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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Look what European Sleeper's website can do now! 🥳👇 Mind you, they're being even more cautious with the Eurostar connection than I'd be...

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 7h

We've got our first Grey Seal pup of the year on the Isle of May as the blog explains: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com Photo Bex Outram

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CM @manchesterbirder.bsky.social · 1h

A quick dash over to New Brighton and Leasowe this morning across high tide to see half a dozen distant Leach's Petrels and then one close in. Good to see Arctic and Great Skuas and @jkylesmith.bsky.social and Kev in the wild. #UKbirding #birds

A Leach's Petrel flying right to left against a grey sea. The Petrel is black with grey crescents on each wing, a white rump and a forked tail.

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Chris Knox @budlebirder.bsky.social · 23h

An obvious arrival of Barnacle Geese today, with birds flying in off the sea into a fresh westerly, bringing numbers around the bay to at least 4,500 by late afternoon inc three leucistic birds #BudleBay #NEbirding

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Dawn Balmer @debalmer.bsky.social · 19h

Nutrackers building up in the low countries. Occurrences in pink, counts in blue for week 1-7 Oct www.eurobirdportal.org/ebp/en/#home...

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We've got some great opportunities to join us at BTO! Discover more and apply for our jobs and voluntary roles online at www.bto.org/jobs #Ornithology

A sideways view of a Puffin shows its white face, black body and brightly coloured orange-red bill. Wording alongside reads: We're hiring. Bird Atlas 2027-2031 Organiser, Research Ecologist, Field Surveyors, Youth Rep (Voluntary Role).

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Henry Cook @hcbirding.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Always a highlight of the mothing year - Merveille du Jour at RSPB Lakenheath Fen this morning #TeamMoth

A Merveille du Jour sat on a piece of wood. It is a mint green moth with black and white intricate markings

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Steve Hackett Official @stevehacketthq.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Supporting Aylesbury Foodbank who provide food and other essentials for those in need. For my Aylesbury show on Sunday… If you’d like to help, bring an item to the Aylesbury Foodbank team who will be outside Friars at the Waterside Theatre.

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Drew Lyness @djlbirding.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Who knows what this Grey-headed Swamphen's origin story is, but nevertheless, certainly a charismatic bird in entertaining circumstances and at an intriguing location. So many questions! Worth the little detour off patch to Great Yarmouth docks. #NorfolkBirding

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Mike Andrews @mikea57.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I get the impression there are gradually more and more media reports coming out of Gaza showing the devastation and inhumanity caused by Israel. They will not recover from this and history will treat western politicians and media who watched and did nothing with contempt.

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Matthew @mattbirder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not the whole story, you forget to mention that in the EU healthcare has costs, pensioners paid more into their pension fund.

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Henry Cook @hcbirding.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This juvenile Stock Dove showed nicely at #RSPBLakenheathFen this morning. Perched on the handrail behind the visitor centre!

A small dove with purple breast, orange bill and grey body perched on a wooden handrail

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Owl of the Day: Tawny Owl 📷 Ivan Sjögren

Owl perched in tree hollow, description from ebird: ‘A medium-sized owl with deep black eyes, strictly nocturnal and infrequently seen. Gray to brown overall with a big rounded head. Found at a broad range of elevations from sea level to high mountains, in woodland, forest, parkland, rocky areas, and sometimes towns and villages. Tends to roost well hidden in foliage during the day, when may be detected by tracking down the excited sound of small birds mobbing the owl. Comes out at night to hunt in clearings and more open areas. Most often detected by its quavering hoots and "kee-wik!" shrieks, given at night. Includes Maghreb Owl, formerly considered a separate species.’

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Matthew @mattbirder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Blind, tone death and stupid, but it will be two parliaments before they stand a chance of being elected!

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders"

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Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Slowly coming back down to earth after finding this Siberian Blue Robin in our garden here at Hillwell, Shetland last week. The 5th British record and only the 7th for the Western Palearctic. A Holy Grail moment for sure. #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today's blog is all about a fantastic encounter with two flocks of Common Cranes yesterday over the Isle of May involving 26 birds! Check out the blog: isleofmaynnr.wordpress.com Photos Bex Outram

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Spurn Bird Observatory @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Visiting Spurn this October please tell us your sightings using #spurnbirds or @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social in your messages. Thanks in advance!

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Matthew @mattbirder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They are super birds, we had a regular for a couple of winters on the Norfolk coast.

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Matthew @mattbirder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Aye tide and time waits for no man!

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Matthew @mattbirder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What a gig! Steve Hackett and his amazing band were on top form last night in Ipswich. Such a pleasure to see and hear talented musicians at the top of their game. @stevehacketthq.bsky.social #Livemusic

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Mike Buckland @mcbuckland.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Yellow Wagtail at Cley this pm. Superficially striking in its grey & white plumage, was its back a little too brown & the face pattern a little soft for Eastern? All its flight calls sounded Western & the odd more buzzy note was often in alarm. My sonograms seem to bear this out. #UKBirding

The grey and white Yellow Wagtail at Cley this afternoon. A smart and striking bird but was the back a little too brown washed and the face a little too soft? Hard to judge the hind claw as it fed in wet grass. Eastern and Western seem to overlap in most / all plumage features so the call is all important.

This sonogram, recorded on my iPhone15, over the background chatter and gravel crunching seems to show a simple (Western) pattern without the saw-like tail produced by the more buzzy call of Eastern.

This was the most buzzy call I recorded. An alarm call made when the Wagtail was flushed and chased by a Meadow Pipit. Despite the more buzzy note apparent in the sound recording the sonogram looks much the same as the flight calls. Assuming this isn’t a limitation of the recording device then the pattern seems to better fit a Western Yellow Wagtail, perhaps a Grey-headed?

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Jonny @suffolkseawatcher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Can people help share this far and wide? Great blog detailing a proper injustice - that seems to go unchecked year on year! Meanwhile over the border - Norfolk are smashing it! ♠️ tringa24.wordpress.com/2026/10/03/a...

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A Tale of Two Coastlines – Norfolk Delivers, Suffolk Dithers

Norfolk has just committed £384,000 of developer mitigation money to protect beach-nesting birds on its coast. Suffolk is sitting on £1.74 million collected for exactly the same purpose. On 2 Octob…

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Jonny @suffolkseawatcher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Snow Bunting - Thornham Point. ♠️ #NorfolkBirding

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James Spencer @ornid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bearded Tits on patch! 6 birds in the tiny reedbed at Barmston. Number 198 for the patch #PWC2026 #yorkshirebirding #patchgold

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Matthew @mattbirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

See you in Ipswich Saturday!

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Steve Hackett Official @stevehacketthq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Band relaxing after rehearsals… First UK show in Cambridge on Friday!

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Dr Eric Farmer @himself132.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If GB News were a normal commercial venture, like Talk TV, it would have been binned long ago. Since September 2020, it has spewed out hateful far-right propaganda, paying high salaries to people such as Nigel Farage. Ofcom has abjectly failed to address this threat to democracy.

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Calum Scott @aberladybirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A tad wet today, more for so for ducks, or even geese to be fair! This young Snow Goose only our second here, congrats to local islander/birder Martin who picked this one out on Vatersay! #Barrabirders #Barrabirding #BirdingScotland

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Josh’s Wildlife @joshswildlife.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Great to catch up with the returning Viking gull in Ullapool recently. An intriguing hybrid between a glaucous and a herring gull! They can be very varied but this individual is told by the slightly greyish outer primaries. Cool bird! #birds #birding #seabird

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Matthew @mattbirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This male Kestrel posed nicely for me in Norfolk. #Birds! #norfolkbirding #UKbirding

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve never seen a BBC correspondent try to build such a huge mountain out of such a tiny molehill. Chris Mason’s hysterical quest to undermine Andy Burnham, based on a few noncommittal words: Chris Mason: Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Chris Mason: Why Andy Burnham's about-turn on Manchester City matters

The prime minister's comments on Man City were revealing on several levels - and leapt on by many in football, the BBC's political editor writes.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Bruce Taylor @barrabirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A juvenile Snow Goose among the Greylag flock on Vatersay this morning must surely have pretty decent credentials as a transatlantic vagrant, though you can never be 100% sure. Thanks to Martin Macneil for flagging up this odd goose. #birdingscotland

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Autumn arrival alert: the Yellow-browed Warbler has landed! 😍 Once rare, these tiny travellers from Siberia are becoming a more familiar sight as they pass through each autumn. Weighing just 6 grams, their sharp, distinctive call is usually the first clue they're around. Have you seen one?

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Matthew @mattbirder.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, after WW" and during the "cold war" but military alliances are geopolitical and in many cases there has been disagreement, e.g. Suez, Falklands, Vietnam. Mid Atlantic is meaningless, an island that overstates its importance, pretending its not European would be more accurate.

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Matthew @mattbirder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

In point of fact the UK has only been aligned militarily with the US since WW2, but then so has most of Europe. Politically the UK never has been aligned with the US, though some want that. Culturally there has been some alignment, but even there are significant differences.

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Simon Robert H K @simonpostsdog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#BBC. Chris Mason. You are a snivelling little shit. Burnham is not ‘wounded’ by a remark about Man City. Grasping little turd.

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Matthew @mattbirder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September proved to be a blank month on the patch at RSPB Lakenheath Fen. There were 14 separate days an Osprey was seen, I was on the reserve on 5 of those days, still not managed a sighting!! #PWC2026 #Birds!

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations to @rufusdawson.bsky.social winner of @marshawards.bsky.social for Young Ornithologist! 🎉 Rufus has conducted tremendous work in leading a monitoring scheme for Lesser Spotted Woodpecker using Passive Acoustic Monitoring. We can’t wait to see more of his work in the future!

An image of Rufus Dawson features in a circular frame. Wording over the image tile reads: Winner. Marsh Award for Young Ornithologist. Rufus Dawson. The BTO and Marsh Charitable Trust logos feature top right of the image.

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Matthew @mattbirder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'd question whether Mason is actually a journalist!

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Matthew @mattbirder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even if he was, that's not true either.

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Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Over the moon (to put it mildly) to find this first year male SIBERIAN BLUE ROBIN in our garden at Hillwell, Shetland this morning. The fifth record for Britain and a first for Shetland. #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #RareBirdsUK #Birds #UKWildlife

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OliCWildlife @olicwildlife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A couple of nice Flycatchers from this week. Red-breasted Fly at the Naze on Tuesday and Pied Fly on Mersea Island this afternoon! #Birding #EssexBirding #UKBirding #UKWildlife

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Paul French @nomadbirder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A very unexpected mega down at Spurn already today, our first Eyebrowed Thrush. Trapped and ringed in Church Field. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social Now back to the gas terminal slog...

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