Rob Swift

Birder & Birding. Continuously inspired by the wonder of birds & the natural world around me! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) @CABS_REPORTS]

Bird trapping in eastern Spain is shifting: glue stick dismantling is down 93% since 2013, but poachers are turning to nets.

On a recent mission, teams freed 15 birds, seized 20 decoys, and caught 17 poachers alongside local police.

Progress, but the fight continues! 🇪🇸🕊️

[Rob Swift @RobSwift5]

@bigmeadowsearch Looks to be a Sow Thistle.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨BREAKING: THOUSANDS OF ILLEGAL MIGRANTS WALK THROUGH A SLEEPY VILLAGE ON WAY TO UK

This is from a small village in Northern France

"They're like the walking dead"

We need to shut the borders immediately

[Birding Caucasus @BirdingCaucasus]

As the autumn season comes to a close, we would like to share a few photographs capturing just a small glimpse of the magnificent spectacle that the bird migration season brought to Batumi.

It has been another truly wonderful season, indeed!

📷 Nigel Nutt and Alexander Rukhaia

[Above_96th @Above96th]

🎉🎉🎉Woohoo! I spotted a museum of Cedar Waxwings devouring Siberian crabapples in Central Park's Conservatory Garden this morning! First time I've gotten a good look at waxwings in weeks! 🍒🍒🍒 #Waxwings #CentralPark #birdcpp

[Rob Swift @RobSwift5]

@bpay12 That’s a ‘nothing’ comment really…. What is a good division then ? …. a league where the same old teams are at the top and one/two run away with it.

[Rob Swift @RobSwift5]

Great, close views of a Great Egret fishing on the misty river Sow at ‘Two Waters Meet’ footbridge, Baswich, Stafford early AM. Not perturbed by the passers by, some of which paused to watch (once i pointed it out to them 😁) @Staffsbirdnews

[Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) @CABS_REPORTS]

🚨 Crackdown on illegal night shooting in #Lebanon

CABS, Anti-Poaching Unit & Lebanese Security Forces caught 3 poachers red-handed south of Beirut.

Seized: 4 rifles, 18 decoys, 6 spotlights, 2 vehicles & more.

Protecting thrushes, owls & bats - more operations to come!

[Rob Swift @RobSwift5]

@RaheemKassam @RupertLowe10 I think you need to re-read @RupertLowe10 email a few times then you’ll actually might comprehend what he’s saying.

[Spurn Bird Observatory @spurnbirdobs]

Sightings from another incredible autumn day featured our second Taiga Flycatcher around Beacon Lane and Sandy Beaches this evening, Bonelli’s Warbler in Easington, Desert Wheatear still between Potato Field and The Point and Pied Wheatear still off Sammy’s (1/3). #Spurnbirds

[Birding Caucasus @BirdingCaucasus]

As the autumn season comes to a close, we would like to share a few photographs capturing just a small glimpse of the magnificent spectacle that the bird migration season brought to Batumi.

It has been another truly wonderful season, indeed!

📷 Nigel Nutt

[Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) @CABS_REPORTS]

Our #Cyprus team hit a major milestone over the weekend in combating illegal bird poaching by removing our 1000th limestick of this autumn camp!

We’ve rescued >900 live birds & ensured the arrest of 35 poachers so far.

Every trap removed saves thousands more migratory birds!

[Committee Against Bird Slaughter (CABS) @CABS_REPORTS]

⚖️ HISTORIC VICTORY IN SICILY! 🇮🇹

Acting on a lawsuit by CABS & partners, the Administrative court in Palermo has officially ended the hunting season across Sicily due to illegal practices targeting endangered birds.

~27,000 hunters grounded & 100k+ migratory birds saved!

[Rob Swift @RobSwift5]

@i54jamie Nice pal… you can’t beat the sound of wild geese!

[jean thorpe @jeanthorpeRR]

28.8.26. Shotgun shot juv Marsh Harrier, Westerdale grouse moor North York Moors. This juv wandered onto a grouse moor and was mortally wounded by illegal shooting. Another.....so it goes on.

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

Well done Cheshire East Council

“Ahead of Remembrance Sunday, our highways teams have been installing poppy road markings across the borough, in honour of the service and sacrifice of our Armed Forces, veterans and their families.
We will remember them”

[Rob Swift @RobSwift5]

All the 4’s on a colourful Sandon-Burston canal walk early morn: 4 Stonechat, 4 Lt Egret flock, 4 Red Kite (two very vocal sat on fence posts) 19 Wigeon, 78 Teal, 100+ Redwing, c80 Fieldfare, 2 Chiffchaff @Staffsbirdnews @CanalRiverTrust

[Rob Swift @RobSwift5]

@kevwardlaw Very nice Kev 🤩

[Rob Swift @RobSwift5]

@JordanSMonk I think you guys are in for a long tough season. I like Preston, a historic club, but I think you were actually worse than Derby, when Stoke played them the other week. Derby did show a bit of fight at least, in the form of the dark arts. 😬

[Rob Swift @RobSwift5]

A murky Radford Meadows, Stafford early AM. 14 Snipe, 110 Golden Plover, 361 Lapwing, 2 Cetti’s, 2 Stonechat, 2 Siskin, 11 Shoveler, 4 Gadwall, 250 Wigeon, 200 Teal. A ‘lost looking’ Barnacle Goose descended out of the low cloud, circled twice & flew high north. @Staffsbirdnews