2️⃣6️⃣ | Birder | BSc Env Conservation🎓🌿 | @ZEISSBirding | #ZEISSBirding #ZEISSNature
Leicestershire
Joined December 2013
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After seeing the Nutcracker on a wheelbarrow, in a skip, and drinking out of a gutter, it was great to see the bird spend some time feeding this evening with @miles_cluff
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NUTCRACKER is showing well at Mundesley, Norfolk! I was certainly thinking it wouldn’t actually happen!
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Our written-up trip report from a sensational week watching the ultimate European bird migration spectacle of raptors crossing the Gibraltar Strait. Link to the report on CloudBirders:
cloudbirders.com/be4/downloa…
Also plenty of pics on my website as per:
milescluffphotography.com/ta…
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For many many years, I’ve wanted an opportunity to set up a little pop-up hide to see into the secretive lives of Jack Snipes. Set up at a promising looking pool in Nottinghamshire the other day, and wowzas!!!!! 3 bobbing away in front of me tonight!
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Three 'wader species from the east' for which numbers peak in August and September. If you're seeing juvenile Curlew Sandpipers, look out for Little Stints too!
Blog about wader migration:
wadertales.wordpress.com/201…
@BirdTrack graphic from 2019
#ornithology
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Safe to say the Semipalmated Sandpiper showed very nicely on Fishtail Lagoon at Keyhaven, this morning.
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A spring 'trip' of Dotterel is a highlight for any European birder, but where are the birds going and what do they get up to?
Fascinating paper by Bart Kempenaers and colleagues is summarised in WaderTales blog #159:
wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
#ornithology #birds
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It was a pleasant and welcome surprise in a difficult year to hear that I won BBRC’s 2026 Carl Zeiss Award. Peer recognition is tops. Thank you (left, Andrew Holden, Chair BBRC)
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bit late but excited to share the !FIRST PHOTOS EVER TAKEN! of the New Britain Bronzewing. Summer expedition working w/ Arowe tribe in Papua New Guinea, my advisor @ethanblinck, Joe Wood @ToledoZoo, @IUCN_Pigeons
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Good day out with my new Zeiss Apia 65, amazing bit of kit with @davidearlgray & @ShrikeBirding at Frieston RSPB & Frampton RSPB.
Called in for a cuppa with our good mate @simonbirding
Must say Frieston is looking brilliant.
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Just found STEPPE WHIMBREL at Lake Sorkol, Zhanaqala, west Kazakhstan!!!! One of two with a flock of orientalis Eurasian Curlews. Declared extinct in 1994, but now with an estimated world population of fewer than 100 on earth! @zootherabirding @BirdGuides
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We had a surprise visit to a #NewForest stream recently. This #Razorbill was recorded on a trail camera probably resting after some weather pushed it off course.
The Razorbill is a coastal seabird and would usually be found in marine or intertidal water.
#WildlifeWednesday
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Natural England has revealed that it does not believe White Storks to be native to Britain – and it views releases of the species as not a conservation priority.
The government's nature agency said such schemes raise "challenging questions".
Full story on our website.
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First pencil drawing coming together for 2026 and it’s my dream bird to see - the Wallcreeper!
ALT My coloured pencil drawing of a wallcreeper
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Lovely views of drake White-winged Scoter at Buckhaven carpark in choppy seas along with the cracking white headed Velvet. #Fifebirds
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Great-tailed Grackle at Holbury appeared settled while feeding on leatherjackets and spiders in the surrounding gardens
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Fantastic views of the Eastern Black Redstart this morning, just after sunrise at Filey
@FileyBirdObs @nybirdnews @BirdGuides
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🏆 The 2025 @ZEISSBirding Award results have landed!
🏅 Winner: Pale-legged Leaf Warbler, by Frank Moffatt.
Top rated submissions to @__BBRC included seabirds, ducks, warblers, and more. All documented with detailed text, images & sound recordings:
➡️ britishbirds.co.uk/journal/a…
ALT Examples of images, illustrations and photographs submitted to BBRC in 2025.
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After landing and a spending some necessary hours on the beach I headed out in search of Bustards. I immediately came across this individual in the evening sun. The same site held up to 6 birds at once in the following days!
More photos found here: ebird.org/checklist/S2825897…
