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Black-winged Stilt landing on water Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson RSPB #BBCWildlifePOTD BTO Birdwatch Bird Watching

Evasive action. Short-toed snake eagle avoiding yellow-legged gull Gib Nature Reserve #Gibraltar . Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson GONHS Gibraltar The Gibraltar Natural History Museum Visit Gibraltar BTO #BBCWildlifeBPOTY RSPB

Short-toed tree creeper probing for invertebrates under the bark of a stone pine tree Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson BTO #BBCWildlifePOTD RSPB BirdWatchingMagazine Birdwatch

The rainbow birds are back from Africa! The 19th Century naturalist Howard Irby considered the 10th April to have been the day when most passed and christened the day “St Bee-eaters Day”. Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson #BBCWildlifePOTD BTO RSPB GONHS Gibraltar

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Ruffs heading for their Arctic breeding grounds Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson BBCWildlifeMagazine BirdWatchingMagazine Birdwatch #BBCWildlifePOTD BTO RSPB

It's now the turn of the immature short-toed snake eagles to arrive Gib Nature Reserve from the south. Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson John Cortes #BBCWildlifePOTD BBCWildlifeMagazine BirdWatchingMagazine Birdwatch RSPB BTO GONHS Gibraltar The Gibraltar Natural History Museum

Male western subalpine warbler, among the early trans-Saharan arrivals Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson Gib Nature Reserve GONHS Gibraltar #BBCWildlifePOTD BTO RSPB BirdLife International BBC Wildlife BBC Earth

Rough-legged Buzzard an Arctic/Boreal breeding species that reached Gibraltar during the glaciations. Its remains have been excavated from caves Gorham's Cave Gib Nature Reserve in #Gibraltar Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson John Cortes #BBBWildlifePOTD BTO RSPB GONHS Gibraltar

Hoopoe battles. We might think of hoopoes as placid birds but here's a different side to them. Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson GONHS Gibraltar BTO #BBCWildlifePOTD RSPB BBC Earth The Urban Birder - OFFICIAL

Black-winged kite taking off from its favourite perch on a holm oak, with an acorn showing. The bird, with its magical red eyes and powerful wing beat, is on a mission. Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson #BBCWildlifePOTD BTO RSPB

When you’ve been photographing wildlife for 51 years, a pic taken 13 years ago feels like yesterday! Short-toed snake eagle at Gibraltar Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson Gib Nature Reserve GONHS Gibraltar BTO RSPB

Here's a dark morph booted eagle on spring migration Gib Nature Reserve Gib Marine Reserve. Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson John Cortes BTO RSPB GONHS Gibraltar @BBCWildlifePOTD #raptormigration The Gibraltar Natural History Museum InfoGibraltar

Miajadas in Extremadura, Spain, is tomato-growing country. A large sculpture by the motorway acknowledges this. White storks found it to be the ideal nest site! Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson @BBCWildlifePOTD #Extremadura The Urban Birder - OFFICIAL RSPB BTO

They're back! European bee-eaters are now returning from tropical Africa to their breeding colonies. Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson RSPB BTO #BBCWildlifePOTD #springwatch

Waiting to pounce. Little bittern arrives now from south of the Sahara to breed in wetlands. With so much habitat destruction and drought, how much longer for? Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson BTO RSPB Audubon Society BBC Earth #climatechange Convention on Wetlands Wetlands International @wetlands

This is the time to get good numbers of booted eagles arriving Gib Nature Reserve Gib Marine Reserve after crossing the #StraitofGibraltar . Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson The Gibraltar Natural History Museum GONHS Gibraltar John Cortes InfoGibraltar BTO RSPB BBCWildlifeMagazine Birdwatch BirdWatchingMagazine

Overshadowed by the larger raptors, the beautiful sparrowhawks are a regular feature of raptor migration Gib Nature Reserve at this time of year. Dr Stewart Finlayson G Finlayson John Cortes GONHS Gibraltar RSPB BTO InfoGibraltar Thinking Green GI BBCWildlifeMagazine BBC Earth