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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A couple of hours into our Spurn trip and the first wader we look at is a Lesser Yellowlegs. Only the 2nd record for Spurn! 💛 #TeamYellowshank

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Some #LowCarbonBirding gems in Regent's Park from the last few days; all FOY for the patch too! Common redstart, Whinchat, Garden warbler and Spotted flycatcher (together!). #LondonBirds 🚲

Garden warbler and Spotted flycatcher next to each other in an Indian mustard tree.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Watch Owen Williams (The Tubs) tear open a cold one before launching into ‘Dark Don't Hide It’ with Brown Horse at EartH Hackney. An uplifting and beautiful night celebrating Jason Molina, one of the finest songwriters of our time. Thank you to everyone who made this night happen. 🙌❤️🦉

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

A quick dash to my old patch Brent Reservoir where a Cattle egret had dropped in and 15 mins later it flew off again. Patch tick in the nick of time! ✅ I would have missed it if I'd decided to drive, awful traffic the whole way. #LowCarbonBirding FTW. 🙌🚲 Thx to finder Layla! 🥳

Summer plumaged Cattle egret with a raised crest in a willow tree.

Summer plumaged Cattle egret in flight, pursued by a magpie.

Summer plumaged Cattle egret next to a Canada goose and a coot.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This right here.

A witty exchange where someone asked "Why don't immigrants start their own countries?" and Smith replied "They did, it was called America."

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Big Smoke Birding Ltd @bigsmokebirding.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Two Common Sandpipers fighting it out at Brent Reservoir yesterday! 💥 Join us for some London urban birding fireworks. #DiscoverLondon #GuidedTour #Birding #FightClub

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Gill Tavner @gilltav.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

If you can watch this and then think ‘I won’t share because that might be putting myself on the line’ then you know what you’d have done if you were in Germany when your Jewish neighbours were being loaded into to cattle trucks. Nothing. Please share - it’s our ‘I’m Spartacus moments

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

More happy clients and very kind words from them too! 😊

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Jack Maynard(he/him) @jhmsparky.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Hey #birders! You may remember my skeets about birding in London last April- Kelli and I had a great time and great birds with our guide @magnusphotog.bsky.social . Well, he’s gone official as a London Bird guiding company. I can’t recommend him highly enough. BigSmokeBirding bigsmokebirding.co.uk

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Guided Birdwatching Tours in London with Big Smoke Birding | Big Smoke Birding Ltd

Join Big Smoke Birding Ltd for guided birdwatching tours across London. Led by expert guide Magnus Andersson, experience the beauty of urban birding and discover the diverse avian life in the heart of...

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

My brand new birding venture in the thread below - Big Smoke Birding Ltd! Please give it a follow and let your birding friends know if they are planning on doing any birdwatching in London. 🐣☺️ #LondonBirds #Birdwatching #BirdingUK #SoftLaunch

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

A little Little Owl somewhere in Hyde Park! Chick begging and branching high up in the canopy, adult in the next tree over. Confirmed breeding! 💥🐥💪 #LowCarbonBirding #LondonBirds #SuperbOwl

Juvenile little owl behind a branch, looking down at me through the canopy.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Ruddy Shelduck ♂ (presumed escaped) in Osterley Park today, and he had adopted four Egyptian goslings. Very attentive parenting too; warning loudly when dogs approached, chased off a Coot and went after a Grey Heron and chased it off midair! #InterspeciesAdoption #LondonBirds #LowCarbonBirding

A male Ruddy Shelduck with two of his four adopted Egyptian goslings.

A Coot ebing chased off by a male Ruddy Shelduck.

A male Ruddy Shelduck with his four adopted Egyptian goslings.

A male Ruddy Shelduck flying, seen from below.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Skunk Anansie still going strong after 30+ years! They were brilliant at PRYZM last night, playing stuff from the new album plus a couple of anthems from the past too. Skin's voice=power! 🤘✊ #gigphotos

The singer Skin, dressed in all white, with her arms outstretched on stage, in front of the audience, and a silhouetted raised arm in the foreground.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Arsenal are Champions of Europe!!! And Stina 🇸🇪 with the goal! Get in! 🏆

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Always a pleasure showing top birders around London! 😎

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This? Oh, its nothing. Just Viagra Boys teaching Brixton Academy a lesson this evening. And all in the good company of Jay Vee & The Cardinal Sins too. 🤘 #shrimptech

Viagra Boys on stage at Brixton Academy.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Happy #WorldPenguinDay to all who celebrate! Here's a pair of King Penguin's that I saw in the Southern Ocean earlier this year on #FlockToMarion, the most epic of pelagics organised by @birdlifesa.bsky.social. #Birds 🐧

Two King Penguin's with their heads raised in Southern Oceananic waters.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Delighted to see my first Swifts of the year today at KGV, but also a premium line up of Northern Wheatears (1f + 3m) on passage. Arctic tern, Little gull, Lesser whitethroat, Little ringed plover, Green sandpiper & Red-crested pochard joined the supporting cast. #LondonBirds #BirdMigration

A male Northern Wheatear on a reservoir bank.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Those eyes! 🔥 Male Sparrowhawk about to have a bath in Regent's Park the other day. #LondonBirds #LowCarbonBirding

A male sparrowhawk on the ground, partially obscured by vegetation, showing its fiery-looking eye.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

62 spp. and 8.6km around Regent's Park today and best was this smart Whinchat, our first of the year. Also an urban #FoxOfTheDay chillin' inside the Chat Enclosure. 😎 @chrisgpackham.bsky.social #LondonBirds #LowCarbonBirding

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

The world’s most expensive Sedge Warbler™️!!! 💷 😱Photographed inside The Holme, Regent’s Park; the second-most expensive property in London, it sold for £139m last December. #LondonBirds

Sedge warbler photographed inside the grounds of The Holme.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Ex-Vöid live at a sold out Victoria Dalston on Sunday night, a perfect gig to round off my BFAM @dwest73.bsky.social visiting for the weekend.🤘❤️

Indie rock band Ex-Vöid performing on stage.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Guided another lovely group of budding birders at Brent Reservoir today courtesy of CRT. Some of the best birds were before/after the walk, but nevertheless great views of courting Goldcrests, lingering Snipe plus patch FOY's for both Little ringed plover and Common whitethroat. #LondonBirds

A group of bird watchers observing a Goldcrest at close quarters.

Heat-hazey record shot of our first Little ringed plover of the year.

A Common snipe at close quarters in front of the Main Hide.

Our first Common whitethroat of the year.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Early start with @ionace.bsky.social and Sam L. and we hoped for migrants but we didn't expect to have 100+ Mediterranean Gulls mee-ow'ing over Rainham Marshes today. The largest flock was 35 (at least). Also a Barn Owl in a barney (😱!) with a Carrion Crow. #LondonBirds 😎

16 Mediterranean Gulls flying against a blue sky.

Two birdwatchers just before sunrise by The Thames.

Morning fog lingers as the sun rise over Rainham Marshes RSPB.

A Barn Owl over a reed bed being mobbed by a Carrion Crow at dawn.

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David Lance Callahan @davidlancecallahan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The Tubs justifying their sold out status at Oslo tonight. Joyous - and the audience knew all the words.

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Andy Helliwell @andyhelliwell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Adrian's photos are better than mine so I am going to quote tweet him. Absolutely superb set by The Tubs tonight - even more so given a new guitarist and a stand-in bassist. Definite gig of the year contender.

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Well The Tubs have just set a pretty high benchmark for gigs this year!

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A bird pooped on my hand today and with the associated luck I got to witness The Tubs (Lan guested too!) play a fucking BLINDER at OSLO Hackney tonight! Thank you, bird! Buy their 5* album Cotton Crown, see them live and be well. #LiveMusic #GigPhotos

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Not the cleanest of shots 😂 but I had a Water rail in Hyde Park today. Patch tick! ✅ #LondonBirds

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Stumbled upon a singing Firecrest in Regent's Park yesterday, and he had a female in tow, carrying food (bottom left 2nd pic). Would be amazing if they were to become a breeding bird in central London. 🤞🏻 Also FOY Woodcock over then into Wetland Pen this morning. #LondonBirds #LowCarbonBirding

Side view of a male Firecrest on a tree branch, with its vivid orange crest fully showing.

Frontal view of a male Firecrest on a tree branch, with its vivid orange crest fully showing, and a female Firecrest below him with food in its mouth.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Mediterranean Gull in Regent's Park this afternoon, proper #UrbanBirding patch ✅ gold! Initially picked up on call but with my camera still packed away it quickly flew off, arrgh! Luckily it returned a few minutes later and actually landed for a bit. #LondonBirds #LowCarbonBirding #TeamGull

Wide shot of a lake with small gulls on it and people walking in the background. Mediterranean Gull shown nearest in the water.

Comparison shot of a Mediterranean Gull in the foreground and a Black-headed Gull behind it, both in the water.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

My subscriptions to Amazon Prime, Disney+, Netflix and Uber One now ALL cancelled. Just doing my #BoycottUSA bit, like most people I know. Nice to see it going global too. Solidarity with Ukraine. 🇺🇦✊

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Rubbish (literally) pic but the first of four Jack Snipe's seen at Brent Reservoir today. Only one off the all time high count of five on December 27th, 1981. #LondonBirds

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Its #SuperSeabirdSunday so here's an Indian Yellow-nosed #Albatross (poop tick!) from the epic #FlockToMarion #pelagic into the Southern Ocean last month. 💩✅

An Indian Yellow-nosed Albatross flying over the ocean, having just released a string of fecal excrement midair.

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Low-Carbon Birding @birdingclimate.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

'the humble bicycle offers flexibility and a sense of freedom, independence, wellbeing, conviviality, and immersion in the natural world that cannot be matched by the car when travelling locally.' #lowcarbonbirding #UKbirding Originally published May in 2021. lowcarbonbirding.net/2021/05/01/b...

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Birding with a breeze: on birdwatchers and bicycles

“Like Halle (author of Spring in Washington), I have spent many days in Washington biking in search of nature. And like him, I have been witness to natural phenomena that have enlivened those days …

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Me slowly venturing out after two weeks away birding in South Africa and the Southern Ocean. (Little Owl in west London today). #LondonBirds #LowCarbonBirding

A Little Owl with just its head poking out of a nest hole.

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Bill Haines (West London Birding) @bh-wlbirding.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Great work at #TheRegentsPark by @magnusphotog.bsky.social today who managed to ring-read the #Shelduck that we ringed at #StJamessPark in Jan 2023 (and was also resighted there in Jan 2024). Wonder where it goes during the summer? @theroyalparks.bsky.social #birdringing #londonbirds

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David Morrison @morry57.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Beckton Sewage Works a.m: Pairs of Common Buzzards and Sparrowhawk, Black Redstart, Common Sandpiper, 30+ Chiffchaff, Wigeon(rare here), 2 Rock Pipit and rather bizarrely a Common Whitethroat. #londonbirds @essexbirdnews.bsky.social

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Needed to cycle over to patch tick a Teal 🙄 on Hampstead Heath today. Nasty windchill factor, I nearly lost my fingers & toes to frostbite! 🥶 Teal was snoozing under branches but the overwintering Dartford warbler obliged for a second or two. #LondonBirds #LowCarbonBirding

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Welcome to the last Super Seabird Sunday of the year where we ask you to share seabird photos, videos & artwork to brighten up timelines like these Gannets of the Bass rock. #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Everyone's favourite UK mollymawk for the final #SeabirdSunday #SuperSeabirdSunday of the year: the returning Black-browed Albabtross at Bempton Cliffs RSPB Reserve, taken on July 4th, 2021. Hoping to see many more albatrosses on the upcoming Flock to Marion trip next month. 🤞🏻 #F2M

An adult Black-browed Albabtross in flight, seen from above against a blurred out blue sea.

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magnus andersson @magnusphotog.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The Last Observers - one of the finest short films you'll ever see. Grab a cup of tea and get swept away by this beautiful story of #love, #birding, #weather and total committment, set at the world famous Falsterbo Bird Observatory in southern Sweden. youtu.be/nWbESISCdgA?...

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The Last Observers | Patagonia Films

YouTube video by Patagonia

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