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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For anyone interested www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/easte...
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Eastern Bonelli’s Warbler at Gibraltar Point — Graham Catley Photography
Found by Kev Wilson on September 30th and heard to call a few times in the evening I ambled down to Gib on the morning of October 1st not arriving until 09:20! With no sightings since first light and ...
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So I travel on roads in North Lincolnshire covered in thorns from farmers flailing hedges to 1m high in their attempt to destroy nature and a thorn through the side of my car tyre, only done 12000 miles, costs me £147 for new tyre as it can’t be mended: who do I bill? NFU?
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A bizarre account of people watching a bird clearly dying and eventually coming to the conclusion it was exhausted: clutching at birding straws : look much better in a breeding cattail marsh
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This legume mix field supported 3 Hen and up to 12 Marsh Harriers, 15 GWE and 17 Kestrels last winter through August: Clouded Yellows and numerous butterflies this last week: this morning it’s transformed! No hope for nature in British farmland I’m afraid
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Seems to be different species mixes but the one there seems to be good for Clouded Yellows: had at least 10 locally at the weekend in same crop fields and c50 Common Blues and odd Painted Ladies
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
60 years of ever more effective ie deadly pesticides in arable Lincolnshire: when was the last time you saw flocks of Swifts feeding on rape beetles? Exterminated
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
On September 16th 1982 I estimated a total of 250,000 Swallows roosted at Barton on Humber with 70,000 still on 29th: tonight 44 years on there was not one! With Spurn Migfest lacking Mig it is obvious we are heading for the precipice like the proverbial lemmings but 99% of Britains don’t care:
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One from 2025 www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/may-1...
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May 15th and 17th 2025 - Buff-breasted Sandpiper special days — Graham Catley Photography
On May 15th 2025 and again on 17th I was privileged to witness something that I had never seen before and realistically never expected to see, the breeding display of a Buff-breasted Sandpiper . Wit...
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Love the inquisitive sheep shot
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What exactly is in the brains of these farmers: how can I hasten the destruction of the planet and destroy any vestige of natural life? Who knows but they clearly try harder every year
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Nice adult male Mark:
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What a state the world is in
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Justice at last :
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yep saw some fine slipping and sliding with a few birders descending onto the gloop:
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What’s a shower ?
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Looks almost AI
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Forget the glorification of dictator Trump with watching his 1936 style World Cup this is what the appalling oil industry he promotes is doing to the last arctic wilderness www.instagram.com/reel/DZVLL8M...
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
1981 was a very different time: virtually no one had heard of Hudsonian Godwit let alone knew what they looked like : if it had banked and shown its underwing as it flew away I might have had a better idea before it posed at Blacktoft
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This ovi-positing Emperor was regularly being attacked by 4 spots and Black-tailed Skimmers - cannot recall such constant attention before - went on for about 5 minutes
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Just came up to check this meadow for Quail and quelle surprise: it’s all dead and also all the voles being picked up by corvids and let’s not mention the Skylark and Yellow Wag broods: it’s June : Barton has some of the worst farmers around sadly
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Over 1000 Pyramidal Orchids around the A1077 roundabout at Barton this week
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
That’s an early nest Dave
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Missed out on the great British spring migration but in hindsight I think this was a better option www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/south...
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Southern Alberta May 2026 — Graham Catley Photography
We headed back to southern Alberta again but earlier in the spring to test my theory that different migrants would be available - as it turned out my plan was only partly correct as a lot of birds onl...
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I was in the garden staring up at a bird free sky and saw what I thought was a very high Swift but bins revealed it was an even higher Hobby moving rapidly SW
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Anyone missing Grasshopper Warblers this spring so far? Also seems to be a local reduction in Chiffchaffs after a good early arrival
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We used to dream of having some Audubon’s but guess they would need a new name now! The saving of £8 and 10 shillings was about what my paper round brought in a year
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
If we push the #AMOC ocean current to collapse, experts warn that the UK will become largely unfit for agriculture. Just let that sink in. This new data calls for a new plan. It's no good working to 'net zero by 2050' devised nearly 20 years ago, before policymakers even knew of this threat.
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Sometimes auto-focus systems amaze me and at others they annoy me - this was unusually good
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Is there some irony here: sewage dumpers maybe look in Barton Haven outside their “processing” works
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Nature recovers human dereliction
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
2cy male Sparrowhawk
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
First notable Blackcap arrival locally after a scatter last week
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Outside they need to be on a lead - deadly cats -
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
On a very minor scale every time I see a farmer spraying a field or a hedge destroying flail I feel totally powerless in a world destroyed by profit, greed and plain ignorance or the science we know exists but choose to ignore
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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Pacific Golden Plovers wintering in Europe? And Slender-billed Curlews? WaderTales blog #157: wadertales.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/s... #ornithology
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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Fuerteventura March 2026 — Graham Catley Photography
Suffering from the seemingly interminable rain and cloud of the British winter we decided to head back to Fuerteventura for a week not having been since a family trip in March 1999. Holiday booked thr...
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Grey Knot certainly not Red in March
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Rubbish images but a classic spring littoralis at Theddlethorpe being repeatedly reported as a Water Pipit a frequent error
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The Lincolnshire Lapland Bunting: how have they gone from regular to even common in winter to a rarity in my lifetime?
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Tried to get some flight shots of Plain Tiger - background a bit cluttered but moderate success - it was down a steep bank so 1.4x on the Canon 100-500 lens with the R6II - Fuerteventura March 2026
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Black-bellied Sandgrouse Fuerteventura March 2026 - never got anywhere near them in Spain
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Fuerteventura Green-striped White endemic to the island and Lanzarote - after rains the island was quite green in early March with lost of butterflies even in the cool northerlies
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Don’t give up Dave a big push seemingly this spring new sites
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Is that a bit of a tongue in cheek statement only the 9th! Try Lincs 0!!!
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
On another grey and dismal day watching a flock of 12 glowing Yellowhammers when an unfamiliar song drifted from the adjacent scrub: bubbly and piping it went on and initially had me wondering until the penny dropped full song of the Bullfinch but how often do you hear it particularly in February
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
What is the connection between an electric fire, Franklin's Gull, some mole hills and Cetti's Warbler? Another ramble down memory lane www.grahamcatley.com/blog-1/february-13th-the-rise-and-rise-of-the-cettis-warbler-on-my-local-patch-and-more-historical-ramblings
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February 13th –the rise and rise of the Cetti’s Warbler on my local patch and more historical ramblings: — Graham Catley Photography
Wandering around my local patch nowadays you tend to almost ignore the strident explosions from male Cetti’s Warblers but twas not long ago that such renditions would have been a source of serious exc...
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
If seems the pertinent word: short distance return presumably but 53 Skylarks back on my survey site this week after a winter with less than ten and lots of territorial activity/ song on a less wet day
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gpcbirding.bsky.social @gpcbirding.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Well maybe an idea not to drive up and down in your tractor flailing the hedges then ?
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