Rob Rackliffe

@xbirder Yes I’ve done it before and it was brilliant! Who did you go with if you don’t mind me asking?

@RobRackliffe You definitely need to go on an organised trip. Owls impossible otherwise

Last day of our wonderful Finland trip. This Hawk Owl was top of my list to see. Great grey owl and ural owl were pretty impressive too. Tengmalms and pygmy owl also. A pair Pine Grosbeak, siberian Tit and siberian jay all seen well. Brilliant trip. #Birding #Finland #Owls

An excellent day at Marquenterre, France on a Sandwich Bay members trip! Over 75 species recorded including breeding plumage Black-necked Grebes, Crested Tits, Spotted Flycatchers, plenty of White Storks, Spoonbills and Nightingales. Golden Orioles too! ⁦@Sandwichbirdobs⁩

Last day in Croatia! I’ll miss the view from our room .. and so many great birds .. Black-headed Bunting, Eastern Olivaceous Warbler and Short-toed Eagle pictured. Fabulous scenery and hardly another soul around!! 😳

@JANUSZCZAK Croatia!

@RobRackliffe Where?!!!

Very pleased to find ROCK PARTRIDGE today!! After eventually tracking one down at 6.50pm we then found another two! Also today 3 Rollers, 4 Red-backed Shrike, 2 Golden Oriole, 3 Quail, 7 Turtle Dove, Alpine Swift, 59 Pygmy Cormorant, 4 Purple Heron, 7 Monty’s Harrier, 2 Hoopoe 😊

Fantastic birding this afternoon in Croatia.. a few of the many birds we found.. Montagu’s Harrier, a male Red-backed Shrike, Bee-Eater and a Tawny Pipit! With @a1virginia

@JohnGale8 @a1virginia We stayed in my apartment… it’s in Sotogrande overlooking the Guadiaro River mouth. It was a fun week!

@RobRackliffe @a1virginia Where were you staying? Great trip.

A smart Curlew Sandpiper coming into breeding plumage with migrating Sanderling in southern Spain last week. More about our sightings (including nearly 1000 Honey Buzzards!!) on the blog for the week… bushchat.co.uk/index.php/2026… with @a1virginia

Up to 4 Little Gulls were present at the Restharrow Scrape Sandwich Bay yesterday afternoon. Up to 10 Gull species present here in the last few days including several Kittiwakes, Caspian and Yellow-legged Gulls! @sandwichbirdobs

A rare out of county twitch this afternoon too Thurrock Essex to see the Ross's Gull, was very lucky as the bird flew off North East not long after arriving.

…62 Oystercatcher, 3 Redshank, 179 C Scoter, 36 Brent, 4 Pintail, 5 Med Gull, 39 Guillemot, 3 Razorbill, 67 Barn Swallow, Peregrine and a flock of Common Gulls with @a1virginia

Excellent migration at Dungeness this morning 6-9.30am 3 Poms, 13 Arctic Skua, 2 Bonxie, 4 Manx Shearwater, 8 Little Gull, Eider, 3 Black Tern, 2 Little Tern, 540 Sandwich Tern, 355 Commic, 32 Common Tern, GN Diver, Marsh Harrier, 186 Whimbrel, 27 Barwit, 16 Sanderling, 3 Dunlin.

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@RobRackliffe This evening

Grasshopper warbler reeling at seasalter #kentbirding

@fred_fearn @a1virginia Hi Fred, yes that’s correct .. Bukit Tinggi. The Argus ( and Malayan Peacock- pheasants) were at Taman Negara sungai relau main track .. afternoon best.

@RobRackliffe @a1virginia Hi Rob. Presume the peacock-pheasants weee at the regular Bukit Tinggi spot? Can I ask where the Argus was, I’m headed that way in July. Thanks!!

The main target in the Malaysian forest yesterday was MOUNTAIN PEACOCK-PHEASANT and we saw two very well as well as a Great Argus later in the afternoon! With @a1virginia

A morning spent in a Japanese Garden watching a SIBERIAN BLUE ROBIN yesterday! What a stunner! With @a1virginia

We’ve had a few Leeches so far in the Malaysian Rainforest so Nigel decided he wasn’t taken any chances from now on!! 😂

@BEACHYBIRDER @a1virginia 😬😢

@RobRackliffe @a1virginia missed them…

This is MALAYSIAN RAIL-BABBLER .. the number one target on our trip! We saw two of these beautiful birds this morning including this one just a few feet away! A bird you don’t want to miss or just hear!! 😍 with @a1virginia