Jack Pettit

19 years old - obsessed birder/twitcher/photographer. BOU life list: 3️⃣2️⃣4️⃣ Current volunteer at Spurn Bird Observatory

[Jack Pettit @rossa599]

I JUST FOUND A LONG-TAILED SKUA AT @BeddingtonFarm !!! I couldn’t believe it when I nearly stood on it hidden in the grass 😭 Looks exhausted but not injured - now been taken into care 🙏🙏 #birding #BirdsSeenIn2024

[Harry's Birds & Wildlife @BirdingHawkeye]

After trawling through countless Azure Damselflies here last year and through this spring, over the moon to finally find the first Variable Damselfly for Spurn in the form of a male in Corner Field this morning. A new Yorkshire site! #Spurndamselflies @spurnbirdobs

[Jack Pettit @rossa599]

@GBirding Hi mate, I’m pretty sure the Desert Larks you’ve had are Bar-tailed Larks instead? They look very pale overall, very whitish underneath, small-billed and I believe I can see a black tip to the tail.

[Jack Pettit @rossa599]

Great Reed Warbler trapped and ringed at Sykes Field, Spurn! @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK

[Patchwork Challenge @PatchBirding]

THE PATCHWORK CHALLENGE 2025 ROUND-UP IS NOW LIVE ON THE BLOG!

Go head over and see where you finished #PWC2025 and sign up for #PWC2026!

The link for the blog is: https://t.co/b18c1Hqd0D

[Jack Pettit @rossa599]

Got maybe my best ever photo of a Firecrest at Beddington a few days ago…

[Jack Pettit @rossa599]

Really nice to see this Dartford Warbler at Beddington Farmlands over the weekend. It took ages to get it to sit still though, and my hands were freezing… 🥶

[Jack Pettit @rossa599]

Super happy to see this Black-faced Bunting after an extremely quiet autumn so far at Spurn, makes up for all the days counting Robins and Dunnocks!! 😂

[Jack Pettit @rossa599]

So happy to finally clinch this Hume’s Warbler at Spurn today! My first BB rarity find, still buzzing 😅😅

[Jack Pettit @rossa599]

Small consolation for dipping the Needletail at Scarborough was this 1st-winter Caspian Gull north past Scalby Mills at 17:00

[Jack Pettit @rossa599]

Thought my day couldn’t get any better when I picked up a Richard’s Pipit flying south at Spurn but a few hours later I had a buzzy wagtail go south over Chalk Bank! Some discussion as to whether it’s a Citrine or an Eastern Yellow Wag, recording attached below: #spurnbirds

[Zach Pannifer @Zach_Pannifer]

Very happy to see this dark morph juvenile Honey Buzzard fly SW over my @BeddingtonFarm patch yesterday. First confirmed record for the site since 2016. Mostly living and working in Yorkshire now so very lucky to have a patch tick during my limited time here.

[Sam O'Donnell @Elliott81758817]

Migfest 2025 was really fun! Red-necked Phalarope (lifer!), Cranes, Curlew Sandpipers, Garganey, Pink feet, Osprey, Arctic Skua, Tree Pipit, Redstarts, Crossbill and 000s of Meadow Pipit the highlights! Was fantastic to have such amazing company as well!

[Ravi @NorthKentBirder]

Great migfest! I won Martin Garner Spurn Young Birder!!! - massive thank you to @spurnbirdobs & @SwarovskiOptik! Made a lot better with loads of great people and friends. Best bird of the weekend was definitely RN Phalarope. Both digiscopes. @Elliott81758817 @DavidWalsh22 @_BTO

[Jack Pettit @rossa599]

Absolutely insane views of this Red-necked Phalarope at @spurnbirdobs this afternoon. Lovely to get to share it with so many young birders and what a way to end off Migfest!!

[Jack Pettit @rossa599]

Super happy to see this Wryneck at the Point at @spurnbirdobs today, I’ve only ever seen a few before and never this close 😅😍 #spurnbirds

[Harry's Birds & Wildlife @BirdingHawkeye]

Curious for 2nd opinions on this male Small White butterfly from The Warren at Spurn this morning. Noticeably curved wing margin, with subtle black veins running parallel with the edges of the discal spot, bringing Southern Small White/"mannii" to mind. @savebutterflies

[Harry's Birds & Wildlife @BirdingHawkeye]

A cloudy lunchbreak walk of Kilnsea and The Triangle was quickly brightened by finding this Wood Warbler in the treetops of Kilnsea Churchyard, eventually showing well in some stunning afternoon sunshine by the Crown and Anchor car park. #Spurnbirds @spurnbirdobs @RareBirdAlertUK

[Tate Lloyd @Tatelloyd76]

It’s been a fantastic season for colour-ring reading here at Spurn so far. The tallies between myself and @rossa599 are:
54 Sandwich tern
50 Little tern
1 Common tern
4 Redshank
3 Med gull
2 BHG
1 each of Dunlin, Knot, GBBG, Common gull and Little Egret

[BirdGuides @BirdGuides]

Tate Lloyd wins today's Photo of the Week for his artistic take on a group of Bar-tailed Godwits: https://t.co/f48T0Eteeq

[Tate Lloyd @Tatelloyd76]

This small group of Bar-tailed godwits flew in to Beacon ponds late evening in some beautiful light