Tim Jones
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Birder. Freelance Ornithologist. Project Officer, Birds on the Edge, North York Moors NP @north_dove . @yorkbirding @spurnbirdobs . #vismig #waders #flightshot
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Dutch born Barnacle Goose observed in Henan, China! 8,200km away! So much to learn about bird movements!
@KaneBrides
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Olive-backed Pipit whizzing around over the Narrows
@spurnbirdobs
presumably fresh in
#flightshot
💯🎸🎸
#spizzzz
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Quick dash up the coast this evening for what turned out to be a White-rumped Swift at Hornsea Mere, the first new Swift species to turn up in UK for nearly 36 years! 🤞it comes through
@spurnbirdobs
in next few days!
#SWIFT
#flightshot
#alldddaynumptiessesh
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I'd always wanted to get pics of south bound Shore Lark and Richard's Pipit
@spurnbirdobs
but always missed them, so wasn't expecting to get both within 10mins on my last morning there this autumn!
#flightshot
sound recording of the Richard's Pipit here
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Thanks to
@Northpowergrid
who have agreed to fit diverters on this section of line in the next 42-days! 🤞 that will help to reduce bird strike in this area
Hey
@Northpowergrid
the electric power line between Easington and Spurn, East Yorks, kills SO many birds every year! This Water Rail had just crossed the North Sea for the first time and hit the wires! Any chance of some deflectors put on this line? Map shows the worse section
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Epic days birding
@spurnbirdobs
today, huge numbers of Thrushes everywhere, Ring Ouzels in numbers I’ve not seen there before, Redwings wizzing around and small flocks of Bramblings constantly flying over 🔥🎸💯
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Hey
@Northpowergrid
the electric power line between Easington and Spurn, East Yorks, kills SO many birds every year! This Water Rail had just crossed the North Sea for the first time and hit the wires! Any chance of some deflectors put on this line? Map shows the worse section
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Worth 55-sec of your day to appreciate these awesome birds!
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A comparison of adult and juvenile Yellow-brides Warblers taken
@spurnbirdobs
notes in photos but most birds ageable using shape of tail, secondaries and primaries, worth taking good quality pics showing spread tail and wing to confirm age, always happy to look at any
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For anyone wondering what nocturnal Common Scoter sound like still, here's a recording from last night featuring a squeaky female? call in the middle
#nocmig
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Bonkers 15mins at Numpties just now, 2 Shore Lark, Richard’s Pipit then 7 Great White Egret!!!
@spurnbirdobs
💯💯💯🎸🎸🎸
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Waxwing murmuration!
Incredible sight. Would estimate 500 Waxwings this morning in Elgin.
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Mega Thrush day
@spurnbirdobs
all from 3pm when the fog cleared and birds started piling in!🎸🎸🎸counted 4k Redwing around Chalk Bank
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Good views of at least 9 Parrot Crossbills in the Upper Derwent Valley (Derbys) this morning, coming to drink at a puddle along track and feeding in nearby scotspine
@SheffBirders
@roytwigg
now to find them in Yorkshire!
#chup
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Enjoyed watching these Black-headed Gulls in
@Fr_RowntreePark
sat on the ice with a bit of rainwater on top made for some impressive reflections!
@YorkBirding
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My kind of birding, beer as the sun sets in Porto and a Plain Swift whizzes past, the only? mainland breeding site 🇵🇹🍻✅
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Autumn 2020 started with a bang 💥💥💥 with this nice 1cy female Collared Flycatcher in the nets at the Warren this morning, 4th
@spurnbirdobs
record
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Quiet
#vismig
@spurnbirdobs
this morning, livened up by this Pectoral Sandpiper that cruised south down the Humber after being on Kilnsea Wetlands briefly
#flightshot
#spurnbirds
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What a legend! “I don't know if it is actually true, that "everyone makes mistakes" (in bird-identification), but I know that I certainly do, and not infrequently” making mistakes is the best way of learning! Killian re-iding Western-Semip
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Not bad for a quiet morning so far
@spurnbirdobs
always nice to get a chance at a Turtle Dove
#flightshot
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∞ Brambling roost in Slovenia 🇸🇮 with
@jonnie_fisk
yesterday 🤯🤯🤯more video and pics to follow, on way back to UK now
#montifringillamillions
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The highs and lows of Investigations work, this keeper was out checking grit trays when he committed this crime, imagine how routine and widespread this is? The RSPB need your support to carry on chipping away and bring raptor persecution to an end
#thehillshaveeyes
BREAKING - Grouse moor gamekeeper pleads guilty to shooting two Short-eared Owls after being witnessed by RSPB Investigations staff - read our blog and watch our video
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Pintails everywhere
@WWTSlimbridge
😍😍😍 I could watch over the Rushy Pen all day with these displaying right outside the hide!
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Over 250,000 Honey Buzzards through Eilat today!!! Words cannot describe the spectacle!!
http://t.co/sfxPc91Q35
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More hints at a potential good upcoming autumn for Red-flanked Bluetails! 🤞🤞🤞
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Did it ever leave?! 1s/2cy SemiPPlover on Keel GC, Achill this aft, behaved almost the same as last year
#itwentchewitagain
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I'm excited to say that I'll be shipping out to go work at Ottenby Bird Observatory, southern Sweden as a ringer from this Saturday! I'll be there till mid-November, so come visit! 🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪️
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Mipit mania! 7,555 through
@spurnbirdobs
today, best count since 2011 all others on
@trektellen
here
#flightshot
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1w Kittiwake recovering well
@spurnbirdobs
after hitting wires on Kilnsea Wetlands and a heroic rescue by
@jonnie_fisk
#obslyf
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5-years ago today we were busy counting 250,000 Honey Buzzards, through Eilat, Israel! Lots of pics on my old blog here for those wanting to kill a bit of time!
#raptorlove
@BirdingInIsrael
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Ace afternoons birding in
@LDV_NNR
Hen Harrier hunting Bubwith Ings whole time I was there, 1000’s of Fieldfares in fields around North Duffield and Wheldrake and plenty of duck making the most of the fresh flood water
@YorkBirding
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Quick 20min lunch time walk from Helmsley and actually saw the Black Kite that’s been lingering the last couple of days, when was last twitchable Yorkshire bird?!
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Right place right time, chatting with
@MickgCunningham
in the
@spurnbirdobs
garden when he picked out this 🍑 of an Olive-backed Pipit that dropped into the willows, had a quick feed on the compost heap (ft
@jonnie_fisk
signage) and vanished!
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Scouting for the Michael Clegg Birdrace went well around York today when this Coues’s Arctic Redpoll popped out a big flock of Lesser/Mealy Redpoll at Allerthorpe, hopefully it’ll stick around, will try again tomorrow
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Blyth's Reed Warbler breeding on Texel, NL!
Struikrietzangers/Blyth's Reed Warbler hebben voor het eerst gebroed in Nederland, op
#Texel
! Lees hier ons verhaal over de ontdekking en hoe het afliep met het broedgeval
@vogelnieuws
@waarneming
@Sovon
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When PC came in giggling with a bird in his hand we knew it’d be something good, expecting a Waxwing, this Merlin was a beautiful surprise!
#raptorsrock
#spurnbirds
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Spectacular show from 500+ Garganey whizzing around off North Beach this evening, steadily gaining height along with 9 Arctic and 6 Pomarine Skuas!
#nextstopRussia
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Nice to add 6 more sets of colour rings to Twite today
@spurnbirdobs
the most we’ve done in a day in 4-autumns of colour ringing
@SBOmad
keep an eye out for these in the coming months wintering somewhere on the east coast?
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Thanks to all who offered an opinion on this bird, turns out we fluffed the ID!🙋♂️Most likely 'just' a Reed with an emargination on P4,
#alwayslearning
next time I won't focus on 1 'key' feature! Thanks to
@LDV_NNR
team for letting me have a look at it next time ask someone else🤪
A Blyth's Reed Warbler has been trapped and ringed
@YorksWildlife
Wheldrake Ings
@LDV_NNR
this morning in the vicinity of the windpump, a first for the York area. Please view only from the riverside path and maintain social distancing if using the hides. Pics by
@TimsBirding
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York area bird race done, our second best total 101, highlights Arctic Redpoll, Red-necked Grebe, Great White Egret, stunning Male Merlin, Otter on York Uni campus! And a Siberian Chiffchaff at Hes East!!
@JABBIRDART
@SBOmad
@YorkBirding
#mega
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The freezing easterly wind finally eased here at Ottenby, making it enjoyable to be out! Made the most of it with a target
#flightshot
whapped off, Shore Lark!
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Finding more Nightjar nests almost daily at the moment, 11 found so far this summer, 4 broods of chicks ringed, first should be fledging in another week or so
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Amazing views of 2 Hobby catching Mayflies from Geoff Smith hide at North Duffield Carrs in the rain earlier today, phone video
@LDV_NNR
@YorkBirding
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Wooo Waxwings! Added to my ‘Birds seen on luchtime walks from the office’ today in Helmsley
@NorthYorkMoors
Big flocks sound so good, will be getting my mic out if a big flocks appears locally!
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Cracking Little Gull in the breakers
@spurnbirdobs
feeding well on small shrimps? Proper
#gull
!
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🇨🇦 A taste of recent Warblers
@LongPointBirdOb
Blackpoll, Mourning, Golden-winged and Blackburnian, great experience with the Obs Exchange from
@spurnbirdobs
😎 💯
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I love Spurn in easterlies! Thrushes pulling in through the rain, nip up the road for a Sibe Stonechat, slow wander back down and bump into 2 Marsh and a Reed W feeding together in the salt marsh 💯💯💯
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Arrived
@spurnbirdobs
for 5 days birding and first bird in bins… Red-flanked Bluetail! Cheers
@easingtonbirds
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Happy New Year! 🎉 gonna try and see 400 (life) & 300 (year) sp in 2018! Good start with RCStarling, Desert Wheatear, Glauc & Hawfinch!
#letsgo
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Stumbled onto this Pine Grosbeak messily munching on Cloudberries in the Norwegian taiga forest
#nom
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First full day around
@LongPointBirdOb
according to the regulars it’s quiet... still brilliant Birding!
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Finally caught a Long-eared Owl!! Highlight amongst 300 birds caught this morning, taking us to over 1000 ringed in the last 3 days!
#OttenbyF
ågelstation
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Merry Chrimbo all, here’s to a class 2022 full of birds! 🤓🥳🎸🔥The Albatross at Bempton was easily my highlight of the year, I’ll never forgot when it cruised past us and turned back to check us out, phone pic courtesy of
@DanielCMartin1
💥
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Migration is BONKERS just had a super high Short-eared Owl go east over my Sheffield Garden in Manor!
@SheffBirders
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Highlight was definitely a handful of juv. Swifts lingering and showing amazingly
@HEYapus
@SaveourSwifts
@swiftsweek
#flightshot
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Watching this ad male Oriental Honey Buzzard sat in a tree in Oman when it takes off and flys almost overhead!
#magic
🇴🇲🎸🎸
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Brilliant 2.5wks
@LongPointBirdOb
with the
@spurnbirdobs
Young Proffesionals Exchange programme, learnt loads about all things 🇨🇦 Bird Obs on the other side of the pond and
#MotusWTS
now to bring some of the ideas back to Spurn!
#birdobsunited
Big thanks to all involved!
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Spanking Pallid Swift bombing around our heads at Porth Hellick earlier after a brief panic as it disappeared for a few minutes
@rdh_rob
@metcow33
@JABBIRDART
#ScillyStag
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95 species, 33 miles cycled, 10 miles walked, 3 of us wiped out on black ice, 1 Birdrace tick and a cracking day in
@LDV_NNR
@YorkBirding
Full list and misses attached
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Best pic I’ve seen so far of this River Warbler! Like a Lewington painting!!
Not all bird photos have to be super close ups, sometimes it’s nice to include the surroundings to give a sense of atmosphere. The River Warbler
@RSPBHamWall
yesterday climbed to the top of a reed stem & sang it’s heart out for a brief while.
@BirdGuides
@Natures_Voice
#birding
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Brilliant days birding
@slimbridge_wild
with
@discors1
absolute highlight this beastly juv. female Goshawk causing havoc, plus loadsa Bewick’s calling away, White-fronts over the back, 2 Little Stint, 2 GCP Cranes, Spoonbill, 3 Grey Plover, Barwit and 2 Avocet on the rising tide
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Any young birder out there need a car? This one belonged to birders all its life, 108,000 miles, £500 would be nice to go to a birder, should do someone nicely for plenty more years to come! DM me for more info
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Lucky enough to see 27 species of Raptor in 2 weeks (23rd March-5th April) between Sweden and Israel 🎸🎸🎸💯💯💯
#raptorsrule
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12hrs birding, 42 miles cycled/walked for 99 species for the Birdrace around York today, all to raise money for
@Spurn_Terns
any donations greatfully received here … missed Green Woodpecker, Willow Tit and Med Gull
@chrisgomersall1
@JABBIRDART
@metcow33
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Mad to think this is the 5th Isabelline Wheatear for
@spurnbirdobs
and the 3rd in last 6-years! Yet we've been waiting for our 3rd Desert Wheatear since 1962!
Easington birds..Sept17th21...Isabelline Wheatear on the slope and rocks next to the gas terminal...a superb find by
@easingtonbirds
who checks the area regularly and it paid off😁...
@spurnbirdobs
@RareBirdAlertUK
#isabellinewheatear
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Impressive flock of Whooper Swans passing over my garden at 2am this morning, one of two flocks on their way to Iceland via
@LDV_NNR
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Amazing to see a Spotted Crake up close this morning at
#OttenbyF
ågelstation it was attacked by crows but was rescued by 2 nearby birders, pretty surprised when they walked in the ringing lab with it!! Appreciative crowd, just like
@spurnbirdobs
!
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Who needs Varanger when you've got Kilnsea Wetlands! Juv Red-necked Phalarope in front of the hide, MEGA!
@realDavidHunt1
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2 Hornemann’s on Foula today every bit as good as I’d hope they would be! 💯💯💯 followed up by a running banana 🍌
@LiamLangley1
@MatthewJBruce
@metcow33
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Look at the size ‘difference’ between a Kestrel and a Pallid Harrier here!!
“Mijn mooiste fotomoment ever! Wat een geweldenaar, zo’n steppekiekendief, torenvalk was kansloos.” Woorden van fotograaf Rein Hofman. Echt ongelofelijk mooi! Zo mooi ook omdat dit het 4e jong (2KJ man) is uit het steppekiek nest van vorig jaar!
Meer:
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Epic views of a Kingfisher in
@Fr_RowntreePark
this morning, wasn’t expecting to be looking down on it when I stuck my head over the wall!
@YorkBirding
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Some seriously smart birds trapped today!!! RIVER WARBLER started singing in the garden then found its way into a Heligoland Trap! Shown to an appreciative crowd, then surprise Woodlark in the same trap and super smart adult Male thunbergi this evening!
#OttenbyF
ågelstation
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Seriously missing
@birdingfrontier
right now, his blog was really inspirational stuff 🙏
#legend
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Flushed a Woodcock in
@spurnbirdobs
garden yesterday so went back with thermal to see if it was there today and it was! Seriously impressive bit of kit and no chance of seeing this bird without it! Stayed here all day 🤘
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Lucky enough to get to track (using radio tags) and monitor Nightjar nests through
@lucyjayneryan
's project, super camouflage!
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Arrived at Ottenby Fågelstation, so far 3 days of Heligoland Trap fixing! Distractions provided by local Shore Lark and Snow Bunt flock flying over as well as first spring migrants moving north, Crane, Woodlark and a Northern Treecreeper climbing up the ladders! 🇸🇪
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Wannabe Little Crake
@RSPBTitchwell
!!!
Always special to see Bearded Tits, & no finer place to watch them than
@RSPBTitchwell
. A juvenile makes it's way along the base of the reedbed.
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