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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

To light at Berry Head NNR (SX94194-56081) VC3 overnight 15th - 16th with @roywilliams.bsky.social 2 Small Mottled Willow, White Point, Dark Sword Grass, Striped Hawk-moth and rare immigrant Marbled Clover, last recorded in Devon in 1952. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #TeamMoth

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Bill Coulson @devonshirenature.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Small Blues Cupido minimus, at least six seen this afternoon in the quarry at Berry Head. Nearly all were seen on the hill leading down into the quarry.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Common Whitethroat in full song at Berry Head this evening. @UKBirding

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Reeling GHWarbler 200m south of memorial car park, in scrub between footpath and Ley @DevonBirds #UKBirding

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Green-winged orchid on the Dorset coast at the weekend. The colours are intense! @ukorchids.bsky.social #orchids

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Male Pied Flycatcher on Dartmoor, checking a potential nest site and establishing a territory before the females arrive later this month. #ukbirding

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Migrant Lepidoptera (GB & Ireland) @migrantmothuk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Thanks to the 300 or so who have followed this account so far. There's still several thousand following the Twitter account so please spread the word about the benefits of Bluesky. #adfree #muskfree #migrantmothuk #teammoth #mothsmatter

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Dog sitting for 3 weeks has its benefits! Walking the dog at Bantham 11.30 this morning and found a Kentish Plover on the tideline of the main beach. Constantly flushed by surfers and walkers it didn’t hang around on a rising tide. No pic so a cute dog snap will have to do 😜

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Mike Langman @clennonvalley.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Out and about today in #SouthDevon first Coleton Fishacre. Then Broadsands to put seed down for the Cirl Buntings. Managed to find Yellow-browed Warblers at both sites! Below left Broadsands bird and right Pudcombe Cove at Coleton Fishacre both in willow scrub.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Red-necked Grebe still, from fisherman’s platform and another Ring Ouzel in the quarry at Berry Head this morning.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

One of the many Firecrest at Berry Head this week.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Image of today’s Red-necked Grebe at Berry Head, interesting to compare with the Portland bird.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

Red-necked Grebe just off the fisherman’s platform at Berry Head quarry first light.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Short seawatch at Berry Head early am: 5 Balearic, 1 Arctic Skua, 1 ad.Little Gull, 14 Med Gull, single Common Tern and hundreds of Kittiwake & Auks. Later in the quarry 5 Firecrest & 100+ Redwing overhead.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Glad we went, cracking bird, performed perfectly.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

11.45am Single Whooper Swan Broadsands beach, Paignton 50m from the shoreline.

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Migrant Lepidoptera (GB & Ireland) @migrantmothuk.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Crimson Speckled (U. pulchella) observed by day on Tresco, Isles of Scilly on 16/10. R. Dryden per B. Dawson.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

1.30pm YBW still Berry Head quarry.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

Berry Head: YBW & 2 Ring Ouzel in the quarry, 30+ Redwing overhead (rain stopped play).

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Berry Head 2.45pm Ring Ouzel in the quarry feeding on rose hips.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Berry Head quarry this am, 15+ Chiff, 5 B/cap, Garden Warbler and my first Firecrest of the autumn.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Berry Head around the headlands early afternoon, 7 Wheatear and 1st w Common Redstart.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Great to catch up with @bikingbirder.bsky.social at Portland today the Western Subalpine Warbler was a nice bonus.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Just a Greenfinch, Mansands, nr. Brixham

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 05/04/2024

Bird activity at Berry Head, Brixham concentrated in a stand of flowering hawthorn at the back of the quarry, 8 or 9 Willow W, 10+ Chiff, 4 B/cap, a single House Martin overhead.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 30/03/2024

Happy days, just added Cormorant to the garden list 👍

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 28/03/2024

Alpine Swift in off the sea over Shoalstone Shelter, Brixham, 11.20am for 5mins before heading inland over the town.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Yellow Brain fungus on Dartmoor today.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 21/03/2024

8 Sand Martin Exminster Marshes, Devon this am, high over middle carpark.

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Bill MacBirding @billmacbirding.bsky.social · 06/03/2024

First post on this platform, has to be a big one 😜 Griffon Vulture high in the mountains of Spain.

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