The 2 juvenile Curlew Sandpipers at RSPB Conwy were upstaged by a nice adult Cattle Egret this morning. A reserve tick for me! Also 8 Common Snipe showing well in the rain. Down at Porthmadog Cob, 9 Greenshank, 33 Black-tailed Godwit and 2 Med Gulls were the highlights 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

The two long staying juvenile Curlew Sandpipers still showing well at RSPB Conwy this morning. They are very faithful to their small patch of mud. Also Spotshank, Greenshank, 4 Blackwit, 5 GWE, Common Sand also lots of warblers inc. Garden Warbler + Lesser Whitethroat ☺️👍

Cracking views of a 1st winter Grey Phalarope at RSPB Morfa Dinlle RSPB this afternoon. Even got to see its feet at one point. In Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Llydandroed - translates to ‘Widefoot’. Loved its bobbing while preening. Thanks to Simon HR for putting the news out 👍

Great to catch up with Alan Davies and Dylan M. Edwards for some birding and a coffee this morning. Despite dipping a Dotterel, good to see Goldcrests and Chiffchaffs arriving on the Orme. Spotted Redshank, Curlew Sandpiper, Greenshank and 2 Dunlin at RSPB Conwy too☺️👍

Osprey, Curlew Sandpiper, Spotshank, 2 Greenshank, 2 Common Sand, 11 Shoveler, Whimbrel, GWE, 2 Reed Warbler, 2 Cetti’s Warbler, Stock Dove, 2 Chough and 3 Rock Pipit at Conwy RSPB this morning RSPB Conwy ☺️👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Curlew Sand and Spot Shank in video.

Bingo! I thought I’d left it too late to see Brown Hairstreak but this female showed at the superb Ryton Wood Meadows NR today. A first for me! Thanks to Tara for showing me several tiny eggs too - amazing. Overhead a family of noisy Hobbies ☺️👍 Butterfly Conservation 🦋 BC Warwickshire

A chilled morning at Brandon Marsh NR near Coventry this morning - European White-fronted Goose, 2 Green Sandpiper, Great White Egret, 3 Water Rail, Hobby, 2 Red Kites and several Cetti’s Warblers. Nice to meet the friendly local patchers there West Midland Bird Club Warwickshire Wildlife Trust

This cracker of an ‘LBBG’ at Ryton Pools NR, Warks this afternoon. The most ‘Baltic’ looking gull I’ve ever seen. Stood out a mile amongst the 300+ large gulls and blacker than the 3 GBBG present! Cattle Egret, Smew and several Green Woodpeckers too West Midland Bird Club Warwickshire Wildlife Trust

Visible Migration is what it’s all about! Meadow Pipit madness at Spurn this weekend. Thanks to everyone at Spurn Bird Observatory for the hard work that makes Migfest such a success! Great to catch up with friends from all over the world! With Dylan M. Edwards + Levi

Can there be a better start to the working week than this? A playful family of Otter on the Glaslyn this morning ☺️👍

Superb seawatching off Rhos Point, Conwy today - highlight for me were a superb drake Surf Scoter, 2 Long-tailed Skua, Pom Skua, Sabine’s Gull, Little Gull, 2 Little Tern, 13 Arctic Skua, 23 Manxy, 400+ Common Scoter, 22 Red-th Diver. Great to catch up with local birders too☺️👍

Spent 15 minutes with this superb Otter on the Glaslyn this morning in the pouring rain. A special moment. Video taken with handheld iPhone really doesn’t do it justice. ☺️👍

A walk along Llanrhystyd beach to Llansanffraidd, Ceredigion this morning came up trumps with a very tame Grey Phalarope. Still here as I type. Spending quality one to one time with this little beauty. 2 Knot, 2 Sanderling, Golden Plover, Bl t Godwit and 20 Med Gulls too☺️👍

A cracking morning in the Ceredigion coast at Llanrhystyd. Grey Phalarope, ad. Yellow-legged Gull, 4 Common Sand, 2 Knot, 2 Sanderling, Golden Plover, 160 Mediterranean Gulls, 32 Ringed Plover, Whimbrel, 24 Turnstone and this Oystercatcher that must be 15+ years old by now! ☺️👍

With these westerlies this week, a few unfortunate seabirds ended up well inland. Came across this grounded Fulmar on a road with Clare Gower while working. Big thanks to Elfyn Lewis for arranging to get the bird back to the coast. Lucky I had my PPE on, it had a nasty nip 😣

Ynyslas today; 14 Curlew sandpiper, 2 Little Stint, 2 Ruff, 17 Bl-t Godwit, 370 Ringed Plover, 650 Dunlin, 20 Golden plover, Juv Little, Juv Common + 8 Sandwich tern, 2 Greenshank, 87 Knot, 5 Turnstone, 35 Common Scoter on estuary. Whinchat, 4 Wheatear + 23 Stonechat in fields🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Cool to come across a Grey Phalarope earlier this week. I nearly walked past the tiny waded during my early morning walk along the Ceredigion coast. Luckily it stayed all day and good friend Paul Leafe got these images. In Welsh Llydandroed - ‘Widefoot’ due to its lobed toes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍

An impromptu seawatch in the new Spaull hide with Zak Spaull +Tom. As the wind swung northerly, between us we managed 2 Sabine’s Gulls (ad + Juv), 2 Black Tern, Arctic Skua, 93 Common Tern, 6 Arctic Tern, 27 ‘Commics’, 425 Sandwich Tern, 2 Manx Shearwater, 7 Kittiwake, + 4 RTD☺️👍

Great to see many local birders at Point Lynas this morning. 1 adult Sabine’s Gull, 1 Pom Skua, 11 Arctic, 1 Great Skua, 2 Leach’s Petrel, 945 Common Scoter, 4 Brents, 7 Black Tern, 160 Sandwich, 150 Commic, 15 Rt Diver, + 6 GC Grebe with Alan Davies Owen Parsons Zach Paul

I’m migrating over to Bluesky today. Too many unwanted non-wildlife stuff reaching my X feed. Find me over there on Marc Hughes.bsky.social -Thanks for all the follows + communications on here over the years. I will pop back occasionally over next month to see what’s going on👍