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Chris Mills @norfolkbirding.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Best day so far this autumn for me. Lovely wander around Holkham & Overy with @sconebirding.bsky.social busy skies with 300+ Redwing, 40+ Brambling, 2500+ Starlings, 1-2s Fieldfare, Siskin, 20+ Blackbirds, flushed a SE Owl, Peregrine & 2 Yellow-browed Warblers.

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Simon Gillings @simongillings.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Went to see the stunning Turkestan Shrike today with @sconebirding.bsky.social, seeing it catch beetles, tipulids and even a hawker dragonfly. Also lots of singing Dartford Warblers, a Woodlark and 24 Crossbills. But no joy with the Zitting Cisticolas so couldn't pull off a two-tick day #UKBirding

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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Thank you so much @btobirds.bsky.social for another BRILLIANT Bird Sound ID course! My grandson (Indy) and I went to a spot on the River Fowey to see if we could hear any of the warblers. We heard loads of Willow Warblers... and we think/hope the last bird in this clip is a Garden Warbler? #birds

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Pick your own superlative for this morning's first-calendar-year Caspian Gull at @btobirds.bsky.social #NunneryLakes reserve this morning. 😄 #birding #ukbirding #norfolkbirding

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Any tips to help focus your concentration in the field? I have a standard game: How long can I keep the species total on my #BirdTrack list at/above my total minutes #birding? Today, I started at 06:50 and ran aground at 43 spp/07:33. Need something for beyond that! Admittedly, it might just be me.

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

It may not be a coastal migrant-magnet, but I'm lucky that I can walk my patch from home. 15 #BirdTrack lists so far in Sept: Green Sandpiper every time, 3 Whinchat, Swift 13/9, Marsh Harrier, Woodlark, 13 Kingfisher recs, 2 each of Great White Egret & Hobby. #lowcarbonbirding #NunneryLakes #birding

Scots Pines reflected in shallow pool, against a bright blue sky

Map of the Nunnery Lakes reserve in Thetford, with orange lines showing routes walked in September 2024

Line graph of bird species recorded at the Nunnery Lakes, Norfolk in September 2024

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

A touch of frost in the Brecks, for the third consecutive day. ❄️

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Apparently, 'kleptoparasitism' doesn't qualify as a word with multiple letter t's and containing p, o, l. I'm not angry – just disappointed. @levparikian.bsky.social

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Do you ever get that sense of dowitchà vu?

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Uplifting to be surrounded by common migrants yesterday! For the record, not *all* birds face left on Scolt Head. #birding #norfolkbirding

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 08/09/2024

Surely *one* of the migrant birds that arrived in East Anglia over the last 72 hours will have been dropped into the #NunneryLakes by the pre-dawn rain?! 🙏 Pretty sure the 6 Green Sandpipers were already here... #birding

Sunrise over wetland at Nunnerh Lakes reserve, Norfolk

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

⚠️ Warning @daily-mail.bsky.social & anyone buying Shutterstock bird pics: many 📷 by Tahseenamjad are AI-generated! This is NOT Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus), but rather Big Fictional Gull (L. madeupensis). Shame; the other images in this piece are right: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Are you a bewildered by wildfowl? 🦆 Unsure about Shoveler? Scuppered by Scaup? Our online Waterbird ID course, run by our expert team, could be just the thing for you! Discover dates and book a place ➡️ www.bto.org/training #Ornithology #BirdID

Image of a Mallard with outstretched wings alongside the wording: BTO Warbird ID Course. Tuesdays at 7pm and Wednesdays at 10am or 7pm on set dates in September. Improve your identification of ducks, geese, swans and other waterbirds on this two-part online course. Find out more and book www.bto.org/training

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

How accurate do I find the forecast? Let's just say I wish I'd ignored it and worn a raincoat... #birding...

Screenshot of Met Office app, showing 10% chance of rain

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

The results are in: an equal number of RPs (2) and Likes (9) on both platforms! However, £40 donated by kind folk who saw this here (thank you! 😍), £0 via X. The sample size is inconclusive, but perhaps indicates people's willingness to act on what they see on this new, more positive platform?

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

A great Knot find by @arcanelove.bsky.social at @btobirds.bsky.social #NunneryLakes yesterday evening (not to be confused with a Great Knot find)! As usual, the local Lapwings were intolerant of anything different.

A juvenile Knot, a grey-brown wading bird, on the water's edge at the BTO Nunnery Lakes nature reserve

A juvenile Knot, a grey-brown wading bird, and a Lapwing on the water's edge at the BTO Nunnery Lakes nature reserve

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Simon Gillings @simongillings.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

A very early start for high tide at Snettisham with @sconebirding.bsky.social. A good selection of waders inc 3+ Curlew Sandpiper, 2 Little Stint, 8 Spotted Redshank, and c150 Med Gulls #UKbirding

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Nick Moran @sconebirding.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Doing my first (only?!) triathlon on Sunday, raising much-needed funds for The Red Hen Project. What better way to test the power of this platform against 'the one that shall not be mentioned'?! 🙏 redhenproject.enthuse.com/pf/nick-moran

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