One of 4 Woodcock found near Ellisfield this morning - great to be able to see these birds without flushing. Borough year list up to 95 but running out of potential January ticks now - can’t find Brambling or Blackcap & where are all the Yellowhammers! Hampshire Ornithological Society #hantsbirds

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North Hampshire - never thought I’d see the northern lights from the house! iPhone images, no processing.

Cuckoo and Dartford Warblers in north Hampshire yesterday morning. Hampshire Ornithological Society

Confiding Redshank at Pennington this morning. Great to see some different birds - almost everything on show a Basingstoke scarcity or rarity and some never recorded! 😂 Plenty of terns on show this morning… Hampshire Ornithological Society

Sardinian Warbler and Eastern Subalpine Warbler in the garden of the house we rented in Sicily recently, plus Cory’s Shearwater off Taormina. I’m on first-name terms with most of the birds around Basingstoke, so good to see something different!

Book review: The Norfolk Plover: a study of the Stone-curlew by Chris Knights with a foreword by @themarshtit britishbirds.co.uk/journal/articl…

Lapland Bunting at Staines Reservoir this afternoon. I have t been there in ages, so great to visit my old stomping ground again.

Hawfinch in grim light at The Mill Field LNR, Old Basing, mid-afternoon today; my first in the borough for four years. Not my favourite site it has to be said, as there’s too many dogs running loose for my liking, but glad I dropped in for an hour today.

At least one Brambling, but probably more, in a large mixed flock at Pyotts Hill, Old Basing, this morning, comprising mostly of Linnet, but also good numbers of Chaffinch and Y’hammer plus a few Reed Bunting & even one or two Greenfinch; probably 300 plus birds.

Grey Partridge in north Hampshire this morning. Four seen in an hour or so, but not my regular site for GP (where they’re not released), so need to investigate the provenance of this population.

Grey Partridge of wild origin on the downs late morning; last week’s rather confiding birds near Popham confirmed as released. Earlier at Weston Shore, distant views of the long-staying RN Grebe - a county bogey bird finally nailed & the first I’ve seen anywhere for many a year.

One of our most threatened birds, the Stone-curlew, has seen a rise in population numbers in England thanks to the work of two projects celebrating their 40th anniversary. Find out more 👉 brnw.ch/21wQXVC

A little too distant & misty for the camera, but excellent ‘scope views of Hampshire’s first Black-throated Thrush at Lindford this morning, which now seems to have picked up a tick on its right eye. Thanks to Simon King & alan lewis wildlife stuff for arranging access & marshalling.

Snatched images of local displaying Goshawk this morning. Always one of the highlights of spring, especially locally, which is otherwise dead!

The RSPB is celebrating 40 years of Eurasian Stone-curlew conservation, with numbers of the wader having doubled in Britain during that timeframe: bit.ly/4h7rzSF

More crap images, though to be fair they were taken straight into the sun and at distance. Marsh Harrier is a good borough bird though - this one being mobbed near Brown Candover this morning; one of the Alresford Pond birds presumably.

Unexpected Barn Owl during a grim WeBS at Overton first thing this morning - incredibly an additional three others seem during the morning, including two hunting together at Overton Hill. Also, this Great White Egret, keeping to the footpath at Lower Ashe Farm.

Juvenile White-tailed Eagle, south of Kingsclere this morning. I literally had to throw the car into a hedge and jump out to obtain these images, before it disappeared over the tree line towards Overton. Becoming annual for me! 😂

Late to the party as usual, but managed to slip away from the metropolis of birding that is Basingstoke and Deane, for Hampshire’s first Hudsonian Godwit, which gave great views at a surprisingly gloomy Titchfield Haven this morning. Superb find by Mark Francis