An excellent day of seawatching provided two Arctic Skua, two Puffin, 39 Fulmar, eight Balearic Shearwater, 324 Manx Shearwater and 163 Swift all passing from the Fishing Boats.
Video of Manx Shearwaters passing the Fishing Boats taken by Dave Scott. #kentbirding
Sad to hear the news that @twitchertony has sadly passed away this morning. A former Herts birder who moved to Norfolk and who I last twitched with for the Scilly Red-footed Booby. RIP 😢
💥SOIL HILL PATCH TICK💥
💥NUMBER 134💥
💥QUAIL💥
🇬🇧 FULL FAT BRITISH TICK 🇬🇧
My days of British ticks on Soil Hill were long gone, or so I thought!
Absolutely thrilled to hear (and briefly see) this Quail on the Hill today! Halifax MEGA! What a time to be alive!
#SoilHillBirding
Thirty years ago this week, @BillOddie and I went to @RSPBMinsmere to film the first episode of Birding with Bill Oddie. Watching @exitthelemming and @AdrianEdmondson on @channel5_tv Sam and Ade Go Birding brought it all back. Congratulations on a wonderful series, guys!
Remarkable! Today we can reveal we made a 'world-first' discovery yesterday as we have found Puffins nesting in trees (they normally nest underground!) The blog has the full on this remarkable story: https://t.co/VnWtRiQI6m
The Socotra Bunting is regarded as the hardest endemic to find & some trips have even missed it. We had no sign on our first day looking high on the Dixam plateau, but next day managed to find at least 8 in a remote vegetated wadi after hiking over a steep ridge and descending.
Paraguay 2025 was an awesome trip, with 417 birds, 28 mammals and a host of other wildlife!
We had such a blast that the trip report required 93 pages!
I can absolutely recommend Paraguay as a fantastic birding destination!
https://t.co/zHhGZ0mjMB
@NeoBirdCons
Saunders’s Gull, Yangkou, Rudong Provence, China, May 2011.Whilst out on the mudflats scanning for Shorebirds I noticed a small group of these stunning Gulls fly in close and drop down right in front of me just as the incoming tide was about to push me back to the sea wall
I initially missed notifications about Common Scoters heading inland last night, so didn't start listening until 21:30!
A flock heard over the house at 21:40 convinced me to head up to Soil Hill, but after an hour I only managed a single flock of 6 birds!
#SoilHillBirding