#StormAmy delivered today with a decent tally of wind-blown #seabirds on the Mersey. 35+ #LeachsPetrel the undoubted highlight. Here's two having a little feed together whilst battling out of the river mouth just beyond the #NewBrighton breakwaters. #seabirds #superseabirdsunday

Gruesome scenes @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social yesterday where this juvenile female #Sparrowhawk impressively took down a #Magpie near the YWT visitor centre. The event stopped passers by and traffic! Nature can sure be brutal. #raptors #birdsofprey #spurnbirds

I. Love. August. Exquisite juvenile #WoodSandpiper currently gracing #GrimsarghWetlands #Lancashire. #waders #shorebirds #Lancsbirding @wadertales.bsky.social @waderquest.bsky.social @waderstudy.bsky.social

Positive #Swift news from #Longridge #Lancashire. 10 out of 12 boxes now occupied in St Wilfrid's church tower plus 2 newly occupied boxes at a friend's house after a 'patient' 🤣 3 year wait. Lots of screamers over town. They are a joy. Summer would be dead to me without them. 💚

The #Seaforth #CommonTerns were badly hit by #HPAI in 2023 with likely half the adult breeding population lost to the disease. But with bumper productivity last year and lots of chicks this year the colony is starting to recover very well. Current scenes are an absolute joy. 🥰 #terns #seabirds

#SandwichTerns having an excellent year at @rspb.bsky.social #Hodbarrow. c.950 pairs and a bare minimum of 400 chicks with many pairs still on eggs. Great to see after #AvianInfluenza #HPAI greatly impacted the species in 2022 and 2023. #terns #seabirds #RSPBEcology

Always a delight, and frankly an honour when one of these exquisite creatures chooses to stop off on me patch en-route to its Siberian breeding grounds a mere 4000 km away. Especially when they show like this. #CurlewSandpiper at #Seaforth today. #waders #shorebirds

Today was red. #YNWA. Not a bird seen often in the northwest, especially in this plumage. Stunning #RedneckedGrebe at Clowbridge Reservoir this evening making short work of a Bullhead. #LancsBirding

First #Garganey of the year is always a treat, especially when they show this well. Nose to beak views from @rspb.bsky.social Lilian's hide at #LeightonMoss this evening. #Lancsbirding

Local farmer was tilling this morning so that brought the #gulls in to the #AlstonWetland patch. 28 #MediterraneanGulls amongst them, almost all paired up adults, looking and sounding stunning. Eyow. #ukbirding #Lancsbirding