@RobRackliffe @Sandwichbirdobs Sounds absolutely amazing Rob.
Photography pretty gripping too!
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Andy Appleton
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Andy Appleton
@appleton_andy
Kent birder, occasional twitcher, also enjoy butterflies, dragonflies, damselflies and orchids including different forms and hybrids. Outside is good!
Tunbridge Wells, England Se unió Ekim 2012
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A fantastic week in S Spain on our SBBO birding break! 165 species seen inc. Great and Little Bustards, 6 Black-bellied and an amazing 96 Pin-tailed Sandgrouse! 6 Spanish Imperial Eagles, 30 Rock Buntings, Cranes, Iberian Magpies and Slender-billed Gulls! @Sandwichbirdobs
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@JulianThomas19 Took me until 20 Feb (my 4th attempt) to see the Slaty-backed Gull.
This day in history has provided Naumann’s Thrush, a Black-throated Thrush and the Welsh Yellowthroat however - all of which waited until the weekend for me!
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OTD 15 yrs ago I connected (at 2nd attempt) with the erratic (and slightly controversial) Slaty-backed Gull at Rainham Marshes. Also today is the 30th anniversary of the infamous 'Summer Tanager' incident at Stepaside: birdingtales.blogspot.com/2021/02/stepas…
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@ELBF2010 Good memories!
Franklin’s Gull = a sudden need to take Tracey to Hempsted tip for her birthday
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Next: stressful shopping in Street, then Forster’s Tern, Dorset.
Finally, driving up a river bank in my Nova wasn’t appreciated. Tired, dark, bend came sooner than anticipated 🤷🏻♂️
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Thirty Years Ago - January 1996
A busy start to the year with some quality winter passerines lurking around. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2026/01/thirty…
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Wow! Talk about get lucky! Turned up at the Red-Flanked Bluetail site at Crockham Hill, Kent and found it straight away and spent a superb couple of minutes with the bird all by myself!! Fantastic!
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One week into our epic 22 day trip to North East Brazil! We’ve found all our targets and 300 species so far! Some amazing birds like Leah’s Macaw, Brazilian Tanager, the incredible Seven-Coloured Tanager and Orange-bellied Antwren 😍 with @a1virginia
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Great to see the Red-flanked Bluetail yesterday at Crockham Hill. A first for me. Showed very nicely at times. Photo from Gary Howard. Couldn't manage my own photo but attempted a sketch. @_BTO @Natures_Voice
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@lizardschwartz We looked but never found who nicked our recycling bin last year - with a properly huge 34 down one side!
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Next recycling day I'm gonna be seeing who puts out a nice shiny new recycling bag and taking it back
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This is incredibly first world problems but I got myself a nice fresh new cardboard recycling bag the other week and some absolute SCRUFF has nicked it today and replaced it with their old crappy one, fuming
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Congratulations indeed Will, good to meet you today and Thank You 👍🏻
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Robin Stride@Crane_Spotter
Phew that was a close one: ex Cranleigh birder @whjoliver nearly got a first for Surrey @SurreyBirdNews with an incredible wintering Red Flanked Bluetail just 200 yards from the county border in Kent. Let’s hope it’s a Dorking wanderer, Will, and big congratulations!
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@Albertdungeness @Baldbirder1 @RareBirdAlertUK @LeeEvansBirding @KentishPlover Good to see you today!
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Red-flanked Bluetail at Crockham Hill Common today - no prizes for these record shots, as I was seemingly intent on being in the wrong place at the wrong time... @RareBirdAlertUK @LeeEvansBirding @KentishPlover #birding
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The lovely Eastern Black Redstart at Sheringham, Norfolk, this afternoon. Although largely elusive, it does show very well on occasions. My first ever in East Anglia following one in Kent and two in Cleveland/Yorkshire.
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A Very Happy and Peaceful Christmas to all our Friends and Supporters.
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@Chris_Lansdell Great story, brilliant photo, stonking hummer!
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The stunning and rare Butterfly Coquette seen at Manu Biolodge in SE Peru on my recent trip. Even our guide could hardly contain himself with this one!
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I’m proud to say he’s my MP.
Well said Chris.
Chris Hinchliff MP@CHinchliffMP
Trashing nature is wrong and hugely unpopular. The public are right: too many politicians are out of touch and failing our environment. England’s biodiversity is in serious danger. Blaming nature for market failures won't help build anything—it will ruin precious habitats.
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Met up with martyn. minster sewage farm
2 siberian chiffchaffs ,2 firecrest. 10plus chiff ,a warbler of oddity appeared. intail thought as head appeared dusky. as rest of it appeared martyn said. pale. legs but not dusky on underside. off whitecolour .
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Photographed this Swallow at Balranald, North Uist late this afternoon. I think due to the lack of a dark band across the lower throat that it's the American subspecies: erythrogaster?
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@MurrayOrchard Think this could be a genuinely good conservation project, but @KentWildlife don’t seem able to help themselves… immediately talking about reintroducing pine martens. Forget the reintroductions and focus on what’s clinging on now! It’s like a disease with them - it’s why I left.
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On Shetland for the weekend to do some jobs around the house but kept getting distracted by birds in the garden! Started with a Coues's Arctic Redpoll then Rory Tallack had brief views of a pipit which eventually gave itself up as a Pechora. Happy to add Bullfinch later on too 😃
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