UCL Earth Sciences, wine and walking
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Birding 2023 roundup. So hard to pick four. Especially having been in the Pennines and at a Snettisham spectacular! Suffolk waxwing, bittern and snipe from @RSPBMinsmere and the long-billed dowitcher at @NWTCleyCentre with the wonderful @parkbirdslondon
First thing for the fabulous @Natures_Voice Snettisham spectacular. And it truly was. ♥️rspb
Dawn (literally) at @RSPBMinsmere provided 70+species. Of course most of the good stuff was right at the back or high in the sky. But these pics are great 😊 #lovebirds #loveminsmereatdawn
Fab early morning on @CityCorpHeath with this kestrel. Nobody else around at all #lovebirds #hampsteadheath
Hollesley @Natures_Voice and a lovely early morning with two cuckoos, 2-3 wood sandpipers, greenshank, snipe, marsh harrier, turnstone, many more including here Cetti’s warbler, 4 of the 5 spoonbills, stonechat and barn owl. #lovebirds #seewhatyouremissingcraig!
Great first thing dash to @Natures_Voice North Warren where this lovely black winged stilt dropped in (and a wood sandpiper too). V pleased #lovebirds
A 5:30am start and 25 km in the peaks surrounded by curlews, lapwings, red grouse, skylarks, willow warblers, with 4 cuckoos, 2 wheatear, TWO ring ouzel plus a pied flycatcher and a tree pipit. Days rarely are better than this.
The glory that is @RSPBMinsmere - v early start and my 72 hoard includes this little gull next to the sandwiches and avocets. #lovebirds
Fab short nip round hollesley common happening upon loads of stuff including cuckoo, stonechat and here redstart yellowhammer and woodlark. Such a beautiful place #lovebirds
At the @LeverhulmeTrust gala dinner with @ES_UCL winner Andy Thomson - what a fab scientist he is!!
Whoopers and Berwick @RSPBMinsmere today. But blimey, it was absolutely freezing 🥶
Fab morning at KGV reservoir in the illustrious company of Young Birder of the Year 2024 @Elliott81758817 getting 3 new for me. Scaup, goosander, kite, peregrine, goldeneye and, here, black throated diver, slavonian grebe, black-necked grebe, great northern diver 😍
Lovely treat to see this cattle egret (one of three) @Natures_Voice boyton this morning 😍
Amazing that this dartford warbler survived the crowds on @CityCorpHeath yesterday and fabulous to see it getting used to its rather populated surroundings
A quick foray onto @CityCorpHeath to finally catch this splendid dartford warbler, originally found by @rubatroid two days ago - the first on HH for 30 years!!!!!! What an absolute birding treat! 🥰
Fantastic news for our very own Andrew Thomson - an absolutely outstanding scientist researching the deep Earth with extremely challenging and original techniques - well done Andy! @LeverhulmeTrust @ucl @uclmaps @ES_UCL
