Geoff & Steph
Lovers of Dorset, Birding, Travel... the fresh air of outdoors... Time Spent in Nature heals your Body, Mind & Spirit ❤️
- 🌞 Arne RSPB 🪶 #DorsetBirds @harbourbirds.bsky.social Otter swimming Middlebere... 7 LtEgret in a group, Great White Egret, c10 Redshank, Lapwing, many Shelduck & Canada. Coombe: Dartford, Tree Pipit, 6 Swift, 6 Swallow, 2 Flycatcher ❤️, Goldcrest. Hyde: Marsh Harrier, 2 Kestrel, 2 more Dartford Wbr
- 🌞 Thorncombe Wood 🪶 #DorsetBirds. Cuckoo heard from Black Heath, probably on Duddle Heath. Spotted Flycatcher (Steph's spot) H Martin 🌞 R Frome, Woodsford Lovely Sedge Warbler Garden Warbler 😍 several Reed & Cetti's Warblers Hobby flying high 2 GreyWagtail Jay LtEgret several Sand Martin & Swallow
- we can really recommend this one Liz...
- #naturebookchallenge @martinwood60.bsky.social @staldhelmsbirder.bsky.social My brother bought me this !!
- Birding bonanza, Badbury Rings #DorsetBirds 🪶 c30 Whitethroat, all seen singing, some in song 🎵 flight c20 Blackcap singing (3 male seen) Garden Warbler clearly heard 15+ Stonechat several singing male Linnet 2 Yellowhammer 4 Red Kite ♥️, 4 Buzzard, Kestrel 3 SongThrush incl 2 fledgling Green Wdpker
- Blue sky in Weymouth #DorsetBirds 🪶 . 5 minute stop at Radipole tennis courts & 3 Hobby, sky full of Sand Martin & low flying Grey Heron 👍 (6 Hobby reported yesterday) en route to piano Chamber music recital... www.evamaria.co.uk at St Mary's Church Weymouth
- Quiet on 🌞 Portland 🪶 #DorsetBirds numerous Guillemot & Razorbill & a singing male Wheatear👍at The Bill. Little Owl asleep in the Obs Quarry 🦉 3 Buzzard circling Portland Port, Kestrel at the Verne. Ferrybridge had another Wheatear, 7 Whimbrel, 2 Barwit, several Little Tern, flocks Linnet ❤️ #Dorset
- 🌞 Cogden Beach NT #DorsetBirds 🪶 with S Dorset RSPB, thanks to Mary. 2 Cirl Bunting 5 Reed Bunting 5+ Yellowhammer 3 migrant Whimbrel c10 Skylark c20 Stonechat 20+ Whitethroat several Lesser Whitethroat singing, 2 seen. many Blackcap, Cetti's & Swallow Red Kite, 3Buzzard, Kestrel Greenfinch, et al
- A pair of Kingfisher along the River Frome, West of Dorchester; guaranteed to brighten anyone's day 😍 Also, a pair of Reed Bunting, Jay, SongThrush, Nuthatch, several Blackcap, Cetti's Warbler & Wren. Buzzard, Kestrel. Tits & Finches. 🌞 🪶 #DorsetBirds
- Cacophony of birds & smell of ransoms, Thorncombe Wood #DorsetBirds 🪶 Many Blackbird, Robin, Wren, Blackcap, Dunnock, Thrushes, Stock Dove, Nuthatch, Chiffchaff, tits&finches. Also, Goldcrest, Siskin, GSW, GrWood, Kestrel, Buzzard. Silverlake had a Willow Warbler ❤️ & Egyptian pair with 8 goslings.
- Murky, not Dismal, Maiden Castle #DorsetBirds 🪶 6 Greater Whitethroat (2 pairs. 2 single) Hog Hill boundary. 6 Corn Bunting, more singing. Pair interacting Raven. Buzzard. Numerous Linnet, in pairs, mating & nest building, & flocks up to 20. Many Goldfinch! Several singing Chaffinch & Dunnock.
- Wild Woodbury walk @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social 🌞 #DorsetBirds 🪶 Well marked Sedge Warbler, singing 😍 Nice! Reed Warbler, several Cetti's GreyHeron, 2 LtEgret 3 Buzzard, pair Kestrel, 2 pair Raven, Sparrowhawk many Swallow, Linnet, Goldfinch, Wren, Chiffchaff, Greenfinch Skylark, Moorhen, 3 Stonechat
- Lovely, Rob...🪶
- Our first Tree Pipit for the year on a Devon Heath. #UKBirding
- Red Kite, Winterbourne Zelston, 1420hr 🪶 #DorsetBirds Always nice to see; not so common here! @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
- Interesting, we had a Cm Crane fly over the car park at Carey's on 09.05.2024... the sighting was reported to @harbourbirds.bsky.social at the time...
- Tern-day in 🌞 Weymouth #DorsetBirds 🪶 15 lovely 😍 Little Tern & 10 Sandwich Tern sharing the yellow buoys at Ferrybridge. More overhead. Little Tern is our 200th European bird for 2025. 🏆 Lodmoor had just 2 Common Tern (201st) being bullied by BH Gulls. 3 Dunlin, 7 Blackwit & supporting cast...
- ⛅️ quiet Maiden Castle walk #DorsetBirds 🪶 immature Red Kite, heading SW. a 2025 (nfy!) Common Whitethroat. resident Buzzard. 3 Skylark on high. one fem Yellowhammer, 4m 1f Stonechat, several singing Dunnock & Wren. Numerous Linnet in flocks & pairs, many singing 😍 Many Goldfinch. Brown hare! ❤️
- Sunny 🌞 blue sky walk by River Frome, West of Dorchester #DorsetBirds 🪶 Kingfisher! ❤️ flushed Snipe 😳 6 Blackcap 😊 Kestrel, Buzzard numerous Chiffchaff & Wren several Stock Dove, Dunnock, tits&finches pair Canada 🇨🇦 Geese Blackthorn bursting with flower... River running clear & full of 🐟 fish.
- Osprey on Arne Heath, another on Middlebere nest with fish 🐟. Red Kite, Peregrine & adult White Tailed Eagle over car park. 5 Buzzard. RN Parakeet! Green Woodpecker! 2 Tree Pipit. 3 Dartford Warbler (Hyde & Coombe). 120 Shelduck, numerous Blackwit, Curlew, Redshank. 🪶 @harbourbirds.bsky.social
- Spring day, Arne RSPB, #DorsetBirds 🪶 @harbourbirds.bsky.social 2 Marsh Harrier over Gigger's Is. 2 Raven, Hyde Heath.
- Spring day, Arne RSPB, #DorsetBirds 🪶 @harbourbirds.bsky.social 2 Marsh Harrier over Gigger's Is. 2 Raven, Hyde Heath.
- White Tailed Eagle over Arne RSPB car park 1420! @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social #DorsetBirds 🪶
- Red Kite over Arne RSPB car park 1405hr.. @harbourbirds.bsky.social #DorsetBirds 🪶
- Red Kite over Arne RSPB car park 1405hr.. @harbourbirds.bsky.social #DorsetBirds 🪶
- A Portland Twitch for migrant Redstart; thanks to @debbyseamist.bsky.social for the heads-up! 2m&1f Common Redstart at Barleycrates horse fields with fem Black Redstart & 10-15 Wheatear. Numerous Swallows overhead. Another fem Black Redstart at Reap Lane. #DorsetBirds 🪶 2 Sandwich Tern Ferrybridge
- Seasonal birding walk at 🌞 Maiden Castle #DorsetBirds shame about the E/NE wind, though 😳 🪶 2 lovely male Yellowhammer 3 male Stonechat 7 Swallow, 1 House Martin Buzzard, Kestrel flocks Linnet, 2 males singing pair of noisy Goldfinch Skylark on high male Chaffinch singing in the hedge trees LT Tit!
- Sand Martin day at sunny Radipole Weymouth (after a damp start). 40+ settling in nicely in their nesting wall. 🪶 #DorsetBirds Reed Warbler warbling! 3 Marsh Harrier 10+ Reed Bunting Singing Dunnock, Chiffchaff Wren, Great Tit 10 Lesser BBG Pochard, Tuftie, Teal, Gadwall, Mallard, Canada, GreyHeron
- A Cracking day out Mick! Very nice... 🪶 #DorsetBirds
@dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social Didn’t find any Dippers at Maiden Newton this morning but 2 Grey Wagtails were much appreciated! Visited Kingcombe DWT for the first time and found a Dipper, on the river Hooke! Also our first 2 Swallows of the year
- Blue sky, beautiful English Spring day 🪶 for a Woodsford walk #DorsetBirds Green Sandpiper, Raven, Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 3 Buzzard, 2 Egyptian, 5 Reed Bunting ♥️, Blackcap singing. 4 MistleThrush, 2 Cetti's. Numerous tits&finches, Wrens. Dorchester (West) water meadows had two Little Ringed Plover ❤️
- A twitch for the magnificent Dotterel at Ferrybridge, on grass beyond bridge by visitor centre. Sunny but a nasty NE wind... Lifer for me🪶 Wheatear in close attendance! #DorsetBirds @portlandbirdobs.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
- Thanks Mick, good to see you both 👍 🪶 #DorsetBirds
- Thorncombe Wood, guided by Geoff Langrish Coal Tit - 4 Goldcrest - 5 GS Woodpecker - 4 Green Woodpecker - 2 heard Jay - 2 Marsh Tit - 2 Mistle Thrush - 1 heard Nuthatch - 6 Redwing - 3 Siskin - 4 Song Thrush - 4 Stock Dove - 2 Treecreeper - 2 + 17 other species All on BirdTrack #Dorsetbirdclub
- Jolly good considering the conditions Phil... 🪶 #DorsetBirds @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
- 🌞 circuit at Badbury Rings #DorsetBirds 🪶 Sparrowhawk at least 2 Kestrel 2 noisy Green Woodpecker 10+ singing Corn Bunting 3 Stonechat several Skylark & Chiffchaff 2 Greenfinch amongst tits&finches Kingston Lacy had 4 Buzzard, 3 Nuthatch, Wren, tits&finches, 100s Jackdaw in the Corvids, 2 Mallard
- Watching #Otter at Pallington Lakes 🌞 🥶 Also, 2 Reed Bunting, Goldcrest, Treecreeper, Nuthatch, Siskin, c8 Chiffchaff, Wren, Grey Heron, Raven. Numerous Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Tits (B, G & LT), Robin, Dunnock, Wagtail. Masses Canada, several Greylag, c20 Tuftie, Coot, 3 Mute. #DorsetBirds 🪶 #Wildlife
- Springtime at Thorncombe Wood 🪶 #DorsetBirds 2 Red-legged Partridge, a single Redwing, stunning male Yellowhammer, MistleThrush singing, Goldcrest. 3 Treecreeper, Nuthatch & and many others calling. Several singing Chaffinch, Coal Tit, Great & Blue Tit 💙 Buzzard, 3 Wren, numerous Robin & Blackbird.
- Isla Christina, Andalusia 🇪🇸 🪶 beach, marshes & salt pans... another 4 new 2025 Iberian birds for the list... Little Stint Audouin's Gull Woodchat Shrike Black-winged Kite 185 for the 2025 European birds list...
- Iberian Grey Shrike at Playa de la Flecha, El Rompido ♥️ today. 6 Sandwich Tern, 11 Sanderling, miscellaneous waders. Osprey, 23 roosting Flamingo & 6 Spoonbill, GWE at El Rompido. Extreme high & low tides. 🪶 🇪🇸
- Finally, a lovely male Bluethroat on the El Rompido local patch today, our first here for 2025. Also, it was a first here for Great White Egret. 🪶 Feliz día de Andalusia, 28 Febrero 2025 🇪🇸
- Back in Donaña 🌞 🇪🇸 🪶 Ten new 2025 Iberian species: Bluethroat male Duck, White-headed 1m 2f Kite, Black Owl, Barn 3 Owl, Little 1 Owl, Short-eared 2 Sandpiper, Green Skylark Swift, Pallid Wagtail, (Iberian) Yellow Total 2025 Iberian Sp 131 Total 2025 European Sp 181 For us, that's pretty good 👍
- Andelvalo & Sierra Pelada, Andalusia 🇪🇸 🪶 Immature Golden Eagle, 8 Black Vulture, 2 Griffon Vulture, several Red Kite & Buzzard, 2 Kestrel. Common Quail, 6 RL Partridge, Hoopoe, Red-rumped Swallow, 4 Egyptian Goose, 2 Caspian Tern, flock Waxbill. 2male 1female Blue Rock Thrush at Virgin de la Peña
- Good to see @mickhighfield.bsky.social & Lorraine at Fuerte El Rompido over the Valentines week #DorsetBirds 🇪🇸 🪶 Our first 2025 Swift overhead today, & 18 Flamingo flew in to join a Spoonbill in the Piedras River. Rock Bunting on 13th with the regular Z Cisticola flock. 9 YL Gulls in hotel pool.
- Castro Marim, Algarve, 🇵🇹 Osprey 🪶 Marsh Harrier, 2 Raven. 6 Red-legged Partridge. 2 Ferruginous Duck, several Pintail, Red-crested Pochard, Gadwall, Shoveler. 2 Curlew Sandpiper, 13 Spoonbill, Whimbrel, many BW Stilt & Flamingo, 2 Lapwing, 2 Greenshank. Thekla Larks, Short-toed Treecreeper. 61sp
- Marismas del Odiel, Huelva 🇪🇸 3 Slender-billed Gull 🪶 12+Marsh Harrier, 4Osprey, Peregrine, c12 Bar-tailedGodwit, c10 BN Grebe, GWE, 100s Flamingo, many Whimbrel, Redshank, BW Stilt, GreyPlover. Crested Lark, Fan-tailed Warbler, 6 Sanderling. Laguna El Portil, had Red-crested Pochard, Crested Tit.
- El Rompido 🇪🇸 🪶 Interesting birds around the hotel, Wheatear, Fan-tailed Warbler, Crested Tit, numerous Sardinian Warbler & Iberian Magpie & Blackcap, Penduline Tit. 5 Hoopoe! Flocks Serin. Piedras River has Kentish Plover, 3 Caspian Tern, 3 Sandwich Tern. Many Whimbrel, Dunlin & Ringed Plover.
- Sevilla, Espana 🇪🇸 to see the many hundreds of Ring-necked Parakeets; and other sights 🪶 #Birds #Espana #Sevilla
- Donana NP 🌞 🇪🇸 🪶 #Birds 65sp 4 Osprey, 3 BootedEagle, 4 GriffonVulture, c10 Lesser Kestrel, many CmKestrel, 20+ MarshHarrier, 4 BlackStork. c10 BN Grebe, 2 Ferruginous Duck, 2 RingNeckedDuck, several MarbledDuck, 3 RedKnobbedCoot, 2 PurpleHeron 💜 100s GlossyIbis, 1000s Flamingo, many BWStilt ❤️
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- Birding near Huelva Andalucia 🇪🇸 Iberian Grey Shrike, Red Kite, 4 Osprey, Marsh Harrier, Kestrel. c20 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Cattle Egret, Kingfisher, Purple Swamphen, Water Pipit. Numbers of Kentish Plover, Greenshank, Flamingo, Glossy Ibis, BW Stilt, Avocet, Crested Lark, Waxwing, Black Red. 45sp.
- Birding near Huelva Andalucia 🇪🇸 Iberian Grey Shrike, Red Kite, 4 Osprey, Marsh Harrier, Kestrel. c20 Red-crested Pochard, 2 Cattle Egret, Kingfisher, Purple Swamphen, Water Pipit. Numbers of Kentish Plover, Greenshank, Flamingo, Glossy Ibis, BW Stilt, Avocet, Crested Lark, Waxwing, Black Red. 45sp.
- Fuerte El Rompido, Costa de la Luz ♥️ 🪶 5 Hoopoe, numerous Sardinian Warbler, Iberian Magpie, Serin, Greenfinch, YL Gull. Several Redshank, Whimbrel, Curlew, Cm Sandpiper, LtEgret, Chiffchaff, Crag Martin, Swallow, Stonechat, Whinchat, Col Dove. Greenshank, Grey Plover, Grey Heron, Green Woodpecker
- Sunny 🌞 muddy and very quiet on Maiden Castle #DorsetBirds 🪶 Resident pair of Ravens Resident Kestrel a pair of Buzzards, resident nearby, feasting on worms 🪱 2 pairs Stonechat 6 Meadow Pipit, 2 Skylark, 2 Pied Wagtail Gulls, Corvids & Woodpigeon galore... @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social 3 Brown hare
