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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 8h
Not exactly hooching with migrants at Balcomie Castle but Ring Ouzel and Pied Fly but the real surprise a Shore Lark lifting up from next to me at the edge of the track #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Only my second Balearic Shearwater of the year at Fife Ness this morning (pic, honest). Plus 3 juv Long-tailed Skua, a juv Pom and a few Arctic & Great Skua #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
More westerlies. Lots of juv Gannets departing Bass Rock over the last week week or so and passing Fife Ness. Eider moving about a bit more too now they’ve (mostly) completed their moult #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
An all-dayer at Fife Ness started with torrential rain and thunder/ lightening overhead. Other highlights 8 Long-tailed Skua including a family party(?) of 2 ads + 2 juvs, a juv Sabine’s Gull, 2 Pomarine Skua, 100’s of feeding Little Gull & amorning pulse of 5000 Razorbill S #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some Bottlenose Dolphin arsing about at Fife Ness + juv Long-tailed Skua pursuing a Kittiwake the highlights of an hour early morning #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lovely dawn at Fife Ness this morning but rather quiet in yet more westerlies. Several hundred Little Gull well offshore (built up to c.500 this evening with similar no’s of Kittiwake) pulled in a few Arctic Skua. #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oof #rarebirdsUK cbwps.org.uk/recent-sight...
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Sunday 20th September 2026 - Cornwall Birds (CBWPS)
Porthgwarra: 1 Red-billed Tropicbird. (P. Hall) RSPB Marazion Marsh: 2 Bearded Tit (1m, 1f), 1 Water Rail, 1 Kingfisher, 3 Reed Bunting, 2 Little Egret, 3 Grey Heron, 3 Cettis Warbler (heard), 2 Stone...
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Highlights from this evening at Fife Ness a pulse of 330 Little Gull north, watching a Great Skua effortlessly mug an adult Great Black-backed Gull, and a double rainbow #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A great tutorial by Mike McKee explaining how he edits his sea watching videos (and worth a look at his website for Cornish Soft-plumaged Petrel, Scopoli’s Shearwater, etc.) #seabirds #seawatching www.michaelmckee.co.uk/videos/tutor...
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
macaulaylibrary.org/asset/663618... Just spotted this video of the ‘mystery shearwater’ at Estaca de Bares, Spain in August. Well worth a look #seabirds #seawatching
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ML663618654 - shearwater sp. - Macaulay Library
Macaulay Library ML663618654; © Daniel López-Velasco | Ornis Birding Expeditions; A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Changing of the guard at Fife Ness this morning with a big push of Swallows departing south and my first Pink-footed Geese of the autumn arriving from the north. Also a Pomarine Skua and 8 Sooty Shearwater #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
juv Sabine’s Gull the highlight of an otherwise quiet hour at Fife Ness early morning #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Great Shearwater N past Fife Ness at 06:50 #birdingFife
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British Ornithologists’ Union (BOU) @bou.org.uk · 03/09/2026
NEW on #theBOUblog from Lucy McRobert We Just Want to Go Birding: Everyday sexism in birding and the nature sector adds up bou.org.uk/blog-mcro... #ornithology 🪶
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Adult Brown Booby just went north past Fife Ness 06:35 #birdingFife #rarebirdsUK
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’m usually well into September before my Fife year list breaks 200 so it’s clearly been a decent year so far. Just hope it’s not two duff autumns in a row… #birdingFife #ebird
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Great to see these two articles appear in the latest issue of Scottish Birds #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Better views of the Anstruther Bonaparte’s Gull this morning (handheld camera so apologies for the wobbling) #birdingFife #rarebirdsUK
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Great to see the adult Bonaparte’s Gull at Anstruther harbour yesterday afternoon, another great find by Ken Shaw. Slightly eclipsed the 5 Curlew Sand and Little Stint at Guardbridge earlier in the day #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The 3rd annual Fife Ness all day seawatch. Rather quiet so far (not a huge surprise considering the lovely weather) with Black Tern and 4 Sooty Shearwater the highlights #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Seawatching at Fife Ness has been very slow the last couple of days despite the seemingly promising weather but was definitely livened up by a Great Shearwater late afternoon of 21/0826 #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A summary of my June trip to Madeira including some hopefully helpful tips for the pelagics themselves chatterstanes.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/m...
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Madeira Pelagics etc., June 2026
I’d been contemplating for several years going on the Madeira seabird pelagic trips run each year by WindBirds and late in 2025 finally took the leap and booked in for early June 2026. I’ve been on…
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Martin Collinson @docmartin2mc.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Just out in Dutch Birding... Galea R, Collinson JM, Cleere N. 2026. European Nightjar of Asian subspecies plumipes in Malta in November 2024. Dutch Birding 48: 236-241. First for Europe. Note genetic split between western and eastern subspecies of European Nightjar @birdguides.bsky.social
Photo by Raymond Galea of pale European Nightjar(Eastern subspecies plumipes) in the hand, from Dutch BirdingPhylogenetic tree based on mitochondrial cytb showing deep genetic split between Western and Eastern European Nightjar subspecies, with the Maltese bird in the 'eastern' group.
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A detour to Morton Lochs this morning for Fife’s third Cattle Egret (the 1st being suppressed and the 2nd only briefly present). Presumably they’ll soon become as frequent as Little (now breeding) and Great White #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Almost stepping on a Quail during my lunchtime run was an unexpected highlight (for me at least if not the Quail) #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Eclipse watching London-style
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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched tiny shadows on a piece of paper through a kitchen utensil near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Drumroll time…
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Ah, so pleased that London’s got itself a church
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
TONIGHT, its the 40th @clarkeaward.bsky.social ceremony, and our very own @rainewilson.bsky.social is one of the finalists with her cli-fi novel THE SALT ORACLE! We wish all of the finalists the best of luck for this evening! (But especially Raine!) Buy: geni.us/saltorac
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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Brb gotta go buy some ritz biscuits. This is an epic way to watch the eclipse
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A bonkers number of Bulwer’s Petrel (106) past Estaca de Bares, Spain on the evening of 3rd August ebird.org/checklist/S3...
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eBird Checklist - 3 Aug 2026 - Estaca de Bares--Observatorio de aves y entorno - 1 species
Submitted by Antonio Sandoval.
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Fewer Sarnies this morning at Fife Ness but increase in Arctic, and 2 Roseate Tern (ad+juv) #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Good numbers of commoner terns past Fife Ness today including lots of juveniles. Highlights three adult Roseate Tern and a Black Guillemot (the latter rather surprisingly my first of the year) #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#birdingScotland #rarebirdsUK
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
#birdingScotland #rarebirdsUK
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
#rarebirdsUK
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#rarebirdsUK
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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This baby has gone back to my agent to hopefully be yeeted at editors in the near future, please pray for it!🖤 For all your faded baroque theatre in a flooded town needs, I offer you murders, weird feral children, possessed dancers, strange tides, a dying seamstress and bloodthirsty puppets...
a mood board for A Monstrous Theatre, featuring creepy theatre mask, sad wet man, flooded gothic building, dramatically draped over a chair gothic woman, bleeding ballet feet on broken glass, a moody stage spotlight, someone sewing lacy material, a wee candle in front of a mirror, some child figures running through fog and a creepy hare/wolf shadow puppet figure
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Birdingprof @birdingprof.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
OTD 40 yrs ago: This 1st for Britain; Red-necked Stint at Blacktoft. What started out as either un-ID’ed, and/or mis-ID’ed was eventually resolved, and seems so easy in hindsight. I remember RGM’s comment: “I went expecting a funny-looking Little Stint and saw a funny looking Robin.” #UKRareBirds
Red-necked Stint Blacktoft 1986

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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A rare visit to the Isle of May mid-week, somewhere that was very much home for a few years (a long time ago). Looking very brown in this hot dry summer. Late in the season so large auks gone, a few Puffin lingering. Struck by large gull decline. Didn’t see a single rabbit! #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A second pair of Ringed Plover with two chicks and their third egg still being incubated 🤞
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Reposting as seawatching season is here again:
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A big reduction in the number of Guillemot & Razorbill past Fife Ness this evening, reflecting the fledging of chicks no doubt. A Sooty Shearwater the highlight. #birdingFife
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A visit to the folks unearthed two books that I read repeatedly as a kiddo birder. The rares they describe seeing were the stuff of dreams. Interested to see what I think this time ‘round
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
30 mins at Frampton Marsh this morning- 2 Black-winged Stilt,1 Little Stint, 5 Spot Shank, 1 Green Sand, 14+ Spoonbill and a Quail calling, plus all the breeding stuff. Only been here a handful of times but one of my favourite reserves #rarebirdsUK #birdingLincs
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British Birds @britishbirds.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In light of Britain’s second Long-tailed Shrike, we’re taking a walk down memory lane to revisit the first, found on South Uist on 3–4 November 2000. Dive into the story behind this British first here: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti... 🎨 Bill Neill 🖋 Andrew Stevenson
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Our new commentary rdcu.be/ftx6h in @natecoevo.nature.com written with folks from @inaturalist.bsky.social and @cornellbirds.bsky.social shows that use of AI to manipulate existing or create new wildlife images undermines the huge value of vast citizen science databases. 🌍🪰🪶 #Ornithology 🧵 1/10
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Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI
Nature Ecology & Evolution - Citizen science platforms must mitigate against the threat of generative AI
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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
A short note on the White-billed Diver influx in Fife earlier this year #birdingFife #rarebirdsUK share.google/APKnCYS5XDl6...
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The 2026 White-billed Diver Wreck in Fife
Much of the latter part of January and early February 2026 in Fife was (like much of SE Scotland/ NE England) dominated by a prolonged period of strong easterly winds, rough seas and overcast and r…
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BirdTrack @birdtrack.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The influx of Quail has continued strongly over the last month. The latest weekly reporting rate of 2% is the highest recorded since BirdTrack began in 2004! #ukbirding
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