Whimbrel guarding the entrance to the harbour on L Melvin - didn't like to disturb them when they've a long flight to Iceland ahead. #Leitrim #Fermanagh

Woodchat Shrike at RSPB Rainham Marshes on 4/05/2024 RSPB Rainham Marshes Paul Hawkins Martin Blow John Cadera Fraser Simpson

For those who haven't yet seen our appearance on the Essex Birdwatching Society's EBwS Bird News YouTube channel, here is the link. We highly recommend all their podcasts and videos. They're just the right amount of facts& fun!
youtube.com/watch?v=utT5vL…
County of Essex Thurrock NubNews

Another free Birdawareessex wildlife walk is on the horizon! If you are near #Merseaisland , put Saturday the 18th in your diary! We will be starting at 11 in Cudmore Grove car park. Dogs on leads welcome 🦮🐔🦉🦢🐣🕊☘️ Secret Mersea Island Visit Mersea Island West Mersea Lifeboat

Hello world! A little #Curlew hatchling just fresh out of the egg this morning, at our RSPB NI Lower Lough Erne Islands nature reserve project area. 🐣 All our fingers are crossed for it as it starts those precarious 5 weeks on the ground until it can fly. 🫰 📷 Amy Burns, RSPBNI

What a lovely day with lovely people from the Essex Birdwatching Society
Essex Birdwatching Society! If only it stopped raining for a while! 🌧☔️🐦🦢

So are we!!!

Turtle Doves are back in Tendring Borough along the River Stour Essex Wildlife Trust EBwS Bird News BTO Essex North East #BirdsOfX #birds #birding

Making predator safe cages for beach nesting ringed plovers with the Essex Wildlife Trust. These will be used at Colne Point Nature Reserve 🪹🐣🐦🏖

#Essexcoast #essexbeaches 💙🦀🌞 #essexseaside BrightlingseaHarbour Visit Essex Parish Council BBC Essex Maldon Nub News Visit Mersea Island Secret Brightlingsea

Happy #MigrationMonday ! The first BTO's radio tagged cuckoo has returned from Africa to almost exactly the same spot as last year! Congratulations Trent, and well done for covering over a thousand miles in a weekend! 🎺🪇🥇🏆🐦‍⬛

Fantastic news from the albert BTO British Trust for Ornithology is this bleak weather. May the swifts bring some sun ☀️ with them! Meanwhile, there's a great migration blog to read on a rainy day 🌦:
bto.org/community/blog…
#birdmigrations #swifts #ornithology #spring

A British Ringed Plover may 'migrate' less than a mile each year but some of its cousins leave NE Africa in April and might not arrive on Russian breeding sites until June:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/wel…
Research by Pavel Tomkovich et al in Wader Study
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology

It's almost May now... Since the 1930s, nearly 7.5 million acres of flower-rich meadows and pastures have been lost. This has left pollinators and insect eating birds in a serious trouble. Please spread the word and follow Plantlife for more tips& info!
plantlife.org.uk/campaigns/your…

Sharing the magic of migration.
On this day in 2022 we stood at Eyrarbakki harbour in #Iceland watching tired #Whimbrel arrive in off the sea, having flown directly from West Africa.
I wrote about the experience here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/whi…
#waders #shorebirds #ornithology