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Liam Langley @liamlangley1.bsky.social · 14h

Nice one, can’t wait to hear the final totals!

Liam Langley @liamlangley1.bsky.social · 14h

Ahh I never knew that! Well a (very belated) thanks for that!

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Andy Hood @andyhood75.bsky.social · 19h

Oh lawdy...!!!
White-throated Needletail showing a bit well here at Bempton RSPB reserve @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

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Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 3d

Great sea watch from St Ives on Saturday with great views of at least 6 first-cycle long-tailed skuas.

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Liam Langley @liamlangley1.bsky.social · 16h

What a day that was - I’ll never forget the chaos when it was refound and everyone scrambled back into the cars. An absolutely unbeatable twitch!

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 18h

Needletail memories! #birdingscotland

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Paul Bowerman @severnsidebirds.bsky.social · 18h

Having had a quiet 5 days birding in the Spurn area, news broke of a White- Throated Needletail further North. We dashed to Hornsea Mere hoping to find it there when it was then reported further North at Bempton cliffs. 35 minutes late and Bingo. What a cracking bird. A borrowed pic attached.

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Bruce Taylor @barrabirder.bsky.social · 17h

Congratulations to all involved in finding the White-throated Needletail in Yorkshire today. It brings back memories of 2 adrenaline-filled hours on Barra in June 2017. Still the best bird on the British List in my opinion. #BirdingScotland

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James Spencer @ornid.bsky.social · 17h

Well that wasn't on my bingo card for today, even when news broke at Tophill. My kids missed the train home due to a slow bus, and so I was in Bridlington when the White-throated Needletail was refound at Bempton #birding #yorkshirebirding

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Jo Hood @jobirding.bsky.social · 18h

Mental!!!!! White-throated Needletail phone video!!! @flamboroughbird.bsky.social #yorkshirebirding

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RareBirdAlert @rarebirder.bsky.social · 22h

MEGA - White-throated Needletail earlier this pm at Tophill Low, E.Yorks

First mainland record since 1991 😲

No sign at the moment but make sure you have the BirdAlertPRO app if its re-found.

Get a 30-day free trial here rarebirdalert.co.uk/realdata/bir...

📷 via tophilllow.blogspot.com

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Steve Rogers 🟰🟰 @runnelstone.bsky.social · 1d

Long-tailed Skua montage pics from Pendeen, 5th Oct. At least nine were seen from St. Ives and Pendeen over the 4th & 5th Oct (Storm Amy). It’s been a bumper year for the species with numbers way above the county rolling average. Good luck to the county recorder assessing them all!

#cornwallbirding

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Steve Williams @steveonhilbre.bsky.social · 1d

The seawatching over the weekend @hilbrebirdobs.bsky.social was great thanks to StormAmy … I still forget to post on BlueSky 🤦🏻‍♂️ must try harder! Video of Leach’s Petrel #UKBirding

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Sarah Dalrymple @sarahdalgulls.bsky.social · 1d

Wow! Tracking a butterfly with motus!

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 1d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 1d

"The causes of insufficient reproductive success in our two study populations were low rates of whole-nest survival, which were only sufficiently high to maintain population size for nests in gardens. Low nest survival rates were mostly the result of egg or chick predation."

BOU @bou.org.uk · 2d

EARLY VIEW in IBIS

Inadequate reproductive success is a potential cause of Spotted Flycatcher (Muscicapa striata) population decline in England | onlinelibrary.wiley....

Malcolm D. Burgess et al | #ornithology 🪶

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Liam Langley @liamlangley1.bsky.social · 2d

Sounds amazing out there! Not sure where you even start with an island that big! Good luck for the rest of your trip!

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Paul Dufour @pauldufour80.bsky.social · 2d

Two great first days of birding on Flores (Azores) with the french/swiss team: Dickcissel, Ovenbird, YB Cuckoo, 5 RE Vireos and Subalpine Warbler(!). Plenty more to find, as good numbers seem to have arrived quite a while ago. The island is huge (and beautiful), and we have it all to ourselves.

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 4d

That's an amazing seawatch....
ebird.org/checklist/S2...

eBird Checklist - 4 Oct 2025 - Estaca de Bares--Observatorio de aves y entorno - 33 species (+3 other taxa)

Submitted by Ana Rivas.

ebird.org

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 4d

Had the pleasure of seeing Great Grey Owls with @peralstrom.bsky.social this summer (pic: @tmbirding.bsky.social) - and heard some superb tales of birding & ornithological discovery in China in the 1980s. He's written this splendid article about this - screenshots as I don't have link. Pp 1-3 here

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Liam Langley @liamlangley1.bsky.social · 3d

Good to meet you yesterday John! Hopefully there will be more good seawatching conditions down here before the autumn is out!

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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 4d

Classic seawatching at St Ives, Cornwall yesterday 1000s of birds including Gannets, Sooty Shearwater, Bonxie, Grey Phalarope, Storm and Leach's Petrels, Arctic and Long-tailed Skuas and Sabine's Gull thanks to the locals for giving directions on the birds before they disappeared around the corner

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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 5d

Handy stop near Tingwall Airport on way off Fair Isle - after a bit of a wait the superb first winter male Siberian Thrush showed quite nicely

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Zac Hinchcliffe @zachinch92.bsky.social · 5d

High count of 121 Gadwall on the St Helens Canal near Bewsey Lock, #SankeyValley this evening. It's always been good for them, but that's an impressive count. Also my second record of wigeon on the canal itself #PatchBirding

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 5d

A really intriguing vagrant Blackpoll Warbler resighting from California; parallels to be made with eastward reorientation in a few Yellow-browed Warblers in Western Europe too movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... @pauldufour80.bsky.social #Ornithology

Recovery sites (orange) of 22 Yellow-browed Warblers (Phylloscopus inornatus), which were ringed in Europe during a same autumn season (blue; EURING data). The red triangle indicates the interannual and winter ringing recovery from Spain near Tarifa [26]

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Will Bowell- Just Wild Images @justwildimages.bsky.social · 6d

Stunning views of the Siberian Thrush in Shetland. Worth the three hours in Loch Asta. More on justwildimages.blogspot.com
@birdguides.bsky.social @promoteshetland.bsky.social
@hughharrop.bsky.social @shetlandwildlife.bsky.social
@britishbirds.bsky.social @britishbirdsbbrc.bsky.social

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