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MarcM381

@aquilabirding2.bsky.social

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Lifelong birder special interests in Raptors of the world, vagrancy, paleoanthropology, herps 🐍NTH↕️STH.

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MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 6h

Dichotomous as in which one to choose.

a baby is eating a piece of food with the words decisions decisions written on the bottom .

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MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 10h

WHITE-THROATED NEEDLETAIL relocated at Bempton Cliffs.
📷 photo by Andy Hood.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 10h

SHORT-TOED LARK still in situ at Snettisham RSPB.
📷 photo by Paul Nobbs.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 12h

📷 photos by Mr and Mrs Madison.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 12h

WHITE-THROATED NEEDLETAIL ‼️ Tophill low, Yorkshire.
📷 photo credit to follow.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 12h

WHITE-THROATED NEEDLETAIL ‼️ Tophill low, Yorkshire.
📷 photo credit to follow.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 14h

While there's aristocracy they'll be 'illegal' hunting they're almost untouchable by law and know it.

Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 15h

Neil Duncan-Jordan, MP for Poole, has warned that loopholes in current laws are allowing fox hunting to continue under different names despite the 2005 ban.

He has written to Angela Eagle, the new minister for rural affairs, urging her to act “before another season of suffering.”

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 15h

NORTHERN PARULA, Firkeel, Co Cork.
📷 gripping image by Baist of Birding.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 1d

One of Scooters offspring?

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 1d

SPECTACLED EIDER has returned to Texel, Netherlands.
📷 photo by Rodney Stolk.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 1d

(Juv) BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, Loch Paible, North Uist.
📷 photos by Steve Duffield.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 1d

NORTHERN PARULA, Firkeel Glen, Co Cork.
📷 BOC image by B. Mcloskey.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 2d

WESTERN SUBALPINE WARBLER today at Levenwick, Shetland.
📷 photo by Paul Frost.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 2d

1st-w SIBERIAN THRUSH still present at Asta, Shetland.
📷 eye-popping image by Hugh Harrop.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 2d

Chose to take out the wrong camera for this image should've used my Digiscoping camera, on the right.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 3d

Further gripping images of the SIBERIAN THRUSH on Asta.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 3d

GREEN SANDPIPER in the same spot.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 3d

Is that a Parrot on your arm sir ? No it's a feckin ISABELLINE WHEATEAR!!!!

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 3d

You tend to get a lot of near duplicate images but the setting is good for fast moving birds such as Warblers.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 4d

One of those images you get when you have your camera settings at 'rapid fire' GREENISH WARBLER.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 4d

LITTLE EGRET 40yrs ago considered a rarity now a common sight in wetland areas.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 4d

SWAINSON'S THRUSH for it's 6th day in a Co Donegal garden.
📷 photos by Ian Stevenson.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 5d

TURKESTAN SHRIKE today at Dunwich Heath.
📷 photo by John Richardson.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 5d

Archive, August 2025, GREENISH WARBLER, Ness Point.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 6d

BLYTH'S REED WARBLER, Burravoe, Yell, Shetland.
📷 photo by Gerry Rawcliffe.

MarcM381 @aquilabirding2.bsky.social · 6d

SIBERIAN THRUSH, Loch of Asta, Shetland, #SuperSibe
📷 photo by Daniel Gebauer.