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#waderwednesday Shorebirds, Short-billed Dowitcher, Least Sandpiper & Hudsonian Godwit on their breeding grounds of the wet, damp, boggy Taiga-Churchill, June 2024

Willet-western ssp-Paul do Cabo da Praia, Terceira, Azores, Y'day a stunning individual especially when seen in flight + 2 White Rumped's & 2 Semi P Plover's, Black Tern (niger) Guillemot-Praia harbour (1st for Azores) 4 ad Ring billed Gulls-Praia da Vitoria beach, a GR8 day!

Willet-Western ssp, Paul do Cabo da Praia, Terceira, Azores (video footage from Sunday morning) the 07th record for the Azores, a smart bird, showed very well at but highly mobile and flighty at times, much bigger in size than what I had expected "Something for Wader Wednesday"

Shorebirds from the weekend-Lesser Yellowlegs & Wood Sandpiper side by side are always nice to see but especially in February - nr Lagoa do Junco, Semi P Plover & a Little Stint both at Paul do Cabo da Praia, Terceira, Azores. Also 5 Ruff, 4 Knot, 3 Curlew Sand, 2 Whimbrel+more

Love this one . Such a classic and funny 😝😝😝😝

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Wood Sandpiper 1 of 2 present -Lagoa do Junco, Terceira, yesterday (Weds) this is the only place I have seen this species on top of a dry stone wall, also present at this location in the morning-1 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Common Snipe, 1 Gull-billed Tern, 10 Glossy Ibis & 3 Quail.

Wood Sandpiper, always nice to see this species passing through in the Spring, on-route to their breeding grounds. 1 of 2 present alongside a Lesser Yellowlegs, Lagoa do Junco, Terceira.

Blue Whale-Terceira-April 2025, the timing of this trip was to coincide with the migration of this species through Azorean Water's. Seen here on my 2nd boat trip I was pleased to connect with the largest animal in the world, the skipper advised us it was 25m minimum in length.

Semi P Plover-Terceira, Azores-April 2025, always, nice to see this species well in the Cabo da Praia quarry, where this individual was present alongside 7 Ringed Plover & 1 probable Tundrae Ringed Plover, 2 Ruff, 1 Curlew Sand, 1 Little Stint, 2 Ruff, 3 Whimbrel & 118 Sanderling

Spending each evening at Praia da Vitoria beach payed off with seeing the Gull-billed Tern again (still present from my last visit in February) & whilst counting & scanning through a flock of 16 BHG’s produced a nice surprise of 3 Bonaparte’s Gull’s (2 adults & 1 2CY)

Curlew Sandpiper-Wednesday morning-Normandy Lagoon, Keyhaven & Pennington Marshes, Hants, always good to see this species passing through the Solent in the spring where it is much more regular than in the Thames estuary during their northbound migration to Arctic Tundra of Russia

Roseate Tern-Normandy Lagoon, Pennington, Hampshire 06:10hrs Wednesday morning, really nice to first hear & then see this individual flying in over the seawall & around the lagoon B4 it settled briefly on the island. U can clearly hear it calling in this video. Hampshire Ornithological Society

Roseate Tern-yesterday morning (Sunday)-Normandy lagoon, Keyhaven & Pennington Marshes, Hants. Had to wait 94 minutes before the first sighting of the day at 07:04, also present 1 Little Stint, 2 Curlew Sand, 2 Ruff, 8 Barwit, c40 Dunlin, 30 Ringed Plover & 1 m Marsh Harrier

New Forest, Hampshire, in all its glory & splendour just before 05:00 this morning, absolutely luv being on Forest this time of day, had wanted to live nr the Forest for yr’s & now coming up to 11 years living down here & still enjoy it as much now as did when I 1st moved here.

Lesser Spotted Woodpecker-New Forest, May 2025 it was nice watching this male taking in food to the nest & I timed visits to the nest with food which averaged between 9 & 12 minutes, however sometimes just 3 minutes between visits with food, all chicks fledged successfully

Honey Buzzard at a drinking pool hide pool hide in Tiszaalpar #Hungary. What an absolute treat! #Raptors #BirdsSeenIn2025 #Birding

The best flyby Honey Buzzard ever! Kampina, The Netherlands today.

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