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John Malloy

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Struggles to identify birds in Northumberland and occasionally further afield. https://www.instagram.com/pennae_diaria?igsh=bjZobzFzZGR1eHBt&utm_source=qr

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 18h

October 2014 - Olive-backed Pipit, Sunderland.

📸 Canon 1DM3 / EF500

The days of fear of high ISO - 1250 in this instance … how times have changed!

#Ukbirding #archive #NEbirding

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 2d

Quality!

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 3d

Trialling a use of Lightrooms’ “super resolution“ - not too bad all considering (bird was a dot on the original Raw file)

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 3d

October 2010 - Woodchat at Hartlepool

(15 years to the day - 5th October 2010)

📸 Canon 1DM3 / EF500 / EF1.4

#NEbirding #Archive

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 3d

October 2004 - Masked Shrike in Fife
The first UK Record.

📸 Canon 10D / EF100-400

#BirdingScotland #Archive

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 4d

October 2013 - Sardinian Warbler at St Abb’s Head

📸 Canon 1DM3 / EF500 /EF1.4

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 4d

October 2004 - Cream-coloured Courser entertaining many on St Mary’s Golf Course, Isles of Scilly.

📸 Canon 10D / EF100-400

#UKbirding #archive

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 5d

Perhaps the beauty of poor file management - the ability, 20 years later, to have a play with old photos in 2025 photoshop!

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 5d

Me too, never managed any decent images out on the “open”!

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 5d

October 2005 - Paddyfield Warbler, Torness Power Station.

#BirdingScotland #Archive

📸 Canon 10D / EF500 / EF1.4

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 6d

The pool, courtesy of google maps, Courtenay Park. SH images were on the RH wall, a only few meters from the path!

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 6d

A great bird it was too!

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 6d

So it wasn’t a hoax! 😉

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 6d

Wow!

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 7d

Squacco Heron, Devon October 2005.

A surreal stop off on a trip to Isles of Scilly - this bold individual on a small concrete line fish pond at Newton Abbott!

📸 Canon 10D /EF500

#UKbirding #Archive

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 7d

Excellent photos - best I’ve seen of this bird!

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 9d

Yellow-browed Warbler - an expert at disappearing behind autumnal leaves!

Holy Island, September 2025

#NEbirding

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 10d

A few hours up on a sunny Holy Island delivered some nice migrants today, notably Yellow-browed Warbler and Red-breasted Flycatcher.

#NEbirding

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 11d

Peregrine image is 👌🏻

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 13d

Lush!

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 14d

Eastern Olivaceous Warbler, Long Nab September 2023

A pre work trip to a very picturesque Long Nab, this active and calling EOW was a super bird in some great coastal habitat.

#YorkshireBirding #Archive

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 14d

Phwoah

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BTO England @btoengland.bsky.social · 15d

Pechora Pipit! The last sighting in northern England was in 1995 on the Farne Islands. Discover more from BTO's Nick Moran in this BBC article ➡️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 17d

Pechora Pipit wasn’t on my radar this morning, so a quick trip south under the Tyne for this mainland mega was somewhat of a a surprise!

#NEBirding #RarebirdsUK

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John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 15d

Frightening where the years are going - I always think it’s a “couple” of years ago!!!

John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks Mark, I’ll have been there the same morning having driven down in the early hours from Northumberland (pictures from Sunday 9th April).