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Peter Stronach

@macstronach.bsky.social

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ornithology, wildlife, photography and ecology! #highlandbirds #ornithology #teammoth #birdingScotland #seabirds Highlands of Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🪶 🦅 🦆 🦋 ⛰️ 🌊 🐋 🦈 🐙 🏝️ 🌳 🌲

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 3h

Well done! 👏 is the Subalp a first for the Azores?! Corvo birders must be getting nervous a bit now you guys have arrived! 😂

Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 3h

I still can’t get over the fact it hit a single small microturbine, the chances of it happening were ridiculous! and being watched hitting it at the same time

Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 3h

It was Bob Swann and I that refound it 7km away so we didn’t get to witness the dukes of hazard scenes at the loch! 😂

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 4h

Ha-ha!, yes that’s Al with waistcoat on behind your car. Best parking award definitely goes to the Jag! 😂 This pic was taking just as a local bus arrived trying to go right to left through this scene…

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Andy Hood @andyhood75.bsky.social · 6h

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

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Paul Bowerman @severnsidebirds.bsky.social · 5h

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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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 5h

Needletail memories! #birdingscotland

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Crìstean MacMhìcheil @angeidheal.scot · 7h

#ElectricBus firm #Ember has announced a new route between #Glasgow and #Inverness starting October 22 that will also stop in #Dunblane, #Perth, #Pitlochry, #Dalwhinnie, and #Aviemore. There will be 12 return trips per day, with three of the services being non-stop between Glasgow and Inverness.

New electric bus service linking three Scottish cities unveiled

A NEW electric bus route between Glasgow and Inverness has been unveiled for October ...

www.thenational.scot

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 15h

When we found the Dusky Warbler on Shetland last week it was having a tack-athon with two blythi Lesser Whitethroats in the same trees, here is a recording of one of them... #birdingscotland

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks Andy that makes sense!!

Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve no experience of effractana so can’t really help, although description from micro book seems to fit it better from your photo. Emargana relatively common there. I would contact Mike Pennington to check it

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 1d

No mainland Shetland records of A.effractana up to 2016, only Fair Isle records…

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

UK Government arms exports to Israel hit a 'record high' in recent months, analysis has found

UK arms exports to Israel 'hit record high' in recent months

www.thenational.scot

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 2d

Hi James, it’s a Hummingbird Hawk Moth, they look a bit different when they have their wings tucked up! Great find! 👍

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 3d

Nothing special, just putting it out regularly, also helps we have a mild night here tonight!

Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!, saw the Dark Sword Grass first so was hoping the other two were going to be about!

Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 3d

This can’t have happened many times before, all three sword grasses to sugar in one garden on one night!

Dark Sword Grass, Red Sword Grass and Sword Grass!!

#teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social

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Bruce Taylor @barrabirder.bsky.social · 3d

A freshly stranded By-The-Wind Sailor, one of many pushed ashore by strong winds on the west coast of Barra today. Lots of obvious specimens of 6-8cm scattered over the beaches but also masses of tiny ones down to 5mm in length spread along the strandline. #Beachcombing

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 4d

Yes, as well as the different shades of blue and grey, the black of the primaries seems more a washed out browny black than a proper black colour

Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 4d

Apparently 1CY males can have very similar ground colour of GCs and MCs as adult males, thanks @scottinscilly.bsky.social. Seems to be a couple of GCs with pale tips on Asta bird

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Peter Stronach @macstronach.bsky.social · 4d

Was having the same conversation with Jack Morris, no old juv feathering in that wing or tail at all. What do 2CY males look like?, wondered if that accounted for head pattern?

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Chris Turner @christurnerb.bsky.social · 5d

We were hoping that the storm would deliver something from the west. And it did. Swainson’sThrush Foula today. Very difficult to get close too, hence the most record or record shots. #RareBirdsUk

Swainsons Thrush stilling on grass at base of a peat digging

Swainsons Thrush flying away showing its distinctive underwing

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Chris @fife-chris.bsky.social · 4d

A windy night in the #Cairngorms with our @ukecn.bsky.social weather station located at 700 m recording a gust of 106 mph and sustained winds of 75 mph as #StormAmy rolled through. That’s our highest recorded gust since Dec 2011, 14 years ago!

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