A few shots from WEBS at the Hythe today with @eb263.bsky.social! Highlights included great views of our year tick Christmas Tree heading downstream. @essexbirdnews.bsky.social #Birds #Birding #UKBirding #WildlifePhotography
Full fat Abberton today with 79 species. Too many highlights to mention but Tundra Bean Geese, Smew, Little Stints and Lesser Scaup all showed well.
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This afternoon at Fingringhoe the first Pochard I’ve ever seen on saltwater, also fem Merlin. Then onto Abberton for a showy SEO and distant LT Duck.
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First morning at Abberton in a while. 8 Bewick’s swan, 2 Common scoter, 2, Scaup, 2 Black Necked and 3 Slavonian grebes the highlights. #essexbirding #UKbirding
Some heavily-cropped record shots from RSPB Wallasea Island with @eb263.bsky.social this morning. Red-breasted Goose, Hen Harrier, and Water Pipit! #EssexBirding #Birds #Birding #UKBirding
Wallasea Island this morning with @olicwildlife.bsky.social for the distant RB Goose, bonus Water pipit, Ringtail Hen and Merlin.
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Fingringhoe Wick today. Great Northern Diver a patch ✅. also RTD, RB Merg, Pintail, GWE and 5 Marsh Harrier
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Really pleased to see this gorgeous PALLAS'S WARBLER at The Naze this morning. Always on the move and feeding actively. Great to catch up with lots of local birders too! #essexbirding #birds #birding #BirdsSeenIn2025 #RareBirdsUK
Spent a couple of mornings at The Naze over the last few days! No sign of Little Auks but did manage Pallas’s Warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler (heard), Firecrest, Arctic Terns, RTDivers, Common Scoters, Gannet, and plenty of common shorebirds. #Birding #EssexBirding
14:41 West over the Colne at Fhoe
Fingringhoe highlights today. 6 Whoopers West, Guillemot again on the Colne, late Common tern, 2 Merlin, Ringtail Hen harrier, 11 Marsh harrier, c500 Brent and good movement of Fieldfare. #essexbirding
Matt Turner, Mark Nowers & Ed Bateman seawatching (Steve Entwhistle had gone to find a bush!!)
Common Scoter
Great morning seawatching at Frinton with @esbr-essex.bsky.social @stuttonsparrows.bsky.social @entwistle5.bsky.social & @eb263.bsky.social MANX SHEARWATER, 2 ARCTIC SKUA, RAZORBILL, GUILLEMOT, 5 RT DIVERS, 400+ BRENT & 3 GANNET pick of the bunch. #essexbirding #birds #birding #BirdsSeenIn2025
Brilliant Abberton record! Arctic Warbler. #Birding #UKBirding #EssexBirding
Frinton seawatch with @olicwildlife.bsky.social this morning. Highlights 2 Arctic Skua, 2 Fulmar inc one overhead. A Kestrel in off and a Shag, Essex 200 for the year #essexbirding #ukbirding
An unlikely patch tick today at Fingringhoe with this Guillemot on the Colne! #essexbirding
Pied Flycatcher earlier at West Mersea, hard to pin down but eventually sat still for a photo. #essexbirding
Successful double in Suffolk today with the Zitting Cisticola (trust me) at Walberswick and Black Stork at Boyton #suffolkbirding
I Don’t reckon it’s peaked yet!
Wow! Didn’t realise this!
64 Greenshank on the scrape at Fingringhoe this morning #essexbirding
Will never get used to hearing a cronk above the garden. #essexbirding
