Sandbach Flashes Bird News @sandbachflashes.bsky.social Created by a few devotees interested in maintaining a photo gallery, latest news, sightings and year list information for the local flashes.
Web: sandbachflashes.co.uk
Pagan Birders @paganbirder.bsky.social aka Penny (photos) and Ann (digiscope) a love of all of nature especially Birds, Butterflies & Orchids. Often found wandering on the Quantocks & the Somerset levels.
Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social Pastry-loving, nature-bothering, dragonfly-record-vetting, travel-addicted, R3-riding, Supreme Court case-winning lefty social media echo chamber inhabitant. 🏳️🌈
Ouse Fen Birder @brickert.bsky.social I think therefore I bird. Local patch RSPB Ouse Fen and RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes. Achieved birding ambition of seeing a representative from every bird family worldwide in 2024.
Mark Mallalieu @mallalieum.bsky.social Haywards Heath,Sussex. Ornithologist. Chair Scientific Committee, Sussex Ornithological Society. Trustee, Sussex Wildlife Trust.
@cliveaderbys.bsky.social @cliveaderbys.bsky.social Birder and moth-er, Derbyshire.
@craigcthomas1.bsky.social @craigcthomas1.bsky.social Chair Flamborough Bird Observatory, birder, conservationist, long since abandoned attempts to be 'rounded'
Andre Farrar @andrerfarrar.bsky.social Worked for RSPB for ages and for IEMA. Based in Kent (UK). Chair Kent Ornithological Society, Speaker Zoom (everywhere) and live (southern half of England). Advisory board member for DICE. Trying to maintain a sense of humour in these troubled times.
Perry Smale @hieraaetus74.bsky.social Cornwall, born and raised in Devon. All wildlife, though mainly birds (especially raptors and seabirds), mammals, reptiles and insects. Photographer. Love travel, quizzes, heavy metal and classic rock. Here to be nice, no negativity, no politics. On X😄
Amy R. @amythebirder.eurosky.social Ecologist (GIS specialist) & birder in the Solent. HOS Assistant Recorder. Loves nature & islands. Mostly biological recording & low carbon travel posts 🚲 🥾🚏⛴️. Views my own.
Currently studying GISc masters online at University of Leeds.
Trev Charlton @cliff-hanger.bsky.social Birder around RSPB Bempton Cliffs nature reserve- L @leonwr.bsky.social @leonwr.bsky.social Mad Devon birder.
Steve Blain @steveblain.bsky.social Birder, Bedfordshire, nocmig, vismig, digiscoper. Views my own. #BedsBirding
Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social Research Ecologist working on birds, mammals, forests, farms, hedgerows, woodland natural colonisation. Marsh Tit & Wood Warbler studies. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bird Study: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/tbis20
Views are mine.
Mike Morse @bexbirder.bsky.social Birding West Bexington and Cogden, Dorset
Ruth Tingay @ruthtingay.bsky.social Wildlife Ecology & Conservation I PhD I Raptors I Wildlife Crime I Co-Founder & Director Wild Justice @wildjustice.bsky.social I Writes Raptor Persecution UK blog @RaptorPersUK.bsky.social
https://raptorpersecutionuk.org/
https://wildjustice.org.uk/
Marc Heath @marcheath.bsky.social Kent Birder, county Dragonfly Recorder for Kent, Tour Leader and Northern Lights fanatic. www.marcheath.blogspot.com
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Mark @markh32.bsky.social Birdwatcher and nature lover/addict.
Alex and Liz Cruikshanks @alexcruik1.bsky.social Mainly local patch birding / vismig Hartlepool and Teesmouth, but interest in all aspects of nature.
Kat Lee @birderkat.bsky.social Bucks-born, Lancs-based birder.
@birderkatlee
Steve Williams @steveonhilbre.bsky.social Birder, ringer, husband, dad of four, kopite & foodie and cancer survivor
Family, birds, footy, travel and food what more is there 🤷♂️
hilbrebirdobs.blogspot.com
Geoff Carr @geoffcarr.bsky.social Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.
MA Countryside Management.
Photographer and sometimes writer.
Interest in motorcycles old and new.
Jacob Wood @jacob-wood.bsky.social South Devon based birder and wildlife enthusiast. Patch Mansands & Berry Head
Rich @scottybirder.bsky.social Birding mainly in Yorkshire and north Nottinghamshire #nocmig #patchbirding
📷 OM System OM-1ii 300mm f4 1.4x teleconverter
Patchwork Challenge @patchbirding.bsky.social A #patchbirding challenge across the UK and Ireland where the aim is to see and find as many birds as possible on your patch. For more info, go to our blog: patchworkchallenge.blogspot.com
Join our Bluesky buzz by tagging us in your posts #PWC2026
Paul Scholes @scholesy.bsky.social Joined here to escape the toxicity, hatred, misinformation & bots of the other place. UK & Yorkshre birder and wildlife enthusiast. Local patch is RSPB St Aidan's and to a lesser extent Fairburn Ings. Massive sports fan. Leeds United supporter. 
Mark Langston @boltoningsbirding.bsky.social Patch birder in the Dearne Valley
Paul Newton @paulnewton61.bsky.social Whitby patch birder. Local patches include the Whitby coastal strip, the river Esk between Whitby and Ruswarp, Scaling Dam and 10km from home patch.
Andy Carroll @andycarroll1973.bsky.social Northeast Scotland birder mainly Rattray, Strathbeg and Cairnbulg
Russ Malin @russmalin.bsky.social Co-compiler News & comment - British Birds
Gordon Newman @gan95.bsky.social Birder since 1983, have done a fair bit of Twitching, but more local patch birding now although still keeping tabs on the sightings around the UK. Patch birding Bickershaw Rucks since 2011 long before Country Park status!
Also interested in Nature in gen
Brian Small @cach22.bsky.social Birder, bird illustrator, dad, tour guide
@linzwiththebins.bsky.social @linzwiththebins.bsky.social Birder based in the Isle of Man
Mainly patch birding Langness. Waders are my main interest, but if its a bird then I'm interested! Very amateur photography Nikon P1000
Musician/Keys player
PWME
Calf of Man Bird Observatory @calfofmanbirdobs.bsky.social Bird Observatory since 1959 🐦🔭 @manxheritage.bsky.social , managed in partnership with @manxwildlifetrust.bsky.social | A jewel of #ManxNature 🇮🇲
@inchgarthbirding.bsky.social @inchgarthbirding.bsky.social North-east Scotland Bird Recorder. Goes to Inchgarth Reservoir a lot. Occasional glimpse-catching flocker.
Simon Patient @simonpatient1.bsky.social Essex Birder and Abberton Reservoir local patcher. Amateur photographer and artist. Also interests in astronomy and wildlife in general especially Butterflies. Colchester based. 
Stewart @stewchat.bsky.social Northumbrian Birder, Naturalist, fan of Ennion, RARichardson, Busby, Jarvis, McCanch, Wallace, Watkins-Pitchford and rarest of all, Notebook users... Local Patcher on the Northumberland coast. Blog - just Google Stewchat blog..
UK Rares @ukraritiesdaybyday.bsky.social BOU - Avi List: S/ SS - 637/ 117 (754)
Most recent addition: GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER - Myiarchus crinitus
Gary Watton @garywatton.bsky.social Birder / Photographer
BOU life list 383
Often out with my wife Fiona and meeting many other birders on our travels. You may know us as the deaf couple 😊
Paul Massey @northern-birder.bsky.social Northumberland based birder. Aspiring, but under achieving, rare bird finder.
Ben Eaton @benjeaton.bsky.social Ladywalk & Sutton Park (Warks/West Mids) birder, moth-er and conservation volunteer. Gardener.
Jon @lancsbirder7.bsky.social NW birder. Usually found roaming around Seaforth NR.
Alan Curry @yellowbrow.bsky.social Mainly local patch birding in Northumberland and the occasional foray further afield. 
Seasalter birder @seasalterbirder.bsky.social 
Andy Stockhausen @andy-1963.bsky.social Bristol-based sports journalist with a passion for birding. Mostly retired now and spending more time on my local Severnside patch, though still prone to twitching on occasion.
Tom Bedford @tombedford.bsky.social Obsessive patch birder in the Lye Valley, Oxford | eBird reviewer for Oxfordshire | bird surveys for BTO.
Part of a 2024 team that set the current Oxon Big Day record by bike, beating the motorised record 🚴🏼♂️👊🏻✅
Blog 👇🏻
https://www.outofthebluesky.co/?p=5909
Iain Manfield @iainmanfield.bsky.social Patch birdwatcher in Leeds and around the Yorkshire Dales. Enthusiastic lister using BTO BirdTrack and contributor to BBS. Leeds Uni biochemist. 
Andy Firth @andyfirth.bsky.social Mainly patch birder, Sandbach Flashes Cheshire for 25 years, now in County Durham, birding Saltholme, Castle Lake and Low Barns when time allows.Try to bird Flamborough and the Isles of Scilly one week each year when possible.
Norfolk Birds @norfolkbirds.bsky.social News about bird recording in Norfolk
Our website: https://norfolkbirds.weebly.com/
UKOI @ukoi.bsky.social Interested in Wildlife Conservation. Ospreys in particular. UKOspreyinformation.com
Eugene Dillon-Hooper @eugenedh.bsky.social North London Birder (184) and Norfolk when I can, but mostly KGV Res (130) Member of the Royal Opera Chorus, won't be found without my binoculars.
Andy Hirst @gonebirding.bsky.social Local birder (SK58- 10km square, between Sheffield, Rotherham & Worksop, UK), when not Filming | Editing | Tour Leading @ Gone Birding. Founder Member | Recorder | Editor SK58 Birders. http://www.gonebirding.org
http://www.sk58birders.com
Stuart Rapson @ivoryg.bsky.social Birding, primarily within the York OC recording area
Stephen Dunstan @dunners.bsky.social Birder based in Lancashire. Cumbria Bird Club Council member, Birds in Cumbria and Lancashire Bird Report section editor. Author with Jane Turner and Ian McKerchar of Where To Watch Birds in Northwest England (Bloomsbury / Helm).
Foulshaw Ospreys @foulshaw2.bsky.social Volunteer at Cumbria Wildlife Trust's Foulshaw Moss reserve, Cumbria UK. Reporting on our Ospreys and other wonderful wildlife. Posts are my own, not official CWT.
Check out our live Osprey webcam.
https://www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/osprey-webcam
Jim Welford @jtw521.bsky.social 
Moth Identification UK @mothiduk.bsky.social Tag me for ID of your moth photos. If you'd like to leave a tip: ko-fi.com/mothiduk
PJ Harvey @pjharvey.net Official account for PJ Harvey http://pjharvey.net
New song 'Voyager' out now
https://pjharvey.lnk.to/voyagerBS
Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social Our readers have understood the concept of Buyer's Remorse since 1979.
Buy the Profanisaurus or Subscribe here: https://lnk.bio/vizcomicofficial
Carla Hill @carlahill.bsky.social @fairislebirdobs.bsky.social Ranger.
Birder, trainee bird ringer and marine life lover with a passion for environmental education. Uni of Exeter grad.
Graham White @billybloodwom.bsky.social Ecologist, Birder, Gooner, Foodie, Coprologist
Mingulay Seabird Ranger @ntsmingulay.bsky.social Studying seabird populations on the mighty Mingulay in the Outer Hebrides with National Trust for Scotland
John Bowler @tireebirder.bsky.social Life-long birder - Tiree-based but sometimes elsewhere
Alula Designs @aluladesigns.bsky.social Bird inspired clothing, designed by birders for birder.
Alan @lobb66.bsky.social Birding, mostly … Cornwall, mostly …
www.stivesbirders.co.uk
Arto Maatta @artom.bsky.social Birding, moths, and general interest in nature. A retired Cell Biologist.
Cape Clear Bird Observatory (CCBO) @ccbowarden.bsky.social Monitoring, researching and recording bird migration & the wildlife of Cape Clear. Part of Birdwatch Ireland, the largest independent conservation organisation in Ireland. CCBO is an accredited member of the Bird Observatories Council.
John Malloy @johnmalloy.bsky.social Struggles to identify birds in Northumberland and occasionally further afield.
https://www.instagram.com/postpunkbirder?igsh=bjZobzFzZGR1eHBt&utm_source=qr
CM @manchesterbirder.bsky.social Some nature writing at my blog, if you like that sort of thing.
https://themanchesterbirder.blogspot.com
Jane Dell @janedell.bsky.social #Ospreys #Peregrines
@petesmithatwsett.bsky.social @petesmithatwsett.bsky.social 
Dave Bickerton @rishtonbirder.bsky.social Retired Lancashire-based birder. Birds, moths, natural history. Blackburn Rovers
Jo King @jokingnorfolk.bsky.social Birder & little critter watcher now based in North Norfolk
@simonjohnno.bsky.social @simonjohnno.bsky.social Yorkshire born. Manchester based. Birder. Vis Migger. 🦆 social butterfly 🦋 🏳️🌈 vino lover 🍷
Ian Sherriffs @iansherriffs.bsky.social Birder mainly around Oxon, Glos & Cotswold Water Park I BTO S-Permit Ringer with West Oxfordshire Farmland Bird Project I eBird reviewer for Wiltshire I Moth-er VC22 I Lover of islands.
Spurn Bird Observatory @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social 1 of the UK's premier bird observatories, with hostel style accommodation. Follow for bird news, events and much more. Map of area here http://bit.ly/spurnobs
Adam @atmylifeoutside.bsky.social Birder, wildlife photographer and lapsed blogger. Interests are focussed on the great outdoors including walking, kayaking and exploring new places. Admin for the #birdingWales feed. Occasional trains.
Simon Pinder @simonpinder5.bsky.social 
Little Terns at Beacon Lagoons @spurnterns.bsky.social Beacon Lagoons Little Tern Project - Protecting Yorkshire's only breeding Little Terns, a stone's throw from Spurn Point. Please view the colony from Long Bank.
Jack Pettit @desertwarbler.bsky.social 🦤🦜 Obsessed 19 year old birder/twitcher/wildlife photographer, currently volunteering at Spurn Bird Observatory - BOU: 3️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ - IOC: 3️⃣8️⃣4️⃣
@bobstinger.bsky.social @bobstinger.bsky.social Birder who lives on the Fylde in Lancashire. Obsessed world birder as well
Harry Hussey @harryhussey.bsky.social Using this mostly for birds and other wildlife, keen birder, slight knowledge of other groups of creatures.
Mike H. @yorkshirebirder.bsky.social Just birds, mainly in Yorkshire
Anders Gray @birdingcyprus.bsky.social Frequently birding, fascinated about bird migration.
Bird Guide and Cyprus Bird Recorder.
Pretty good at taking bad photos. 
@rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social @rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social 
Joseph Rowsome @josephrowsome.bsky.social 17 yo 🇨🇵🇬🇧 Birder living in southern France
https://ebird.org/profile/MTA1MTE1NA
John Nadin @jsn54.bsky.social Retired family man, enjoy birdwatching & all wildlife. Music, & gigs also make me happy.
Ian Moore @themoorehen.bsky.social Usually birding random spots in and around Wolverhampton
BirdTrack @birdtrack.bsky.social Free online and in-field tool for your bird sightings, run by @btobirds.bsky.social Make your records work for birders and conservation science: join the community! #BirdTrack
www.birdtrack.net 
Miles Cluff @milescluff.bsky.social 23 | Birder | Ornithologist | Notts | Uni of Manchester | Chemical Engineering |.
Colin Schofield @colscho1.bsky.social LFC Kop Season Ticket holder, birder, moth-er, real ale fan, despise animal cruelty.
Bird Observatories Council GB&I @birdobscouncil.bsky.social The Bird Observatories Council co-ordinates and promotes the work of the Bird Observatories at a national level in Great Britain, Ireland, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
https://www.birdobscouncil.org.uk/
Les Hall @sudswatcher.bsky.social Retired Engineer chasing wildlife on the Costa del Blyth. Mainly rambling about colour-ringed seabirds and NUFC.
British Birds Rarities Committee @britishbirdsbbrc.bsky.social 
Dan Gornall @dan-gornall.bsky.social Birder, Ringer & Researcher. Seaforth NR & beyond.
Kane Brides 🦆 @kanebrides.bsky.social Principal Research Officer in the Conservation Evidence team at WWT. Working in wetland species recovery.
🏳️🌈 All views my own.
g76birder @g76birder.bsky.social Birding/ring reading in Glasgow and beyond
@sfwilsonbirder.bsky.social @sfwilsonbirder.bsky.social Birder - using BirdTrack - Member of Lincolnshire bird club
All my photographs are taken from a safe distance! My intention is not to disturb any bird no matter what the species. RESPECT.
SF Wilson photography.
Steve Flynn @northernnaturalist.bsky.social Dad, husband, son, wildlife observer/recorder, runner, Blackburn Rovers supporter.