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Simon 📹 🎸📷

@therockinbirder.bsky.social

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Great Guitar player 🎸 Average Birder, Good togger 📷 R7 Pulsar Axion XG35 And the odd twitch UK LL 401 Patch LL 129 Dorset 🍻 ♒ Joined March 2024

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 2d

I had to go take a look at the B-T Grackle today, It seemed well happy milling around the boats at Calshot, When I left it was rummaging around in a skip, he must have felt right at home. #ukbirding #birds #ornithology 🦉

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Paul, In the right place at the right time.

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 3d

Pallas's warbler at Portland this Am @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social #ukbirding #dorsetbirds #birds #ornithology

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Steve Groves @swannerysteve.bsky.social · 8d

Baikal Teal still present today on Chesil/Fleet shoreline. 3 Scaup in embayment. Probably all viewable from tank traps but note there is strictly no access along the beach beyond the fence there. Swannery Grounds now closed for winter. @joestockwell.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 8d

Brilliant piece debunking the nonsense claim in the Daily Telegraph. But it’s dangerous nonsense, polarising attitudes & whipping up prejudice.

The DTelegraph is such a shit newspaper. Oh, and the photo? Staged - captive eagle, already-dead lamb.

Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 9d

Victorian attitudes towards birds of prey in the UK are fueled by sensationalist fear-mongering like this, published routinely by mainstream media.

#RaptorResearch

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/28/a...

Absurd claim that White-tailed Eagles ‘snatched’ five Shetland ponies leads to inevitable call to ‘shoot eagles’

The absurd claim that White-tailed Eagles had ‘snatched’ five Shetland pony foals on South Uist hit the headlines at the end of August. A crofter / farmer named Donald Cameron said that…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 8d

GWE in the field viewed from footpath leading to the Sun Inn Dorchester now, @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social 🪶

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 15d

Still a couple of Black redstarts on my patch @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social 🪶

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 18d

Patch

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 18d

Got me Cattle egret last week Brett

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 18d

2 Black redstarts still at Charminster @rarebirder.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 18d

8 Corn bunting on my patch this AM never thought I'd see that many, + 100+ Linnets 20+ Chaffinch 20+ Yellowhammer @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social #ukbirding #dorsetbirds 🪶

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 19d

Two Black redstart on my yesterday here's one of them 🦉 #dorsetbirds #ukbirding @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 19d

I can't believe I've just had a Dartford warbler on the new housing estate at Charminster that's Nuts, trying to relocate it + Black redstart @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 20d

Near the Bird Observatory Kris

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks NJ Birding 🙏

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 20d

This short eared owl took me by surprise on Portland yesterday when it snuck up behind me, after fumbling around with me camera with completely the wrong settings I managed a few shots. #ukbirding #birds #dorsetbirds #ornithology @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social 🦉

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 21d

Baikal teal Abbotsbury @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 22d

Red-backed shrike on Portland this Am 🦉 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social #dorsetbirds #ukbirding #ornithology

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Kate R. @kredp.bsky.social · 26d

The aftermath, still smouldering in places. #muirburn #cnpa #dinnetnnr #tarland

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 26d

Why Aren’t We Using Bird-Safe Glass? www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/I...

Why Aren’t We Using Bird-Safe Glass?

Decades of research show that simple design choices can prevent millions of bird deaths each year – yet most buildings remain deadly

www.rarebirdalert.co.uk

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 27d

📣You really couldn't make this up!

On the day Scottish Govt announces it is delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing, this happens...

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/09/b...

Breaking news….’out of control muirburn’ on grouse moor in Cairngorms National Park

You couldn’t make this up if you tried… Breaking News….on the day the Scottish Government announced it was delaying, for a second time, the implementation of muirburn licensing af…

raptorpersecutionuk.org

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · 27d

Female Crossbill #ukbirding #dorsetbirds 🦉

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Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · Oct 6

That one could have well beaten the record if some 🧠less moron hadn't shot it.

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · Oct 5

Yes

Simon 📹 🎸📷 @therockinbirder.bsky.social · Oct 5

Not an easy bird to see in Dorset, Pink-footed goose. I've seen two this year 🦉 #dorsetbirds #ukbirding @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

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