Rob Rackliffe

Life long Kent Birder! Local patch Walmer Beach where I live! Mad on Birds, Mammals, Butterflies, Snakes, plus Photography, Rock Music

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A few more of the stunning Xinjiang Ground Jay from yesterday!! A confiding bird. With @a1virginia

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One of the smartest Sparrows … the SAXUAL SPARROW! We found 11 of these smart looking birds this afternoon near Luntai NW China with @a1virginia

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A few nice birds from our day out birding in the Tian Shan mountains yesterday.. Eversmann’s (Rufous-backed) Redstart, Eurasian Three-toed Woodpecker, Blue-capped Redstart and European Roller with @a1virginia

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Today we managed to find the XINJIANG GROUND JAY (aka Biddulph’s Ground Jay) - a fantastic bird and one of only 4 Ground Jays in the world. Great few of this cool bird and my first lifer of the trip! With @a1virginia

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A nice start to our N China and Tibet Trip with a walk in a local park. 4 AZURE TIT, 2 Turkestan Shrike, “Masked” White Wagtail, 3 Barred Warbler, 2 Common Rosefinch, 2 Grey-crowned Goldfinch, Rufous Turtle Dove, Shikra, 5 Nightingale and 8 Tree Sparrows! With @a1virginia

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One of the Red Kite “kettles” from last Sunday morning at Bockhill, Kent. Although some birds appeared to circle back, it is likely that between 35 and 50 Red Kites arrived and headed NW between 10am and 1pm plus at least 3 Hobbies. With @a1virginia

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@xbirder Yes I’ve done it before and it was brilliant! Who did you go with if you don’t mind me asking?

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An excellent day at Marquenterre, France on a Sandwich Bay members trip! Over 75 species recorded including breeding plumage Black-necked Grebes, Crested Tits, Spotted Flycatchers, plenty of White Storks, Spoonbills and Nightingales. Golden Orioles too! ⁦@Sandwichbirdobs⁩

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Last day in Croatia! I’ll miss the view from our room .. and so many great birds .. Black-headed Bunting, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler and Short-toed Eagle pictured. Fabulous scenery and hardly another soul around!! 😳

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@JANUSZCZAK Croatia!

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Very pleased to find ROCK PARTRIDGE today!! After eventually tracking one down at 6.50pm we then found another two! Also today 3 Rollers, 4 Red-backed Shrike, 2 Golden Oriole, 3 Quail, 7 Turtle Dove, Alpine Swift, 59 Pygmy Cormorant, 4 Purple Heron, 7 Monty’s Harrier, 2 Hoopoe 😊

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Fantastic birding this afternoon in Croatia.. a few of the many birds we found.. Montagu’s Harrier, a male Red-backed Shrike, Bee-Eater and a Tawny Pipit! With @a1virginia

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@JohnGale8 @a1virginia We stayed in my apartment… it’s in Sotogrande overlooking the Guadiaro River mouth. It was a fun week!

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A smart Curlew Sandpiper coming into breeding plumage with migrating Sanderling in southern Spain last week. More about our sightings (including nearly 1000 Honey Buzzards!!) on the blog for the week… https://t.co/nVrWO8xK7O with @a1virginia

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Up to 4 Little Gulls were present at the Restharrow Scrape Sandwich Bay yesterday afternoon. Up to 10 Gull species present here in the last few days including several Kittiwakes, Caspian and Yellow-legged Gulls! @sandwichbirdobs

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A rare out of county twitch this afternoon too Thurrock Essex to see the Ross's Gull, was very lucky as the bird flew off North East not long after arriving.

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…62 Oystercatcher, 3 Redshank, 179 C Scoter, 36 Brent, 4 Pintail, 5 Med Gull, 39 Guillemot, 3 Razorbill, 67 Barn Swallow, Peregrine and a flock of Common Gulls with @a1virginia

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Excellent migration at Dungeness this morning 6-9.30am 3 Poms, 13 Arctic Skua, 2 Bonxie, 4 Manx Shearwater, 8 Little Gull, Eider, 3 Black Tern, 2 Little Tern, 540 Sandwich Tern, 355 Commic, 32 Common Tern, GN Diver, Marsh Harrier, 186 Whimbrel, 27 Barwit, 16 Sanderling, 3 Dunlin.

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@chiddymark 👍