Mike King🦉🐺

I’d say Black-winged Kite was firmly on my Saul Warth list. Paid off going to patch as usual. #GlosBirds

@ajordanwildlife @RBaatsen Thank you 🙏

@GlosterBirder @RBaatsen First one 👌

Super morning with @ajordanwildlife at the Lesser Kestrel in Cornwall. What a star⭐️It showed very well but didn't fly much other than to snag an insect on the ground. Great to see @RBaatsen & Pete Churton. The journey home on the M5 car park was less fun as expected.

@PeterChurton @ajordanwildlife @RBaatsen Nice one!

@GlosterBirder @ajordanwildlife @RBaatsen An excellent day Mike, topped for us when we had a surprise Black-winged Stilt flying over our heads whilst having a coffee at Trevassack Quarry lake on leaving Goonhilly!

@JammerGT @ajordanwildlife @RBaatsen No had just had a vigorous preen.

@GlosterBirder @ajordanwildlife @RBaatsen What’s with the chest feathers is it a juvenile??

@Birduder344 @ajordanwildlife @RBaatsen British tick.

@GlosterBirder @ajordanwildlife @RBaatsen That’s a very nice bird. Was that a lifer? It’s too far for me.

@SmalePerry @ajordanwildlife Nope, thought about it, and regretted not going at leisure.

@GlosterBirder @ajordanwildlife Didn't go in 2002 for Peninnis one, then?

Lesser Kestrel still at 8:20am at Bray’s Cot, Goonhilly, Cornwall ✅ 16yrs since the Suffolk dip. With @ajordanwildlife

I made it back from Cornwall in time to tick this pair of Black-winged Stilts from Zeiss hide @slimbridge_wild Looked for the pair of 2nd summer Med Gulls but found this one instead on the Rushy. #GlosBirds

@ReddevilsAndrew @ajordanwildlife The sun always shines on the righteous. 😉

@GlosterBirder @ajordanwildlife Saw it yesterday Mike, I see you’ve got sun!! I got absolutely soaked💦💦😂. Well done.👍

@ianbennell75 I did, twice. 😩

@GlosterBirder Couldn’t even get down for the Amur

Gotta love kids. First potential lifer of the year is found and on a bank holiday weekend and one of them starts throwing up and the other has come down with the trots 😡🤦🏻‍♂️😂

@ianbennell75 I dipped Lesser in Suffolk in 2010.

@ianbennell75 I'm an idiot that was the Amur as if I need reminding. 😫

@SmalePerry @smart0406 @WWTSlimbridge @slimbridge_wild It used to be easy but over the years several probably wild birds got left behind, sick or injured, and stayed resulting in summering Whitefronts and other species with the local feral flocks.

@GlosterBirder @smart0406 @WWTSlimbridge @slimbridge_wild Always never could tell what was really "wild" there.🤔

One of 2 Tundra Bean Geese on the causeway from the Discovery Hide and later from the Hogarth at @WWTSlimbridge this afternoon @slimbridge_wild #GlosBirds #BirdsSeenIn2026

@SmalePerry @smart0406 @WWTSlimbridge @slimbridge_wild I thought there was only 1 considered a bit dodgy but who knows. We still have a Brent around. Also there’s been a Pinkfoot which is just around all year. Just don’t know anymore. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@smart0406 @WWTSlimbridge @slimbridge_wild Should have departed now if genuine, surely?

Saul Warth Ross's Goose, 2 Barnacle Geese, m Gadwall, 6 Whimbrel, 8 Barwits, 2 Grey Plovers, 165 Dunlin, 6 Sanderlings, 87 Ringed Plovers, 7 Curlews, 5 Avocets, 4 Oystercatchers,1 Lapwing, 3 Common Terns N✅8 Grey Herons, 2 Swallows, Meadow Pipit, new in Willow Warbler #GlosBirds

Saul Warth 6:15am for high tide, fogged out 7-9am, Ross's Goose, 2 Barnacle Geese, 6 Whimbrels, 4 Grey Plovers, 57 Dunlins, 9 Ringed Plovers, 4 Curlews, 3 Oystercatchers, 2 Cranes, distant Cuckoo, 5 Swallows, 1 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Meadow Pipit, 1 Yellow Wag & Roebuck #GlosBirds

@Birduder344 Idiot.

@GlosterBirder What a bit of luck.

Waited ages to see Peter Kay but 45 mins in he’s rushed off the stage by security, thought it was part of the act at first. The arena was cleared very fast with blue lights all around. Thought to have been a bomb threat but speculation is wild. Anyway safely on the M5 home. 😩

No wonder my feeder is always empty. Just caught the culprit. 😀 #gardenbirds #giantbluetit