Fantastic day of birding in the Cley square, well worth the 4am alarm! Four skua species (including a LT and a Pom) on a morning seawatch, then later around the wetlands, 2 Garganey, 2 Glossy Ibis, Wood Sand, Curlew Sand, Little Stint and a Southern Migrant Hawker! #NorfolkBirding

It's hard to resist lifting the camera when a Kingfisher shows this well! They've been giving quality views from RSPB Strumpshaw Fen reception and fen hides this week. #NorfolkBirding

Always a pleasure to discover a patch Whinchat! This one at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen was the first of a few seen in the mid-Yare Valley today. #NorfolkBirding 🍂

A few highlights from a recent visit to Cantley Beet Factory. Great to see the Crane family from Strumpshaw thriving there, plus two Whimbrel and lots of Lesser Emperor Dragonfly. The Cattle Egret flock there has reached over 40! #NorfolkBirding

A great little venture out to RSPB Snettisham last weekend where this White-rumped Sandpiper showed well once picked out from the thousands of Dunlin on site. #NorfolkBirding

A rather cool experience on an evening sea-watch (in a cold easterly breeze) at Winterton Dunes yesterday. Saw a flock of 5 Black Tern passing south only to be harassed by a pale morph Arctic Skua, forcing them to circle upwards and back out to sea until I couldn't see them anymore! #NorfolkBirding

A Hudsonian Godwit within an hour of home, yes please! Got there with little time to spare before it seemingly departed RSPB Minsmere (for now) - my first British tick of 2026. Loads of bonus birds too including 2 Roseate Tern, Arctic Tern, 11 Spotted Redshank and more. #SuffolkBirding #UKBIRDING 🤩

Excellent views of the patch Crane family and a drake Garganey in the same scope view at one point. RSPB Strumpshaw Fen remains my favourite place to be! #NorfolkBirding #UKbirding

A few highlights from the mid-Yare Valley (and nearby) so far this spring, including an arboreal Black Redstart, some stunning Black Tern, a drake Garganey and great views of Bittern. A flock of 8 Wood Sandpiper at Strumpshaw Fen was excellent too. Just need that rarity next! 🤞 #NorfolkBirding

It's Swallowtail season soon! I'll be leading walks at the fantastic RSPB Strumpshaw Fen in celebration of it's 50th year of being open to the public, in hope of spotting these plus lots of other scarce wildlife of the area. #UKButterflies #UKBirding ➡️ Book here: events.rspb.org.uk/browse?filte...

Great to get in on the Bar-tailed Godwit movement taking place across the UK this morning, with one (then shortly joined by another four!) at RSPB Cantley Marshes. #NorfolkBirding

Some spectacularly colourful invertebrates from Taiwan over the last couple of weeks! If anyone can ID the butterfly from the 400+ species found there, that would be great. 😄🇹🇼

A selection of highlights from the last couple of weeks spent in Taiwan including Mikado Pheasant, Taiwan Rosefinch, Collared Bush Robin and Malay Night Heron. #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇹🇼

Our two week trip to Taiwan featured a little excursion to Okinawa (Japan) for some endemics - here's just a taster of some of the brilliant birds we saw on that wondeful little island (Okinawa Rail, Robin and Woodpecker plus Ryukyu Flycatcher!). #BirdsSeenIn2026 🇯🇵

Here we go! Bookings for RSPB Strumpshaw Fen guided walks during the reserves best season (in this naturalist's opinion) just opened!! First two weekends of June! Don't miss out: events.rspb.org.uk/events/155515 #NorfolkBirding @norfolknats.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

It feels like such a rare treat to encounter a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker these days (especially in the UK), so seeing this male showing so well in the Spanish Pyrenees last week really was epic! #BirdsSeenIn2026

A few highlights from patch (RSPB Strumpshaw Fen) today, including Sand Martin, Raven and Woodcock. The sunset was worth sticking around for too. #BirdsSeenIn2026 #NorfolkBirding

There's still some spaces left on my guided walk at RSPB Buckenham Marshes this Saturday. On the last one we saw Pintail, Ruff, Peregrine, Crane and thousands of Wigeon and Lapwing! 🤩 #NorfolkBirding #PatchBirding #RSPB Book tickets here: events.rspb.org.uk/browse?filte...

Top afternoon's birding in east Norfolk with @sophgoesbirding.bsky.social. The Iceland Gull was showing well at Sea Palling where Sophie also picked out a Purple Sandpiper on the beach. Afterwards at Great Yarmouth North Denes, we bumped into a trio of SEO and 7 Snow Bunting. 😄 #NorfolkBirding

Some great birding to be had over the winter break so far starting with a #lifer of Snow Goose in Lincs on Xmas day (just 15 mins from me where I was visiting family), and today, caught up with the Green-winged Teal and found some Tundra Bean Geese in mid-Yare Valley! #NorfolkBirding 😁🎄

I'll be at 'The Settlement' in Letchworth this Friday (7.30pm) with the local RSPB group there, showcasing the best of RSPB Strumpshaw Fen! Come along to learn about this incredible reserve - expect scarcities, swallowtails and more! #HertsBirds @hnhsoc.bsky.social @hertsbirds.bsky.social

Whooper Swan have been a scarce bird in the mid-Yare Valley over the last decade or so, therefore very pleased to find these two at Limpenhoe Marshes this afternoon. #NorfolkBirding

Great weekend in Sussex celebrating a friend's 30th birthday. Some wildlife highlights of finding a Vagrant Emperor at Beachy Head plus many, many Firecrest! Also twitched the Isabelline-type Shrike on the way home. #SussexBirding

Great to drop in on the Brown Shrike at Upper Hollesley Common on Friday on the way down south. It was still attracting plenty of admirers. #SuffolkBirding

A rather sad one as this Gannet flew in off sea at Cromer last week while tangled in rope! It circled the church there before heading south-east. This same bird was later brought into the Runham Wildlife Rescue Centre! Hopefully it's stay there was short and successful. #NorfolkBirding #Birds

Very entertaining watching a couple of first-winter Caspian Gull around Cromer Pier last week. This one was scrapping for leftovers from visitors that had been crabbing. #NorfolkBirding

A quieter sea-watch off Cromer this morning, where a single Black Guillemot and a Little Gull were the highlights, before an amble around Beeston Regis that held a few common migrants like Brambling and Chiffchaff. Anyone else noticed Rock Pipit everywhere along the coast this year? #NorfolkBirding

A week off in North Norfolk with @sophgoesbirding.bsky.social, so far featured Dusky, Barred and YB Warblers, Ruddy Shelduck and an arrival of classic autumn migrants like Brambling and Redwing. Also a strong passage of ducks out at sea including Velvet Scoter, Eider and Goosander. #NorfolkBirding

Unexpected surprise encountering a Ruddy Duck distantly at Abberton Reservoir yesterday during a work team away day! I wonder whether this is the same bird that was in Lowestoft a couple of weeks ago? Was hard to pick out in the masses of wildfowl and Coot. #EssexBirding

The first-winter Isabelline / Red-tailed Shrike at Happisburgh showed very nicely for me and @sophgoesbirding.bsky.social late afternoon in the gardens behind the beach car park. Hides well in the buddliea at times. #NorfolkBirding