A birder & avid naturalist all my life. I walk, I see, I write. https://nitter.cf/t.co/kUkv4OLHi7
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A fine final evening on Lesvos. 10-10-26
I found this 1w m Caspian Stonechat (Saxicola maurus hemprichii) but it took an age to convince myself that this Siberian Stonechat (very rare here) did indeed have the requisite white upper sections to the outer tail feathers.
New Forest (ish) for @OrioleBirding - 14th-18th July 2026
It was a magnificent few days down on the south coast heaths, downlands and forest. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com… @DipteristsForum @BDSdragonflies
ALT Bog Bush Cricket
ALT Bombylius minor
ALT Scarlet Darter
ALT Mottled Grasshopper
Mull, Iona and the Treshnish Isles for @OrioleBirding - 27th June - 4th July 2026 blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com…
As seems to be the norm the weather tried to scupper our efforts but our perseverance paid off with Eagles, Otters, Puffins & Corncrakes
ALT White-tailed Eagle
Lowestoft Life - 21st June to 12th June 2026
Time for a bit of a random catch up of non-work related stuff. Nightjars, yet more auks and quite a lot of moths! blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com…
ALT Guillemot and chick
ALT Pyramidal Orchid
ALT Small Dotted Footman
ALT Black-tailed Skimmer
Day 8 - 19th June 2026 - Svalbard - Spitzbergen & the pack ice with Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours & @OceanwideExp
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The final run into Longyearbyen & a send off by a large pod of mini Moby Dicks! What a way to round up this most astonishing of adventures
Day 7 - 18th June 2026 - Svalbard - Spitzbergen & the pack ice with Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours & @OceanwideExp
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A final full day spent with giant blubbery Walruses and the towering Toblerone triangle of the Alkhornet.
Day 6 - 17th June 2026 - Svalbard - Spitzbergen & the pack ice with @bwntours.bsky.social & @oceanwide-expeditions.com
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We headed south out of the pack ice on a glorious fog bow filled morning and back into open water where Blue Whales awaited.
Day 5 - 16th June 2026 - Svalbard - Spitzbergen & the pack ice with Bird's Wildlife & Nature & @oceanwide-expeditions.com
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Anyone for Blue Whales before breakfast, loved up Polar Bears & a bbq on board while drifting in the pack ice at 80.6 ° north?
ALT Northern Fulmar
ALT Blue Whale
ALT Harp Seal
ALT Polar Bears #11 & #12
Day 4 - 15th June 2026 - Svalbard - Spitzbergen & the pack ice with Bird's Wildlife & Nature & @OceanwideExp . A day exploring the Hinlopenstretet sound with flocks of portly Polar Bears, puppy eyed and hirsute seals, snowy gulls and a zillion auks... blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com…
ALT Brunnich's Guillemots
ALT Black Guillemots
ALT Ivory Gull
ALT Atlantic Walrus
Day 3 - 14th June 2026 - Svalbard - Spitzbergen & the pack ice with Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours & @OceanwideExp
A day within the living ice of the Liefdefjorden. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com…
ALT Arctic Skua
ALT Arctic Fox
ALT Snow Bunting
ALT Black-legged Kittiwakes
Thirty Years Ago - June 1996
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Summertime birding...
Day 2 - 13th June 2026 - Svalbard - Spitzbergen & the pack ice with Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours & @OceanwideExp
Our first full day at sea and in the zodiacs. A day never to be forgotten... blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com…
Day 1 - 12th June 2026 - Svalbard - Spitzbergen & the pack ice with Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours
Out to sea at last and northwards into a true Arctic adventure upon the MV Ortelius with @OceanwideExp
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ALT Pink-footed Geese
ALT Rock Ptarmigan
ALT Snow Bunting - the only passerine
ALT leucistic Barnacle Goose - I wonder if it is one of the Solway Firth wintering birds?
Since being back from Svalbard for Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours, I have been amongst the seabirds of Bempton and Nightjars of the Yorkshire moors and I am now on Mull for @OrioleBirding where White-tailed Eagles were the stars of another grey and dreich day.
Lesvos - The Family Week - 3rd -10th May 2026
A somewhat more chilled and chilly week but still bursting with wildlife. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com…
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ALT Red-backed Shrike
ALT juvenile Serin
ALT Masked Shrike
ALT Black Stork
25th April 2026 - Day 9 Northern Greece for Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours
A final morning in the Nestos in search of that pesky Partridge before heading briefly homewards after a magnificent tour. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com…
A Queen of Spain Fritillary
24th April 2026 - Day 8 Northern Greece for Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours
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Exploring the Dadia Forest #BirdsSeenIn2026
ALT Griffon & Black Vultures
ALT Egyptian Vulture
ALT Masked Shrike
ALT Early Spider Orchid
23rd April 2026 - Day 7 Northern Greece for Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours
The extensive marshes of the Evros Delta beckoned and our inability to get where we wanted to led us to where the birding Gods actually needed us to be... blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com… #BirdsSeenIn2026
ALT Isabelline Wheatear
ALT Turtle Doves
ALT Common Snipe
ALT White-tailed Lapwing
22nd April 2026 - Day 6 Northern Greece for Bird's Wildlife & Nature Tours.
It was a bit damp but we persevered with the coastal marshes. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com… #BirdsSeenIn2026
ALT Bittern
ALT Stone-curlew
ALT Greater Spotted Eagle
ALT Barn Swallow, House Martin, Sand Martin and Red-rumped Swallow