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Territory mapping visit to my section of the BTO Nunnery grounds and lakes plot this morning. Long-term project and great team effort to get the area covered. Nuthatch singing and lots of Wrens! Didn't connect with the Avocet that flew over the lakes heading my way.

Nice nice ,I just found an Alpine accentor ,I ain't a birder ,but knew it was something good ,thanks to Mike King🦉🐺 for the identification!,right I just found a right nice moss aswell so a very good day .

The Rare Breeding Birds Panel has put out a request for any breeding-season records of Fieldfare: bit.ly/3UotNUf

Pleased to see the Siberian Pipit ID article with Brian Small and Cin-Ty Lee was published this month in British Birds

Fewer ducks, geese, swans and wader species are travelling to the UK in winter as milder conditions continue to define the season across northern Europe, according to a newly published report: bit.ly/3xWqkEN

Great to see RBBP member Helen Baker being rightly recognised for her service to the British Ornithologists’ Union, to ornithology and to the wider ornithological community

Latitude 54 - the furthest south Bramblings left in UK!?! 4 May 2024. Same 3 still in our #YorkshireDales wildlife garden. BTO RSPB Science Mark Eaton Mark Avery The British Nature Guide Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 Jo King BBC Springwatch Dawn Balmer #Birds OfX #Birds BTO Garden BirdWatch NorthYorksBirdNews

Any Highland records can be sent to [email protected]

Early Breeding Bird Surveys visit to my other square in Thetford Forest, this one covered since 1997. Singing Redstart was my first since 1999 and Mandarin was new for the square. Two Cuckoo, Crossbill. No Tree Pipit this year.

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As usual, top and tailing BB this month are the excellent News & comment and Recent reports.
Thanks Russ Malin Maddy Hine
Barry Nightingale and Harry Hussey for your continued contributions

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📷David Tipling

In BB this month: Book review of Portfolio 1: photographs and stories of extraordinary birds By Rafael Armada

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In BB this month: Book review of Seabirds Count By Daisy Burnell, Allan J. Perkins, Stephen F. Newton, Mark Bolton, T. David Tierney and Timothy E. Dunn

Seabird Surveys @JNCC_UK RSPB Science Daisy Burnell Helen Baker UK Seabird Monitoring Programme

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In BB this month: Book review of The Birds of Moray & Nairn: their status and where to find them By Martin Cook.

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In BB this month: Field identification of ‘American Pipit’ and ‘Siberian Pipit’ in autumn and winter plumage by Andrew Birch, Cin-Ty Lee and Brian J. Small

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🎨Andrew Birch. Underpart and flank streaking.

In BB this month:
Kelp Gull in Cambridgeshire: new to Britain by Richard Patient

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📷Steve Hughes
3CY Kelp Gull with ‘British Lesser Black-backed Gulls’ Larus fuscus graellsii, Grafham Water, 1st August 2022.

In BB this month: The changing status of Cetti’s Warblers in Cumbria and northern Britain by John Callion.

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Distribution of Cetti’s Warblers in Cumbria, 2005–23, with colours representing year of first detection at each site.

The May issue of British Birds is now out and includes papers on the Identification of ‘American Pipit’ and ‘Siberian Pipit’, Kelp Gull in Cambridgeshire and The changing status of Cetti’s Warblers in Cumbria and northern Britain.

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In BB this month: First confirmed ‘Central Asian Lesser Whitethroat’ for Norfolk by Sophie Barker and Martin Collinson Martin Collinson #BLM

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📷Gary Hibberd