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In other news from Fillingham. Three Russian White Fronted geese in yesterday’s sunshine. @lincsbirding.bsky.social

What an amazing moment on the patch this morning with the Fillingham Great Grey Shrike. @lincsbirding.bsky.social

A good garden tick to end the year. 14 Common Crane heading south
#UKbirding #Lincsbirding

Great to get some good views of the Red-flanked Bluetail at #rspbbempton this afternoon @flamboroughbird.bsky.social

My best image from tonight’s wonderful #Aurora display. Mid #Lincolnshire #lincolnite

I had my first Redwings of the Autumn over my house last night 14 (mid Lincs). Also nice evening Marsh Harrier a little earlier down the back lane.

Swallows still feeding young on the Lincolnshire Show Ground today.

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Yes, it has got really bad since the farmland was sold. That particular patch used to be very good. SEO’s every winter and I’ve also had wintering Hen Harriers quite regularly roost there in winters gone. Now they cut 75 percent of the hedges and what was quality set aside every Aug/Sept Demolition

With my patch becoming bleaker and bleaker every year, to the point where the once abundant Kestrel is no longer even a weekly sighting. This little Whinchat was a joy to find and spend a little time with. #UKbirds
Willingham Lane (Lincs).

Great to be out last night and hear my first Pink footed Geese of the Autumn. Made my night. Along with a faint showing of the Northern lights in mid Lincolnshire.

Yes please 🙏🏻

Only four years ago I would get Tree Sparrow’s all over my patch. Until this morning, my last sighting was April 2022. I miss them so much.

Comma Butterfly

White-tailed Bumblebee

Bees and Butterflies have been having a poor year locally for me. Pleased to see odd ones finally starting to visit the garden.

Probably the best step out of the back door ever this evening, to immediately see this Osprey flying across the skyline😯. North Lincs

Yes. For me it’s gone from having to accept bleak, to feeling like it’s almost all over now. The last 3-4 years have been painful. This year is simply horrid. Amazes me how so many people comment to me about nature they have seen on tv, yet, are totally oblivious to how desperate reality is.

Photographer Hugh Harrop has just reported this Turnstone, on the same beach in Shetland as in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.
The birds on a Shetland beach depend on habitat in Portugal, threatened by a new airport.
#Conservation transcends borders.
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Always a good day when the first sighting of Hobby on the patch. Two birds this morning. #birds #lincolnshire

My first patch sighting of the year for Common Whitethroat.

A Swallow feeding over the willow trees in the morning sunlight.

My first Common Whitethroat for the year turned up on the patch this morning. Also good to see first Sand and House Martins along with a few Swallows feeding over the lake.

Only the second record of Cetti’s Warbler on my Fillingham patch (Lincs). Been around for a couple of months and I finally got a couple of minutes of good views today. #birds #UKbirding