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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The two Shore Lark at Frenchmen’s Bay have not featured much on Bluesky, so here’s a few from today, hopefully some one or two slightly different poses from the norm. #NEBirding @durhambirdclub.bsky.social #BirdsSeenIn2026

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Arguably showing a little better than the Tynemouth bird did!

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #BlueWater, birds surrounded by blue water. It’s also #WonderfulWaderWednesday So here’s a vagrant Greater Sandplover in the North East of England a few years back…

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Spotted Redshank continues at St Mary’s Wetland today #NEbirding

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WingsOpenNotFlying, birds with their wings open when not flying. This beautiful Bohemian Waxwing graced our garden a few winters ago…

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #Black&Red so here's 2! Scarlet-rumped tanager and Crimson-collared tanager, both in Costa Rica 2025.

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

From the archive: Radde’s Warbler, St Agnes, Isles of Scilly October 2005. 📸 Canon 10D/EF500

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

From the archive: Sora, Lower Moors, Isles of Scilly October 2005. 📸 Canon 10D/EF500 #RareBirdsUK

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay from Helen is #BestBeaks Celebrating any bird with a beak or bill that has striking colours, bold profiles, or an interesting shape. And of course … Boat-billed heron…

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay from Helen is #BestBeaks Celebrating any bird with a beak or bill that has striking colours, bold profiles, or an interesting shape. Central America has many examples, but I have a bit of a soft spot for Crimson-backed tanager!

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A couple days walking Holy Island have been superb for clearing one’s head. Huge arrivals of SongThrush yesterday along with Robins galore, a Redstart, 2 Yellow-browed warbler it was relatively quiet today - but two Yellow browed Warbler and Richard’s Pipit maintained the autumn vibes #NEBirding

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Was about to head up when the news came through if its demise! Luckily at Church Point a few years later for the unprecedented tracked bird up the coast!

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Let’s “smash” the #BirdOfTheDay theme for today with #Seabirds; any bird found at sea or the coast and Alt. is #Airborne; any bird in flight. This Ross’s Gull brightened a dark January afternoon on the River Tyne, UK in 2025. A rare bird in these parts…

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We thought that last year too 🥴

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There was some chatter but nothing came of it to my knowledge

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Walk along the shingle beach edge along the top of the “dune”

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme as #Pairs, photos with pairs of the same species in them. This is a bit of a cheat - Northumberland has been blessed with a mixed pairing in recent years - a male Arctic Tern has paired with a female American Black Tern. Look closely and you’ll see their clutch 🥚🥚🥚

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #Green, photos with Green in the backgrounds not on the birds. A nice Baltimore Oriole in Costa Rica last November will suffice…

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not to my knowledge - there have been outlying records at Woodhorn (a few years back) and a migrant photographer at Beacon Point (on the rocks!) but nothing sustained

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Cetti’s triangle currently!! Only a matter of time…

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There’s an obvious clump of buckthorn (?, sorry non planty person) about 1km south of the car park that they appear to like, but tbh you’ll probably hear them as you walk down/past

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Indeed, and probably now overdue in Northumberland’s finest village, along with Cetti’s Warbler, two relatively probable species to be added to the avifauna list at some point.

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

While Longhoughton Steel remained Lapland Bunting-less this morning, compensation was had at Druridge with the finding of Cattle Egret and further views of the Pectoral Sandpiper. A Grey Plover was nice too. With @markarmstrong70.bsky.social #NEbirding

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

That’s one monster Hawfinch!

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

From the archive: Pectoral Sandpiper, Druridge Pools, September 2007 📸 Canon 10D/EF500/EF1.4 #NEbirding #Archive

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

From the archive: Pectoral Sandpiper, Cresswell Pond, September 2006 📸 Canon 10D/EF500/EF1.4 #NEbirding #Archive

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Today's #BirdOfTheDay Alt theme is #Brown, birds with Brown in their plumage. White-whiskered Puffbird, Panama 2026

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incoming! Black Brant and Pale-bellied Brent family (juv = hybrid?) Budle Bay, Northumberland @budlebirder.bsky.social #NEbirding #hybrid #goose #brant #brent

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A little bit more of the Black Brant - quite tricky to pick out at distance, was lucky this afternoon when it flew with a small party of Brents to the Waren Mill end of Budle Bay at high tide. #NEbirding #goose #birding #BirdsSeenIn2026

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Black Brant - a very rare sub species for Northumberland, in fact only the second for the county, and first since 1999. #NEbirding

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today’s alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BirdStare, any bird captured staring right at you! A couple - Brown Booby - a vagrant bird photographed in Teesside ((UK) Olivaceous Piculet - Costa Rica

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme chosen by Atlantic Birding is: #Raptors; any bird of prey King Vulture, looking magnificent in Costa Rica.

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today's alternative #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Corvids. Black-chested Jay, Panama

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Pectoral Sandpiper, Druridge Morning visits not ideal for this scarce wader as viewing from the south facing hide is against harsh light. Still, nice to see. #NEbirding #wader

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The alt theme for #BirdOfTheDay today is #Pigeons&Doves Here’s a reworked image from 2010, Pink Pigeon on Mauritius.

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Long Nab September 2023. Hoping the east coast kicks off soon! #YorkshireBirding #RareBirdsUK

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#Birdoftheday the theme is #ODG ..owls, ducks or geese. So, from 2006 (!), Short-eared Owl, Northumberland 📸 Canon 10D/EF500EF1.4

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Thankyou! Bit of a head scratcher

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#BirdOfTheDay: #BirdsInAbstract Sparrowhawk - overly tight crop rework of an image posted earlier this week!

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