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Ewan Urquhart

@pittasoma

Birder, Twitcher, Author of Stonechats A Guide to the Genus Saxicola. Anti hunting of any sort blackaudibirding.blogspot.com

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#UKBirds Forster’s Tern showed nicely at Poole Park on Saturday
Story and pics on blackaudibirding.blogspot.com

09.03.2026 20:42 👍 24 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The Ross’s Gull at Newlyn Cornwall
Full story and pics on blackaudibirding.blogspot.com

02.03.2026 17:23 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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#UKBirds
Ross’s Gull at Newlyn Harbour on Saturday

01.03.2026 20:46 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Nice drake Long tailed Duck on my local patch.. A mega for Oxfordshire
#UKBitds #Birds #oxonbirding

17.02.2026 05:03 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Braved the rain for my first visit to Cheddar Res to see the possible Holboell’s R N Grebe. Well worth it
#UKBIrds
@somersetbirds.bsky.social

07.02.2026 21:01 👍 29 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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#UKBirding
Lesser crested Tern at Dawlish Warren on Thursday

07.12.2025 15:23 👍 59 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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#UKBirding
Lesser crested Tern at Dawlish Warren on Thursday

07.12.2025 15:23 👍 59 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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Its been a good October🤗
#UKBirds
#Birds
blackaudibirding.blogspot.com

02.11.2025 15:17 👍 21 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Desert Wheatear at Keynsham Avon last Sunday. Full story and more pics on my blog blackaudibirding.blogspot.com
#UKBirds
#Birds

17.06.2025 05:52 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An unusually showy Grasshopper Warbler at Farmoor in Oxfordshire
#UKBirds
#Birds

18.04.2025 01:33 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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A particularly showy Grasshopper Warbler in Oxfordshire yesterday

18.04.2025 01:29 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Peregrine breeding on a local church
#UKBirding
#Birds

07.04.2025 01:54 👍 24 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Lucky to have six Hawfinches feeding in a small cemetery at Woodstock Oxfordshire. We put down sunflower seed and a log and it worked a treat
#UKBirding
#Birds

05.04.2025 06:12 👍 59 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Nice to see the frogs back at Lye Valley Oxford this morning
#frogspawn
#friendlyevalley.bsky.social

10.03.2025 21:02 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Med Gulls at Hayling Island Hampshire
#ukbirds
#birds
#hantsbirding

02.03.2025 06:10 👍 19 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We might yearn for paradise, temporal or spiritual. But to our descendents our habitable planet will look like an almost unimaginable paradise. No tech fantasy, no space station or controlled environment will ever compare.
Fight for what we have. This is our heaven, and there can be no other.

10.02.2025 16:55 👍 2169 🔁 545 💬 44 📌 32
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Something different. Short eared Owls hunting
#UKbirding
#Birds
#Ornithology

05.02.2025 19:58 👍 23 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hawfinches and Short eared Owls. Full story on my blog blackaudibirding.blogspot.com
#UKbirding
#Birds
#Ornithology

04.02.2025 12:35 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Short eared Owls in Glos on Saturday
#UKbirding
#Birds
#Ornithology

03.02.2025 00:12 👍 40 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Four favourite ducks
#TeamMM
#Birds
#UKbirding

27.01.2025 07:08 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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My trip to see the Netherlands once in a lifetime Spectacled Eider.Full story on my blog blackaudibirding.blogspot.com
Pic by Richard Tyler
#UKBirding
# Ornithology

23.01.2025 16:45 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Crested Tit Cairngorms
#addbirder
#UKbirding
#Ornithology

18.01.2025 08:40 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

I saw that👍

17.01.2025 10:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A nice drake Scaup on Farmoor Res Oxon for last 5 days #UKbirding
#Ornithology

16.01.2025 04:02 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Black Redstart wintering on Christchurch College Oxford
#UKbirding
#Ornithology
blackaudibirding.blogspot.com

14.01.2025 07:51 👍 27 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1

Many thanks Nick🤗

01.01.2025 16:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy New Year Nick. Can you tell me where you went in Spain to see the Lammergeirs?

31.12.2024 20:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Photographic Review of My Birding Year 2024 This is a hightly subjective photographic review of my 2024 birding year. The photos are ones I particularly like. There are notable absence...

blackaudibirding.blogspot.com/2024/12/phot...

31.12.2024 12:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Like it Gordon👍

20.12.2024 14:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Short eared Owls in the Cotswolds.Lots of pics on my blog blackaudibirding.blogspot.com

17.12.2024 18:53 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0