Dave Craven
@daveliverbirder
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Some people believe #patchbirding is a matter of life and death, I can assure you it’s much more important than that.
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Always amazes me at just how perfectly still a
#Kestrel
can keep its head when hovering/hanging in the air…despite the wind!!
#birding
#eyesontheprize
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FUUUUUCCCCKK!! Just found a White Tailed sat on the edge of Frodsham Score viewed from between Lighthouse and Within Way
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The White Tailed
#Eagle
again showing well from
#patchbirding
Hale Lighthouse with regular flights today to evade the miffed local Gulls. Seriously impressive 🦅
@BirdGuides
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So apparently I just need to calm down as Fido ‘won’t do anything, e just likes to chase em’ 🤬 Missing the point aren’t you, you fucking numpty!! Boils my piss the disregard some people have for nature or other people!!
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Apologies for the expletive’s but HOLY FUCK!! Stunning Honey Buzzard just circled in over my head along Carr Lane and headed N towards Burnt Mill Farm
@CAWOSBirding
@CHESHIREBIRDING
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Just had to share these absolutely stunning pics taken by Mike Roberts of one of the Ringtails kicking around Hale at the moment. Not sure how anyone could take pleasure in killing such awesome birds
#raptors
#henharrier
#patchbirding
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Damn Hoopoes worse than toggers! Harassing birders in the Jardi Del Turia….😂
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Decided to pop in on the local
#peregrines
on the way home. Not sure who was more excited, me or them, to watch one of them plucking a recent catch
#LocalBigYear
#birding
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It may have been about 1.5 miles away…but the excitement of finding this 2cy White Tailed Eagle on
#patchbirding
is hard to explain. A lot of very happy local birders made it even better 😁 Mid-summer lull did I say?? 😂
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Didn’t expect the White Tailed Eagle to reappear on
#patchbirding
again! Watched as it flew in from the W and land on Frodsham Score. Amazing barn doors in flight 😍
@RareBirdAlertUK
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Post work
#patchbirding
hoping to find my first Wheatear of the year….didnt expect this spanking Rouzel instead
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You can shove your Alpine Swifts! Just found 2+ Bearded Tit in the reedbed at the bottom of Within Way, Hale. Thought I was going crazy!!
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Oh my god!!! A bloody Alpine Swift over my house in Mossley Hill, Liverpool heading towards Mather Avenue!!!!!!! Thank god the footy was so 💩 or I’d still be inside!!
@BirdGuides
@RareBirdAlertUK
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Bloody awesome
#patchbirding
2 Greylag, 53 Avocet, 18 Grey Plover, 2 Ringo, 5 LRP, Whimbrel, 3 Dunlin, Com & Green Sand, 2 Med Gull, GWE, HONEY-BUZZARD, Marsh Harrier, Hobby, 2 Peregrine, 4 Channel and 17+ Yellow Wagtail. Stunning
#LocalBigYear
#birding
😮💨
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Hudsonian Godwit on the Mersey at Hale, Cheshire. Took an age to see a brief underwing view. Viewing from here ///shave.market.cubes and bird is roughly at ///remote.calculating.tender
@RareBirdAlertUK
@BirdGuides
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OH YES!!!!!! NIGHTINGALE singing from Big Boar Wood by bridge on Carr Lane, Hale
@CHESHIREBIRDING
#rbnCHS
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Having been knocked sideways with covid for a few days it’s good to know I’ve got no lasting brain fog when I found this beautiful winter plumaged Ptarmigan on
#patchbirding
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Well that’s nice….just found 3
#Rouzel
together along
#patchbirding
Hale Shore. Most I’ve seen together on patch
#migrationforthenation
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The shy and retiring
#WaterRail
at Sefton Park was a nightmare to take any pics of…because it was too close 😂
#poochmooch
#birding
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As the chatty man says…”outstanding” 😂
#dirtytwitching
with the little man up to Ince Blundell for the
#Hoopoe
. Showing well 😁
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So I went round to EBO for some celebratory cake after the Serin....only to find it singing away there!! Almost the identical spot the Sibe Accentor was in 😍
#spurnbirds
@RareBirdAlertUK
@BirdGuides
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Great to catch up with these LSW. Cheshire tick and my first birds for a number of years
#birding
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Depressing evening
#patchbirding
channel dug to drain CLP, hedges destroyed to replace fencing, along with Town Lane being drained, all in peak breeding. Feel totally demoralised about the state of peoples attitudes towards nature these days 😥
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Well worth the quick drive up the M57 to catch up with the
#Hoopoe
at Ince Blundell. The chatty man was suitably impressed 😁 Nice to catch up with one in the NW…first I’ve seen in the UK in a number of years
#birding
#dirtytwitching
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Yessssss!!! Drink that
#spring
nectar in!! Still get seriously giddy for my first
#wheatear
of the
#patchbirding
year. After a lot of searching found one on Decoy Marsh 😁
#LocalBigYear
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Bonkers!! Just found our 2nd Temminck’s Stint of the year on Carr Lane Pools viewing from Town Lane! Showing well despite the breeze.
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Bonkers! Now 4 Shag at Queens Dock by the Water Sports Centre! Great find
@PeteBrash
Nice little
#LocalBigYear
tick and a nice diversion after work 😁
#birding
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2023
#patchbirding
lacked a ‘proper’ mega, but 174sp seen inc
#patchtick
Smew, Kumlien’s Gull & White Tailed Eagle, alongside some scarcer bits like Temminck’s Stint, Pec Sand, Glauc, Cattle Egrets, Waxwing, Firecrest, Twite, Hawfinch etc. More of the same for 2024 please 😁🤞
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🚨Cuteness Alert 🚨 Despite the excellent
#patchbirding
this was actually my highlight. A young Field Mouse(?) which I helped back into the hedgerow from the middle of the road! Absolutely tiny! Stay safe little one 😁
#mammals
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Always nice watching Black Winged Kite-Chats at close range 😁 Never noticed the tail-bobbing before?! Nice soundtrack of Bee-eater to go along with it too. Loving
#birding
in 🇵🇹
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What a time to be alive! Celebrated being able to access Twitter again by finding 2 unringed, fully-winged and wary Bar Headed Geese with the post breeding flock of Canadas on
#patchbirding
. Look shattered after their long
#migration
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I’m often told that my
#phonescoped
pics are a big pile of 💩 I’d agree, but at least this one has a
#redstart
on it 😁
#birding
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What a lovely meal, time to admire my reflection….eh, what’s that coming towards me? Arrrgghh!!! Merlin!! I’m outta here 😂😂
#Kingfisher
#patchbirding
@CAWOSBirding
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The
#Kumlien
’s looked seriously narked by the rising tide waking it from its slumber 😂 To be fair I wouldn’t be too different 😁
#patchbirding
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Was just heading home from a
#patchbirding
drenching when I noticed a
#BarnOwl
getting a right going over from a Black Headed Gull. Thankfully it pitched down to allow a few
#phonescoped
pics. What a beauty!! 😍
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The 3cy ♀︎White Tailed
#Eagle
G542 still present on the Mersey from
#patchbirding
Hale Lighthouse. Sat on sandbanks to the SW about midriver. Waiting for it’s breakfast….
@RareBirdAlertUK
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Love having the
#Wheatear
back. Watched one cross the Mersey and drop in at my feet. Proper
#migration
in action. Think we may need some more fence posts at BMF though 😁
#LocalBigYear
#birding
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I still remember in the mists of time when seeing an
#Egret
of any type in the UK would make for a good day…...
With the numbers about now, they barely get mention! How times change! 🤪
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Well that was definitely not on the radar for today!! Singing Wood Warbler in Hale Park!! Only my 2nd Patch Record and first since 2013
#kaboooom
#pwc2019
@CHESHIREBIRDING
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Continually checking the
#patchbirding
finch flocks coming down the seed finally pays off. My second patch record of Twite and first since 2015 💪 Hopefully it’ll stick until the NY now 🤞
#BelatedChrimboPressie
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A few screen grabs of the Honey-Buzzard from Friday. Quite distinctive gaps in both L & R S10/9 and notched on L P7/6/5, would be interesting to see if it’s picked up elsewhere
#patchbirding
#LocalBigYear
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First
#Whooper
Swans inbound to Frodsham meeting a small number of Pinkies going the other way 🤯
#patchbirding
at its best 😍
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Whinchat, 5 Wheatear, Yellow Wag and increase in Swallow numbers around BMF
#birding
#migration
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Whinchats literally everywhere on
#patchbirding
this evening. 8 and counting (5 at BMF and 3 at CLP) already 🤯 Don’t think I’ve ever seen so many!!
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Mind. Totally. Blown 🤯 The
#vismig
in south Liverpool has been insane. Constant flocks of Redwings and latterly Fieldfare moving at rooftop height. Would have loved to have been out
#patchbirding
properly. But the
#tseep
and
#tsaktsaktsak
is a great soundtrack to work to 😁
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Brilliant to watch a couple of Barn Owls hunting this morning. This one was a successful hunt ending up taking a small mammal away….maybe not so brilliant for the mouse or vole though 🫣
#birding
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An exceedingly frustrating
#patchbirding
visit this afternoon, high expectations to spend my time grilling
#wader
flocks…only to find dogs running off the lead and people walking through the roost area 🤬 A few birds reappeared after a 90 min wait…so not a total waste 🤦♂️
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Non-birding (haha, as if any trip is non-
#birding
) trip to the
#Wirral
with a quick stop off at New Brighton and Wallasey. Great to see
#SnowBunting
again for the first time in ages. Stunning and confiding little birds 😍
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The Sefton Park
#waterrail
continues to show stupidly well….wonder how long it’ll stay?!
#poochmooch
#birding
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A couple of mini bulldozers at
#patchbirding
Pickerings
moving some of the tide wrack around. Great to watch 😁
#turnstone
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Fight or flight…or maybe a bit of both. Amazing watching this Peregrine targeting a single Pink footed Goose over the Mersey
#patchbirding
@BBCSpringwatch
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The
#patchbirding
Wood Sandpiper continues to show well at times…even if it means taking your life in your own hands with passing cars 😳
#waders
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Formerly a breeder on
#patchbirding
until the last pair c.5 years ago…Great to catch up with a singing Corn Bunting, 🤞 it finds a mate. Bird of the Day by a country mile!
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So apparently there is new legislation that has been brought in that requires all birders to post pics of their 1st Wheatear of the year, no matter how bad they are 🤘 Spring! Bring it on baby. 2 at BMF
#patchbirding
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This one legged Common Sandpiper turned up in late June on
#patchbirding
and has remained throughout. Amazing how well it copes…and even still manages to tail bob too 😁
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Woooooooooosssshh!! Screeeeeeeeech!! The local
#Swifts
are home finally 😁 Although it feels late they’re actually 2 days earlier than last year. Made my day 😁
#LocalBigYear
#birding
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Phew!! ……and relax!! Don’t often leave
#patchbirding
territory, but typical that when I do a couple of good birds turn up! Nice that they both stuck around for me to get back! Nice finds by
@IanIgglesden
and
@osprey55a
😁🙌
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Undoubted highlight of the
#wadertastic
#patchbirding
was at least 5 Little Stint. But to have over 4k
#waders
so close was an absolute pleasure having had the frustration of counting dots (wondering what may be hidden amongst them) at c1 mile for the last few weeks 😁
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Absolute belter of a breeding plumage Spotted Redshank E of
@patchbirding
Hale Lighthouse. Don’t often get them in this plumage 😍 Autumn most definitely here!!
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One of the wintering
#patchbirding
#Merlin
having a rest and a spruce up in some lovely winter sunshine.
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Wow!! Out for my daily exercise, and only 5 mins from home.....
#Dipper
at Greenbank Park!! Almost makes up for no birding in months
#lockdownbirding
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The Sefton Park
#WaterRail
has made it into April….🤯 Still as brazen as ever, doesn’t seem to be bothered by much at all now!
#poochmooch
#birding
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The great thing about
#whitewingers
is that even in near darkness they stand out like a sore thumb!! One of at least 2 adults into roost on
#patchbirding
Hale Lighthouse tonight.
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An enjoyable dawn start at Savoura Lake with a few nice bits, 25 Glossy Ibis, 8 Scopoli’s, ♂︎ Golden Oriole, RB Shrike, Eastern Olivaceous, Eastern Subalpine, and a few waders etc…but the 🌟 for me were plenty of purring Turtle Dove 😍
#corfubirding
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First still night
#patchbirding
in ages and the Wagtails were out in force. At least 4 male Channel Wagtails and far too many juveniles to wreck your brain! 😵💫
@CAWOSBirding
@CHESHIREBIRDING
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Evening
#patchbirding
Barnacle, 8k Canada, Com Scoter, 4 Avocet, 7 LRP, 2 Whimbrel, 1500 Blackwit, 2 Snipe, 3 Com Sand, Green Sand, Spotshank, Greenshank, Med Gull, 2 Cattle Egret, GWE, Tawny Owl, Hobby, Cetti’s, 5 Yellow Wag. Decent!! 💪😁
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Afternoon
#patchbirding
8 Pintail, 3 Goldeneye, Water Rail, 150 Golden Plover, 4 Barwit, Jack Snipe, 77+ Snipe, 2 Turnstone, 20 Knot, Cattle Egret, 2 GWE, Kingfisher, Merlin, Peregrine, 3 Cetti’s, 9 Stonechat, Water Pipit and Rock Pipit in pretty chilly conditions still 🥶
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Nice to catch up with the male
#Merlin
on Carr Lane again this afternoon
@CAWOSBirding
#patchbirding
#LocalBigYear
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Evening
#patchbirding
Migrants: 3 LRP, 2 Whimbrel, 10 Wheatear, 9 Swallow, 2 Sand Martin, 6 House Martin, 2 Yellow Wag, Channel Wag, 19 White Wag. Others: 47 Avocet, 176 Grey Plover, Barwit, 3 Sanderling among good wader nos. on the Mersey
#LocalBigYear
#birding
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Most Tree Pipits at Hale
#patchbirding
are flyovers (only seen 2 on the deck previously), so was very nice to see 5 ‘grounded’ birds today along Carr Lane. Conveniently perching up nicely on the lines. Such smart little
#pipits
#LocalBigYear
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Just picked up an Osprey over Frodsham from
#patchbirding
….which was nice 👌 Shame it’s so bloomin distant!
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Few bits of video of today’s very smart Serin. Two very happy chappys
@Sibe4me
and
@notbirdingnick
#spurnbirds
#serin
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Mind blowing numbers of
#Pinkies
coming into roost on the
#patchbirding
Mersey tonight. Not sure what the highest count is for the Mersey but this must be close or beaten it?! Estimated c15-20k with more coming in!! 🤯
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One less Grey Partridge on the patch....but what a sight to watch this juvenile
#Peregrine
in action
#raptorsrock
#birding
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Leach’s Petrel just gone west past Hale Lighthouse. Heads up
@birderjack
@PeteBrash
@xbirder
@DFoyLiv
if you’re watching from further up the Mersey
@CAWOSBirding
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Shame it’s nearly as distant as the Eagle….but an Osprey say out on the sandbars along Hale Shore this morning 😁
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Well that has made my evening! Haven’t seen a Tawny Owl in daylight hours for what seems like a very long time! But it was made even better when there were 2 fluffballs with it 😍
#birding
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Great fun watching the
#turnstones
at Otterspool this morning with the chatty man
#multitaskingbirding
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#Redstart
is one of my favourite summer
#migrants
This is the 3rd male on
#patchbirding
already this year, but this one was by far the smartest of them 😍 Just a shame about the heathaze this afternoon…but not complaining like 😂
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First
#birding
in 3 months and rewarded with a cracking Red Kite flying SW over Carr Lane, Hale
@CAWOSBirding
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The ♀︎ Ring Ouzel still showing well at Oglet and a smart male Redstart which isn’t quite as showy….
#birding
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You little Belter!!!! Having a quick spruce up after a successful fish 😁 1st non
#patchbirding
and
#dirtytwitching
of the year and first BOU
#lifer
in over a year. Well worth the short drive up the M6
#no458
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A nice
#quadruple
on
#patchbirding
Town Lane tonight with a Wood Sand, Spotshank, Green Sand and then topped off by 2 Garganey that flew in over my head and landed on the main pools (my first
#patch
birds in over 2 years!!).
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1st
#birding
in 3 months gave me a huge mental boost - Red Kite, 2 LRP, Swallow, White Wag, Water Pipit, Merlin, Peregrine, 2 Ruff, Kingfisher, Cetti’s, 28 Blackwit, 2 Pintail, singing Chiffs and Blackcap the notables around CLP/Town Lane
#naturalhealthservice
#bringonspring
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What a time to be alive….just found 2 Ruddy Shelduck by
#patchbirding
Hale Lighthouse that aren’t dots 😵 Cage door is open again….😂
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Couldn’t resist coming back for seconds….the trio of Pec Sand, Temminck’s Stint and Wood Sand showing outrageously well with
@IanIgglesden
and Mark Garner.
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A dawn start on
#patchbirding
is always a nice way to start the day, even better when there is a Wood Sand to greet you 😁
#waders
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Excellent evening
#patchbirding
migrants: LRP, 3 Whimbrel, 2 Sedge, 7 Reed, 2 Gropper, 6 Sand Martin, 60 Swallow, 15 House Martin, 15 Whitethroat, ♂︎ Redstart, 3 ♂︎ Whinchat, 30 Wheatear, 7 Yellow, 2 Channel, White Wag. Proper
#LocalBigYear
#migration
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Bit of 📹 of the Lesser
#Yellowlegs
at
#Marshside
(Crossens Inner) this afternoon. Feels like a long time since my last one, but certainly one of the most showy I’ve seen. Stunning little
#waders
#twitching
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Marginally better brief views of the Sefton Park
#Kingfisher
on todays
#poochmooch
They have been a lot harder to see this winter compared to normal for some reason
#alwaysbirding
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You say Hoo, I say Poe…Hoo-Poe, Hoo-Poe. One of the birds I enjoy most about 🇵🇹 Mediterranean
#birding
Plenty about this morning, but always amazing how well they blend in to the background!!
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