David Bradnum's gone to Bluesky...

A few more of the Med x BHG from today at Minsmere.The legs really are very bright now. #gulls #hybridgulls #medgull #blackheadedgull #suffolkbirds

@BakerBoySOG @EBwSTweets Thanks for sharing, Paul - am already in contact with the EBR team about this, hoping the app will make their lives easier (eg to extract Metropolitan Essex records from eBird London data).

@dbradnum FYI @EBwSTweets

A very rare post for me here, for UK County Recorders interested in cleaning and extracting data from eBird. I've recently updated and rehosted the app from a couple years ago, and it now maps records to Watsonian boundaries. You can now find it here: …cordcleaner.share.connect.posit.cloud

@GJecology @paul33606 You timed it well! The last few weeks have pulled in a pretty decent selection of birds, and then the weather today was good for viewing. Almost warm in the sunshine at times... which is a rarity for Abberton in itself!

@dbradnum @paul33606 Hi David, yes that was us. My first visit to Abberton & Copt Hall, great birding at both though we couldn’t find the GGS. Will definitely be back 👍🏽

Excellent morning with @paul33606 at Abberton Reservoir & Copt Hall Marshes. Abberton Highlights: Canvasback, 2 Smew, 4 Bewick’s Swans, BT Diver, 2 Slav & 6 BN Grebe. CHM Highlights: Black Brant, 2 PB Brent + ringtail Hen Harrier.

Beckton Sewage Works a.m: Pairs of Common Buzzards and Sparrowhawk, Black Redstart, Common Sandpiper, 30+ Chiffchaff, Wigeon(rare here), 2 Rock Pipit and rather bizarrely a wintering Common Whitethroat. #londonbirds @EssexBirdNews

@BakerBoySOG So sorry to hear the news, Paul. Have donated and will be thinking of you all.

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@JLowenWildlife @beardybirder @iPterodroma I'm very glad you did - absolutely superb bird!

A most enjoyable afternoon spent with the Winterton Asian Desert Warbler. My first in the UK for 30 years. And I mooted to @dbradnum only last weekend that we were due one with these easterlies... So I enjoyed waking him (and @beardybirder @iPterodroma) up with the news...

A handy interactive map is now available for our recording area, follow the link below flamboroughbirdobs.org.uk/the-recording-…

@porthkillier @LondonBirdClub That's really sad to hear - Sean was always great company and an excellent, knowledgeable birder. Gone too soon.

Sad to pass on news that London birder and Scilly regular Sean Huggins has died. Sean was Middlesex recorder for many years and sat on the London Rarities Committee. We’ve been friends since we trained together as journalists and I will miss him. @LondonBirdClub #londonbirds

@suffolkbirder @harris_sjh Is that a pair of Swarrwoofskis he's got there there? #illGetMyCoat

@harris_sjh Just settled in for a seawatch

Public service announcement ahead of #Migfest24 (last yr known as #Digfest): Digger will not be attending this year's event. He is on holiday birding the Suffolk coast with @suffolkbirder. He is sad to be missing his friends but enjoying a more low-key Border Collie environment.

@birdphotos007 @EssexBirdNews What's the argument for it _not_ being the same returning bird from last winter, and the Netherlands since then ? This feels like the most likely scenario.

Nice to see the Canvasback on the causeway at Abberton yesterday. You can clearly see the differences from the Pochards around it. Some debate whether its the returning drake from last year or a 1st summer juvenile from the continent. Views welcome!

@Luscinia61 I was pretty surprised when 4 PBBrents went underneath us at PG yesterday morning too! Feels incredibly early for them to be back, but gather some have returned to Anglesey as well.

This morning's Gull-billed Tern was a fine, if unexpected, end to my long weekend on Scilly - perhaps more remarkable is that it is sharing Porthcressa Bay with a Pale-bellied Brent Goose!

@MJ_McKee @MwallacepgP Brilliant!! Well done for the lengthy video recording. So pleased both groups got it, recorded it, identified it independently - perfect. Gutted I missed the dancing and waving afterwards though! 😉

Here's a video of yesterday's South Polar Skua at Porthgwarra as viewed from Gwennap Head. It was initially picked up at our location by @MwallacepgP

Hey #raptor #birdmigration fanatics! Over the past months I've added to eBird what's now almost 3,500 photos of raptors in flight from 4 years at @BatumiRaptors — Most photos are aged/sexed, so you can filter down to specific plumages (and more). Enjoy! 🔗media.ebird.org/catalog?userId…

@YellowShriker @EssexBirdNews @EssexWildlife @BTO_EssexNE Very nice! I had no idea that little patch of habitat existed, either - another spot to check out.

First Essex Pied Flycatcher of the year today at EWT Barnes Spinney, Walton on the Naze @EssexWildlife @EssexBirdNews @BTO_EssexNE #BirdsOfX #birding #birdwatching

@lizardschwartz @DarylRhymes It's not going anywhere in a hurry this time, Amy - has basically no primaries at the moment!

@DarylRhymes Gripping

Finally for Abberton today, I dropped in to see the Canvasback. Looks like it's moult is progressing well. Also 5 Garganey, Goldeneye, the Ruddy Shelduck, 18 GW & 15 Cattle Egret, 6 Common & 2 Green Sand, LR Plover, 2 Blackwit.

Eclipse drake Canvasback, Abberton.

@birdingprof Not that I have used it much (yet) but Bluesky should be even better for stumbling across random related posts, since you can follow feeds (eg ukbirding) as well as people. I think it's pretty good, though personally I've fallen out of the habit of posting anything anywhere!

@birdingprof @RSPBTitchwell @Vaasetter Green-yellow-green on R leg is usually a Suffolk ringed bird from the Alde, and Pete Potts may be able to help with details. Will DM you.