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Dungeness Bird Observatory @dungenessbirdobs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Western Bonelli's Warbler found yesterday by our volunteer Tom Rosas made its way into one of the mist nets in the Trapping Area this morning. It was shown to a small crowd at the Observatory after being ringed, then released back into the north-east corner of the Trapping Area. #kentbirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was very happy to find a Western Bonelli’s Warbler at Dungeness yesterday. Thanks to @charlottefoote.bsky.social for refinding and helping to get others on it. Very pleased to see it in the hand this morning. #kentbirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A good few days birding and visiting various real ale festivals in Hunts and Cambs. Highlights included Wood Sand, Green Sand, Little Stint, Caspian Gull, and Yellow Wagtail, all new for the year. #ukbirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Couldn’t resist and had to go back for seconds today after only having flight views yesterday. Long-tailed Shrike near Crail. Found by friend and fellow student Ian Redfield. #birdingfife

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Fantastic day that kept on getting better! Self-found lifer #BirdingScotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Fairly hungover trek across Earlshall Muir near Leuchars paid off when I found a male Hen Harrier hunting. Truly beautiful birds, the first I’ve seen in Fife. #birdingfife

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Happy to find this young Iceland Gull at the Eden Estuary this morning. Sadly found a dead WBD on the walk back home:(. #fifebirding

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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A pleasant mid-afternoon break in the sunshine to see the Common Crane that was found just outside St Andrews by the Uni Bird Club #birdingFife

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

This morning with the uni biodiversity project we finally scored a White-billed Diver off St Andrews during this influx here in Fife. Also present were 3 otters! #birdingscotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Great day’s birding with friends at Loch Leven today. 59 species seen, highlights: Marsh Harrier, GWE, Kingfisher, Slav Grebe, and self found White-fronted Geese! #birdingscotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Disturbance from dog walkers meant the 1000s of gulls on West Sands were impossible to grill. However a few Little Gull close to shore and a Snow Bunting made for a good walk. A few dead auks along the beach. #birdingFife

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

New year’s trip to Shetland ended up lasting several more days than expected as we got snowed in. Some great birding done to start the year, all by foot. Highlights: a very close in Little Auk, Iceland Gull, Jack Snipe, and Merlin hunting. #BirdingScotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Nice to see Rob’s White-winged Scoter - only 10 minutes from the uni library - yesterday! Good views for an hour or so, very happy after dipping it both in Shetland and Fife in the last year or so. #BirdingFife

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

Great morning at Crail and Fife Ness with the bird club. Saw 70 species, highlights: Black Redstart, Red-necked Grebe, Twite, Purple Sandpiper, Scaup, and Wheatear. #birdingFife

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

What a bird! After dipping it in dying light yesterday, very happy to connect with the White-billed Diver. Great bird to see less than a mile from home. #birdingFife #ukbirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Nice to finally have time to go for the Barred Warbler at Balcomie, it gave excellent views. A walk around Kilminning was disappointingly quiet in terms of migrants though. #BirdingFife

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

At least 2 Curlew Sand and 2 Ruff at the Eden today. Also 2 Osprey, 1 GWE, 3 Common Sand, 1 Brent Goose. Good start to the new semester! #FifeBirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Good walk with friends near Elie produced a Short-eared Owl and Wheatear. The last beach cricket match of the summer at Elie Beach delivered a flyover Crane! Lifer, and about annual in Fife! Great day out! #FifeBirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Great day at the Fife Bird Club sea watch outing yesterday at Fife Ness, nice to see some familiar faces. Pom (lifer), Bonxie, and Arctic Skua. Sooty Shearwaters, though the highlight has to be the Bridled Tern, incredible bird, and very kind of it to choose yesterday to be in Fife! #FifeBirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Short article for BirdGuides on finding the GSP in July. #birdingscotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

6 weeks in Shetland done. Some quality birding: Short-eared Owl, Red-backed Shrike, Red-necked Grebe, Baird's Sandpiper Quail, Cuckoo, Merlin. Breeding Dunlin, Whimbrel, and Red-Throated Diver. Highlight has to be self finding a 1st for Shetland Greater Sand Plover. #birdingscotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Willow Warbler at Norwick this morning was my first warbler of autumn passage, also had my best views yet of the Cuckoo I found on Tuesday. Flock of 6 Twite were my first on Unst. A few singing Quail this afternoon (one from my window!) were great to hear #birdingscotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

After dipping it yesterday, I connected with @brydonthomason.bsky.social's Baird's Sandpiper at Baltasound today, and saw my first Ruff since being up here. Also found a juv Cuckoo in Norwick on an evening walk. Autumn passage seems underway... #rarebirdsUK #BirdingScotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Went down to the south of Unst today. Saw a few good birds, Golden Plover, Whimbrel, and Common Sandpiper with young. Highlight was bumping into the Osprey that has been hanging around the island for the last few weeks. #BirdingScotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Twitched (3 minute bike ride) 2 of my absolute favourite birds this evening. Short-eared Owl hunting, and a Red-backed Shrike getting ready to roost. Will definitely miss it up here. #Unst #birdingscotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Thought I would check Haroldswick beach on my way to the pub tonight. Did not expect to find this Greater Sand Plover, a 1st for Shetland!!! Very happy and glad others got on to it #birdingscotland #rarebirdsuk

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Great evening walk to Hermaness, Bonxies, Puffins, and Gannets galore. Cracking views of summer plumage Dunlin. A Quail singing just before midnight on the walk back truly the icing on the cake #birdingscotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Up in north Unst for another 5 weeks, don’t think that’ll be enough time to get bored of both skuas daily, puffins, and breeding wheatears. #BirdingScotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Twitched @simonpinder5.bsky.social ‘s gorgeous Spotted Redshank at Angle Park today. Very happy to also find a Hobby briefly there (scarce in Fife). #fifebirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Back up in Fife so went for the Iberian Chiffchaff today. After 4 hours without anything obvious it finally decided to sing and give us decent views! #FifeBirding #birdingscotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Great birding with a friend in Surrey today. Lots of Dartford Warblers, a pair of Tree Pipit, great views of Hobby, and singing Woodlark (lifer). Also Common Lizard and Slow Worm. #ukbirding #surreybirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Near Huntingdon for a friend’s birthday this weekend, so had to nip down to Fen Drayton Lakes to see the gorgeous male Red-backed Shrike. Nice to see it catch and eat a dragonfly #ukbirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Train up to Aberdeenshire with @tombeckett02.bsky.social but dipped Buff-breasted Sandpiper. News of a Pacific Golden Plover came - got stuck in tidal mud, lost both wellies, then faced a 40min shoeless walk… to dip again by 2 mins. Thanks to the birders who helped us out today. #BirdingScotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Boat to the Isle of May was cancelled due to strong winds so I went to Kilminning instead. Happy to find and year tick a singing Cuckoo (video) there this lunchtime (perhaps the same bird that was at Fife Ness this morning?) #FifeBirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Done with exams, tried the White Winged Scoter at Ruddons Point, dipped, but got nice views of Kittiwakes and Sandwich Terns. Female Redstart nearby was a nice surprise. Tried Kilminning after,well worth it, Spotted Flycatcher and a male Redstart showed briefly. Good start to the summer #FifeBirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

After dipping on it last night, I went back for the Woodchat Shrike near Pittenweem today. Had incredible views of it for a good while, as well as my 1st Wheatear of the year. #FifeBirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Went up to Monikie north of Dundee today for the White-winged Black Tern. Crippling views of it in breeding plumage, flew right over my head at one point! Also lots of close Little Gulls, Goldeneye, and GC Grebes. Thanks to the birders who gave me a lift back to Dundee:) #BirdingScotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Just back from Shetland visiting my girlfriend’s family—not a birding trip but squeezed some in. Black Guillemot from the ferry, Great Northern Divers, plenty of Ravens, Twite, and the vagrant Ross’s Goose up north. Also watched a pod of orcas hunt and take a seal—unforgettable. #BirdingScotland

Terrible photo through binoculars of a Ross’s Goose (white goose slightly smaller than Greylags nearby).

Through binocular photo of 4 Twites feeding in a field.

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Happy to finally connect with the Avocet on the Eden Estuary today despite the windy weather. Clear but distant views, my first time seeing one in Scotland. Plenty of Pink-footed Goose action, singing Skylark, and the usual waders and waterfowl. #FifeBirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Just wrapped up a uni hill walking and bird club trip in the west coast and highlands with @tombeckett02.bsky.social and friends. Black Guillemot and Great Northern Divers, both year ticks, gave great views. On the Munros, Golden Eagle and Ptarmigan were incredible to see as always #BirdingScotland

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Study break to twitch the Surf and White-winged Scoters at Leven, the choppy sea and strong winds made picking them out from the scoter flock tricky. No luck today. Plenty of Goldeneye and Long-tailed Ducks as consolation. (Not sure they were worth being splashed by the sea a few times) #FifeBirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Lovely day at Oare Marshes today. At least 2 Great White Egrets, 6 Spoonbils, 100s of Brent Geese, Grey and Golden Plover, Avocet, Pintail, 100s of Black-tailed Godwits, and plenty of Marsh Harrier action. #KentBirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Spent the last day of 2024 birding with a good friend at the London WWT. We were treated to a flying Bittern, Peregrine Falcon, and were surprised by a wintering ChiffChaff. Also briefly heard a Water Rail calling. Great way to wrap up a great year of birding. #LondonBirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Good birding this morning in Richmond Park. Little Owl and Nuthatch were highlights. But bird of the day was this (poorly photographed) Green Sandpiper, great views of it wading and that lovely white rump in flight. Still on the island at Upper Pen Pond when I left. #LondonBirding #SurreyBirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Had a wonderfully birdy Christmas Eve at the London WWT. With crippling views of Bittern fishing and brief glimpses of Bearded Tit (both lifers!). An overwintering Blackcap on the feeders certainly didn’t feel christmasy despite efforts made by a Redpoll to shift the day winterwards. #LondonBirding

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Tom Rosas @tomrosas.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Nice to be back in SW London for Christmas. A sunrise walk around Richmond Park yesterday failed to produce Woodcock. But happy to see 2 Raven and a Peregrine (both Park ticks for me) as well as one of the wintering Dartford Warblers (Lifer!). #surreybirding #londonbirding

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