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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#WingsOpenNotFlying is the main #BirdOfTheDay theme today, and it’s #SuperSeabirdSunday, so here is an almost-fledgling Gannet, white downy fluff almost all gone, trying out his or her wings at Bempton Cliffs last last month. Post #11 in this #Gannets thread. #Birds #Photography #UKWildlife #ECK 🌿

A photo of an almost-fledgling Northern Gannet (Morus bassanus) sat on a cliffside nest with wings held wide open. The bird is facing towards the rocky cliff and so has their back, and their left side, towards us. The left wing partly obscures the adult Gannet, snoozing on the edge of the nest platform. Gannets are large seabirds, the adults are mostly white in colour but have black wingtips, and yellowish-brown colouration on the tops of their heads which extends down the upper parts of the backs and sides of their necks. The chicks start off with a covering of white, fluffy down, but the one in this photo has little of that left - the head is well covered, as are the lower flanks, by the base of the tail, and there are few small patches on the wings. Elsewhere, the bird is covered with dark blackish-grey feathers, each with a small whitish spot or streak at its tip. The long, pointed beak, the eyes, the short legs and webbed feet, are all blackish in colour.

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today's blog is all about a fantastic encounter with two flocks of Common Cranes yesterday over the Isle of May involving 26 birds! Check out the blog: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com Photos Bex Outram

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some beautiful stuff in here about the human-bird connection. From Atwood’s late partner Graeme Gibson who had dementia: “I no longer know their names, but then, they don’t know my name either.” #birds

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Connect2Nature 🇨🇦 @invisitech.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Connect2Nature #Birds #BirdoftheDay When I edit my photos, I often create a #Black&White version. Here's one of an Eastern Screech Owl. #Nature #Photography

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Harkthorn @harkthorn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Jackdaw sketch, in ballpoint and brush pen -3555 🎨🐡🪶 #birdArt #art

A black ballpoint pen and brush pen sketch of a jackdaw, body turned to the left of the image, head facing mostly forward

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Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Defra is gathering evidence that could shape the future policy on gamebird shooting. Have your say! Have you experienced issues such as gamebird collisions, dumped dead birds, illegal traps, suspicious raptor deaths, disturbance, damage or loss of access to land? For info, visit buff.ly/TGjrkrK

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds. Here is my contribution; a stunning European Shag on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Steph' Thorpe @stephbirdart.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Trying some paper to see if it's OK, so here is a work on progress. Long-tailed Shrike A4

Set of watercolour and graphite illustrations on a White A4 paper. They are of a Long-tailed Shrike which is a medium sized bird with a small hooked bill and a long tail. It is pale underneath with the lower flanks orange buff, and grey head and upper back fading into buff orange on the lower back and rump. It has darker wings and a black bandit mask.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Wonderful news alert! 🎉 One of the UK’s rarest breeding birds has had a remarkable year. Montagu’s Harriers have successfully bred in the UK for the second year running, raising six youngsters from two nests at a secret farmland location. www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

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RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

BIG NEWS for some of Scotland's most iconic seabird islands 📣 Bass Rock and Craigleith are now part of our nature reserve network! Together with @seabirdcentre.bsky.social we’re taking an exciting step forward to deliver a more secure future for seabirds. youtube.com/watch?v=WHxVpCh5E-Q

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Amazing news as RSPB adds iconic seabird islands to its reserves

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UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

2026 marks the 40th Anniversary of the SMP! To celebrate, we'd like to hear your stories and memories, and see any photos of seabird monitoring over the past four decades. If you have something to share, email us at smp@bto.org #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Image of a person monitoring seabirds on a rocky and grassy cliff face

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Adrift Lab (Marine Science) @adriftlab.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

This hand-painted #shearwater was sent to an #AdriftLab team member with a note about #kindness and #gratitude. A reminder that whatever your talent, it has the greatest impact when used for good. Who knows, your small gesture might just be the kindness that someone desperately needed 💙

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Great news as our first Guillemot chick has hatched on the Isle of May. Guillemots lay just a single egg and incubate under their feet like this individual- you can see the bulge of the egg under its stomach as it incubates

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A stunning adult Roseate Tern on the isle of May this morning. They don’t breed here or in Scotland with their only U.K. colony on Coquet Island, Northumberland

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Fantastic news as our Arctic Terns are back on the Isle of May and breeding this year as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com

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Phil Woollen @philwoollen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

For the 1st time since we moved here in 2016 we have Starlings nesting in a box on our garage walk installed specifically for Little Owl but I don’t begrudge them that. They’re in their 2nd brood. I’ve ringed a few of the juvs but caught the adult male today #birdringing #birdbanding

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Great news! We have our Arctic Terns back this year on the Isle of May (they didn’t nest last year). These birds have spent their winter in the Antarctic and are now here nesting. You might need a hat!

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Ron McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Another distraction as we survey bitterns from tower hide at Strumpshaw. Swallows collecting nesting material in the hide where they have built a nest. #birds #norfolk

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share videos, photos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution, a pair of Guillemots on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

A glorious pair of Razorbills on the Isle of May

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. To get us started here are some fearless Arctic Terns attacking as I move through their colony #SuperSeabirdSunday

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UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Last week, we looked at separating Black-headed and Mediterranean gulls. Can you use that post to work out who's who in their non-breeding plumage below?! #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here are some Puffins from the Isle of May to get us started #SuperSeabirdSunday

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UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Quite a few of the seabirds covered by the SMP share similar features! We previously covered Shags and Cormorants, and today we're looking at distinguishing Mediterranean Gulls from Black-headed Gulls #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is my contribution #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

A Guillemot off the sea-wall at Musselburgh #SuperSeaBirdSunday

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Thea Nicholls @thattnicholls.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Please sign and share the @seabirdcentre.bsky.social letter asking for the Berwick Bank Offshore Windfarm to be cancelled. It’s going to be lethal for birds - the numbers are frightening. Find it here tinyurl.com/44k5vxfc Thank you #birds #seabirds #scottishwildlife

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Take Action Now - Cancel Berwick Bank

Please take action now - tell SSE and the First Minister to Cancel Berwick Bank.

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Chris Avanti @chris4nature.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Noticing #Nature with this lost or unwell or injured Razorbill in the Marina at North Shields #Seabirds Thoughts on its reason to be here welcome?

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UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Today, October 31st, is the final day to submit your breeding seabird data to the Seabird Monitoring Programme! #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Do you like using social media? 🗣️ Are you a bit of a TikTok Queen (or King)? 🤳 Do you want to help support #seabirds? 🕊️ We are still looking for someone to run our Social Media! You will have creative content control + an assistant to help 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 A great role for your CV & future jobs in conservation 💚

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Brilliant piece debunking the nonsense claim in the Daily Telegraph. But it’s dangerous nonsense, polarising attitudes & whipping up prejudice. The DTelegraph is such a shit newspaper. Oh, and the photo? Staged - captive eagle, already-dead lamb.

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Nutcracker @nucifraga.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Haven't taken any #SuperSeabirdSunday pics this week, so it's an old pic today. A bit of a sad one, to remind and warn us all, that with the way #globalwarming is going, lots of other seabirds will soon only be seen like this, in museums 😢

Great Auk, Hancock Museum.
The auk with a white head (Welsh, "pen gwyn").

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Elaine Freezer @elainefreezer.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

For #SuperSeabirdSunday and #Auktober here's a photo of Guillemots at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. If you look closely you can just about see there is an egg being tucked under one adult Guillemot (centre left) and a chick being sheltered by the one with the yellow tag 🥰🥚🐣🐥

A photo of Guillemots at RSPB Bempton Cliffs. There is an egg being tucked under one adult Guillemot (centre left) and a chick being sheltered by the one with the yellow tag

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines like this young Puffling out of it’s underground burrow stretching its wings #SuperSeabirdSunday

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RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

The First Minister must stop this project. There's still time to stop Berwick Bank...but only if we make ourselves heard. Add your voice and tell them. Scotland can lead on renewables without sacrificing its seabirds. 👇 www.seabird.org/cancel-berwi...

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Take Action Now - Cancel Berwick Bank

Please take action now - tell SSE and the First Minister to Cancel Berwick Bank.

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RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Berwick Bank could kill more birds than any other windfarm on Earth, devastating colonies of Gannets, Puffins and Kittiwakes off Scotland’s coast. 🚨 We support renewables, but not at catastrophic cost to seabirds already in crisis. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3JE...

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Add your voice to a campaign to stop an offshore wind farm that threatens seabirds

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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

It’s almost crunch time. Next week Peers will vote for or against swift bricks. To help swifts, please email steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk & james.cleverly.mp@parliament.uk who are crucial to the decision. Ask them to SAVE OUR SWIFTS ‼️put SWIFT BRICKS in the subject line 🙏

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Another day, another #auk. The Black guillemot (Cepphus grylle) is born black+fluffy, with several years before developing its bright red feet fully. These are associated with sexual maturity @2-4 y/o 👣 Black guillies are widespread in the N.hemisphere and are arguably the best #seabird 😉 #Auktober

A small, black, fluffy nestling Black guillemot. Photo: Debs Allbrook.

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines like these Auks; Guillemot & Razorbill together. What do you have? #SuperSeabirdSunday

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UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Gannets go through quite the plumage change, being primarily black as juveniles and white as adults! Have a scroll through this thread to see how their plumage changes on the way to adulthood! #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The Secretary of State calls this a win-win for development and nature. It’s not. It’s a legislative shambles: no clarity for investors, no confidence for business and no security for nature. You don’t build growth on chaos. (2/3)

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

The Government has tabled 67 last-minute amendments to the Planning & Infrastructure Bill.‼️ Rushed through with little scrutiny, it’s a shambolic way to reform the planning system. It creates confusion, sidelines science and leaves nature dangerously exposed. (1/3)

A Wren stands upright on a mossy branch, beak open in full song, small but defiant. Against a soft golden blur, it seems to speak out for nature itself: a clear voice cutting through the noise, refusing to be ignored.

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UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Species Focus 3: The Gannet - A striking species both by looks and aerial/aquatic ability, as elegant glides quickly become dramatic plunge-dives! Keep your eyes peeled for more on them in the week! #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Continuing our #AUKTOBER theme, here's a Common guillemot (or Common murre) with its beak full 🐧🐟 These little guys are incredible freedivers - recorded diving at depths of up to 180m in pursuit of prey 🤿 They have even been spotted through the window of submarines! ⚓ #Seabirds #SuperSeabirdSunday

A Common guillemot with a large fish in its mouth. Photo: Joshua Pedley.

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. To get us started here are thousands of Puffins on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday

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diddlydog.bsky.social @diddlydog.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

A Gannet doing what he does best. #SuperSeabirdSunday

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