Barry Reed

@ClevedonMoths @LewisStuff Still half a dozen or so in Panama for me, we did pretty bad high up on Pirre (though did get the warbler).

@LewisStuff I have wondered how you serious guys have done here. Did you clean up? Has Barry cleaned up Panama generally? I'm not even trying to see much - just a Harpy Eagle jaunt & it is hard work!?!? Three or four real hard areas with specialities. 🙄

Day eleven Panama. Trip list now 319 species with 50 lifers. I could not cope with the Darien. Dry season had not arrived. I collapsed with exhaustion in mud, heat & humidity. But now refreshed. A few pics - Harpy Eagle, Black-crowned Antpitta & White-tailed Trogon. Onwards. 😀

@Hertsbirds This is a Tufted Duck. I have attached some photos of what I presume to be the same bird that has been present at the site for several weeks.

Possible Scaup at Amwell. Thoughts? #hertsbirds #londonbirds

@upstarts1979 It was a Bridled Tern that you saw at Rutland and so is the bird in the photo!

@Colne_Pt_Birder 07743484450 send me a whatts app and I ill save your number

With sadness, one of the old men of Amwell and “moth”er, Bill Last, passed away on Sunday in Harlow after long term respiratory problems @AmwellBirding

@JulianThomas19 @LewisStuff Have you tried iNaturalist Julian? Pretty decent selection for most countries on there these days, just set the filters to id/odonata/country/species - plenty of damsels not on there but good for dragons at least.

@LewisStuff @BarryReed10 Still wanting to try to ID some of the dragonflies I saw in PNG, but haven't found any suitable online resources. Any help gratefully received, please, Alan (or anyone else).

A selection of the excellent dragonflies seen in Sarawak and Sabah - anyone have the Field Guide to hand? @BarryReed10

@MurrayOrchard @Hertsbirds Pretty sure those juv LRPs are from another site. As for the Bittern, we'll I never managed to find anyone who actually heard it booming (though I was away some of the time), certainly some other regulars never heard it.

Amwell GP: nice to see 4 prs breeding Com Tern - 3 with 2 young each and a sitting bird; 20 B/H Gull AON (late? + 2 juvs); T Duck + 8 ducklings and another with 1; 4 L/R Plover (2 ad, 2 juvs - fledged on site?); 4 Lapwing; 31 Egyptian Geese😳; 57 Gadwall; R/N Parakeet @Hertsbirds

Amwell NR; Cattle Egret from viewpoint, White Stork curently circling distantly to North, otherwise very quiet!

@peediepuss @AH_birdartist To be honest it was already pretty dark when it came in, it never flapped or spread the wings once it was on the water. The photo is better than the views we had.

@BarryReed10 @AH_birdartist Were you able to see if pp 10 & 9 were old and unmounted, with all other primaries being fresh and new?

Presumed Kumlien's Gull (probably 3rd winter) at Amwell NR this evening, found by @AH_birdartist , in the field we were worried that it seemed the same size as a Herring Gull and could be a leucistic Herring, but surely this is a Kumlien's? Photo by Phil Ball (mine were crap!)

Stanstead Innings, Herts; Great Northern Diver in south east corner of sailing lake, access via Marsh Lane, Stanstead Abbotts.

Green Darner, Anax Junius, at Popplestone Fields, Bryher, Isles of Scilly, this afternoon.

Kingsmead (Herts); juvenile Ruff on Parkmead flood - viewed from bank of New River cut.

@SJBKnott Habitat along Lee between GSK wooden bridge and where river splits on Hertford side of flyover looks perfect. Always fancied they would be there based on your and Alan's records, though have searched in vain many time before.

@BarryReed10 Excellent records, species is present locally but at very low level. My only record is from garden in June 2014.

White-legged Damselflies at 2 places (River Lee & New River) at Kingsmead (Herts) today was a pleasant surprise. Never seen one here before (though there are 1 or 2 previous records).

@BarryWright12 Pretty sure 1 is Orthetrum albistylum, 2 & 3 are Scarlet Darter, 4 looks suspiciously like Blue tailed Damselfly.

Stanstead Abbotts GP, Herts; 2 Black Terns on main pit by sailing club.

@RupertEvershed @TyttGP @Hertsbirds If you apply extreme lightening and enlargement to this image I think you start seeing heavy breast streaks, white throat, underwing barring and maybe tail bars. I fancy the original ID as Hobby may be correct.

Took what I thought was one of 2 Hobbies over main pit @TyttGP but doesn’t look like a Hobby! 😳 Annoyingly now no sign but there are at least 2 Hobbies. @Hertsbirds #hertsbirds

@upstarts1979 @Jayward7 Missed it John, 10,000 miles too far south!

@Jayward7 Has @BarryReed10 seen it or is he still in New Zealand, he will be sick 😉

Photo of the ALPINE SWIFT over Amwell this morning. Was always quite distant and disappeared after a big rain cloud came over but has returned. #hertsbirds #AlpineSwift #birding.

@chrisgibson34 @Hertsbirds @AmwellBirding Chris, I fancy evening would be the time to try for the Little Bunting - all the other buntings seem to fly in from some distance to roost in the reed bed.

Avocet still from Amwell viewpoint. No sign of the Little Bunting but didn’t try that hard for it due to the crap weather @Hertsbirds @AmwellBirding