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Little Marlow regular and long weekends in North Wales, still discovering this and other wonderful places.

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Caught up with the local star attraction the first day, having a brief wash before being spooked.

Long Nanny was a beautiful spot and always great to see Little Terns.

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Just had a week in Northumberland, best bird for me was this Artic Skua on Holy Island ambushing Sandwich Terns. The same or another seen 3 days later at Bamburgh.

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Pied Flycatcher from a fabulous morning in a Welsh woodland.

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@gninwoDeoJ @DorsetWildlife Wow, somehow missed this on my feed and then saw it in the BirdGuides review, absolutely awesome.

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Thanks to the Big Bucks Birding weekend and a Wheatear 200 yds from the patch boundary, I picked up a couple of Nightingale phrases. Thankfully it sang properly once Adam and Jim arrived but went quiet just after noon.

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I don’t get many patch ticks these days, so delighted with @simonsbirds Nightingale find this morning at #LMGP As far as I know it’s a full fat site tick to boot.

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American Golden Plover showing nicely from the Wetlands hide at Otmoor this evening.

Also 2 Cuckoo, 2 Hobby and an unexpected Whimbrel.

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Cracking Lesser Scaup at College Lake, a first for Bucks.

A nice boost to my county list, following a Slavonian Grebe in Feb and a Goshawk in March.

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@gninwoDeoJ Super cool, wishing you a very happy life together.

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@AxeBirder Superb job and the RNG looks very happy about it all. What a bird !

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Spent a very enjoyable day at Waddesdon Manor watching my first Bucks Snow Bunting.

Showed superbly to a surprisingly small crowd, many thanks to Rob Cadd for refinding it and putting me on it.

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Barred Warbler from Wednesday at South Landing, first bird watched alongside the Oriole Birding group before they found the big one at Bempton.

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Baird’s Sandpiper at Rutland was a nice little treat on the way home from Yorkshire.

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@alanstevens61 Cheers mate, I certainly will. I have dreamt about this for the last 10 years.

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Absolutely unbelievable scenes at Bempton this evening ❤️

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@HasanAlFarhan2 @wirralbirdclub @CAWOSBirding @CheshireWT Excellent to see a lifer so well. I’ve never quite coincided with them up in that area.

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@RSPBConwy Little Stint at S end of deep lagoon from Vardre viewpoint

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Shetland Wren and Puffin from Sumburgh Head.

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Great Skua from the Noss boat with Shetland Nature and the excellent @Theodec97 guiding for the week.

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@ForthHazera @bedfordhospital Hope it all goes well 🤞

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White Fronted Goose at RSPB Cors Ddyga, just to the S of the path 200 yds West of car park.