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Matt Doyle

@elyod95.bsky.social
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Birder. Somerset.

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Matt Doyle @elyod95.bsky.social · 5h
Day 2 of Shetland Trip with @phelpstoby.bsky.social. Spent the day birding the mainland. Birds included catching up with the long staying k.eider and an olive-backed pipit. Though rather enjoyed seeing whinchat, redstart, and pied fly too. Yell-ward bound now.
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Matt Doyle @elyod95.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great start to @phelpstoby.bsky.social and my trip up north. Birding the willow scrub at Forvie NNR in Aberdeenshire produced RBFly, barred warbler, little bunting, and 3 YBW!
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James Spencer @ornid.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
When you manage to get most of your #ornithology team in one photo. 24/32 present in this one for team survey training and should have been 26 but for a wrong turn and nobody to take the picture! Very proud to lead these guys.
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Matt Doyle @elyod95.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Completed the 'seven-Heron slam' this evening (coined by @andyfmears.bsky.social). A beaky septet of Bittern, Grey, Purple, and Night Herons, Little, Cattle, and Great White Egrets - with a side of Fudge and Red-footed Falcon too! #somersetbirding www.birdguides.com/articles/gen...)
Drake Ferrugenous Duck on 'Godwins', just beyond the railway bridge at Ham WallStill from a video of the 2cy female Red-footed Falcon giving superb views at Ham Wall this evening
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Matt Doyle @elyod95.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Pleased to re-find the female red-footed falcon hawking south of RSPB Ham Wall. Best viewed from the southeast corner of Walton's reedbed loop looking towards Durston's Peatworks (or the opposite). Lots of four-spotted chasers too. #somersetbirding
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Matt Doyle @elyod95.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Firecrest outside my partners house and a Dartford Warbler along the undercliff in Barton on Sea this weekend
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Matt Doyle @elyod95.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Pleasant walk at Ham Wall on my lunch break today with both Yellow-browed Warblers still present with a melee Long-tailed Tits, Chiffchaffs, and Goldcrests. It's worth continuing past the warblers as the roving Finch flock frequents the far end of the reserve #SomersetBirding
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Paul Marshall @marshallpaul.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Have setup a feed for #SomersetBirding and a Somerset Birding Starter Pack go.bsky.app/2aVsGeM. If you're a Somerset birder and want adding to the pack let me know by replying to this message.
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Matt Doyle @elyod95.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Had a great weekend of winter birding in Pembrokeshire with @phelpstoby.bsky.social
Sub-adult male hen harrier. One of two seen.Dipper singing in FishguardWhite-rumped SandpiperWilliam Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke holding Magna Carta
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