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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 13h

Montagu's Harrier 'HV' - a long awaited update. I am sure that those of you that have been following this story realise, the news isn't good, our English hatched sat-tagged Montagu's Harrier 'HV' has sadly died in Morocco. Temperature and location data suggested the bird was dead ten days ago.

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A wonderful spectacle of the thousands of House Martins gathering on wires and on the Power Station at Dungeness early this morning I reckon 8,000+ #KentBirding

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Does anyone know if this bird is ringed? Any pics? Ta.

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A recap on the migratory journey of 'HV' - a English satelite-tagged juvenile female Montagu's Harrier. She started her journey on August 28th and on the evening of 30 Aug she roosted in the Wash, Lincolnshire.

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

HV has now reached Marakesh, Morocco. She roosted last night in a green river valley. She is going to be facing the harsh reality of proper desert soon.

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

HV made it!!!! She arrived on the Moroccan Coast late last night and roosted in the mountains, phew! Today she continued and is now nearing the High Atlas Mountains. AMAZING !

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Montagu's Harrier HV.... as scary as it gets, latest position at 1630hrs, been over the sea 3 hours, oh my, stress.... COME ON !

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Montagu's Harrier update. English female HV is now through the Pyrenees, she has added Spain to her travel list and is lining up for the daunting Mediterranean crossing... continue west and then through Gibraltar? or a sooner but longer sea crossing...

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Montagu's Harrier HV is crossing the Pyrenees this evening at 10,000ft!

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Nightjar dawn at Clopton, South Cambridgeshire.

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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Montagu's Harrier is not an easy species to protect in the UK, as the RSPB's Mark Thomas discusses in this week's episode of The BirdGuides Podcast!

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

50 years since the first and only previous record - and in the same place. Greenish Warbler caught and ringed at Buckton today. An hour ahead of the rain and on the cliff top and new in. Video by Jeff Clarke.

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

At last! Commonest rare not seen. Star bird. Pechora Pipit baby! Pic Matt Mellor.

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Couldn't get any closer! Pulp at Route du Rock, St Malo, France. Oh yeh!

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Excellent start to the ringing season at Clopton, South Cambridgeshire- 500 warblers from 6 visits with record numbers of Sedge & Reed Warblers. Willow, Grasshopper, Garden and Lesser Whitethroat increasing and first passage Redstart yesterday. @CambsBirdClub

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

A few days at Lake Neusiedl, Austria seeing my longtime friend Harry Vilkaitis. Great birding!

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Nice few hours at Buckton over the weekend with Pete Middleton, 600+ passerines in the stubbles including Lap Bunt, 130+ Corn Bunts, 100 Yellowhammer, 350 Linnet, Water Rail, Stonechat, Fieldfare, Peregrine etc.

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Great short break to the Netherlands, saw the Spectacled Eider and waterbirds galore.

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A bit of night-time ringing recently.

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Love getting recoveries, Sedge Warbler I ringed at Clopton, Cambs on 11 Aug 24 - retrapped 11 days later in France. Amazingly whilst I was at another site near Nantes (only a few km away) catching passage Sedge Warblers in a reedbed on the same day - so close!

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Family trip to the Natural History Museum today to see the Birds - brilliant & bizzare exhibition.

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Lucy Wright @lucy-wright.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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Two fieldworkers sit on a clifftop amongst the grass and wildflowers watching seabirds with a telescope and binoculars. The sun is shining, the sky is blue, the sea is shimmering turquoise, and all is good!

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Pls follow RSPB Investigations Team bsky.app/profile/rspb...

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Pallas's Warbler, Buckton Oct 2022, 2nd ever ringed here, such a beauty.

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Never forgotten, just read the words on the right. Be more Roy.

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Perfect day at @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social Little Auks, Hume's Warbler, Thrush arrivals in snow flurries, Shorelarks and productive team mtg.

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Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Update by Dan Gornall on our Yellow-browed warbler project "1) Mainland Shetland > Carmel Head, Anglesey 2) Lundy > Lower Moors, Scilly. Especially interesting southerly re-orientation from Shetland. Many thanks to the ringers & birders who reported these". 📸Reg Thorpe. @alexanderlees.bsky.social

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Nearly end game at Clopton (South Cambs), so close to 2000 birds caught and ringed since mid-July. 2024 being the first experimental autumn here, on what is a small patch of scrub on an 80m SW-leading escarpment in otherwise arable desert. Its a lovely site and seeing 52 dawns has been ace.

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steveclippo.bsky.social @steveclippo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

A few more of this year's best birds

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Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Starlings, Winchelsea

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

If people R/T politics then I am unfollowing on here, it has to be pure birds/nature

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Scott Reid @scottinscilly.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

An excellent morning down the Porth Hellick ringing lanes with a dusky warbler, two yellow-broweds, four sibes (tristis) amongst the chiffs, a water rail added some variety, and I found a Richard’s pipit whilst showing the dusky to a crowd of two! November eastern magic 🙌 #ScillyBirds 🪶

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Jonnybirder @jonnybirder.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The Hatfield Great Grey Shrike was highly mobile and always distant this morning. Good to see locally as the are sadly becoming a rare bird.......

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I was a guest on BBC Radio 4 'Rare Earth' this week, talking about raptors and their persecution www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Rare Earth - Beak and Talon - BBC Sounds

Britain's birds of prey seem to be bouncing back. Can their momentum continue?

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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Scarlet Tanager. Shelf nr Halifax. West Yorkshire. Bird was up against the light casting dark shadows and a lemon yellow "halo" around... Later got better side on view seeing more detail.

Sketchbook pages of watercolour and pencil drawings of a 1st winter male Scarlet Tanager. A large finch like bird with a lemon yellow body and black and brown wings. The brown feathers in the wings are older worn feathers being replaced by new black ones.

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Bucktonbirder @bucktonbirder.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

An interesting week! Started with catching a Woodcock at Clopton with Ed & Deurdon last Saturday, moved to twitching a Scarlet Tanager in Halifax on Monday, then the small matter of a Radio4 interview at BBC Broadcasting House with Heather on Tuesday

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