Reposted by Virginia FairchildRob Rackliffe @robrackliffe.bsky.social · 25/05/2025A very nice start to our Alaskan adventure! Barrow’s Goldeneye, Harlequin Ducks, American Dipper plus flocks of 50+ Red-necked Phalarope in breeding plumage and Blackpoll Warblers! 0141
Reposted by Virginia FairchildRob Rackliffe @robrackliffe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Walmer Beach - winter plum Black-throated Diver on sea this afternoon plus 2 RT Diver. Earlier 8 Barn Swallow N plus 2 Redpoll, 4 Siskin and 2 Firecrests in bushes with @a1virginia.bsky.social 0131
Reposted by Virginia FairchildRob Rackliffe @robrackliffe.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Much better visibility this morning! Black-throated Diver N, Woodcock in off sea, 2 Teal, 4 C Scoter, Pintail, 6 Dunlin, Med Gull and Ringed Plover plus a 9 Brent Geese .. mostly N 0111
Reposted by Virginia FairchildRob Rackliffe @robrackliffe.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Today we managed to catch up with this LITTLE AUK on the sea approximately 100 yards outside of Ramsgate Harbour mouth. Present earlier in the day and likely to have been the bird found by J Carnell et al at N Foreland. It flapped its small wings and then flew S towards Pegwell Bay. 0203
Reposted by Virginia FairchildRob Rackliffe @robrackliffe.bsky.social · 23/11/2024Walmer Beach 8am-1pm 1 Sooty Shearwater, 1w Yellow-legged Gull,1w Caspian Gull, GN Diver, 1 BT Diver, 8 RT Diver, 4 RB Merganser, 2 Avocet, 1 Purple Sand and 10 Dunlin, Barwit, 4 C Scoter, 167 Brent Geese, Razorbill, 2 Guillemot 16 Kittiwake, 15 Fulmar with @a1virginia 0181
Reposted by Virginia FairchildRob Rackliffe @robrackliffe.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Very quiet from the Dungeness Seawatching Hide mid afternoon, however along the Power Station wall, at east 5 Black Redstarts catching flies! Including this smart male. 0523