1979]

A polite reminder: birds are at their limits in the breeding season: building nests, defending territories, feeding young and also surviving.

I’m aware of people putting additional strain on some of our heathland birds and owls just for *that* special photo.

PLEASE DON’T!!

[Jon Hawkins @SurreyHillsPhot]

Hobby catching a Four spotted Chaser (I think).. Thursley Common..… @Natures_Voice @BBCSpringwatch
@iNatureUK @BDSdragonflies #hobby #BirdsOfPrey #commondarter
@NaturalEngland #thursleycommon #surreyhillsphotography
@CanonUKandIE #canonr5

[Ally Bunning @Bubbally11]

We found some of these in a Barn Owl box today, in Oxfordshire Very fiesty!

[Portland Bird Observatory @PortlandBirdObs]

First Lunar Hornet Clearwing of the year out in the Obs gdn this mrng - as the first ones often are it was found clinging to a mist-net

[Tom Cadwallender @TomCadwallender]

#SuperSeabirdSunday A Black Guillemot with snack! ⁦@SteelySeabirder⁩

[Phil Woollen @PhilWoollen]

I never realised Little Egrets have green skin! They use those long toes & claws to good effect scrambling around the branches outside their nests.

[Wytham Tit Study @WythamTits]

Another field season in @WythamWoods draws to a close - still seeing high nestling survival, very little asynchrony in broods & caterpillar abundance still high. The traditional field team photograph - it would be impossible to do this work without this fantastic team!

[Denise Wawman @SomEcoWorrier]

I’ve spent most of the last week in the woods monitoring Pied Flycatchers. There are a lot of signs that the adults are struggling to find enough food for their young. They are on the ground looking for food and bringing in Caddis Flies, Craneflies and things which look 1/2

[Birds of Poole Harbour @harbourbirds]

Both newly hatched chicks getting fed by parents CJ7 and 022 this afternoon. Both seem to be doing great already and seem to have grown since this AM! @ChrisGPackham @MeganMcCubbin @michaelastracha @BBCSpringwatch @timmackrill

[West Oxfordshire Farmland Bird Project @WOXFarmBirds]

The Corn Bunting nesting season is the busiest time of year for our team and is fast approaching. At one farm today, we located five colour-ringed male birds (E43, E58, E93, J49 & M49) setting up their territories on the same song posts they have used in the past four seasons.

[Sheffield Swift Network @SheffSwiftNet]

📳 Is scaffolding blocking access to an active swift nest?
📳 Film it. Note the exact location. Report it
📳 Ring 101 and ask to speak to a Wildlife Crime Officer
📳 Ask for an incident number so it's logged
https://t.co/Nakbq83z3t