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Something a bit different from the usual Starlings in the garden today! Brilliant to see up close despite the captive origin.

I certainly can't complain about the view during today's surveying! I was joined by this curious Kittiwake, peeking out from the beautiful carpet of Thrift.

Lots of Guillemot and Razorbill drama on the cliffs this week with plenty of chicks hatching out.

Fantastic to see my first ever Minke Whale today whilst conducting seabird monitoring at St Abb's. It spent ages amongst large flocks of diving Gannets allowing for fantastic views through binoculars.

On the way back up from tagging. Such a fantastic place to work!

Gannets are magnificent 🤩

Last night on the May. Charlotte Foote, now on Bluesky George Dunbar still ringing. With Viv Hastie, @steph_quinn1, and Chris Rollie.

Thank you Brian Minshull, Viv Hastie, George Dunbar, @Steph_Quinn1, David Steel and Chris Rollie for a fantastic week on @IofMayBirdObs. I've thoroughly enjoyed exploring the island with you all!

A stunning Whinchat spring trapped out in front of the Observatory this afternoon. Dungeness Bird Observatory

Excellent day Spurn Bird Observatory chaperoning Lars Svensson around the ringing sites at Church Field meeting TJ MOVED TO BLUESKY and at the Warren with Jacob Spinks & Charlotte Foote, now on Bluesky. It all got too much for Duerden Cormack who was blown away with the occasion! #Migfest24

This Siberian Stonechat, along North Dykes on Saturday was Charlotte Foote, now on Bluesky third new bird of the day, after having mega views of Arctic Warbler at Spurn and then Pale-legged Leaf Warbler at Bempton, which was a surprisingly well behaved bird, showing well on multiple occasions!

Starlings are the best. Spurn Bird Observatory Jacob Spinks

A slow seawatch this morning with a trickle of Little Auks and a Velvet Scoter. Cool to have this Jack Snipe come in off the sea and land on the cliff in front of us. Spurn Bird Observatory

Hopefully birders have been out today on their patches, starting up for a big #PWC2025! Here is the sign up and score sheet. Please follow the instructions, and then add your patch to the sign up sheet. Any questions, please get in touch! docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

It was great fun to participate in @patchbirding.bsky.social last year. Unfortunately, I won't be in one place long enough in 2025 but I look forward to seeing how everyone gets on!

We’ve started Motus tagging Jack Snipe this week as a part of the Motus Tracking Project! Last week, 3 Jack Snipe were tagged in the LDV NNR , and now we have captured and tagged an individual here at Spurn! 1/6 📸 C Foote

Incredible seawatch totals today, with a new day record of Pintail for the recording area. Full totals below ⬇️

My first Rustic Bunting! After an otherwise slow start following a week of strong winds, it was fantastic to spot this in a bush and then get a closer look when it later ended up in a net.