Ed Keeble
@edkeeble.bsky.social
Bird artist. Colour-ring reader.
Flat calm first thing- GC Grebe looking like its been tie-pinned on a swatch of Paul Smith fabric
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Flat calm first thing- GC Grebe looking like its been tie-pinned on a swatch of Paul Smith fabric
It has taken a bit of legwork to get this GW Egret at Alton Water decoded (well done to Laurence Potter for tip-off that we had a bangled one there). Turns out it is from NE Poland, border with Lithuania. I've seen a couple of reports from Belarus, so fits the pattern. #UKBirding
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
It has taken a bit of legwork to get this GW Egret at Alton Water decoded (well done to Laurence Potter for tip-off that we had a bangled one there). Turns out it is from NE Poland, border with Lithuania. I've seen a couple of reports from Belarus, so fits the pattern. #UKBirding
Top detour thanks to Great Bustard Group on way back from some non-birdy doings down south- these two big boyz on Salisbury Plain standing tall in sluicing rain I guess so water doesn't puddle on their mighty backs #BirdArt
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Top detour thanks to Great Bustard Group on way back from some non-birdy doings down south- these two big boyz on Salisbury Plain standing tall in sluicing rain I guess so water doesn't puddle on their mighty backs #BirdArt
Too much time on wadery data entry at the mo, but just time to add a Turnstone bodyrocking a floating goose carcase to the ouevre.
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Too much time on wadery data entry at the mo, but just time to add a Turnstone bodyrocking a floating goose carcase to the ouevre.
Important to keep the rainbow list moving along. Greenshank, Barwit and Grey Plover added in one hit along the Stour this evening. Brent, Redshank and Knot just rainbow year ticks.
October 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Important to keep the rainbow list moving along. Greenshank, Barwit and Grey Plover added in one hit along the Stour this evening. Brent, Redshank and Knot just rainbow year ticks.
We've got a pearly king of Grey Plover on the Stour this week- big round white tips to all its uppers and no sign of wear that I have seen yet, so pretty sure it is a bit of moulto madness. #Birdart
October 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
We've got a pearly king of Grey Plover on the Stour this week- big round white tips to all its uppers and no sign of wear that I have seen yet, so pretty sure it is a bit of moulto madness. #Birdart
You might think the most exciting yellow rectangle of the autumn would be the glowing arseplaster of a Pallas's Warbler- but no- it has to be the flag on Knot VXY arriving a week early on the Stour for at least its twelfth consecutive season #UKbirding
October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
You might think the most exciting yellow rectangle of the autumn would be the glowing arseplaster of a Pallas's Warbler- but no- it has to be the flag on Knot VXY arriving a week early on the Stour for at least its twelfth consecutive season #UKbirding
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Featuring a Desertas petrel that stunned scientists by chasing a tropical storm (see their incredible chase mapped here!), tiny nightingales that cross the Sahara twice a year, and Bewick's swans that have changed their stopovers and diet
October 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Featuring a Desertas petrel that stunned scientists by chasing a tropical storm (see their incredible chase mapped here!), tiny nightingales that cross the Sahara twice a year, and Bewick's swans that have changed their stopovers and diet
Making the most of mild adversity- I’m grounded with a dinged back, but discover my walking stick doubles nice as a brush rest.#Birdart
October 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Making the most of mild adversity- I’m grounded with a dinged back, but discover my walking stick doubles nice as a brush rest.#Birdart
Little rascals still busy this week- here one trying to swipe a mouse off the Kestrel, which foiled it by flipping onto the roof slope and holding the mouse out of sight. #BirdArt
October 10, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Little rascals still busy this week- here one trying to swipe a mouse off the Kestrel, which foiled it by flipping onto the roof slope and holding the mouse out of sight. #BirdArt
Today the Hobby kits have been learning about crows- no protection on hand from the adults as the female is long departed and the male doesn't do child minding except for feeding... happy ending as the grabbed bird got rescued in fine style by its siblings. #UKbirding
September 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Today the Hobby kits have been learning about crows- no protection on hand from the adults as the female is long departed and the male doesn't do child minding except for feeding... happy ending as the grabbed bird got rescued in fine style by its siblings. #UKbirding
GBBG looking pleasingly like a Lammergeier whilst chugging a flattie yesterday afternoon.
September 18, 2025 at 9:15 AM
GBBG looking pleasingly like a Lammergeier whilst chugging a flattie yesterday afternoon.
Some weather at last! Curlew Sand being biffed by the wind on the roost today before nipping round the corner to get in the leeside of things. #UKbirding
September 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Some weather at last! Curlew Sand being biffed by the wind on the roost today before nipping round the corner to get in the leeside of things. #UKbirding
First few juv Knot coming through here- must be bloody irritating to make it 4,000Km from Ellesmere Island or wherever and then have a Manila clam (I guess) clamp onto your hind toe when you land. #UKbirding
August 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
First few juv Knot coming through here- must be bloody irritating to make it 4,000Km from Ellesmere Island or wherever and then have a Manila clam (I guess) clamp onto your hind toe when you land. #UKbirding
Plovers scuttling about on the baked crust of the salting this evening- here's lumpen juv Ringed Plover versus elfin juv Little Ringed Plover #UKbirding
August 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Plovers scuttling about on the baked crust of the salting this evening- here's lumpen juv Ringed Plover versus elfin juv Little Ringed Plover #UKbirding
Just to confirm that the young GBBG is now the size of small donkey.
August 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Just to confirm that the young GBBG is now the size of small donkey.
Been doing a bit of long overdue taxonomy catch-up. I've got my head around divers no longer being at the front of the bird book, but cuckoos between bustards and sandgrouse is going to take a bit of getting used to. #UKbirding
July 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Been doing a bit of long overdue taxonomy catch-up. I've got my head around divers no longer being at the front of the bird book, but cuckoos between bustards and sandgrouse is going to take a bit of getting used to. #UKbirding
Some weather at last! Not enough rain to lay the dust, but four inbound Knot plopped in and hauled out behind the Co-op. #UKBirding
July 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Some weather at last! Not enough rain to lay the dust, but four inbound Knot plopped in and hauled out behind the Co-op. #UKBirding
There's consequences to having GBBG on the river- but hats off to this Shelduck who has successfully defended seven chicks for a week without loss despite daily check ups from the beast. #BirdArt
July 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
There's consequences to having GBBG on the river- but hats off to this Shelduck who has successfully defended seven chicks for a week without loss despite daily check ups from the beast. #BirdArt
A bit of late season chickery down on the roost- Redshanks hatched in last week, so after the first godwits are back. The gatepost has been there since at least 1900 so has hosted more than 125 years of yelping Redshanks. #UKbirding
July 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
A bit of late season chickery down on the roost- Redshanks hatched in last week, so after the first godwits are back. The gatepost has been there since at least 1900 so has hosted more than 125 years of yelping Redshanks. #UKbirding
Shame you can't paint sounds- had a Peregrine follow me across a field and who00osh straight over my shoulder trying to take a Skylark. #BirdArt
July 5, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Shame you can't paint sounds- had a Peregrine follow me across a field and who00osh straight over my shoulder trying to take a Skylark. #BirdArt
Tempting to think that all gulls are rampant everywhere, but GBBG is still staying classy- as far as i can tell there's none pairs in Essex, just a couple in Suffolk inc. this one which escorted me off the premises whilst I was trying to count the early season Curlew. #UKbirding
June 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Tempting to think that all gulls are rampant everywhere, but GBBG is still staying classy- as far as i can tell there's none pairs in Essex, just a couple in Suffolk inc. this one which escorted me off the premises whilst I was trying to count the early season Curlew. #UKbirding