2️⃣6️⃣ | Birder | BSc Env Conservation🎓🌿 | @ZEISSBirding | #ZEISSBirding #ZEISSNature
Leicestershire
Joined December 2013
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Fantastic views of Curlew Sandpipers y'day at @RSPBFrampton with the majority of the flock being on Middle Scrape, reserve management at it's finest🤌
@RareBirdAlertUK – at Grimston, England
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After seeing the Nutcracker on a wheelbarrow, in a skip, and drinking out of a gutter, it was great to see the bird spend some time feeding this evening with @miles_cluff
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NUTCRACKER is showing well at Mundesley, Norfolk! I was certainly thinking it wouldn’t actually happen!
The Sunbirds of Aberdare National Park & Kinangop were simply spectacular. The views of Golden-winged were everything I was imagining but also seeing Malachite & Tacazze just topped the day off.
ebird.org/tripreport/540283
ALT Golden-winged Sunbird
ALT Malachite Sunbird
ALT Tacazze Sunbird
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Our written-up trip report from a sensational week watching the ultimate European bird migration spectacle of raptors crossing the Gibraltar Strait. Link to the report on CloudBirders:
cloudbirders.com/be4/downloa…
Also plenty of pics on my website as per:
milescluffphotography.com/ta…
Back in Leicestershire this week has been fruitful, starting with a YBW in the village but a visit to Eyebrook today resulted in connecting with the first-winter Gannet along with locating this Aythya hybrid (Common Pochard x Ferruginous Duck).
ebird.org/checklist/S4030456…
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For many many years, I’ve wanted an opportunity to set up a little pop-up hide to see into the secretive lives of Jack Snipes. Set up at a promising looking pool in Nottinghamshire the other day, and wowzas!!!!! 3 bobbing away in front of me tonight!
The Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi was a great introduction into birding Kenya, over 70 species personally recorded at the site.
Fantastic views of African Harrier-hawk, White-eyed Slaty-Flycatchers, African Paradise Flycatchers & Spot-flanked Barbets
Who'd have thought Merthyr would become hotspot this autumn, the Yellow-browed Warbler was still present late afternoon skulking in the bushes bordering the abattoir. Good find @_dsbirding
ebird.org/checklist/S3998080…
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Three 'wader species from the east' for which numbers peak in August and September. If you're seeing juvenile Curlew Sandpipers, look out for Little Stints too!
Blog about wader migration:
wadertales.wordpress.com/201…
@BirdTrack graphic from 2019
#ornithology
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Safe to say the Semipalmated Sandpiper showed very nicely on Fishtail Lagoon at Keyhaven, this morning.
Karura Forest, Nairobi definitely set the bar high for birding in Kenya. Great views of Hartlaub's Turaco, Narina Trogon & Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater.
Plenty of edited photos to come.
That puts a wrap on this whistle-stop tour of Kenya.
Seeing 263 species of which 210 were lifers in 11 days has been excellent.
Final bit of birding done with this Mountain Grey Woodpecker in the hotel hardens.
ebird.org/tripreport/540283/… - full species list. Editing begins soon.
Our day at Lake Naivasha truly spoilt us. A boat tour gave close views of Giant Kingfisher whilst African Fish Eagles put on a show.
The nearby woodland treated us to Grey-crested Helmetshrikes.
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A spring 'trip' of Dotterel is a highlight for any European birder, but where are the birds going and what do they get up to?
Fascinating paper by Bart Kempenaers and colleagues is summarised in WaderTales blog #159:
wadertales.wordpress.com/202…
#ornithology #birds
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It was a pleasant and welcome surprise in a difficult year to hear that I won BBRC’s 2026 Carl Zeiss Award. Peer recognition is tops. Thank you (left, Andrew Holden, Chair BBRC)
Today we were based at higher altitudes upto 3100m.
Surrounded by Sunbirds including Tacazze & Golden-winged whilst also seeing endemics such as Sharpe's Longclaw & Aberdare Cisticola
Exploring the Rift Valley at Lake Elementaita today was a huge success, with 129 species recorded with huge thanks to our guide. We had the entire site to ourselves.
Amazing views of Secretarybird, White-crested Helmetshrike, Pearl-spotted Owlet & Southern Ground-Hornbills
Waking up to the first spell of rain in Nairobi for 3 months... the birding still delivered at Nairobi National Park today with 101 species (still some Cisticolas to ID).
This has put the trip upto 157 species & 128 lifers.
ebird.org/checklist/S3921839…
ALT Spotted Thick-knee
