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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A pack of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Thunnus thynnus hunting Garfish Belone belone south Devon coast this evening www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utjp...

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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Thunnus thynnus hunting Garfish Belone belone South Devon 3 October 2026

YouTube video by John Walters

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Selsey Birder @selseybirder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yellow-browed Warbler at church norton annoyingly elusive and mobile but has permitted a few 30s views

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Selsey Birder @selseybirder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Year to date 211 species, which is second highest at this point, only behind last year on 213. 155 species in September, just above average, with six additions to the year list: Cory’s Shearwater, Grey Phalarope, Wryneck, Woodlark, Gropper and Brambling.

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bbirds.bsky.social @bbirds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Passage of sabine's gulls past Redcar this morning, far offshore. @teesbirds.bsky.social #birds

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Dungeness Bird Observatory @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A brilliant day for passage offshore. Most notable totals included 68 DB Brents, 12 Shoveler, 20 Wigeon, 45 Pintail, 25 Teal, six Redshank, 50 Little Gull, two Sooty, two Manx and 141 Balearic Shearwater. The highlight was a probable first for Dungeness in the form of a Sunfish drifting east.

Balearic Shearwaters passing close past the Fishing Boats.

Dark-bellied Brent Geese passing very close offshore.

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Ploddingbirder @ploddingbirder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dungeness: Not a bad day at the fishing boats today, 140 Balearic Shearwaters, 2 Sooty Shearwaters, Arctic Skuas, Little Gulls and more. Full details on Trektellen. I missed the Sunfish taking a long breakfast break.

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Dungeness Bird Observatory @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

58 Balearic Shearwaters west past the Fishing Boats in the first hour this morning. Otherwise fairly quiet with a few dabblers, Arctic Skuas and two Little Gulls. #kentbirding

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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ocean Sunfish Mola mola with Herring Gulls Larus argentatus was one of the highlights seawatching at St Ives Island, Cornwall yesterday. Also seen Sabine's Gull, Sooty Shearwater, Pomarine Skua, a Peregrine with Turnstone prey, Common Dolphins & Atlantic Blue-fin Tuna www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ5r...

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Ocean Sunfish Mola mola St Ives Island, Cornwall 27 September 2026

YouTube video by John Walters

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Flamborough Bird Observatory @flamboroughbird.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Seawatching was again fruitful with Grey Phalarope, Leach’s Petrel, 10 Long-tailed Skua, Caspian and 2 Yellow-legged Gull. On land Lapland Bunting, Redstart and 4 Brambling with the first Yellow-browed Warblerof the autumnat RSPB Bempton . Full details here flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/27...

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27th September 2026 - Flamborough Bird Observatory

Blustery south-south-easterly winds were a feature of an overcast day with occasional sunny intervals and a high of 19 degrees C. Seawatch highlights included a Grey Phalarope that flew south before l...

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Steve Rogers 🟰🟰 @runnelstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Gannet feeding frenzy with common dolphins and tuna off Pendeen Watch last week. Estimate c. 2000 in the wider flock. Quite a sight.

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Andrew Whitehouse @anthrobirder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The highlight of seawatching at Girdle Ness today was my first Black Tern of the year, but this 'close enough for record shots' Sooty Shearwater was just as enjoyable. Also, 2 Little Gulls, 4 Arctic Skuas, 2 Manx Shearwaters and a Great Skua. #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding #UKWildlife

A Sooty Shearwater is flying left to right against a grey, turbulent sea.

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Mark D @seaskywatch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Berry Head 07:00-14:30: 2 juv Long-tailed Skuas, 68 Arctic, 9 Bonxie; 1 Great Shearwater, 5 Sooty, 69 Balearic, 93 Manx; 1 Black Tern, 1 Common, 3 Sandwich; 5 Common Scoter; c2000 kittiwakes, 2 Med Gull, 2 Common Gull; c1500 Gannets; c1500 Auks. Many C Dolphins, 2 H Porpoise. 3 Wheatear

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Flamborough Bird Observatory @flamboroughbird.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Seawatching was fruitful with 1 Balearic and 8 Long-tailed Skua, 123 Sooty Shearwater, 3 Minke Whales and Thresher Shark. 8 Great White Egrets south over RSPB Bempton then the head late evening . Full details here flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/sightings/24...

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24th September 2026 - Flamborough Bird Observatory

A moderate southerly airstream developed during a sunny day, with temperatures reaching 19 degrees C. The day’s most impressive sighting related to a flock of eight Great White Egrets that flew south-...

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Colin Holter @bostalbirder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Many delightful juv/imm & adult Common Terns amongst the numbers of Sandwich Terns, with a few Arctics & Black Terns & a couple of Little Terns passing Dungeness in my several sessions seawatching there last week. #UKBirding #Seabirds

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Colin Holter @bostalbirder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've become more & more obsessed with seabirds in recent years, with all the Skua species amongst my favourites. So it was terrific to see numbers of Arctic Skuas patrolling the tern flocks off Dungeness last week, a few light phase birds but most were dark phase ads & juvs. #UKBirding #Seabirds

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James Peacock @peacockreports.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I suspect the overnight ECMWF det. run got carried away here, but it predicted a genuinely hurricane-force windstorm just west of Ireland early next week. The potential for a powerful windstorm is legit, but this is probably near the top end of what's possible.

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Full haul from the Challenger Expedition #UKBirding

White-faced Storm Petrel- one from Challenger 1 expedition to continental shelf; also Madeiran Storm Petrel (19 September), 3 Barolo-type shearwaters (19, 20 and 21 September), South Polar Skua (19 September), Desertas-type petrel (19 September), 1+ Scopoli's Shearwater (19 September), 102 Wilson's Storm Petrels, 14 Grey Phalaropes, 8 Long-tailed Skuas, 3 Leach's Storm Petrels, 707 Great Shearwaters, 1,457 Cory's Shearwaters, 15 Pomarine Skuas, 63 Sooty Shearwaters, 191 European Storm Petrels and 2 European Turtle Doves (!), plus Leatherback Turtle, Northern Bottlenose Whale, 3+ Fin Whales, Risso's Dolphin, 10 Blue Sharks, swordfish sp and 3 Ocean Sunfish, all between 17-23 September

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Tom Lowe @saloplarus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Magical morning on the Wirral with 36 Leach's Storm-petrels heading west into the wind, some more offshore than others 😍 #seawatching #superseabirdSunday

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

5hr seawatch at Flamborough Head today & finally ticked Long-tailed Skua*. 6 juvs, with many Arctic & Greats, seen. It helps being next to Brett Richards & Craig Thomas! Incredibly talented people. With Dave Woodhouse. #birds #ukbirding #yorksbirding #birdsseenin2026 *I refused a Lincs ‘dot’ in ‘25

Good views of 3 Skua species were had. Marsh Harrier & Snipe in-off. RT-Divers, Little Gulls, Manxies & Black Tern also.

I’ve never been in a hide with the man who the hide is named after before.

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Matt Hall @matthall95.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Leach's in full flow

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Matt Hall @matthall95.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Cracking views of Leach's Petrel today at Severn Beach. Plus juv Arctic Tern, at least 2 Manx Shearwater and 2 frustrating Skua sp #ukbirding

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Stuart Malcolm @birderstuart.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A nice FOY Grey Phalarope at the Ferry Pool at Pagham Harbour this afternoon. Not much else about in the strong wind though.

A small bird with a grey back, white underparts, black markings on the face, and a black bill. It is framed by a metal fence and is in shallow water.

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Selsey Birder @selseybirder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Grey Phalarope on Sidlesham Ferry left side by fence found by Jacob Bowley

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Steve Waite @axebirder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Half an hour seawatch off Seaton from 7am produced 11 Balearic Shearwaters, 4 Kittiwake and 2 Commom Scoter west, plus a Hobby that flew out to sea but five mins later flew back in/off again!

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Selsey Birder @selseybirder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Little of interest on this morning's seawatch, a dp arctic skua west and a few hirundines moving through the best of it, surprisingly quiet on a SW F6

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Andy @nikonbirder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here is the male Blackcap helping to polish off the ivy berries.

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Selsey Birder @selseybirder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Sad to hear of Joe's passing 🙁

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Selsey Birder @selseybirder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Great Northern Diver east at The Bill, very early date

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Tim Jones @timjones-devon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In a similar set-up to 15th, seabirds heading W out of Bristol Channel at Bull Point this a.m. after first-light frontal clearance. Totals 07.00-08.30: 13 Common Scoter (11m,2f), 144 auk sp. (Razorbill & Guillemot), 22 Kittiwake, 6 Arctic Tern, 2 Manx Shearwater. #UKbirding #Devonbirds #patchbirding

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andylportland.bsky.social @andylportland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

grey phalarope riding the waves

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Paul Grennard @pembsbikingbirder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Strumble Head 07:00 - 11:15: 1 adult Sabine's Gull, 3 Grey Phalarope,1 Sooty Shearwater, 3 Little Gull,3 Leach's Petrel, 2 Great Skua and 10 Arctic Skua. @birdguides.bsky.social

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Phil Saunders @beardybirder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A tasty little seawatch from Durlston CP this morning (0642 - 1035hrs), with some excellent westerly tern passage: Balearic Shear' 1, A.Skua 3, Arctic Tern 107, Common Tern 11, Commic Tern 98, C.Scoter 14, Razorbill 14, Auk sp 44, Swallow 385, & a close breaching Tuna @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Craig Sammels @eastkentbirder.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

North Foreland 6.15-11.30am 3 Teal, 4 C.Scoter,4 Whimbrel,1 Com Sand, 1 Long-t Skua S at 7.53am, 7 Arctic Skua 5s,2n, 3 Med Gulls,104 Sandwich Terns, 1 Manx, 1 Balearic S’waters S. VisMig/land; 1 Hobby, just 16 Swallows,1 Chiff,1 Firecrest,3 Grey Wags,146 Mipits (in off from the east) #kentbirding

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Selsey Birder @selseybirder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The two Little Stints on the Ferry Pool

Juvenile Little Stints, small wading birds with characteristic white stripes on the back on the mud at the Ferry Pool pic AH

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Selsey Birder @selseybirder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Selsey birders were saddened to hear of the passing of two Peninsula stalwarts recently. Colin Eames (with his wife Mich) put in a great number of hours at the Bill and both were especially kind and helpful to me (BI) when i started watching there in the 2010s.

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Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Dark morph juv Long-tailed Skua off West Bex this morning. Very close in and not attempting to fly suggesting poor energy reserves or illness... it continued to drift east when we left it around 9.30am.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

You may have heard about recent blooms in octopus, particularly in the south-west, where there have been a huge increase in sightings. Marine Conservation Officer Sarah Ward shares how to record sightings, in our blog. sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/blo… 📷© Paul Naylor

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Blooming Octopus! - Sussex Wildlife Trust

How to report your octopus sightings

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Craig Sammels @eastkentbirder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

North Foreland 6.20am-12pm; 2 C.Scoter,2 Whimbrel,4 Barwits,1 Com Sand,1 Ruff,7 Arctic Skuas,1 Bonxie,1 Razorbill,2 Little Gull,9 Black,214 Common,93 Sandwich Terns, 2 Rt Divers,41 Gannets,2 Shag 1/2 #kentbirding …..

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Dungeness Bird Observatory @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A bit of a comedown on yesterday but still a good day, with the sea still the place to be. The highlights being two juvenile Long-tailed Skuas flying west together past the Fishing Boats at 17:15hrs, also two Balearic Shearwaters, 20 Black Tern and two Little Gull. #kentbirding

Two juvenile Long-tailed Skuas flying west, taken by Graham Parry.

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Stuart Malcolm @birderstuart.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Blue skies on my Chichester Harbour @webs-gsmp.bsky.social count this afternoon. 340 Oystercatchers the main bird of note on the very high tide. Masses of Sandwich Terns in the harbour (200+) showing what a good breeding season was had at Pagham. Too windy for many small birds though.

A wooden bench is in the foreground with a gravel path leading to water. Overhead is a blue sky with fluffy white clouds.

Saltmarsh is in the foreground with a channel heading away. Above is a blue sky with fluffy white clouds.

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Richard Watkins LRPS @losbirder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This afternoon 12.09.26 from the Fishing Boats at Dungeness, with Jacob suddenly shouting “Get on this Skua” we were all pleasantly surprised to see this brilliant Juvenile Long-tailed Skua pass west past the boats. #birds #birding #kentbirding #ukbirding

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Graham Parry @grahamparry.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Superb sea watch birding at Dungeness some of the birds were distant but I hope still worth posting !!

Brown Booby (spotted by @neilburt.bsky.social)

Long-tailed Skua (spotted by Jacob Spinks)

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Ploddingbirder @ploddingbirder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dungeness: It's the first time I've known a juvenile Long-tailed Skua not to be the main event at Dunge sea watch, also 30+ Arctic Skuas, 15 Black Terns, 100s each of Common and Sandwich Terns.

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Dungeness Bird Observatory @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A superb afternoon seawatch didn't have a great deal of birds but it did have excellent quality - the star being a first for Dungeness in the form of an adult Brown Booby! Other goodies included a close juvenile Long-tailed Skua, 15 Black Tern and three Little Gull. #kentbirding

The star of the day, the adult Brown Booby found by Neil Burt. Image of it taken by Martin Casemore.

1cy Long-tailed Skua taken by Richard Watkins.

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Ploddingbirder @ploddingbirder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Dungeness: Some highly cropped images of the fantastic Brown Booby, that was brilliantly picked out by @neilburt.bsky.social in among a large distant feeding flock of Gannets this afternoon off the fishing boats. Despite woeful phone signal at Dunge most the of the locals connected thanks to radio.

A highly cropped image of a Brown Booby viewed from the Dungeness fishing boats.

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Selsey Birder @selseybirder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

no sign of the reported wryneck at the severals this afternoon though as it's a vague ebird report highly probable we we're looking in the wrong place 🤣 try again tomorrow...

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Dungeness Bird Observatory @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Juv Long-tailed Skua went very close west past the Fishing Boats at 15:10hrs #kentbirding

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Dungeness Bird Observatory @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Brown Booby now gone south out of sight unfortunately #kentbirding

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Craig Sammels @eastkentbirder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

North Foreland this am 6.15-10.20am; 2 C.Scoter,1 Com Sand, 1 Black, 8 Arctic, 202 Common & 341 Sandwich Terns, 3 Red-t Divers, 8 Gannet, 1 Shag, Vismig; 1 L.Egret, 12 Sand, 136 House Martins, 271 Swallows, 7 Wheatears, 3 Grey, 5 Yellow & 3 Pied Wags, 29 Meadow Pipits #kentbirding

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