Black-necked Stilts are a common breeding species on Turks and Caicos.

A new addition to the garden list this lunchtime. You could say it was stoatally unexpected.

Nice to find a Great White Egret at Myroe Levels today. Also 5 Curlew Sandpipers, 32 Slavonian Grebes and 100+ Whooper Swans there. Then over to Portrush for the Surf Scoter NI Birds

Just nipped out to put the bins out in Ballygally #aurora #northernlights

Adult Little Gull at Drains Bay this afternoon NI Birds

Absolutely thrilled to watch a flock of around 80 Waxwings moving through the garden this lunchtime. They made short work of the hawthorn berries before vanishing into a rain-laden sky.

Waxwings flycatching from the garden treetops.

Nice to spend some time in the hills this week

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It’s that time of year…

A splash of colour from the Algarve

A Carabus nitens from the Antrim Hills today. One of the most beautiful beetles I have ever seen.

They don’t come much better than a male hen harrier 🤩

Field calibration of two survey methods to assess productivity of a ground-nesting wader, the Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata | Bird Study | tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108… | #ornithology

Adult Bonaparte’s Gull along the coast at Larne this evening NI Birds

Out the front door in Ballygally right now #northernlights

Could you take over the wader reins at the exceptional Antrim Plateau? We're sad to say farewell to the amazing Katie Gibb who helped 202 young #Curlews take to the skies there during the Curlew LIFE project. 🥳 Hugely exciting chance for you to nurture a recovering population!

Where are they now? Can you help us scope out our ringed #Curlews? #birdringing #birdwatching curlewlife.org/2024/11/keep-y…

Well this was a nice surprise for a dreary afternoon - RING-NECKED DUCK, a new bird species for Rathlin! Cannily predicted by Neal Warnock, except it happened to be just up the road on Craigmacagan Lough 😄

🎉The 2024 Rathlin Bird Report is here! Another action-packed year of birding on the island, with no shortage of good stuff to cram into our 7th annual report. Available now at rathlinstickybeak.wordpress.com/2025/03/29/rat…