Steve Entwistle

Today 4 1/2hrs at Rainham shooting butt hide finely a water pipit flew into cut Reed area behind hide,plus 16 snipe
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Tonight at Abberton LBCW SE this Daubenton's Bat was feeding at Dam bridge & sitting on side & top 2ft away from us
Photos by Adam Palmer.
Also cattleegret,3 Tundra bean, 4WF geese, 2 Redkite in tree

Today2hrs with Roy Hodgkinson at Brooks EWT Stisted,before rain,2 Marsh tit,3 Nuthatch,Treecreeper,woodcock, after rain me had another 2hrs in sunPr Bullfinches showed well for 15mins
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MorningDippedJack snipeHolland haven shrub(seen last 2 days)but not today, Seawatch for 2 hrs had about 20+ red throated divers (lads with me40+)Few hours at colne point4.30pm watched 2short eared owls for10mins mobbing a Buzzard on ground
4th time trying2ndThere
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4hrs this afternoon in Wig bay hide Abberton Merlin bathing in flooded pool,GlossyIBIS dropped in for couple minutes then moved LBCW ,Other birds 3 Blkwits,40 dunlin, 20goldenplover,13 curlew
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Dipped adult Caspian gull at Holland haven floods late morning Richard & Mike found earlier but we could not refind it.1 bramblingScoped it twiceAt St peter's ChurchAlresford in veryMobile40+flock incl 9of each YellowhammersReed Buntings odd corn bunting25+chaffinch
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I getting to old to go out at dark always hit a big hole even at 30mph

In addition to the Hen Harrier, the two Short-eared Owls were still around the end of my garden too 🦉
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Thanks ,l like it there very good memories there,pity l hit a large pot hole on bend watery Lane
Today,got away with it.
Great day even Coventry lost.

Lovely l should have come there on way home from paglesham, lf SEO get regular need a trip there very soon like a couple year ago

1pm at Paglesham Eastend, Red breasted goose seems to settled there with 2500 Brent's most the time or if not at wallasea RSPB last few days, had very showy barn owl at wallasea car park & nearby approach road today
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Having a steady start to essex year 112 (all Abberton birds seen)Not so competitive this year but will end up good list target 200Today at Bowers pink footed goose & 6 showy BeardedTits
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Red-necked Grebe (Seen from end of Kingsland Road or bottom of Broomhill road Victoria esplanade (A Field)
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West mersea midday Roy Hodgkinson & paddy Stuart refound the red necked grebe (photo by ollis cottis)bottom of Broomhill road Victoria esplanade, nearby just west of 2 sugar cake a great northern diver,
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A snowbunting on its 4th day on EAST MERSEA STONE POINT today l was 1st on point after high tide covering access to way on.before dog walkers disturbed it,it was on tip of the pt can be found to west 200yds left of pt
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wallaseaWithDavid Low found Red-breasted Goose adult down path from car park behind cattle corral getting picked on by a small family of Brent's, is was distant with 20brentsBut showedwell,LeeEvans turned upThis is the only2025record,photoBy RoyHodgkinson
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Brilliant day with Terry Blackwell, James Hudson, Neil Chambers, Canvey point little auk,great & Pomskua, red neck & slav grebe, black throated & 5red throated divers,3 razerbill 3 guillemot, 100+Comscoter, 40+ Kittiwakes goosander
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Very wet day at wallasea Island not many birds seen did see the 1st winter female type long tailed duck thanks to Jeff Delve & Lawrence Drummond
Jeff photos attached
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Another pose of the fabulous 1w Brown Shrike from Upper Hollesley Common, Suffolk, in the sunshine this morning. Only my fifth in Britain and Ireland following birds at Ballyferriter, Staines Moor, Flamborough and Weybourne.

My 2nd Brown Shrike and the first for Suffolk, today with @entwistle5.bsky.social

Just back from a week at westbay Dorset had to see my second brown shrike at upper hollesley common with #Yellowstriker following soon after the Dunwich strike .Showed well all afternoon
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Couple good days yesterday 4 Whooper swans(my photo)messing,today 2 BeardedTits,kingfisher(photos D Urquhart)rock Pipit,3 Greenshank, male Siskin in feldy view,
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Today equal last year Essex yeartotal 217 with a very elusiveWryneck at walton on naze gone missing since10am l refound it at 4.30pm in corner lagoon opposite track to John Weston res thanks toBrian combes who refound it at10am l watched it for/20mins
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Good to see some Essex birders in the rain on Dunwich Heath today looking for the Daurian Shrike @entwistle5.bsky.social #EssexBirding

Matt Turner, Mark Nowers & Ed Bateman seawatching (Steve Entwhistle had gone to find a bush!!)

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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

Today at Canvey point 2pm to 5.30pm. Great skua going by on arrival, 4.10pm adults pale phase pomarine skua,12+ Arctic Skua,2 juv gannet,guillemot,10 Kittiwakes,2 Whimbrel, 4 med gulls,
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Another brilliant day yesterday 10 1/2 hours at Canvey point, 2 Manx shearwater (photo by Jeff Delve),juv long tailed skua, 2 great Skuas,25+ Gannets, 15+ Arctic Skuas,14 Kittiwakes plus few extras. All sightings close good views
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Managed to get some nice views of the Arctic Warbler near Abberton Rsv today (LIFER😃) - a superb find by @snixon66.bsky.social and @chrispoole050.bsky.social. Also stopped to look at Black Terns on way home and managed to find a close Little Stint #essexbirding #birds #RareBirdsUK

Slightly surreal watching this Black Tern at Abberton Reservoir whilst a few feet away a posse of noisy motorbikes were zooming back and forth along the causeway. To say they were speeding would be an understatement.
A cracking bird though
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