A couple of hours on the causeways at Abberton brought Spoonbill & Cattle Egret year-ticks, GW Egret, Corn Bunting, 35 White-fronted Geese, Red Kite, Marsh Harrier, Buzzard and this sinensis Cormorant
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Really pleased to connect with Bullfinch and Marsh Tit in Essex today - always find them tricky to get in the county each year. Bonus male Hen Harrier on the way home was nice...😃
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Sorry Jon, that’s just a dirty Curlew! 😂 (nice comparison shot by the way)
Magpie vs Black-winged Kite!
And of course, target no.3 in Norfolk today was this little beauty - Eastern Black Redstart (sort-of-lifer!), at times showing down to 5 feet! Great day out with @swallowbirding.bsky.social as always, thanks mate 👍
Mega Norfolk day, target species no.2: Iceland Gull (another lifer!) Picked up flying overhead by @swallowbirding.bsky.social on way back to car after 2 hours waiting in freezing conditions!! 🥶
Superb day out in Norfolk with @swallowbirding.bsky.social - three target species all achieved! No.1 Black-winged Kite (lifer!). Good to meet @debalmer.bsky.social too 👍
Amazing Starling murmuration in Stanway at dusk today! Thanks to @fivefootseven.bsky.social for the tip-off 👍
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Lovely half-hour watching 6 Purple Sandpipers doing their thing at Holland Haven today #essexbirding
Don't forget to watch tomorrow night's 'Birds of Essex' LIVE on YouTube, and send your 2026 pics, your most surprising missed species so far, and any birding 'selfies' you may have from the past to: ebwstalks@gmail.com
Watch the show at www.youtube.com/live/M1cfbA4...
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It's a full-on Great Egret invasion at Ardleigh Rsv at the moment. 3, possibly 4 birds there this morning - they're in the reedbeds, they're in the bushes and they're in the trees. Good job there are no beaches or I might have to start fighting them!🤣 #essexbirding
Got the ringing data back on one of the Great White Egrets that's been at Ardleigh for the last couple of weeks. Ringed in Lithuania as a chick in May '25, it turned up at Rye Meads 4 months later and now it's on my local patch. Astonishing! #essexbirding
Our 2026 Conference is on Saturday 28th March and it's going to be a superb day! With six talks on the status of key species & habitat in Essex, lots of display stands, plenty of delicious food, & a prize raffle it's not to be missed! Book your place at ebws.org.uk/conference/r...
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Good to see you mate! 👍
Delighted to find this patch-tick (& year tick!) Red-necked Grebe at Ardleigh Rsv earlier today😃, also a colour-ringed Great White Egret which I'm looking forward to getting the history on...
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A quick stop on the main causeway at Abberton this afternoon produced a 1w Greater Scaup, a smart drake Goosander and a Slavonian Grebe #essexbirding
So lucky, picked it up in distance through bins as we turned! Pic is 100% crop of a 1050mm equiv!!
Heavily cleaned up (ISO25600!!!) record shot of ring-tailed Hen Harrier at Copt Hall this afternoon at dusk. Also two Glossy Ibis were a nice surprise 😀 #essexbirding
Excellent day co-leading @swallowbirding.bsky.social Topsail Charters Thames barge trip, despite the weather! Lots of Brent Geese, Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, Knot, Dunlin, Avocets galore, Com. Ringed Plover, Goosander and 1 (possibly 2) Black-throated Divers as we turned round! #essexbirding
Some pics from Sunday's superb field trip to RSPB Freiston Shore & Frampton Marsh. Highlights inc. 4 Merlin, Whooper Swans, Peregrine, Marsh Harrier, Kingfisher, GW Egret & lots of Wigeon, Pintail & Golden Plover in the sun!
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This month's fascinating talk is about Recording Rare Breeding Birds in the UK and Essex, by Mark Eaton from the RBBP. It's streaming live on YouTube from 8pm on Friday: youtube.com/live/VlTi7GS...
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Good to see you Mel 👍
Couldn't resist posting another pic of one of the stunning Firecrests at Wells last week 🥰 #Norfolkbirding #birds
Lucky timing at Hollesley as I arrived to find my mate @janl28.bsky.social & his wife watching Crossbills! He then showed me where the Brown Shrike was seen 1hr before & it promptly reappeared (life✅, thanks Jan😃). Bonus Stonechat and Dartford Warbler too! #suffolkbirding #rarebirdsUK
Superb day's birding in north Norfolk yesterday with
@fivefootseven.bsky.social, @swallowbirding.bsky.social & @stuttonsparrows.bsky.social - highlights inc. watching Redwing & Fieldfare in/off, super views of Firecrest, 100s of Pink-footed Geese & Golden Plovers, Spoonbill, Peregrine & lots more!
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Descriptions and/or photos are required for a number of Essex rarities from 2024. The full list can be found at ebws.org.uk/2024descript...
If you saw any of these, please submit a description - there's a video on the link that explains more.
Thank you
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Frinton and The Naze today: 'nordic' Jackdaw, Long-tailed Tit vs Goldcrest cuteness contest and a Brent Goose family with a noisy youngster! Also got the Yellow-browed at the end of the day thanks to DS👍
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After this morning's superb ringing demo, @swallowbirding.bsky.social and I popped into Wallasea for a very distant Osprey & a slightly closer Glossy Ibis! #essexbirding #birds #rarebirdsuk
Hoopoe in Felixstowe this morning #birds #RareBirdsUK
