Dawn Erskine
@dawnbirder.bsky.social
Notts birder.
Landlocked #PatchBirding
Banner pics = patch finds + 4 Common Cranes & a Garganey
Walk/Bird/Learn/Repeat
Mostly #LowCarbon choices
#UKBirding
#Vegan
Landlocked #PatchBirding
Banner pics = patch finds + 4 Common Cranes & a Garganey
Walk/Bird/Learn/Repeat
Mostly #LowCarbon choices
#UKBirding
#Vegan
A grand day at Titchwell take 3 🎬
70 species, best being a confiding year tick Firecrest (too fast, too close for a snap), a lovely 1w ♂️ Brambling.
2 poss 3 Merlin on the marsh. One blasted through flushing a flock of Wigeon & perched up. 22 Ruff & a smart Water Pipit.
So much to enjoy & learn 🪶
70 species, best being a confiding year tick Firecrest (too fast, too close for a snap), a lovely 1w ♂️ Brambling.
2 poss 3 Merlin on the marsh. One blasted through flushing a flock of Wigeon & perched up. 22 Ruff & a smart Water Pipit.
So much to enjoy & learn 🪶
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 AM
A grand day at Titchwell take 3 🎬
70 species, best being a confiding year tick Firecrest (too fast, too close for a snap), a lovely 1w ♂️ Brambling.
2 poss 3 Merlin on the marsh. One blasted through flushing a flock of Wigeon & perched up. 22 Ruff & a smart Water Pipit.
So much to enjoy & learn 🪶
70 species, best being a confiding year tick Firecrest (too fast, too close for a snap), a lovely 1w ♂️ Brambling.
2 poss 3 Merlin on the marsh. One blasted through flushing a flock of Wigeon & perched up. 22 Ruff & a smart Water Pipit.
So much to enjoy & learn 🪶
#PatchBirding today. Returning Caspian gull was slumming it on a tern raft, calling & displaying.
Have I noticed Dunnock undertail coverts before? Goosander roost 50+
Still watching clips of a lovely round bellied Pipit from Friday & finally decided that it is a Water Pipit 1/2
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Have I noticed Dunnock undertail coverts before? Goosander roost 50+
Still watching clips of a lovely round bellied Pipit from Friday & finally decided that it is a Water Pipit 1/2
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
November 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
#PatchBirding today. Returning Caspian gull was slumming it on a tern raft, calling & displaying.
Have I noticed Dunnock undertail coverts before? Goosander roost 50+
Still watching clips of a lovely round bellied Pipit from Friday & finally decided that it is a Water Pipit 1/2
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Have I noticed Dunnock undertail coverts before? Goosander roost 50+
Still watching clips of a lovely round bellied Pipit from Friday & finally decided that it is a Water Pipit 1/2
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
An excellent rainy day birding, listen. Recordings that augment experience in the field.
And how else am I likely to hear all those (or any) Tengmalms? Bliss
And how else am I likely to hear all those (or any) Tengmalms? Bliss
open.spotify.com/episode/1dlD...
Uncovering the migration patterns of Tengmalm’s Owl in Northern Sweden.
Wild Bird Acoustics brings you the penultimate episode of season 2.
Now Live!
Uncovering the migration patterns of Tengmalm’s Owl in Northern Sweden.
Wild Bird Acoustics brings you the penultimate episode of season 2.
Now Live!
The Long Black Veil; Uncovering the Secret World of Tengmalm's Owl
open.spotify.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
An excellent rainy day birding, listen. Recordings that augment experience in the field.
And how else am I likely to hear all those (or any) Tengmalms? Bliss
And how else am I likely to hear all those (or any) Tengmalms? Bliss
All day birding at Titchwell. 68 species today, 76 for the trip.
Got off to a good start spotting a Firecrest whilst walking into the reserve 🔥
Other highlights: Brambling (nice call), 2 Merlin ♂️ & a ♀️ type.
No owls sadly, despite continuing to scope the Marsh from the bus stop #LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Got off to a good start spotting a Firecrest whilst walking into the reserve 🔥
Other highlights: Brambling (nice call), 2 Merlin ♂️ & a ♀️ type.
No owls sadly, despite continuing to scope the Marsh from the bus stop #LowCarbonBirding 🪶
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
All day birding at Titchwell. 68 species today, 76 for the trip.
Got off to a good start spotting a Firecrest whilst walking into the reserve 🔥
Other highlights: Brambling (nice call), 2 Merlin ♂️ & a ♀️ type.
No owls sadly, despite continuing to scope the Marsh from the bus stop #LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Got off to a good start spotting a Firecrest whilst walking into the reserve 🔥
Other highlights: Brambling (nice call), 2 Merlin ♂️ & a ♀️ type.
No owls sadly, despite continuing to scope the Marsh from the bus stop #LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Cley Marshes for a talk about Emma Turner.
Birding in hail & watching birds' reactions. A Common Gull looked skyward, Marsh Harrier stayed put, Avocet carried on feeding.
Enjoyed Pinks, Gulls & Harriers roost at sunset.
Waxwing pic by Turner, the first time they were photo'ed.
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Birding in hail & watching birds' reactions. A Common Gull looked skyward, Marsh Harrier stayed put, Avocet carried on feeding.
Enjoyed Pinks, Gulls & Harriers roost at sunset.
Waxwing pic by Turner, the first time they were photo'ed.
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Cley Marshes for a talk about Emma Turner.
Birding in hail & watching birds' reactions. A Common Gull looked skyward, Marsh Harrier stayed put, Avocet carried on feeding.
Enjoyed Pinks, Gulls & Harriers roost at sunset.
Waxwing pic by Turner, the first time they were photo'ed.
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Birding in hail & watching birds' reactions. A Common Gull looked skyward, Marsh Harrier stayed put, Avocet carried on feeding.
Enjoyed Pinks, Gulls & Harriers roost at sunset.
Waxwing pic by Turner, the first time they were photo'ed.
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Common Sandpiper, Greenshank & Lesser Yellowlegs at Etton-Maxey Pits back in September for #WaderWednesday
On pig jaw pit, named after someone finding a pig jaw there, but I can find no further info.
One of the #LowCarbonBirding ticks that constitute 90% of my 2025 year list
🪶
On pig jaw pit, named after someone finding a pig jaw there, but I can find no further info.
One of the #LowCarbonBirding ticks that constitute 90% of my 2025 year list
🪶
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Common Sandpiper, Greenshank & Lesser Yellowlegs at Etton-Maxey Pits back in September for #WaderWednesday
On pig jaw pit, named after someone finding a pig jaw there, but I can find no further info.
One of the #LowCarbonBirding ticks that constitute 90% of my 2025 year list
🪶
On pig jaw pit, named after someone finding a pig jaw there, but I can find no further info.
One of the #LowCarbonBirding ticks that constitute 90% of my 2025 year list
🪶
Enjoyed #PatchBirding
Teeming with birds this morning. Yummy flocks to look through. Caspian Gull the scarcest, preening in a line of Cormorants & Lapwings.
Siskin nos building & Goldcrests were getting shirty. Thrushes & ducks. Floodgates were closed & Mallard pairs floated across flooded paths 🪶
Teeming with birds this morning. Yummy flocks to look through. Caspian Gull the scarcest, preening in a line of Cormorants & Lapwings.
Siskin nos building & Goldcrests were getting shirty. Thrushes & ducks. Floodgates were closed & Mallard pairs floated across flooded paths 🪶
November 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Enjoyed #PatchBirding
Teeming with birds this morning. Yummy flocks to look through. Caspian Gull the scarcest, preening in a line of Cormorants & Lapwings.
Siskin nos building & Goldcrests were getting shirty. Thrushes & ducks. Floodgates were closed & Mallard pairs floated across flooded paths 🪶
Teeming with birds this morning. Yummy flocks to look through. Caspian Gull the scarcest, preening in a line of Cormorants & Lapwings.
Siskin nos building & Goldcrests were getting shirty. Thrushes & ducks. Floodgates were closed & Mallard pairs floated across flooded paths 🪶
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Hen Harrier ‘Susie’, whose chicks were stamped to death in 2022, has been found dead on a North Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries
If ever there was an example demonstrating the high level of persecution faced by Hen Harriers on UK grouse moors, the lack of consequences for the offenders, and the lack of justice for the victim…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Hen Harrier Susie, whose chicks were stamped to death on a Yorkshire Dales grouse moor in 2022, has been found dead on a N Pennines grouse moor with gunshot injuries.
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
18+ months of silence about this crime from the police & Natural England.
#RaptorResearch
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/14/h...
Influx of Dusky Warblers at present with 3 at Flamborough yesterday!
Just twitched the Leics bird. The most exciting split second I've had in a while.
Great site with YBW etc recently. A fair few birds & habitat to enjoy.
GS Wood the only bird that lingered for a snap 🪶
#LowCarbonBirding
Just twitched the Leics bird. The most exciting split second I've had in a while.
Great site with YBW etc recently. A fair few birds & habitat to enjoy.
GS Wood the only bird that lingered for a snap 🪶
#LowCarbonBirding
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Influx of Dusky Warblers at present with 3 at Flamborough yesterday!
Just twitched the Leics bird. The most exciting split second I've had in a while.
Great site with YBW etc recently. A fair few birds & habitat to enjoy.
GS Wood the only bird that lingered for a snap 🪶
#LowCarbonBirding
Just twitched the Leics bird. The most exciting split second I've had in a while.
Great site with YBW etc recently. A fair few birds & habitat to enjoy.
GS Wood the only bird that lingered for a snap 🪶
#LowCarbonBirding
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising.
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Worrying reports of bird flu (avian influenza) are coming in, including an outbreak in Whooper Swans in the Fens. Other waterbirds are also being affected, and cases are rising.
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
📷 Sick Whooper Swan by Kane Brides
#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland
Lots to enjoy at the patch.
Scaup, Siskins, Caspian Gull, 8 Snipe, 2 Green Sand, showy Water Rail, Goldeneye displaying & calling.
At dusk Goosander numbers are increasing 45+ so far & a small murmuration of Starlings. Pied Wag roost building at the train station
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
Scaup, Siskins, Caspian Gull, 8 Snipe, 2 Green Sand, showy Water Rail, Goldeneye displaying & calling.
At dusk Goosander numbers are increasing 45+ so far & a small murmuration of Starlings. Pied Wag roost building at the train station
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Lots to enjoy at the patch.
Scaup, Siskins, Caspian Gull, 8 Snipe, 2 Green Sand, showy Water Rail, Goldeneye displaying & calling.
At dusk Goosander numbers are increasing 45+ so far & a small murmuration of Starlings. Pied Wag roost building at the train station
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
Scaup, Siskins, Caspian Gull, 8 Snipe, 2 Green Sand, showy Water Rail, Goldeneye displaying & calling.
At dusk Goosander numbers are increasing 45+ so far & a small murmuration of Starlings. Pied Wag roost building at the train station
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
Today is World Vegan Day! If you are concerned about climate change, reducing meat and dairy in your diet is one of the most powerful individual actions you can take.
"The effect of our modern meat production on the environment is truly terrifying." Jane Goodall news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...
"The effect of our modern meat production on the environment is truly terrifying." Jane Goodall news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...
Why I Went Plant-Based (And Why We Should All Eat Less Meat)
Dr. Goodall went plant-based after confronting what that meat represents: pain. Since, she learned more reasons why the work to #eatmeatless is important.
news.janegoodall.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Today is World Vegan Day! If you are concerned about climate change, reducing meat and dairy in your diet is one of the most powerful individual actions you can take.
"The effect of our modern meat production on the environment is truly terrifying." Jane Goodall news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...
"The effect of our modern meat production on the environment is truly terrifying." Jane Goodall news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...
Cracking female Red-backed Shrike at Rimac, Lincs late morning.
Checked out the view from the salt marsh platform & spotted an interesting flood. Went for a closer look & a Water Pipit stood out nicely.
My first Fieldfares of the winter on the flood & in flight too
@lincsbirding.bsky.social 🪶
Checked out the view from the salt marsh platform & spotted an interesting flood. Went for a closer look & a Water Pipit stood out nicely.
My first Fieldfares of the winter on the flood & in flight too
@lincsbirding.bsky.social 🪶
November 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Cracking female Red-backed Shrike at Rimac, Lincs late morning.
Checked out the view from the salt marsh platform & spotted an interesting flood. Went for a closer look & a Water Pipit stood out nicely.
My first Fieldfares of the winter on the flood & in flight too
@lincsbirding.bsky.social 🪶
Checked out the view from the salt marsh platform & spotted an interesting flood. Went for a closer look & a Water Pipit stood out nicely.
My first Fieldfares of the winter on the flood & in flight too
@lincsbirding.bsky.social 🪶
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
No Country for Old Bollocks
October 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
No Country for Old Bollocks
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
Photos to make a change from my shaky cam clips of behaviour.
Happened upon a bench with food on it, not the best for birds, but I watched for a few minutes. Interesting to note the long, slightly undulating flight of the Marsh tit. Nuthatch & a Kes next to the train tracks too
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Happened upon a bench with food on it, not the best for birds, but I watched for a few minutes. Interesting to note the long, slightly undulating flight of the Marsh tit. Nuthatch & a Kes next to the train tracks too
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
October 25, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Photos to make a change from my shaky cam clips of behaviour.
Happened upon a bench with food on it, not the best for birds, but I watched for a few minutes. Interesting to note the long, slightly undulating flight of the Marsh tit. Nuthatch & a Kes next to the train tracks too
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Happened upon a bench with food on it, not the best for birds, but I watched for a few minutes. Interesting to note the long, slightly undulating flight of the Marsh tit. Nuthatch & a Kes next to the train tracks too
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
This weekend's focus has been checking local tit & finch flocks to see what else they may hold. Answer: a couple of Chiffys & many Goldcrests!
Best today were 3 Crossbills, a flock of Siskin & Redpolls, a Marsh Tit & the carrier flocks of LTTs are lovely, of course.
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Best today were 3 Crossbills, a flock of Siskin & Redpolls, a Marsh Tit & the carrier flocks of LTTs are lovely, of course.
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
October 25, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This weekend's focus has been checking local tit & finch flocks to see what else they may hold. Answer: a couple of Chiffys & many Goldcrests!
Best today were 3 Crossbills, a flock of Siskin & Redpolls, a Marsh Tit & the carrier flocks of LTTs are lovely, of course.
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Best today were 3 Crossbills, a flock of Siskin & Redpolls, a Marsh Tit & the carrier flocks of LTTs are lovely, of course.
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Attenborough NR today intending to look more at 1w large gulls. Soon got distracted by the BHGs, GWE & 19 Goosander.
Spotted the first ♂️ Marsh Harrier I've seen there.
The returning Adult Caspian Gull was present, as was at least one 1w.
Still no Jack snipe for me.
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
Spotted the first ♂️ Marsh Harrier I've seen there.
The returning Adult Caspian Gull was present, as was at least one 1w.
Still no Jack snipe for me.
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
October 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Attenborough NR today intending to look more at 1w large gulls. Soon got distracted by the BHGs, GWE & 19 Goosander.
Spotted the first ♂️ Marsh Harrier I've seen there.
The returning Adult Caspian Gull was present, as was at least one 1w.
Still no Jack snipe for me.
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
Spotted the first ♂️ Marsh Harrier I've seen there.
The returning Adult Caspian Gull was present, as was at least one 1w.
Still no Jack snipe for me.
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding 🪶
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
Decent morning at Holme with 72 species recorded. A Red-necked Grebe on the sea was my first of the year. Redwings, Fieldfare and 81 Brambling counted as they migrated overhead.
#NorfolkBirding
#NorfolkBirding
October 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Decent morning at Holme with 72 species recorded. A Red-necked Grebe on the sea was my first of the year. Redwings, Fieldfare and 81 Brambling counted as they migrated overhead.
#NorfolkBirding
#NorfolkBirding
Hits & misses round North Point Pools & Warham.
Fascinated watching Cattle Egret murdering frogs when it was photobombed by a Glossy Ibis. Yellow brows 2 Humes 0.
2 distant Spoonbills.
Thought Pallid might show, I was busy enjoying a Barn Owl.
Cranes on a train & perched Marsh Harriers from a bus 🪶
Fascinated watching Cattle Egret murdering frogs when it was photobombed by a Glossy Ibis. Yellow brows 2 Humes 0.
2 distant Spoonbills.
Thought Pallid might show, I was busy enjoying a Barn Owl.
Cranes on a train & perched Marsh Harriers from a bus 🪶
October 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hits & misses round North Point Pools & Warham.
Fascinated watching Cattle Egret murdering frogs when it was photobombed by a Glossy Ibis. Yellow brows 2 Humes 0.
2 distant Spoonbills.
Thought Pallid might show, I was busy enjoying a Barn Owl.
Cranes on a train & perched Marsh Harriers from a bus 🪶
Fascinated watching Cattle Egret murdering frogs when it was photobombed by a Glossy Ibis. Yellow brows 2 Humes 0.
2 distant Spoonbills.
Thought Pallid might show, I was busy enjoying a Barn Owl.
Cranes on a train & perched Marsh Harriers from a bus 🪶
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
www.artsobservasjoner.no/Image/3005980
This is news to me. The regular Northumberland wintering Black Scoter spends the summer off Varanger, Norway.
This is news to me. The regular Northumberland wintering Black Scoter spends the summer off Varanger, Norway.
October 16, 2025 at 9:55 PM
www.artsobservasjoner.no/Image/3005980
This is news to me. The regular Northumberland wintering Black Scoter spends the summer off Varanger, Norway.
This is news to me. The regular Northumberland wintering Black Scoter spends the summer off Varanger, Norway.
Just added Common Crane to the train list.
Large flock just north west of Manea, Cambs train station.
Couldn't help but say, "Wow!" out loud on a train full of people 😅 🩶
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Large flock just north west of Manea, Cambs train station.
Couldn't help but say, "Wow!" out loud on a train full of people 😅 🩶
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
October 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Just added Common Crane to the train list.
Large flock just north west of Manea, Cambs train station.
Couldn't help but say, "Wow!" out loud on a train full of people 😅 🩶
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
Large flock just north west of Manea, Cambs train station.
Couldn't help but say, "Wow!" out loud on a train full of people 😅 🩶
#LowCarbonBirding 🪶
These 2 patch gulls are keeping me happy on lean days this week. Returning now adult Caspian & an adult YLG. Both lured by the promise of crayfish
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding
October 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
These 2 patch gulls are keeping me happy on lean days this week. Returning now adult Caspian & an adult YLG. Both lured by the promise of crayfish
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding
#LowCarbonBirding
#PatchBirding
Reposted by Dawn Erskine
Rather than post the usual shots of the Rutland Baird's Sandpiper I thought I'd offer up some alternative angles of what must be currently the most photographed bird in the UK.
@rarebirdalertuk.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@rarebirdalertuk.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Rather than post the usual shots of the Rutland Baird's Sandpiper I thought I'd offer up some alternative angles of what must be currently the most photographed bird in the UK.
@rarebirdalertuk.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social
@rarebirdalertuk.bsky.social
@birdguides.bsky.social