Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Interesting visitor to Weston Shore early this morning at low-tide. Preened for about half an hour before lifting high towards it's usual hunting grounds of Eling and the Lower Test area. #HampsireBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding 070
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Great finds! How fabulous to see the whole process 010
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Have I found a 2W Caspian Gull at Woolston Sewage Works? Or have i been fooled again! Not great pictures but it was only there for a few brief seconds after I spotted it and the weather was gloomy. Any thoughts greatly appreciated. 08.01.26 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 000
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 02/01/2026That's an amazing effort again in all weathers, congratulations! 110
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 20/12/20255 minute walk to see 3 Great Northern Divers crabbing by Woolston Sewage Works #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding #HampshireBirding 080
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Regular visitors along the water's edge at low-tide, Weston Shore 11.12.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 050
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 03/11/2025A trip to Lymington on the bus and train to see the male Long-tailed Duck who has been staying on Normandy Lagoon 30.10.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 0181
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Curlew enjoy a bathe followed by breakfast. Woolston Sewage Works 27.09.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding 091
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Black-tailed Godwits, flushed by dogs at Bunny Meadows and a single ringed bird further along at Warsash. Hampshire, 13.09.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 050
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Grey Phalarope at Hayling Island Oyster Beds 04.09.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 0100
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Gulls at Weston Shore 27.08.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 060
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Woolston Sewage Works 04.08.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 0100
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Black Tern on the beach at Hill Head, 30.07.25 ##HantsBirds #HantsBirding 080
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 09/06/2025What a great way to bring up the 200! Fantastic! 010
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 31/05/2025Bus and train to Fishlake Meadows in Romsey #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 0100
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Nice! I just had one trying to come in for lunch! 010
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 19/05/2025New Forest birds 16.05.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 0211
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Collared Pratincole on the stream at Farlington Marshes this afternoon. Worth the train trip and walk 😁 11.05.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding 0372
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Green-winged Orchids. Beaulieu Aerodrome 30.04.25 #orchids #HampshireWildlife 1130
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Garden critters: in amongst the predominant honey bees there many other wonderful native bees busy pollinating my garden flowers. Southampton 02.05.25 #bees #insects #HampshireWildlife #HantsWildlife 031
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 29/04/2025A sunny morning in the New Forest #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding 081
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Wheatear, Skylark and Sandwich Tern. Recent arrivals at Hook With Warsash, 24 04.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding #HampshireBirding 0111
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 21/04/2025A grey murky hour by Woolston Sewage Works this morning turned up 14 Brent, 2 Shelduck and a Whimbrel #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 092
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Still a group of Brent by Woolston Sewage Works at low-tide this morning, including a couple of ringed birds I haven't seen here recently. The feeding looked good after choppy waters yesterday. Also, a fairly frail Curlew feeding. #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding 082
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Still a group of 41 Brent geese by Woolston Sewage Works at low tide yesterday afternoon, including a few ringed ones too. 13.04.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 071
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Bus and train to Romsey to walk the canal path to Fishlake Meadows. Lots of new arrivals singing from the reeds, mostly not showing their faces though! Sedge and Reed Warblers singing away but from low in the reeds. 12.04.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding 0111
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 26/03/2025A walk to see the bees on Netley cliff yesterday. The cliff came alive in the glorious sunshine, mining bees everywhere! This in spite of the erosion the cliff has suffered recently and man's attempts to prevent it. #Bees 010
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 21/03/2025A train and bus ride to see Mediterranean Gulls in glorious spring sunshine at Hayling Oyster Beds 18.03.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding 0151
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 03/03/2025A group of 10 Brent geese remained by Woolston Sewage Works this morning as the tide came in. 4 of the group had rings, 3 of which I have recorded there in the last few weeks. 03.03.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding 040
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Queen Early Bumblebee, Bombus pratorum, visiting winter-flowering honeysuckle. Woolston, Hampshire 02.03.25 #Bees #HantsBees 030
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 02/03/2025Hairy-Footed Flower Bee, Anthophora plumipes. First of the year in garden sunshine. Woolston, Hampshire 02.03.25 #Bees #HantsBees 020
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 25/02/2025Courting Oystercatchers and feasting Brent, Woolston Sewage Works 25.02.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding 070
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Another white-ringed bird was reported. It was originally tagged in Oost-Vlaanderen in June 2014. It has previously been reported at Hayling Oyster Beds in 2019 and 2023 030
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 24/02/2025The white-ringed bird was ringed in Antwerpen 18.06.20; it has visited Cornwall, East Sussex and Portland. It was seen at Hayling Oyster Beds in March 2024 and has been to Weymouth this year already! 030
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 24/02/2025The green-ringed bird is part of a French ringing scheme, ringed in Vendee 25.06.22; last year it was spotted in East Sussex and Portland. 020
Michael Caponi @chinstrap.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Hundreds of Mediterranean Gulls have started arriving for their breeding season. These were seen at Hayling Island Oyster Beds 22.02.25 #HantsBirds ##HantsBirding #Gulls 3160
