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Nice start to the morning, Raven low over the garden after a dawn Profiterole raid at Waitrose 🤣

First singing Song Thrush of the winter. Old Town railway at the OT end. SwiWildlifeSightings

Happy New Year to all bird and wildlife watchers in the Swindon area. Swindon is blessed with lots of green spaces and wildlife (and I include fungi and plants) so please share your findings here. Here’s to a good 2025 🐭🐸🐧🪿🦆🐦‍⬛🦉🦇🐝🦋🐞🪲🕷️🌳☘️🍁🍄🌻🌹

Feel better with decision not to leave the house yet on NYD after seeing male Blackcap in the garden 😀 SwiWildlifeSightings

To show that #gardenbirding is often rewarding….just had first Goldcrest here for many years SwiWildlifeSightings

Little Egret in Westlea Brook again. Stock Dove calling bottom of Barnfield Road

Completed #BigGardenBirdwatch with 15 species. 21 strong Goldfinch flock the highlight plus 1 Greenfinch. Yesterday an amazing 5 minutes keeping still to watch a totally unconcerned Goldcrest. Sometimes just 4 feet away SwiWildlifeSightings

Simon Wicks in our team has been monitoring Reed Warbler nests at Swindon STW for many years. Yesterday we had a great bit of news, the 2 Reed Warblers in the picture were ringed on 2nd August. One of them was retrapped 292 miles south on the west coast of France on 28 September!

Sparrowhawk and Greenfinches near Tregoze School at lunchtime. 25 Wigeon by Lydiard Park Lake

Nice 5 minutes of garden birding with 2 Greenfinches and 3 LTTs. SwiWildlifeSightings

Big Red Kite day. FIVE this morning over Swindon Lagoons with two showing courtship display, and now two over the West Swindon house SwiWildlifeSightings

Kingfisher along the River Ray at Mouldon Hill this afternoon SwiWildlifeSightings

First butterfly of the year. Gorgeous fresh yellow Brimstone in Grange Park near Whitehill Way. SwiWildlifeSightings

Pleasant early evening trip to Whelford Pools with Matt Pringle rewarded with only my second Lesser Scaup. Also 15 Sand Martins NFY. Good numbers of Shoveler and Tufties on the water. And both Common and RC Pochard. First bats of the year too. #Spring #GlosBirds #CWPBirds

Farm near Lydiard Park this morning: 55 Fieldfare, 6 Skylarks, Red Kite, 2 Stock Doves, Yellowhammer SwiWildlifeSightings

Great to be hearing Cuckoo within Swindon boundary. Seems to be between Rivermead and Mouldon Hill

It was good to return to some litter picking in any case, but finding this Bee Orchid in Westlea was a joyful surprise SwiWildlifeSightings Keep Britain Tidy KeepSwindonTidy

Spot the difference! Both Cinnabar and Six Spot Burnet moths found on reclaimed ground close to M4 Junction 16. SwiWildlifeSightings

Just some of the FIFTY Starlings in our garden this morning enjoying the fat balks and the bird bath, and only two adults! Also a fledged Jackdaw being fed. Don’t have to go far for great wildlife. SwiWildlifeSightings

Got to a hundred!!