Our latest group to visit Brazil’s Pantanal are having a great time - here is one of their Jaguar encounters from yesterday! This fantastic trip is superb for mammals as well as birds - check out next years itinerary details here 👉🏻 oriolebirding.com/tour/brazil-pa…

20th year of Oriole Birding Scilly Pelagics charters. This eve was a cracker. In a brisk F4 NNW, we steamed 8 miles S to tuna feeds with c200 Great Shears, 20 Cory’s, 30 Sooties, c1K Manx & 2 Balearics. A 1-hour chum attracted a Wilson’s & c100 Europeans. Pix Isaac Ogden & Joe

A new blog post now on the Birding Diary from an epic couple of days in County Kerry last week Monster seawatching, dramatic scenery and American shorebirds - put your name down now for a new tour dropping soon for 2026! oriolebirding.com/county-kerry-a…

Great day guiding for Oriole Birding in Wexford. We found a 1CY Grey phalarope, Glossy Ibis, 2 Cattle egret, a surprise adult Long-tailed skua and Carrion crow (hybrid hooded x carrion) at Rosslare back strand. And more elsewhere! BirdGuides

We got in on the Glossy Ibis influx this afternoon at Tacumshin when a group of 16 dropped from high above to join 6 already present. Oriole Birding BirdGuides

Juvenile Pectoral sandpiper showed well, as did a juvenile Buff-breasted and adult white-rumped sandpiper at Tacumshin this afternoon. Great birds for the group! #guiding Oriole Birding BirdGuides

Norfolk for Oriole Birding - 11th September 2025 My day started in the Broads where the Black-winged Kite performed before meeting up with the clients at Titchwell for an intense but very rewarding three hours out on the reserve before dinner. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/norfol…

It is fair to say the Oriole Birding trip to Wexford is going well. Sabine’s on the crossing, loads of waders including Buff-breasted, Pectoral, White-rumped Sands and Grey Phals. Glossy Ibises galore and a pair of fishing Ospreys at the mighty Tacumshin. Pics by Cian Cardiff

Two more of the juvenile Buff-breasted sandpiper at Tacumshin today. Oriole Birding

Marsh Warbler at Hillswick this afternoon was a just reward for our Shetland group after sticking out some pretty grim weather for most of the day! Very elusive but eventually showed ok - a really buttery one which at times looked more like a Garden or pale Icterine!

Taxonomy didn’t ruin the excitement for our Shetland group this morning when we stumbled on this absolutely stunning Hornemann’s Arctic Redpoll up at North Roe with the Isbister sparrow flock! Hopefully a sign that more will be on the way!

These fantastic Orcas off Sumburgh Head were the hands-down highlight for our Shetland group today 📸 by Chris Darby Chris Darby

The Blue-winged Teal at Hillwell y’day kicked off the final day of our 1st group to Shetland of the season. We were lucky as it flew in from the south with a group of Teal just as we arrived. Certainly a lot easier to pick out in flight than on the deck! 📷 by Chris Darby

We spent the rest of our final morning on Shetland y’day checking spots up the west side of Mainland, including the burn of Geosetter. Just a Blackcap seen on the way up, but coming back down this stunning Wood Warbler popped out! Pic by Chris Darby

It’s been a good start to our Oriole Birding Shetland tour as a stop at Musselburgh on the way to Aberdeen produced the long-staying Marsh Sandpiper, White-winged Scoter, Surf Scoter and plenty more! Nick Parsons

It was a good day for our Shetland tour on Yell and Unst. Highlights included Common Rosefinch, Hawfinch, 4 Glossy Ibis and, perhaps best of all, this confiding Short-toed Lark. 📸 by Jonathan Farooqi

Siberian Thrush for both of our Shetland groups today! 👇

Our group has just refound the East Yorks White-throated Needletail at Bempton Cliffs 🤯

Well that’s a turn up! Eye-browed Thrush at Porthloo duck pond this morning for our Bird Watching Scilly tour group! We’ve had a good run of Oriole UK lifers this autumn with this hot on the heels of the Needletail, Sibe Thrush and Mourning Dove 📷 credit Simon Knight

A nice find on our Durham & Northumberland tour today was this moulting adult American Golden Plover roosting on the rocks off the east end of the Crooked Lonnen, Holy Island