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Mostly birds, sometimes photos of other things too. Portishead, North Somerset, UK. https://dazb.co.uk

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Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 28d

Seems Curlew Sandpiper are popular this week in the Severn Estuary. Three were spotted today at Clevedon Sea Wall amongst the usual Dunlin & Ringed Plover.
#UKbirding - Clevedon Sea Wall, 10 September 2025.

Several shorebirds stand on a muddy outcrop. Included are Dunlin (brown & white), Curlew Sandpiper (brown & white), and Ringer Plover (brown & white with orange legs and black bits on face).

a mixed flock of 25-or-so brown & white shorebirds flying over some mud/brown sea

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Beth W @doodlebeth.com · 9h

A bit gloomy at Clevedon Sea Wall this morning, definitely not photography weather! Lots of curlew, oystercatcher, dunlin, knot, redshank, a few little egret, a heron and a cormorant. Lots of meadow pipits and skylark flying around. #AvonBirds

View of a sea wall with the sea on the right. It’s high tide and the sea is calm. The sky is dark grey so everything is dark and gloomy

A little egret on the edge of the salt marsh with sea in the background

Lots of dunlin and knot on a rocky outcrop into the sea. There are lots of black headed gulls flying in to land near them. The sea is muddy brown

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Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 2d

A delightful little Stonechat posing on the rocks.
#UKbirding - Portishead, 5 October 2025.

a solitary browny-orange little Stonechat bird stands on a rock surrounded by grass

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Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 2d

Some of the local Starlings.
#UKbirding - Portishead, 5 October 2025.

13 black speckled Starling birds sit atop a golden wooden structure against a glorious blue sky.

a lot of starlings sit on a slate-tiled roof. One is flying. Some are clinging on precariously.

a flock of about 40 starlings fly through a cloudy grey white sky.

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Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 3d

Greenshank later spotted at "The Hole".
#UKbirding - Portishead, 5 October 2025

A Greenshank - an elegant grey and white wader - stands on a muddy shore

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Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 4d

Here are the nine (*not ten) Snipe on Slimbridge South Lake yesterday.
#UKbirding - Slimbridge (Discovery hide), 3 October 2025.

Nine stripey brown Snipe birds with long beaks stand in some shallow water. In the foreground are some ducks.

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 4d

A flock of Golden Plovers, another bird I've not seen before.
#UKbirding - Slimbridge (Zeiss hide), 3 October 2025.

a flock of gold, grey and white Golden Plover fly through a white sky

a flock of gold, grey and white Golden Plover fly in front of a lake & grass

a flock of gold, grey and white Golden Plover fly through a grey sky

a flock of gold, grey and white Golden Plover fly in front of a forest

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Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 5d

A Snipe at Slimbridge - very good at hiding behind a rock! Glad we spied it as it's a lifer!
(Later in the day saw 10 more on South lake).
#UKbirding - Slimbridge (Robbie Garnet hide), 3 October 2025.

a rocky island with three mottled ducks standing on it. Also hiding behind a rock is a striped brown bird - a Snipe. In the foreground is another duck.

a rocky island with three mottled ducks standing on it. A stripes brown Snipe is is on the edge of a rock and much more visible. In the foreground is another duck.

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 5d

Lots of Lapwing seen from the Zeiss hide. Lurking amongst them all is a lone Ruff.
#UKbirding - Slimbridge (Zeiss hide), 3 October 2025.

Several brown green and white Lapwing birds site in a shallow pool. Amongst them all is a grey-ish Ruff bird with long legs.

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 5d

A few of the Black-Tailed Godwit at Slimbridge today.
#UKbirding - Slimbridge (Robbie Garnet hide), 3 October 2025.

a lone grey Black-Tailed Godwit with long orange beak stands in a pool, surrounded by raindrops

two browner Black-Tailed Godwits wade about in a shallow pool, whilst a few ducks tootle by

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 5d

This persistent Heron caught an eel and flew off to the grass to eat it.
#UKbirding - Slimbridge (Robbie Garnet hide), 3 October 2025.

a large white and grey Heron stands in a pool surrounded by raindrops. An out-of-focus brown Wigeon duck is in the background.

a large grey heron stands on some grass. It has an eel in its beak.

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 9d

In exciting news: I just won a local nature photography competition with the first photo, in both the judged competition, and the "people's vote"! 🥳

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · Feb 28

Some of you may have spotted the cheeky heron in the second pic of my previous post. Here are some closer pics of it...
#avonbirds

A silhouette of a Heron on a salt marsh. It was taken at dawn so the colours of the scene are very yellow

a Heron looking directly towards the camera

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 11d

On the way home from a short break in West Sussex we stopped at Pagham Harbour Nature Reserve and had a quick wander around a very small portion of it. A few birds spotted including some Godwit, Redshank, Curlew, a Dunlin.
#UKbirding - Pagham Harbour, 25 September 2025.

two brown & grey Godwit birds with long beaks stand on a muddy river bank.

a silhouette of a small Redshank bird standing on a muddy shore.

a view of the vast muddy marshes with a Curlew and Redshank standing amongst it all.

another Redshank stands on a muddy river bank.

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 11d

Some sunset silhouettes at Littlehampton Harbour. Seems the Starlings like to hang out on yacht masts. Also spied two Kingfishers flitting about which was nice.
#UKbirding - Littlehampton, 24 September 2025.

a silhouette of several yacht masts and associated rigging. On the wires are lots of starlings.

a silhouette of a gull sitting atop a pointy structure. The sea is in the background looking rather yellow.

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 11d

Lots of Shags and/or Cormorants in the river mouth & harbour area of Littlehampton.
#UKbirding - Littlehampton, 23 & 24 September 2025.

a large black bird with white-ash neck and yellow beak, and massive flippers on its feet stands on a seaweed-covered metallic breakwater.

a large black bird with white-ash neck and yellow beak swims in a watery sea.

four large black birds stand on a metallic structure with a green beacon light in a sea.

a large black bird with white-ash neck and yellow beak stands on a sea wall. In the background are some out-of-focus boats.

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 11d

A couple more photos including a gang of Egrets with a Heron, and a Bar-tailed Godwit.
#UKbirding - Littlehampton, 23 September 2025.

four hunched white Little Egret stand on some sand along with a Grey Heron.

a Bar-tailed Godwit walks on some sand alongside a juvenile gull.

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 11d

Littlehampton West Beach Nature Reserve is a vast sandy beach with pebbles and large dunes. The beach hosts lots of birds including Ringed Plover, Oystercatcher , Turnstone, Godwit, Gulls and probably a lot more.
#UKbirding - Littlehampton, 23 September 2025.

Three little Common Ringed Plover birds (orange legs, white & brown bodies, black neck ring and eye mask) stand on a sandy beach.

Two black & white Oystercatcher on a sandy beach. One has just dug a mussel up and has it in the beak, whilst the other is running around in some water.

Eight Oystercatcher and a gull sit on the shore of a sandy beach

Three little Common Ringed Plover birds (orange legs, white & brown bodies, black neck ring and eye mask) run on a sandy beach.

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Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 11d

The mouth of the River Arun at Littlehampton has lots of wooden structures, which many birds like to sit on including Turnstone, Oystercatcher, Egrets various gulls.
#UKbirding - Littlehampton, 23 September 2025.

several gulls sit on a wooden structure in the sea. There are also three posts with yellow triangles on, and a rusty metal light beacon

Four Turnstone birds sit on a seaweed covered breakwater

Three gulls and two Turnstone sit on a wooden structure

Three black & white Oystercatcher, two white Little Egret, a brown & white Turnstone and a Ringed Plover stand on a beach in front of a seaweed covered wooden structure. The species of birds are all different sizes.

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Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 11d

Some of the smaller birds seen on the East Beach at Littlehampton, including obligatory Starlings, a Grey Wagtail, and some well-camouflaged little Linnets.
#UKbirding - Littlehampton, 24 September 2025.

two mottled black & brown Starling birds stand on a vertical wooden groyne post. In the background is a nice blue sky and sea.

a small yellow & grey Grey Wagtail stands on a seaweed-covered wooden groyne at a seaside beach

two little brown mottled Linnet birds hide in some vegetation on a pebbly beach

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Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 11d

A fine-looking Great Egret seen at to WWT Arundel during the week.
#UKbirding - Arundel, 24 September 2025.

a Great Egret (a large white bird with a slender neck and yellow beak) stands in a pool of water.

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Beth W @doodlebeth.com · 12d

Assumed this was a cormorant when we were taking the photos but is it a shag? From our little trip to west sussex coast.
#UKBirding

A large blackish bird on a sea wall with water/sand behind it. It has a long yellowish beak and a green sheen to it’s feathers

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Beth W @doodlebeth.com · 12d

Sometimes birds just don’t look like they could be real… like this great egret that we got to watch fishing at WWT Arundel #UKBirding

A white bird standing in water. Their long narrow neck is twice the length of their body and they are looking at their camera so they look weird

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Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 16d

Passing through the Portsmouth area today led to a quick stop at Farlington Marshes Nature Reserve. At high tide there were many hundreds of Black-Tailed Godwit, some Redshank, a few Curlew Sandpiper, a Little Stint and so much more.
#ukbirding - Portsmouth, 22 September 2025.

Several wading birds on a blue lake, including a small Curlew Sandpiper, a medium Redshank, and many Black-tailed Godwit

Lots of Black-tailed Godwit on a blue lake, amongst some other birds

Some Redshank, a Teal, some Gadwall on a muddy bank

The silhouettes of several Black-tailed Godwit fly through a sky

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 17d

First time I've seen a Nuthatch since getting more into birding about a year ago; but do have fond memories of them when I was young and lived in Anglia 25-30 years ago.

Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 17d

Some other sights up on The Downs were a Greater Spotted Woodpecker (also heard a Green), and a Nuthatch! #UKbirding - Portishead, 21 September 2025.

A black, red and white Greater Spotted Woodpecker sits atop a branch in a tree

A Nuthatch (small grey and buff brown bird with black eye-mask) sits in a leafy branchy tree

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Daz B @dazb.co.uk · 17d

The Pipits in the grass were a lot harder to see & photo!

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