Rock Pipit with nesting material
Black Redstart
Black Redstart
Black Redstart
Not just the team @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social getting on with spring maintenance, a nice Black Redstart near home too. #ukbirding
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Cracking morning @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social with @philwoollen.bsky.social & my eldest. Highlights a c-ringed Stonechat (ringed on Mull🏴 Aug25), another which we caught&ringed (1 of 5 on), 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Coal Tits (scarce spring migrant at Hilbre) and much more (all on our blog) #UkBirding #Ringing
Male Northern Wheatear on sandstone rock North End of Hilbre Bird Observatory
My earliest ever #Wheatear this morning @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social - a beautiful male just returned from Africa. The wonder of migration 🌍 #UKBirding
Another lovely early spring morning @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social ... male Stonechat and Wheatear #Birdringing #Ukbirding
Our blog for another great early spring day on Hilbre Islands LNR is uploaded, click on the link to view: hilbrebirdobs.blogspot.com/2026/03/5th-march-2026.html?m=1
Stonechat
Knot & Dunlin
Male Hen Harrier
Wood pigeon
#ukbirding
Male Hen Harrier
Male Hen Harrier
Purple Sandpiper
Stonechat
Spring was in full swing @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social with all the locals back in full voice, Stonechats buzzed around the paddock fences & waders fed as the tide moved them. Great to see a male Hen Harrier come in from the North before heading West, a sadly rare bird here now. #ukbirding
So pleased to see flicks of Purple Sandpipers too, clearly not bothered about the eagles! #ornithology
Long-tailed Ducks & Waxwings, Tromsø Norway.
White-tailed Eagles Tromsø Norway recently.
BTO's Young Bird Observatory Visitors Programme opens doors for the next generation of birders www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/B...
The winter regulars greeted me @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social in the cold & damp, we were rewarded after doing a few repairs with a couple of Porpoises off the North end headed into the estuary
A recent trip to Norfolk for the @birdobscouncil.bsky.social meeting meant we birded the poor weather and caught up with the Eastern Black Redstart eventually, Cranes in the mist and a nice Hume’s warbler (honestly!)
We’re recruiting at Spurn Bird Observatory 🐦
Head Little Tern Warden + 2 Assistant roles available at Beacon Ponds this season.
Details here 👉 spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news
Latest developments in this crucial story summarised: eastangliabylines.co.uk/opinion/a-su...
Please share!
Slightly random one...
Wondering if there might be a Manchester/Salford birder who might be thinking of heading over for the Speke grackle tomorrow (maybe the roost?), please drop us a DM 👍 (...and if you've got a spare pair of bins, even better 😉😂).
Thanks v much, Mark
#manchesterbirders
#grackle
The long overdue 2024 BOC News is now published online at
tinyurl.com/BOC-News-2024
Some amazing images and stories from around the Observatory network and a memoriam for the late Steve Wing.
Firecrest catching insects
Firecrest finding insects
Firecrest caught insects
Firecrest
More Firecrests because they’re boss! #ukbirding
Eyebrowed Thrush
Eyebrowed Thrush
Eyebrowed Thrush
Richard working from his field sketches
Finally rewarded after putting in the hours when this beautiful Eyebrowed Thrush showed for us on St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly recently. #ukbirding
Red-backed Shrike
Brambling
Merlin
Greenshank
Red-backed Shrike, Brambling arriving, Merlin and a solitary Greenshank waits for me each autumn in Covean, St Agnes. #ukbirding
Black Redstart
Black Redstart
Black Redstart
Black Redstart
Sitting with a Black Redstart in Porth Killier St Agnes #ukbirding
Firecrest
Firecrest
Firecrest
Firecrest
There were reasonable numbers of Firecrests on St Agnes this October #ukbirding
Spotted Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly #ukbirding
Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove with Turtle Dove
Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove on St Agnes Isles of Scilly recently #ukbirding
We’re hiring a doctoral researcher in the area of migration ecology.
The work will focus on the question of how and when migratory songbirds learn where their home is using #Motus.
Part of the Cluster of Excellence NaviSense and linked with @sfb1372.bsky.social
uol.de/job788en
#ornithology
Buff-bellied pipit
Buff-bellied pipit
Lapland Bunting
Lapland Bunting
Buff-bellied (American) Pipit & Lapland Bunting were nice on St Agnes recently #ukbirding
So nice to see a Turtle Dove on St Agnes today, the only place I’ve caught up with them in recent years #ukbirding
Hoopoe, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly
Hoopoe, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly
Hoopoe, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly
Hoopoe, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly
A lovely Hoopoe, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly
Wilson’s phalarope, St Mary’s Isles of Scilly
Wilson’s phalarope, St Mary’s Isles of Scilly
Richard’s Pipit, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly
Richard’s Pipit, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly
Made up to see my third phalarope species (Wilson’s) of the Autumn followed by a cracking Richard’s Pipit
