Mike King🦉🐺
@GlosterBirder
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Keeping Gloster birders on their toes. Family 1st Grampy 5x, Birding. Wolves. Glaws. God's Own County Glos. Casual twitcher BOU 477/Glos 294/World 1686 💜Scilly
Quedgeley, GLOS, England
Joined May 2010
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WRYNECK at Hock Ditch 10:05am then flew into line of Sycamores leading towards Hock Cliff. Patch dream bird!
#patchbirding
#GlosBirds
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@PhysicsAndAstr1
It’s a Stoat, in winter its coat turns from brown to white to blend in with the snow, when it is known as Ermine.
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Nice to finally prove successful breeding of local Little Owls with at least three owlets and an adult standing guard.
#GlosBirds
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So this was the main target in
#Fuerteventura
the stunning long-staying Dwarf Bittern at Barranco de Rio Cabras, which was very obliging on both our visits showing within 30 mins both times. What are you waiting for?
#birding
#CanaryIslands
#DwarfBittern
with
@Tay_PJT
&
@RBaatsen
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I know there's an overload of Ross's Gull pics here, but I waited 6 hours for it and lay down on the frozen car park to get this pic, so I don't care 😀
#ProperGullNotLikeThoseRubbishDumpGulls
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What a cracking bird! First drake Smew I've seen in Glos in years that hasn't been a scope view across a lake, usually CWP. Well Done Sir Les, turn up tonight and I'll buy you a beer.
#GlosBirds
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Great day starting at 5am for the Iberian Chiffchaff. Spent the rest of the day
@slimbridge_wild
with my family looking at everything that I usually run by on my way to the hides & I got Little Ringed Plover for the year. The 10 miles walked helped this
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The shy and retiring male White-spotted Bluethroat at Middle Point this morning
@slimbridge_wild
#GlosBirds
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Well that was pretty showy! Rufous Bushchat on my list. Still showing well 11:30am-1pm.
@RareBirdAlertUK
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Mrs K: “Let’s have a day out”
Me: “I’ve never been to the Peak District”
Mrs K: “Good idea, I love it there”
Me:
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Re/GREAT GREY SHRIKE at Crabtree Hill. There have been reports of people leaving the main paths & moving through the gorse to get photos of the Shrike. There are ground nesting birds & basking reptiles here. Keep to the main paths with patience you will get good views.
#GlosBirds
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It’s been a long 8 years since the last Dotterel in Glos but these are showing well for all this morning. What a week!
#GlosBirds
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Glos Mega! Adult male RED-BACKED SHRIKE at Horsbere Brook today per Mike Broome.
#GlosBirds
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Just opened the bin store to put the wheelie bin out and found we have a lodger. 😃🦔
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A Nightjar roosting in a Winchcombe garden this evening. (George Rayson). Pic by George.
#GlosBirds
#LuckyLuckyLucky
#GardenMega
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The 2 Spotted Flycatchers this morning at Saul Warth were only my 4th & 5th records since my 1st visit there in 1996.
#GlosBirds
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Probably best views of a Wryneck ever. Taking tiny flies out of the air with its tongue. Just enjoy. Tresco,
#Scilly
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Today’s the day the
@slimbridge_wild
Bluethroat ripped up the rule book. Showed constantly for 2+ hours.
#Stunned
#GlosBirds
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Car's been off the road today so I've sorting, deleting 100's of photos. I took this in Mallorca in 2016, it's the most Hoopoes I've ever seen together. Apparently the collective noun is a Cry of Hoopoes, but that doesn't work for me. I quite like a Ring of Hoopoes. Suggestions?
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Dog walkers who decorate the hedgerows of my patch at Frampton or anywhere else with dog 💩💩 should be made to eat it and have their
#dogs
taken away
#DirtyFoulPeople
😡😡😡
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I usually post average pics & get called for it, you know who you are😀 but this is the best pic of a Whinchat I've ever taken. The thought of Whinchats arriving &
#Summer
is a much more appealing idea than the perfect storm we are all embroiled in
#birding
#migration
#StayWell
x
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What kind of birder gets married in October? Well in 1985 a very naive one, but I did pick a great birder’s wife. 38 years today with a lot of world still to see together. 😍
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When people ask me why I love
#birding
in Spring. There's nothing quite like being buzzed by dozens of screaming
#Swifts
at very close range. Saul Warth this morning.
#GlosBirds
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Just laid to rest the 20 year ghost of the never submitted Scillonian Black-browed Albatross. An itch I just needed to scratch. Fabulous! and flying which is how it should be. Next stop Anglesey. 😀
#midsummermadness
#roadtrip
#NotGlos
@RareBirdAlertUK
@Bempton_Cliffs
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Adult Black-crowned Night Heron found at The Mythe pits, Tewkesbury by Geoff Everitt. Parking is difficult, with c3 spaces at the top of the lane next to the garden centre at SO8895834064 or you park in Tewkesbury and walk. Don't park in the the garden centre please.
#GlosBirds
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Crazy
#roadtrip
done 720+ mls sustained by sausage rolls,
@CostaCoffee
, power naps & the shock of fuel prices N of Brum. Couldn't have gone better, both lifer targets, Black-browed Albatross & Elegant Tern seen stress-free. Fab scenery, great supporting cast & just what I needed.
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Unringed adult White Stork still on North Warehouse, Gloucester Docks at 4:40pm. Thanks
@GordAvery
for the call.
#GlosBirds
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Tawny Owl opposite Saul Lodge pond this morning. I can't remember when I last had such a good view of a whole Tawny Owl.
#Owls
#GlosBirds
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So lightning does strike twice in the same place. Otter from the Severn Way near Gloucester this morning. Loving my new enforced patch.
#dailywalk
#Otter
#GlosMammals
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Despite the new ticks, masses of British migrants, more Wrynecks & Hoopoes than I've ever seen, the scarcities of Black-bellied Sandgrouse & relocating the Yellow-browed Warbler & of course the Budgie 🙂 this Citrine Wagtail was still my Bird of the Trip. Just Fab!
#cyprusbirds
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Blast from the past 29yrs ago my 1 & only Nutcracker on 02/11/1991 at Cocknage Wood, Stoke-on-Trent taken on a box Brownie😀 Also saw my 1st Long-eared Owl at Park Hall. The day didn't have a happy ending though got home to see Aus beat England in the RWC Final 12–6😕Due another!
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This twitching lark is easy BLUETHROAT from the Shepherd’s Hut at Mid Point at 8:20am with Dave Paynter
@slimbridge_wild
and
@Tay_PJT
#GlosBirds
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Red-necked Phalarope & Wood Sandpiper still at Coombe Hill Meadows at 7:05am. Wellies and a good sense of balance essential.
#muckheap
#GlosBirds
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I've updated GB with advisory instructions for the Pen Tit & the GN Diver at the request of others.Whether you are a birder or a photographer if you don't know how to behave around wildlife then you should throw your bins/camera in the nearest pond/marina & leave TY
#GlosBirds
🙄
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My wife, the Eco-warrior 😍 Whilst other ladies were striking Instagram poses in the sunset she was picking up plastic off the beach. I think we’d need to stay 3 months just to make a difference. Seems like all of Europe’s plastic waste has beached here in
#Cyprus
. Take it home!
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Made it. Grey-headed Lapwing
#OML
at 8pm. Mrs K has been a Rockstar today for coming with me. Ducks for breakfast tomorrow in Scotland. 🤞
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Joking aside I’ve a small suburban garden with a pond. We’ve been here 36yrs. Garden list is 60+ inc flyovers. Best 3 birds actually in the garden are Kingfisher, Whitethroat & Meadow Pipit. Honourable mention for Cuckoo that flew through at eye level
#GardenBirding
What’s yours?
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Succumbed to Cleeve, a struggle at the best of times. No Ouzels yet but this may be the 1st Glos Redstart? A little cracker!
#GlosBirds
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A few more nice birds from
#GrandCayman
Spotted Sandpiper, Blue-winged Teal, Pied-billed Grebe & Greater Yellowlegs.
#birding
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Just to clear the air, all of the photographers I know personally are decent people AND good birders. Because I called out one idiot yday I have had a shedload of 💩. I will continue to have an opinion & if it bothers you please feel free to unfollow.
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Amazing day in Tenby with Bridgette to see the Walrus there. Convoyed down with
@PaulDMasters
& Mrs (2 cars). Time to pay my dues now by visiting the Mrs Welsh family, it’ll be like being an extra in Gavin & Stacy. I don’t care though what an incredible mammal.
#Walrus
#Tenby
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Excellent morning around all the traditional sites in the Forest. Great Grey Shrike, 3 Hawfinches, 3 Goshawks, 1st Willow Warbler, Stonechats & Siskins. No Crossbills or Redpolls though, apparently in very short supply. Also an Adder & a Common Lizard.
#GlosBirds
#GlosReptiles
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Everything comes to who waits and waits and waits. Ross’s Gull 3:30-3:40 only at Radipole first spotted by
@duncan_dine
#Cracker
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The crazy obsessive gene that drives birders on saw me back on Cleeve Hill at dawn in 100% better weather. At least 2 Ring Ouzels by 7am. Unless some
#HillTroll
finds something good, see ya next year Cleeve.
#GlosBirds
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A LONG-EARED OWL ringed at Crabtree Hill today, also a juv male Sparrowhawk, per Rob Husbands. Completely out of the blue, the first since
@GlosHobby
’s bird as far as I know. Very slim chance of it being seen again
#GlosBirds
#GlosMega
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Well that was unexpected, COLLARED PRATINCOLE
@slimbridge_wild
a great find by
@ScottoftheMarsh
#GlosList
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#GlosBirds
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Incredible twitch⭐️at the Eleonora’s Falcon
#BirdOfTheYear
? at Worth, Kent on show constantly between 8:30-1:30 & always close. Also fem Red-footed Falcon, Hobbies, Kestrel, Red Kites, Sprawk, Buzzards, Golden Oriole, Avocets, Cuckoos & the Red Arrows. With
@ajordanwildlife
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I rarely post Brown Hares because of the morons that still carry out Hare Coursing in Glos. This one was on safe private ground however and cracked me up by keep standing on his hind legs to see over the hedge at what I was doing. 😀
#GlosMammals
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Sudmeadow RICHARD’S PIPIT calling and showing well at times in the sheep fields. Still my 200th
#GlosList
bird just much better than the Awre bird.
#WhoDaresWins
😃
#GlosBirds
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The Dunlins were crazy today running around my feet to feed coming so close they went out of focus. Just like being back in Florida. I don't ever remember them doing this, a real treat. The waders are dropping into the field between the sewage works & the Warth at HT
#GlosBirds
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Chilly morning but 1 Nightingale singing and showing well at Highnam Woods from 5:30am. Fabulous! ❄️
#GlosBirds
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BARRED WARBLER still from Estuary Tower at 9:15am in the back hedge just right of the bush clump
@slimbridge_wild
#GlosBirds
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Bluethroat showed at Middle Point for c1 min at 9:55am in the reedbed left of the path. Job done.
#GlosBirds
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I had this lovely Brown Hare whilst out and about in Glos today. You might notice they're never mentioned on The Gloster Birder although other wildlife is. This is because illegal Hare Coursing is still a thing in Glos, unbelievable in the 21st Century. 🤬
#GlosMammals
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I think gulls are taking over my birding life. 6x to a gull roost in Feb & whilst the Waxwing y'day was lovely I got more pleasure from the Glaucous Gull. Yomping 2 muddy fields then creeping along the treeline to get a good view. Excuse the wobble I was sliding into the stream😃
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Fab day on
#Scilly
with
@ajordanwildlife
&
@Tay_PJT
for the Red-footed Booby on Bishop Rock lighthouse. Absolute ShearwaterFest with 250+ Cory’s, 25+ Greats, 7 Sooties, 1000’s of Manxies, 6 Sab’s, 12+ Stormies & 2 Grey Phals, Dolphins & much more. 11 hrs at sea.
#BoobySunday
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Final 2 hrs at Paphos headland this am, Collared Fly, E Bonelli’s Warbler, E Subalpine Warbler, Rüppell’s Warbler, 2 Cretzschmar’s Buntings, 2 Nightingales, Wryneck, 4 Hoopoes, Black Redstart, 3 N Wheatears & 2 Armenian Gulls. Looking forward to Saul Warth 🙄
#cyprusbirds
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The albino Magpie at CWP West at Cotswold Country Park and Beach this morning. (Tom Mellor). Pic by Tom.
#GlosBirds
@RBaatsen
Your favourite!
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Cleeve Hill - please if you are visiting to see Ring Ouzels do not chase the birds around, or flush them, but give them some space so they are able to feed. Thank you.
#GlosBirds
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Back on familiar ground, Day 1 treat of a Marsh Harrier hunting Saul Warth
#patchbirding
#GlosBirds
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#dailywalk
It's a strange kind of Spring but the migrant birds are arriving now. Here's a Cuckoo from this morning at Elmore.
#GlosBirds
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From Luke Clarke age 10 “Heading to the FoD on the A48 with Dad amazed to see 2 White Storks circling above Walmore Common. Stopped just before Walmore Hill Primary School. They were heading NE. Took the pics from the junction of Ley Road and Lower Ley Lane"
#GlosBirds
#GoodLad
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I’ve had worse mornings to be honest. Eleonora’s Falcon & Red-footed Falcon. Worth, Kent. With
@ajordanwildlife
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Walked up through Newent Woods to the top of May Hill with
@PaulDMasters
this morning. Brilliant views of Crossbills in the trees at the top, best views in years. 10 birds there & 4 more in the woods. Also 22 Meadow Pipits, 6 Siskins, male Bullfinch & 3 Roe Deer.
#GlosBirds
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White-rumped Sandpiper distantly from Estuary Tower at 11:15am relocated by Andy Stockhausen
#GlosBirds
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Wryneck is
#GlosList
194. An absolute bonus and my 2nd great find on patch this year with the Hooded Crow in April.
#PatchGold
, I've only been trying for 30+ years.
#patchbirding
6 to go. The tail's cut off because I was struggling to get a grip. 😀
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The worst thing about seeing Cretzschmar’s Buntings everywhere is spelling it. Spellcheck won’t help. 😀 Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates yesterday.
#cyprusbirds
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Last one I promise, but hours of effort went into this bird😃 Baikal Teal, Greylake. With
@PaulDMasters
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Spent the morning in the familiar position of dipping the Bluethroat in good company at Middle Point
@slimbridge_wild
. It may be in it's 4th year but it still hasn't developed a sense of responsibility to hopeful birders. I did have 2 showy Cuckoos✅
#GlosList
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#GlosBirds
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Back from a fab 12 days in Trinidad & Tobago. Many stunning birds & wildlife seen. Happy friendly people, great food & wall to wall sunshine. Not sure on a species count yet but here's 3 lifers, Oilbird, Bearded Bellbird & Scarlet Ibis + Red-billed Tropicbird
#BirdsSeenIn2024
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At least 32 Waxwings on Rodborough Common near the fort, more settled now. Ringed bird still here.
#GlosBirds
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A great trip around FoD with
@pauldmasters
most targets got. 7 year ticks, Crossbills abundant in the Crabtree/Serridge area. Frustrated by an unseen calling Goshawk. Bramblings, Hawfinches, Redpolls all seen. Finished with
@danwatsonbirder
's Waxwing as we were close.
#GlosBirds
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The Gloster Birder is 22 years old today, I didn't notice it pass 20 or 21, what with Covid and all. Thanks for all your support. 🦉
#GlosBirds
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Great Northern Diver still at 1pm but ranging widely on Frampton Sailing Lake. Great find by
@Nickgoatman
Nice to see an adult.
#GlosBirds
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Pleased to find a Barred Warbler with William Lambourne in the Estuary Tower bushes
@slimbridge_wild
this morning. 3rd for Glos. Still present at 2:25pm.
#GlosBirds
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5 Nightingales this morning at RSPB Highnam Woods per
@LT_FoD
, 3 within 200m of the car park, occasionally showing well. Car park open until 4pm.
#GlosBirds
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Sharpness. Adult male Black Redstart around the lightship in Dock Road at 9:22am. Cracking bird to bring up
#GlosList
100.
#GlosBirds
@ajordanwildlife
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What.A.Bird. Incredible! Thanks for the company and driving
@duncan_dine
Good to see so many familiar faces. Common Nighthawk, Wantage, typical habitat shot included. 😃
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