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Ella Benninghaus @ellalillyy.bsky.social · Aug 17

I have been trying to make time for pottery alongside my PhD. I did my first official market last weekend at the Bowhouse. I was very nervous before but it was so lovely to speak to so many people about my work! I have added a few leftover pieces to my new website the-puffins-burrow.sumupstore.com 🐧

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Bruce Taylor @barrabirder.bsky.social · May 23

Just found an absolutely stonking male Collared Flycatcher at Creachan, a species I've been dreaming of finding for years! This is the first for Barra and the third for the Outer Hebrides. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK

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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · May 2

Getting nest material is hard work, especially if it's windy!

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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · Mar 25

Just the bog standard wildlife sighting from one's house

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Nina O'Hanlon @ninaohanlon.bsky.social · Mar 25

A nice distraction this afternoon with 4 Humpback Whales cruising past the house 💙

Back and dorsal fin of a Humpback Whale surfacing the sea

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Víctor J. Hernández @victorjhernandez.bsky.social · Mar 25

Es el momento de empaparse de este libro. ¡Los pájaros ya están a tope! LOS CANTOS DE LAS AVES, de Dave Langlois con prólogo de @joaquinaraujop.bsky.social

www.tundraediciones.es

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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · Mar 21

Seabirds 2025 are go!

Skokholm Island @skokholmisland.bsky.social · Mar 21

Yesterday the Puffin army returned, creeping closer and closer which allowed us to do a whole-island count. A staggering 13,174 were counted rafting, the highest number since 1934! Today, they made their first 2025 landfall, two days earlier than the 2013-2024 first birds ashore mean. Welcome home!

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Fair Isle Bird Observatory @fairislebirdobs.bsky.social · Mar 9

FIBO's permanent staff back on the Isle and the Observatory refit continues apace. Keep up to date with ornithological updates via our latest sighting page: www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/latest_sight...
📸A Penn #birdingshetland #shetlandbirds #birdobservatories

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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · Feb 24

An unforgettable morning finding 4 rouzels only an hour from our house

Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · Feb 23

Out looking for wintering Ring Ouzels in an area I'd never visited before in Gredos. Pretty much exclusively juniper and rock. A very cool landscape, and we managed to see 4 ringos!

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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · Feb 23

Out looking for wintering Ring Ouzels in an area I'd never visited before in Gredos. Pretty much exclusively juniper and rock. A very cool landscape, and we managed to see 4 ringos!

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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · Feb 22

A day of contrasts. Several flocks of wintering Cranes starting their northward migration whilst the first Swallows and Subalpine Warblers are already here in Extremadura. A delicious 18°C compared to the miserable 4° when I left Aberdeen. And everything is already singing!

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Dave Langlois @davelanglois.bsky.social · Feb 12

Empezando con un basto graznido hace unos 60 millones de años, las vocalizaciones de las aves se han desarrollado hasta el sinfín de composiciones musicales que vamos a oír y disfrutar en los próximos meses. ¿Cómo? ¿Por qué?

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Alex Penn @alex-penn.bsky.social · Feb 10

It's been a quiet winter for Short-eared Owls in Orkney, perhaps unsurprising after such poor autumn passage through
@fairislebirdobs.bsky.social. Extra special then to bump into a roadside group of three birds - hunting, chasing and occasionally bickering with a passing Hen Harrier

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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · Jan 26

We found this lovely Common Scoter on the beach yesterday, wet and unable to fly after the storm. After a night of rest and food at home, it was very lively and ready to go this morning, flying out to sea straight away! Can I count it for the house list?

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · Jan 22

And the more usual current situation with Ptarmigan, in Ruadh Stac Mòr, Ceann Loch Iù. White patches of lichen on the rocks providing a bit of camouflage with the lack of snow! #BirdingScotland #highlandbirds

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Tom Gale @tomgale98.bsky.social · Jan 18

Watercolour of one of my favourite moments last year watching a Greenish Warbler feeding amongst the sycamores at Valyie, Unst #birds #birdart #BirdingScotland

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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · Jan 12

Amazing scenes in Aberdeen this morning - Donmouth almost completely frozen over!

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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · Jan 11

One of those dreamy winter days. Not a breath of wind, a maximum temperature of -7C°, and great quantities of snow and ice at Glen Tanar today ❄️❄️

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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · Jan 2

A gorgeous start to 2025, hopefully a good omen for the year ❄️

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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · Dec 28

Any day you see Ptarmigan is a great day. Even more so when they are so close you can film them with your phone! #ukbirding #birds

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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · Dec 26

Beavers!

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Sam Langlois @naturalistsam.bsky.social · Dec 24

Staying at a lodge in Perthshire for the week and I was very surprised to see 4 Whooper Swans in the small pool alongside a male Mandarin!

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Alex Penn @alex-penn.bsky.social · Dec 17

A well-timed visit to the Loons this morning resulted in another brief view of the Bittern that’s currently in residence, as it crept across an open channel in the reeds #OrkneyBirds

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · Dec 17

1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding

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Richard D. Gregory @richgreg3.bsky.social · Dec 10

2024 biodiversity indicators are in... If a wake-up call was needed to show the UK is failing nature, this is it.

Short-term trends show progress stalling or reversing. 📉🚨

To meet 2030 targets, we need nature-friendly farming, smart planning &investment in nature now
jncc.gov.uk/news/uk-biod...

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