To say I’m made up is an understatement! 🤩 Just found out that my photo of this Common tern resurfacing at Cemlyn Bay has won the Young Photographers section of the Welsh Ornithological Society 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 competition! 🥳 Many thanks! Iolo Williams Steve Stansfield Toby Carter Ben Porter @GilesPepler

Baikal showing well at RSPB Greylake!✅ What a stonking looking bird, roll on this weekend 👌 Ed Betteridge Stephen Culley

💥American Robin in the bag sadly no sign of the Humes this morning but no complaints My first mega thrush ✅😍

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My first successful Blue Bullet Twitch of the year this evening! 💥🛵 Managed to see the cracking CITRINE WAGTAIL which was a lifer for me, plus some good numbers of wheatear and a nice Blue headed wagtail Love my patch! ❤️

can’t wait to see this ace little birds again! 😍 Going through some old photos from the Great Orme last year and didn’t realise I’d taken this Love the incredible feather details of the Dotterel, a bird I don’t think I’ll ever get bored of ❤️

Eye to eye with this beast of a British rarity yesterday at Kent 😮 The stunning ELEONORA’S FALCON showed unbelievable well catching insects and stooping just metres over the crowd! What a bird! 😍 RareBirdAlertUK BirdGuides @birdinginasuit Stephen Culley

Quick sketch of the Eleonora’s Falcon from Worth Marsh, Kent ✏️ What an incredible bird and even better when sat just feet away from a Red-footed Falcon! Sadly now looks to have departed Definitely up there with some of the best birds I’ve seen in the UK! 😍🇬🇧

Safe to say the Song Sparrow was showing well this evening on Bardsey!🥵

SONG SPARROW! 🇺🇸🔥 Fantastic twitch over to Bardsey Island yesterday to this little cracker found by Ed Betteridge! After going missing for nearly 2 hours it was refound in a garden and to say it was showing well would be an understatement! 😍 Brilliant bird for Wales! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Couple more photos of the 🇺🇦🕊 Bardsey Lodge & Bird Obs Song Sparrow (love that head pattern) 😍📸 + some pics of the small twitch Tricky viewing at first but nothing a garden chair to peek over the wall couldn’t fix! 🤣 My first ever island twitch and one I won’t forget soon! 🚤 BirdGuides

Well I’m having pork belly bites with the lads on the coast of wales deeewwww

💥 Bridled Tern! 🤯 Showed extremely well from Hafan Y Môr, Pwllheli this afternoon, epic bird and a celebratory pizza was in order Big thanks to Stephen Culley and Robin Sandham for letting me get on the bird straight away through the scope

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Absolutely mega mega Porthgwarra seawatch today from 06:50 to 17:45 Wilson's Petrel 2 (others had up to 6) Cory's Shear 1214 Great Shear 66 Sooty Shear 141 Balearic Shear 29 Manx Shear 12,000 ph Long-tailed Skua 3 Arctic Skua 4 Pom 1 Bonxie 1 Skua sp 1 Euro Storm Petrel 268 1/2

Scilly yesterday for American Cliff Swallow 🇺🇸 and now Hudsonian Godwit on the way home! Other highlights were the great number of seabirds from Porthgwarra last week C. 1.2k Cory’s shearwaters Long tailed & Pom skuas! Timed the week long Cornwall trip very well I think! 😍

Spot the Wryneck! Such awesome cryptic plumaged birds, great to see at least two at Spurn Bird observatory over the weekend at #migfest24 with plenty of other highlights like Red-breasted Fly catcher and a lovely honey buzzard! 😍

Incredible views of this Red-necked Grebe in Roundhay, West Yorkshire 😍 Never seen one so close, fantastic experience after only having distant views of these birds in the UK 🇬🇧