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Matt Eade @matt-eade24.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Delighted to have an article in the most recently published Birding Asia magazine (No. 45), featuring our few days at the birding hotspots on Bohol, #Philippines. @emilyrichens.bsky.social

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

A wonderful day out exploring amazing grasslands with some scarce botanics (inc. Field Genitan & Marsh Fragrant Orchid), a nice bunch of seabirds, and glorious weather!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Carabus Clatratus, a Palearctic species, but rare and declining in the UK, found on a moorland/bog in NW Highlands. I'm always intrigued by beetles and delighted to come across this a few times now.

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Really lovely to see this female Three-toed Woodpecker near Murren, Bernese Alps today! After locking in on foraging sounds it suddenly appeared right beside us! A fantastic view and a new European woodpecker for me!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The bees - including this Panzer's Nomad Bee - are thoroughly enjoying my Alliums! Easily missed if you're not looking closely!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Matt and I went for a 3 flycatcher day today just for fun, starting with RB close to Inverness, then Spot and Pied in the Cairngorms. Wonderful views and a Highland tick for me having only seen RB on Shetland in Autumn.

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Great to catch up with my second Woodchat Shrike for the Highlands! Even watched it catch a lizard and proceed to carry it around in search of a suitable bush!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Ecstatic to find a pair of Wood Sandpiper and watch them display over my head this morning!! Following Grasshopper Warbler, Snipe drumming and a possible Little Gull too!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

A delightful Orange-tailed Mining Bee (Early Mining Bee) who appeared from the old drystone wall whilst I was gardening. On my fingertip for size comparison!

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Highland Dragonfly Tours @h-dragonflytours.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Join us this spring, summer, and early autumn to explore the Scottish Highlands in search of some of the most prized species of Odonata in the UK. Expect superb wildlife, stunning views, and homemade cakes! Email us info@highlanddragonflytours.com for availability. @dragonflydamselfly.bsky.social

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

A weekend spot of birding - Bonapartes and Iceland Gulls amidst the melee!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Challenging birding in the dense forest of Satchari NP 🇧🇩 but managed to find some good stuff. My highlight however was the (Western) Hoolock Gibbon, an endangered mammal I'd desperately wanted to see! When our group walked off I enjoyed watching the male join the female and her baby for a groom.

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Great view of this Russian White-fronted Goose which briefly gave us a fly past before returning to the field of Greylags and Pinkies just east of Inverness. A new one for my Highland list as only had Greenland before.

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Always delighted to share a world tick with @matt-eade24.bsky.social, as at Dornoch today we re-found the Black Scoter amidst a flotilla including Velvet & Surf scoter, King Eider, LT ducks, Scaup, Slav Grebe, Mergs, Goldeneye and Tufties.

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Brilliant views with its dolphin escort!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Always love a spot of sea watching!

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Matt Eade @matt-eade24.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Operation Needletail turned into Needletail success after only 15 minutes in the field! Plucked on Helmsdale as a likely location and at 0740 the White-throated Needletail was spotted by @emilyrichens.bsky.social and spent 9-mins with us before heading south! BOOM #BirdingScotland

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Matt Eade @matt-eade24.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

A walk up Tom A Choinnich (Glen Affric) with @emilyrichens.bsky.social & Tommy Saunders gave stunning panoramic views, 15 Ptarmigans, 3 Ring Ouzels and most surprisingly, 3 Twite. Superb! Lots of bird ringing in our garden today too 😄. #BirdingScotland

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Last month we moved house and these are our new neighbours!! Also recently had our first White-tailed Eagle over the garden and a cracking sighting of a Barn Owl from the sofa! @matt-eade24.bsky.social

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

A driver I met in Tana, Madagascar 1yr ago promised me bird stamps he’d collected. He later passed them to my friend who travelled there - and now I’m finally in possession of these beautiful artworks!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

A day trip on the Ullapool-Stornoway ferry last wknd with @matt-eade24.bsky.social & Matt Broadbent; glassy conditions meant cetaceans were easily spotted with lunge-feeding Minkes stealing attention from the deck. A single Leach's made an appearance near Priest Island as well as G & Arctic Skua.

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Matt Eade @matt-eade24.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Two Lempke’s Gold Spot were this morning’s highlight from Beauly, amongst a huge catch in our MV! #UKMoths #TeamMoth @emilyrichens.bsky.social

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Great to find Field Gentian (Gentianella campestris) in Sutherland today! I’ve seen plenty on the continent but they are scarce in Britain due to our overgrazed and mismanaged grasslands. Let’s hope this one survives to seed this year. #wildflowers #britishwildlife #botany #scottishflora

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Enjoyed another afternoon with White-faced Darters. They’re so skittish but after a while lying on the ground I befriended this individual who seemed to enjoy the limelight, even tucking into dinner in front of my lens! Also found nationally scarce Bee Robberfly (Laphria flava) - an added bonus!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Female Adder found on my hike over a bog, not necessarily the place I’d expect to see one!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Lovely day spent hunting down rare orchids and Odonata with several new species for me inc Coralroot and Small White Orchids, White-faced Darter and Northern Emerald. Fantastic day in the pinewoods and bogs! @matt-eade24.bsky.social @dragonflydamselfly.bsky.social @cairngormsnews.bsky.social

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Always good to explore ‘new’ places on our doorstep! Lovely warm afternoon walk in a secluded pinewood, what’s not to like? @matt-eade24.bsky.social

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Why is this not a crime? Appalling and upsetting to see road verges strimmed to the ground. Beautiful species-rich grassland destroyed at its peak. Yet, just up the road is a verge left aside for nature, supporting @mariecurieuk.bsky.social What is the absurd reason behind this @highland.gov.uk ?

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

You can go out searching all you like, but sometimes wildlife comes to you! We had the pleasure of this stunning Azure Hawker yesterday, an uncommon species found in the Highlands. @matt-eade24.bsky.social

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

A cracking week reminding me how lucky I am; there aren’t many places you can see Osprey, Black-throated Divers and Hen Harrier in the same view! And today saw my first Black-throated Diver chicks (tiny black fluffballs!) and my second ever pair of Wood Sands in Scotland 😄 #birdingscotland #birds

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Always a joy to hear a Wood Warbler belting out its song! This one was very obliging for photos (and patient considering my inability to get the exposure right & manual focus) #birdingscotland #birds

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Brilliant to see a Pearl-bordered Fritillary near Inverlael en route up to Beinn Dearg yesterday! They’re a BAP priority species and definitely worth looking out for!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Smashing Ptarmigan views up Beinn Dearg today! 😍

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Great Goldie sightings today - both Plover and Eagle! 😅

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Quite literally stumbled across this otter today!! Think we were both as surprised as each other! Amazes me how they manage to vanish so easily, even more so considering this was an enclosed waterway up on top of a hill…

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Beinn Eighe always delivers fantastic views, but hiking with Calum Urquhart always means investigating bryophytes - this time a rare liverwort called Northern Prongwort only found on this mountain massif!!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Early mornings are definitely worthwhile for these views of lekking Black Grouse; the females were suitably impressed!! Also saw my first Dunlin, Orange-tip and Comma Butterflies of the year! @matt-eade24.bsky.social #birdingscotland

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Wonderful views of my first Grasshopper Warbler this year singing its chest out! Also first Green Hairstreak on the wing and a very obliging Green Tiger Beetle allowed for a photo. #birdingscotland

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Chuffed with this find! A freshly emerged Emperor moth! My first in to the UK!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Perfect weekend with my best friend and now husband-to-be! 🥰

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I’ve learnt something new about fungi - well, that this one isn’t one, but a lichen… At first I thought waxcap, but I believe this is Lichenomphalia umbellifera, a species which associates with a green alga amongst moss and decaying conifer wood. Found in montane areas in N America and Europe.

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

A great day began with Rannoch Sprawler (a Red List species only found in a handful of sites including here near Glen Affric) followed by displaying Sparrowhawks, hundreds of migrating Pinkies, wonderful views of a hunting fox, and my first Swallows of 2025!!

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Loved watching these Purple Sandpjpers jostling on the rocks as the tide encroached (I got a soggy foot too); clearly their hierarchy forced one off their island to swim to shore!! #birdingscotland

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Lovely to share the day with my parents too 🥰

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

They may be LBJs but I love this trio of Corn Buntings, a bird which has experienced huge declines over recent decades. Happily they are doing well in areas including Aberdeenshire. #birdingscotland

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Matt Eade @matt-eade24.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

A cracking view of an Otter this morning at North Kessock.

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Matt Eade @matt-eade24.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The smart drk Ring-necked Duck showed distantly on Loch Eye this pm on our way home from work. Also present were 20+ Scaup and a drk Shoveler. #BirdingScotland @emilyrichens.bsky.social

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Emily Eade @emilyrichens.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

A fantastic view of my first Green-winged Teal after work today with @matt-eade24.bsky.social photographed just before it flew off with the Eurasian Teal (left). A lovely end to a day where I also had a fab Merlin sighting! #birdingscotland

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