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Dan Foy

@dfoyliv.bsky.social

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Birding, Botany & all round wildlife bothering, with a scattering of LFC & music. Time consumed by fatherhood. Scouse Lefty 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🍀 Flickr: https://flickr.com/photos/33376309@N05 YouTube: https://youtube.com/@southliverpoolbirder?si=ECCbrh4EYs1KFCPU

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 6d

A tremendous number of birds migrating through Oglet at dawn; huge no's of chaffinch, mipit, skylark, fieldfare, jackdaws, woodpigeon etc, 17 brambling & a ring ouzel; attracting 2 merlins & marsh harrier! Also 70 Avocet, 13k pinks, 10 GWE, 13 GCG out on the Mersey @mbblerc.bsky.social

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 6d

#WeBS Icelandic Breeding Goose Survey on the Mersey this morning. A whopping 13k Pink-footed Geese left their sandbanks roost with 8k heading north into Lancs and 5k into Cheshire, 2 Barnacles mixed in too. #GSMP #Mersey #geese @webs-gsmp.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @mbblerc.bsky.social

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 7d

20 odd years since the Bandits last played...what a treat to see them back and playing the M&S Arena, Liverpool...more to come? #Liverpool #Bandits #music #arts

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 7d

#FungiFriday Fly Agaric, Penny Bun, Panther Cap & Crimson Waxcap in a Denbighshire woodland this week #fungi #Autumn #Denbighshire

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 8d

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 8d

Large numbers of birds migrating overhead during this mornings dog walk, big numbers of skylark, chaffinch, fieldfare, stock dove & woodpigeon, a peregrine on the hunt & 2 ravens NW, the best being 2 Red Kites east over Sudley House! #Lancsbirding ##UKBIRDING #migration #autumn @mbblerc.bsky.social

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 9d

It's not Autumn without a snoozing Dormouse!
The last of 2025's Denbighshire Dormouse surveys...good numbers found & it would appear that it's been a good breeding season for them,🤞for a safe uninterrupted hibernation. #Dormice #Denbighshire

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 14d

'Are you sure?'

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 14d

Common pips everywhere during my evening dog walk...virtually the entire 3km accompanied by them...looks to have been a very good year for them locally @mbblerc.bsky.social #Pipistrelles #bats

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 15d

I'm lucky to have Risley Moss SSSI 2mins away from the office... what better excuse for a lunchtime stroll!

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 19d

Mersey #LeachsPetrel fest today; always tougher to connect upstream compared with the action in the river mouth; yet a Leach's, Kittiwake & 5 Com Scoter off the Brittania was a decent haul early PM; topped off with a Leach's at dusk from Otterspool prom @mbblerc.bsky.social #UKBIRDING #Lancsbirding

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 23d

Chuffed to find this colony of Ivy Bees today at Liverpool CC. First discovered as 'new to science' in the Mediterranean in 1993 & not recorded in the UK until 2001; the northward march continues apace! @mbblerc.bsky.social @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social ...nice one for the ID @peterbrash.bsky.social

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 29d

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 29d

Following Jason's death last year, we are heading on a sponsored 17ml hike. We are raising awareness of #Epilepsy #SUDEP the rare condition which took Jason from us and raising funds for SUDEP Action.
If you can donate in the link below it would be greatly appreciated:

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · Sep 24

Licenced #Dormouse surveys in #Denbighshire today. Looks to have been a good breeding season for them, with plenty found, including a female with an active litter bouncing about!

Also the lovely Magpie Inkcap #fungi, the first time that I've seen this species, which isnt that common.

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · Sep 24

The #Mersey looking amazing at low tide this evening

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Sep 21

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · Sep 16

Fantastic #seawatch from the Brittania on the #Mersey between 12:20 & 13:20. Leach's Petrel, juv Sabines Gull, ad & juv Black Terns, 4 Arctic Tern, 4 Kittiwake, 3 Common Scoter, ad & 2nd w Med Gull, & Peregrine! @mbblerc.bsky.social #LeachsPetrel #seabirds #UKBIRDING #Lancsbirding

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · Aug 31

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · Aug 31

Yep, a rare variant of the dune helleborine.

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · Aug 31

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · Aug 25

Trentham Gardens, Staffordshire today; a lovely site with tonnes of wildlife...kingfishers, sand martins, little egrets & plenty of Beaver field signs @beavertrust.bsky.social #Beavers

Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · Aug 24

Four LARGE COPPER butterflies (and their eggs laid on Water Dock) at the recently discovered West Midlands site this afternoon. Amazing to see this once extinct species back...whatever its provenance! #largecopper #butterfly

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