Darryl
- In the hills. A good, prolonged view of a pair of Goshawk was half-decent. Always nice to see them after they have ‘gone quiet’. Also 7 Painted Lady and 4 Red Admiral heading NE. #birdingWales
- Another 50km around the levels this AM. Couldn’t get out till post-HT so not much doing at Goldcliff, did get newly hatched broods of Ringed Plover and Redshank, and a decent sized survivor of a Lapwing chick. #gwentbirding #birdingWales #lowcarbonbirding #birdingbybike
- Up in the hills again. The Crossbills are gathering up, max flock size of 40 so far. Also Painted Lady. #birdingWales
- More Gropper action in the hills today, including decent views of a singing male and a pair in suitable nesting habitat. Three singing Whinchat weren’t too shoddy either. #birdingWales
- A 50km circuit of the eastern levels this afternoon with a quickish stop at Magor Marsh. Saw nothing of note. Luckily, didn’t burn any carbon whilst seeing bugger all, so that can go down as a nil-nil draw. #gwentbirding #birdingWales #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding
- Petition alert. Coal mining dressed up as ‘coal tip reclamation’. Climate and local biodiversity impacts. Feel free to register your disapproval here >> www.change.org/p/halt-the-p... #Bedwas #Trethomas
- Goldcliff Pools over this evening’s HT: 105+ Whimbrel, Sanderling, Grey Plover, 15 Barwit, Ruff, 76+ Ringed Plover, Spoonbill, 2 Garganey, Wigeon, Mallard x Gadwall hybrid, 7 Teal, 9 Common Gull and 3 BH Gull. #gwentbirds #birdingWales
- Reposted by DarrylNow the DOGE scumbags are coming for the Bird Banding Laboratory (part of USGS). They just lost two senior staff members and are going to be stretched extremely thin. Without their office, bird research does not happen.
- @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social Any comment re recent India/US trade deals and declines in food health/safety standards?
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- Operation Find-a-Redfoot, day 1: Uskmouth - 8 Whimbrel and Cuckoo; Saltmarsh Grasslands - Great White Egret; Goldcliff Pools - 3 Garganey, Mallard x Gadwall hybrid, Spoonbill, Ruff, 8 Knot, Pochard, 2 Wigeon and a Red Arrow. Zero Redfoots. #gwentbirding #birdingWales #lowcarbonbirding #birdingbybike
- Reposted by Darryl1/3 🧵 As we appropriately say in Britain, Stone the Crows Turns out the war on bats & newts our current Govt has rhetorically engaged in is all made up Maybe they've been listening to developers who just don't like the annoying job of looking after wildlife www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by DarrylFUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform has taken more than £2.3 MILLION from oil and gas interests - making up an astonishing 92% of the party's donations. Reform are NOT for ordinary people. They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.
- I wonder how many times Farage, Tice and other Reform/Brexit Party/UKIP folk met/meet with Putin’s agents? 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Goldcliff Pools: Spoonbill, Pink-footed Goose, Pintail, Wigeon, 2 Pochard, Little Stint, Ruff, 2 Barwit, 13 Knot, 5 Whimbrel, 5+ Swift, etc. Didn’t see the 3 Garganey but reported as present. #gwentbirding #birdingWales
- Reposted by DarrylAnother birding paper! 🐦 Where do the Nearctic landbirds that show up in Europe each autumn come from? We usually assume they come from NE populations, pushed off course by bad weather - but is that the whole story? #ornithology 1/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Quick circuit of Goldcliff Pools over high tide: 3 Garganey, Little Stint, Spoonbill, Common Sand, 16 Barwit, 14 Knot, etc. Did not have time to wait for the Green-winged Teal to reappear. #gwentbirding #birdingWales
- 85km to the Neddern via NWR: 5 Whimbrel at Uskmouth; Green-winged Teal, Little Stint, Mallard x Gadwall hybrid, Ruff, 15 Knot, Whimbrel, 3 Pochard, Cuckoo, etc. at Goldcliff; and 2 Lapwing, 7 Gadwall & 12 Little Egret at the Neddern. #gwentbirding #birdingWales #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding
- On reflection, buying a set of wheels whose free hub sounds like a Savi’s Warbler on steroids was possibly not the *best* decision. Nice wheels mind. #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding
- A 65km tour of the levels produced Green-winged Teal, 3 Ruff, Wheatear, etc., at Goldcliff, 2 Whinchat nr. Summerleaze, 20+ Whimbrel scattered along the estuary, Lesserthroat all over the shop, and an immature Red Kite nr. Redwick. #gwentbirding #birdingWales #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding
- Had a couple of stratospheric Swifts today,… my first for 2025,… which was nice. #birdingWales
- A woodland is so much the better when the air within vibrates with Wood Warbler song. #birdingWales #sipsipsipsipsipsipsippisspisspisspiss #tyütyütyütyü
- Goldcliff Pools: Broad-billed Sand, Green-winged Teal, 6 Barwit, 15 Knot, 9 Whimbrel, Pochard, 3 Pintail, 3 Lesserthroat, etc. #gwentbirding #birdingWales
- Goldcliff Pools: Green-winged Teal still present. cc @birdguides.bsky.social #gwentbirding #birdingWales
- Goldcliff Pools: Broad-billed Sandpiper still present. cc @birdguides.bsky.social #gwentbirding #birdingWales
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- This @nationaltrust.org.uk sign at Tredegar House is *magical*. It is completely *invisible* to dog-walkers,… in *two* languages. #magic #dogs #woof #walkies
- Tredegar House Lake: COMMON SAND! Stone. Cold. THL. *MEGA*! #gwentbirding #birdingWales
- Goldcliff Pools: Broad-billed Sand, Green-winged Teal (after a four and a half hour wait[!]), 2 Greenshank, 16 Knot, 2 Common Sand, 5 Whimbrel, first Avocet chick of the year, Red Kite, etc. #gwentbirding #birdingWales #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding
- Broad-billed Sandpiper at Goldcliff Pools. Straight to the top of the ‘Birds I have found by bike’ list. #gwentbirding #birdingWales #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding cc @birdguides.bsky.social
- Uskmouth: Grasshopper Warbler singing along sea wall, a little way west of hide. Also 4+ Whimbrel on foreshore. #gwentbirding #birdingWales #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding
- A potter round the NWR this arvo. Uskmouth: 2-3 Whimbrel and Wheatear; Goldcliff Pools: 3 Barwit, Greenshank, 12 Whimbrel, 16 Knot and Wheatear. #gwentbirding #birdingWales
- Highlights of an outdoors day at Slimbridge: crippling views of a Canada x Greylag Goose hybrid (ooosh!), captive pair of Bearded Tit (?!), Spoonbill, Spotshank, two Common Sand and lots of ickle baby birds (awww). #birding #birding?
- Does anyone know when @slimbridge-wild.bsky.social is going to start posting on this platform (as opposed to the anti-environment nazi’s platform)? cc @coombehillbirding.bsky.social @roykinchin.bsky.social @gyoudale.bsky.social @ianhollister60.bsky.social
- Reposted by DarrylEarth Day is a reminder that we only have one planet. Sometimes, it takes seeing Earth from space to truly grasp how precious it is. 🧵⬇️ (1/4)
- Goldcliff Pools: Hen Harrier, c.300 Commic Tern *very* distantly up-channel, Ruff, Whimbrel, 8 Barwit, 18 Knot, c.300 Dunlin, brood of 4 Lapwing, Whinchat, 2 Wheatear, White Wag, and Lesser Whitethroat. #gwentbirding #birdingWales
- Went looking for Ring Ouzel. Up Twmbarlwm, over to Hafodyrynys, up Cefn Crib, then Mynydd Llanhilleth, Byrgwm, Waun Wen, Gwastad, Mynydd Coety and Cefn Coch. Zero Ring Ouzels. Had to make do with Redstarts, Wheatears, Red Kites, etc. 🙄 #gwentbirding #birdingWales #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding
- Ynysyfro: Yellow Wag(!) over WNW then W until lost to view, Common Sand, House Martin, 10 Swallow, 35 Sand Martin, Whitethroat, Stonechat and 3 GBB Gull (2 2nd cal-yr, 1 3rd cal-yr). #gwentbirding #birdingWales
- Goldcliff Pools: ringtail Hen Harrier, male Common Scoter (‘offshore’), 8 Pintail, Greenshank, Ruff, 9 Barwit, Whimbrel, Spotshank, 15 Knot, 3 White Wagtail, House Martin, 2 Whinchat and Wheatear. #gwentbirding #birdingWales
- Started the week with a Gropper in the hills, ended the week with a Gropper in the hills. #birdingWales
- Finally heard a Cuckoo this afternoon. Which was nice. #birdingWales
- Up in the hills again today, blustery but the rain held off. Grasshopper Warbler was the best of it. #birdingWales #breezy
- Ynysyfro WeBS: Common Sand, Whitethroat and a pair of Stonechat. Pair of Kingfisher on the walk home. #gwentbirds #birdingWales #lowcarbonbirding
- FYI, there’s a nice summary of ‘recent’ additions to the British bee list by the indefatigable Steven Falk in April’s @britishwildlife.bsky.social. #bees #wildlife
- Up Twmbarlwm and Mynydds Henllys, Maen, Twyn-Glas and Llwyd; back via Mynydds Bach, y Grug and Machen. Wheatears and Redstarts and Tree Pipits oh my! #gwentbirding #birdingWales #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding
- Saw an impressive Fallow buck this morning; in an abandoned quarry; atop a mound of spoil, Coltsfoot and oil-soaked rags at its feet; majestic amongst the abandoned shipping containers and discarded security fencing. #nature #wildlife #BrokenHouseholdApplianceNationalForest
