Andrew Whitehouse A Merlin, perhaps the same bird as yesterday, ploughing the wave troughs off Girdle Ness this afternoon. #Birds #BirdingScotland #PatchBirding #UKWildlife #Falcons #Raptors
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Andrew Whitehouse 
Jack A breezy evening #patchbirding Highlights .. my first redwings of autumn 😍 barn owl , the patch raven pair were doing some great synchronised aerial acrobatics and a few skeins of pink feet over
Jonathan Dodds Back to familiar territory! Decent variety at King George VI Park: the second Yellow-browed Warbler, five Firecrests and Thrushes arriving in-off. Plus first significant push of wildfowl with 687 Brent Geese amongst others ebird.org/checklist/S4... #PWC2026 #kentbirding
Neil Burt #Patchbirding after work… Kingfisher, Grey Wagtail, GC Grebe, 2 Grey Herons, 1 Green Sandpiper, Jays and the usual suspects around Singleton Lake & Rural Godinton Park.
Duncan Watson Another day of westerlies, with some drizzle thrown in for good measure this morning. These four barnacle geese heading north over Tynemouth Pier kept the #patchbirding year list ticking over though. #nebirding
@stanfordbirder.bsky.social Stanford Reservoir - popped back early evening to check the gull roost. Smart adult Mediterranean Gull & Caspian Gull. Also, 24 Little Egret & a decent Pochard count of 76. #PWC2026 @lrosbirds.bsky.social
Neil Burt 1 / 2
#PatchBirding ups and downs this evening. Far too much human disturbance at the Hothfield Water Bodies… Stonechat pair & Little Egret noted though. Better on rural Godinton Park with a hunting Barn Owl & calling Tawny Owl, Common Gull, Pied Wagtails and a nice flock of 50+ Goldfinches. Charming 👍.
Charlie J 1 / 2
First day I've needed a jumper, and the first 13 Redwing at Weald CP today. Other highlights: at least 50 Gadwall on the conservation lake, Shoveler, 2 Little Grebe and a Grey Wagtail. Also Small Copper and Clouded Yellow butterflies #patchbirding #essexbirding
Chris' Wildlife Sightings & Photography Lovely whizz around some of Dartmoor's pits. 7 Pintail (11! yesterday - big no. for the area), 2 Redwing (1st of autumn), Common Sand (scarce in Oct), Firecrest, 2 Wigeon, 45+ Tufted, 18+ L Grebe, Snipe, 150+ Teal, Shelduck the highlights. #patchbirding #birding #ukbirding #birds
John Bowler 1 / 2
Adult American Golden Plover new at Cornaigbeg, Tiree this morning (the 6th for the island in 2026!). Also 1cy female Ring-necked Duck at Loch an Eilein with 47 Whooper Swans, plus 5 Brambling new in the Balephuil garden #BirdingScotland #PWC2026 @birdguides.bsky.social
Neil Burt 1 / 3
#Patchbirding this evening. Was not expecting much as the evenings draw in, least of all a passerine. However a calling FIRECREST 🔥 on rural Godinton Park stopped me in my tracks, & then the little gem showed, feeding in the trees. Still a rare here (averaging 1 record a year). Year ✅ #102.
Alex Jones 1 / 3
Thrilled to find a patch Pectoral Sandpiper a couple of weeks ago after it dropped in out of the sky calling at sunset. This represents a second individual in almost inside a year at Rhyl on the North Wales coast. #RareBirdsUK #birding #patchbirding
Charlie J 1 / 2
Wasn't expecting much but a good local walk around Crow Green this evening, highlights: Grey Wagtail, Little Grebe, Hobby, Tawny Owl and a Kingfisher. #patchbirding #essexbirding
Neil Burt Yesterday 4th Oct: Back from holiday to an afternoon #PatchBirding session. 4 Skylarks S over rural Godinton Park + adult Med Gull S, 4 Clouded Yellows, 1 Sparrowhawk, C Buzzards, Kestrel, Jays & the usual Woodpeckers…
Mark Ferris 1 / 3
A good weekend on my local West Suffolk patch at Denston: 1CY YLG, 3 Stonechat, and 1 Rock Pipit – a patch tick! #patchbirding #Larids #Suffolkbirding
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@robcrank68.bsky.social set today's #BirdOfTheDay theme; #WingsOpenNotFlying, birds with their wings open when not flying. Found this Eurasian Spoonbill at Kilvington Lakes this morning. 3rd for the site. See alt text for others. #birds #birding #ECK #UKBirding #PatchBirding #Nottinghamshire
Amy Robjohns 1 / 2
Returned to Titchfield Haven after a couple of weeks break. Trickles of Meadow Pipits, Skylarks and hirundines overhead - the latter swirling over the river! View from the new VC is pretty good, and turned out nice once fog cleared #LowCarbonBirding #PWC2026
Chris' Wildlife Sightings & Photography Beautiful couple of mornings #patchbirding on Dartmoor. Four Firecrest (3 Wotter Pit, 1 C Down), 2 Pintail, 5 Wigeon, 60+ Teal, 200+ C Geese, 2 Shelduck the best in lower pits. Plenty of Skylark over the house. #birding #ukbirding #birds
James Spencer Bearded Tits on patch! 6 birds in the tiny reedbed at Barmston. Number 198 for the patch #PWC2026 #yorkshirebirding #patchgold
Iain Manfield First Redwing of the Autumn in the park (Woodhouse Moor). Hopefully lots more to come. But no Spotted flycatcher and likely none this year now we're into October - records only on Aug/Sept other years (grey bars on the graph). 31 spp for the week of birding in the city. #ukbirding #patchbirding
Frank Cavanagh 1 / 4
Another great day on patch today, 2 Grey Plover (the second time I've seen any here) 6 Little Egret, a juv White-tailed Eagle, and yet again, even more Hen Harriers. I have seen at least one every day that I've gone down for the last 3 weeks! #PatchBirding @patchbirding.bsky.social
Andrew Whitehouse 1 / 2
Delighted to get good views of the Sykes's Warbler at Girdle Ness today. I saw it only briefly yesterday morning, realised it was something significant but was unable to pin it down. Later, I scoped the bushes from home and got it on the house list🙃 #Birds #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK #PatchBirding
Rob Hughes Six Yellow-browed Warblers today (5 at John O’Groats, 1 at Noss Head). Garden Warbler, Whinchat and Ruff were #PWC2026 ticks #CaithnessBirds
John Bowler 1 / 3
3 Glossy Ibis at Heylipol, Tiree today (pic), the juv Pec Sand still at Balinoe (pic), imm Ring-necked Duck at Loch a' Phuill & juv American Golden Plover still at Ruaig. Also a 3km Balephuil patch year-tick of Grey Wagtail last night (pic) #BirdingScotland #PWC2026 @birdguides.bsky.social