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Brownsea Islander & Ranger @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social ⛵️ Wildlife geek 🤓 Ecopsychology practitioner 🍂 Collector of stones and feathers 🪨🪶 @greenfeatherwb.bsky.social 🍃 https://ifyouveeverlivedonanisland.wordpress.com/ ✨️
A murky start but busy in the reedbed with bh gulls, Cettis and my first reed bunting of the year. Couldn't see much on the lagoon. Back at the Villa coal tit and blue tit having territorial battles... #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
My first Brownsea blackcap of the year singing near the Vinery this morning. No sign of Forsters but 2 Sandwich tern, plenty of bh and med gulls and a couple of common gulls nice to see #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
Worth getting up early for... first breeding bird survey of the year and what a morning for it! Songsters included treecreeper, nuthatch, siskin, stock dove, plus plenty of blue tit, great tit, chaffinch and robin. Also GS woodpecker drumming. Lovely! #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Forsters tern briefly popped into the lagoon just now and then vanished... good to see though! #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
No Forsters tern spotted on the lagoon today but plenty of other characters to watch out for #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
Fairly distant but good views of the 10 glossy ibis at Wareham Common today, plus two Egyptian geese and a single distant lapwing. Herring, med and black-headed gulls very busy. Water levels still very high! #WarehamCommon @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
Going through more pics from #LytchettFields yesterday and had to share... never realised how grumpy greenfinches look from the front 😅💚
Good to meet you too! Ah lovely... good spot! Thanks for the tip on the adders 😊
Lytchett Fields today... basking adders, marsh harrier, spot red, amongst many other lovely things. Worth wading through the almost-over-welly-depth Watery Lane for! #LytchettFields @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
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Glorious views of WTE pair G463 and G466 right overhead, gracefully soaring, and calling loudly. Worth getting a bad neck for 😅 #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Ham Common Lookout this afternoon... Dartford warbler calling, plenty of greenfinch, vocal crows, close pass by red kite and huge flocks of gull gathering as the tide fell #HamCommonLookout
A brilliant busy day at #UptonHouse yesterday and a gorgeous Brownsea morning today... Cettis singing in reedbed, grey wagtail along boardwalk, bh gulls in full voice and checking out nesting islands, and sounds of water vole along the diagonal path #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Looking for things to do on a rainy half term day? I'll be heading over to #UptonCountryPark today with a Brownsea stand for this brilliant wildlife event... come and say hi! 😆 #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Frogspawn appearing overnight, geese getting bolshy, wood ants doing renovations and primroses starting to show. Despite the rain, in the patches of sun things are starting to stir... ✨️🌀🩵🍃 #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Wow... I love him! 🥷🥰
What a dude! Nice spot 😄
What a day for waders! Huge numbers of blackwit (c1500) and dunlin (c800). Spectacular murmurations from both. Plus shelduck really liking the new tern islands @bsky.app won't let me share vids... sadly! #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
And I was off... just goes to show I should NEVER leave the island 😅 Looks like a fab time had by all ✨️
Tern islands time! The reserves team came over to Brownsea today to help us start on the annual weeding and re-gravelling of the lagoon nesting islands. A chilly and very muddy but productive day 😃 #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Huge flocks of blackwit on the lagoon today... perfectly timed for the first @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social winter members day! #WildBrownsea
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Horizontal rain hammering in through the window, shaking hide, restless birds and waves on the lagoon... great day for a bird count! 😃😅 #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
'Excuse me human, I'd like to stop you and remind you it's #RedSquirrelAppreciationDay today....
Thankyou for listening!'
#WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
It seems the wind has pushed everything to the eastern end of the lagoon... at least 400 blackwit all huddled outside the Lookout... great views! #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
Big flocks of waders on the lagoon at the moment... a few hundred blackwit, avocet and plenty of teal, wigeon and Brent geese visiting... busy! #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
My tawny has been right outside my window too... they are good company when sleep evades us 🙏 #FirstBirdOfMYDay
A bit of extreme fence removal on the north shore today... in freezing winds but glorious sunshine. Removing rusted old fencing in order to create new protective enclosures for shrubby seablite growing on the shoreline #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Another day of frozen lagoon. Frost remained on the boardwalk and beaches all day, lakes frozen solid too. Very little on the lagoon, mixed flocks of tits, gold/fire crest and others busy in the woods #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
A gorgeous chilly day @rspb.bsky.social Arne... large numbers of teal, wigeon, shelduck, Brent geese. Distant lapwing, merlin and marsh harrier, flocks of redwing and goldfinch... all in all a good day! ❄️✨️