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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 5h

Kestrel today. #lincsbirding #ukbirding #kestrel #birds

Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 7h

Birds this morning - amazing! Long-tailed Tit, Kingfisher, Redpoll, Goldcrest. #lincsbirding #birds @alanball101.bsky.social

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 9h

Yep, from Dunwich Heath. Good to know. Nice to see anyway. Already had Barnacle with Pink-foots in Norfolk earlier in the year.

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 17h

What a fantastic trip… I will get to Scilly one day.

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 1d

Yes mate. The Snow Bunting would have been nice… saw it was still there after we left.

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yellowbellyontour.bsky.social @yellowbellyontour.bsky.social · 1d

Cracking day at Snettisham today, starting with a Leucistic Oyster Catcher, then a very obliging Red Necked Phalarope. Teamed up with @mattdenial.bsky.social to find the Greater Short-toed Lark. Then nipped to see the Lesser Yellow Leg.
#Norfolkbirding
#UKbirds
#cannonphotography

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 1d

Phalarope, obvs…

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 1d

#260 of year. Nice to see @yellowbellyontour.bsky.social - who found a Red-necked Palarope - and @paolobolton.bsky.social also.

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 1d

2/2. But never one to give up, I went back, for the 3rd time, to Snettisham beach to try and get the Greater Short-toed Lark and it couldn’t have been easier! Multiple views, some reasonably close. Just goes to show, it’s luck sometimes. They all fall eventually. #birds #ukbirding #norfolkbirding

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 1d

1/2. My last 3 birding trips have been unsuccessful. The Lark in Snettisham twice last week & this morning the R-T Shrike did a bunk as well. Saw large numbers of Barnacle Geese arriving, heard a Woodlark & this Dartford Warbler was bird #259 of year. #birds #ukbirding @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 1d

Wowzers! Nice one.

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant, as always!

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 5d

The back end of an Arctic Skua. Snettisham, 05/10/25. #birds #ukbirding #norfolkbirding

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 6d

No, working all week now. Another one for the ‘dip list’! Can’t remember missing the same bird 2 days on the trot before…

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 6d

Missed it by about 20mins, arrived at 2:40pm. While we were all down near the beach house it was seen in the original place again by 1 birder. Gone again when we walked back. Then showed again 45 mins after I left.

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 7d

Nice to meet to you, no luck for me after 2 hours of trying.

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks to @olibeacock.bsky.social for pointing out the Oystercatcher, nice to see you again!

Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks, it is indeed.

Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 7d

Stonechat, Snettisham today. #birds #ukbirding #stonechat #norfolkbirding

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 7d

A glutton for punishment, I dipped the Greater Short-toed Lark AGAIN today. Should have gone for the RT Shrike. I did see this Leucistic Oystercatcher though, as well as some fantastic wader movements. #birds #ukbirding #leucism #norfolkbirding #norfolkdoubledip

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 8d

A Slavonian Grebe at Collingham Pits was bird #257 of year, and the Lesser Yellowlegs at South Wootton was #258. No lifers today. #birds #ukbirding #nottsbirding #norfolkbirding

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 8d

No luck on a very windy Snettisham beach today looking for the Greater Short-toed Lark with some other birders (it’s just turned up, as soon as I’m home again). I did meet a ‘very famous’ birder who told me he’d seen it “about 10 times”… which was at least a source of amusement. #norfolkdipping

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 9d

Atrocious.

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Dave Roberts. @djrlincsbirder.bsky.social · 12d

Good month for finding a few local birds and about the county.
5th. 14 Whinchat, Frieston.
8th. 32 Glossy Ibis, M'ston.
10th. Crossbill, Denton.
12th. Cuckoo, Barkston.
18th. Pied fly, Woodhall, C Egret, Kirkby.
21st. 2 Glossy Ibis, M'ston.
27th. 14 Stonechat, Frieston.
#lincsbirding #ukbirding

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Matt D @mattdenial.bsky.social · 12d

Would have loved to go.. the family, less so! So that’s the reason for relief, not buggering off and leaving them for 0.5 a day, not because I wouldn’t enjoy the trip or the bird.

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