Marc Hughes

@AlanDaviesbirds @PhilWoollen What a memory ☺️👍 wonderful. All those kids on arrival too 😂

“Excuse me, is it me you are looking for?” Siamese Fireback being very helpful! @PhilWoollen @marcbuzzard #Thailand February 2026. #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography

@AllanConlin Amazing buddy! A most wanted 😲👍

Well, its sensory overload right now. Dont know what to look at next , so here's a few iconic 🇦🇺 Australian birds from my second day. Plus spiders the size of your head and PLATYPUS 💥💥💥 #likebeingonramsaystreet 😉

@AllanConlin Brilliant. Enjoy down under ☺️👍🇦🇺🦘

I've finally made it. 🦘🇦🇺 A few days behind in posting as limited Internet here in the Wet tropics of Atherton Tablelands. Woke up first morning to some iconic sights & sounds of Oz. 💥💥💥 70 lifers in first two days of relaxed solo birding. #Kookaburra

@AllanConlin @SteveOnHilbre Good luck Allan. Look forward to hearing about your adventure! You’ll smash those lectures for sure 👍

My final good bird of the spring from the Conlin Towers garden. Red Kite over the sea💥 Big 🙏@SteveOnHilbre for the early call & 📸. Good luck all the Wirral patchers for rest of spring. My first non #Unst May in a decade 😥 as I head down under for a 6 week lecture contract 🦘

@AllanConlin Looks an amazing trip Allan. Looking forward to catch up and hear all about it - especially that Sandpiper!! 🤩

So that's it !! My two month #Antarctica / S America 🇦🇷🇨🇱🇺🇾 adventure has drawn to a close. Hope the posts haven't bored folk too much😉 . Thanks for all the responses & comments 🙏Now for spring on #Wirral 💥💥 Hasta proximo anõ !! ❤️

@AllanConlin Dream stuff!! ☺️👍 well done Allan.

Wow!! The world's biggest flying bird . Great views of Wandering Albatross 184 nm S of Falkland🇫🇰 yesterday. What a bird !!!💥💥💥

@AllanConlin Superb Alan! 👍

Not the best shots in the world but PHWOOOAARR!! SNOW PETREL 💥💥💥

@AllanConlin @kelper60 @GHFalklands @FalklandsGov @FalklandsRepUK Awesome Allan. What an experience and what a bird! Bit colder there than where I am!

Pppppppp pick up a Penguin . A glorious summers day on the Falkland Islands 🇫🇰 Huge thanks to @kelper60 for a wonderful welcome, tour and coffee. Another welcoming islander giving her time for free. See you next year Sue 🙏 #KingPenguin

@AllanConlin Wow! That Becard looks a stunner 👍

A cracking day around Costernera Sur, Buenos Aires 🇦🇷.. Tropical Screech Owl , White eyed Parakeet , Yellow browed Tyrant and White winged Becard the highlights. ❤️🇦🇷❤️

@AllanConlin Looks superb Allan! Enjoy ☺️👍

My first sighting of the great white continent #Antarctica❤️for the 25/26 season. Stunning scenery after an uneventful crossing of the Drake passage. Settings all wrong for the birds but still. No big bergs yet but heading into Gerlache straits later . #Scott #Shackleton #Bergs

@AllanConlin Wow! Never heard of it before Allan. Looks amazing - the colour of that throat !! ☺️👍

So, a day behind in posting as now in Argentina but my final day in Chilie included a Moustached Turca & Crag Chilia at El Yesso. A new bird for me was a displaying White sided Hillstar . Can you spot it ?

@AllanConlin Woohoo! Chuffed to bits for you mate 👍 well done.

WOW!!! 😊 After 5hrs at 9300ft in the Andes 🏔 lungs bursting, heart pounding & spine truly tested it wasn't looking great. One last go at a likely looking spot when the shout came from good pals Brian & Kim. BLOODY HELL! 2xad Diademed Sandpiper Plover. DELIGHTED👊 🇨🇱

@AllanConlin Excellent. Have a great time buddy.

Off the plane in Chile 🇨🇱and straight up the Andes to our accommodation. First new bird of this year's visit. West Peruvian Dove. Plus usual commoner residents. Nice start 😊

@AllanConlin Cracker! Enjoy ☺️👍

What a great start 💥💥💥 Chuffed the Wilsons Phalarope did the decent thing and stayed overnight. With luck the first of many 🇺🇸 vagrants . #Scillymagic

@SteveOnHilbre @deeestuary @CAWOSBirding @CHESHIREBIRDING Brilliant. Keeps us all going mate! Thanks 👍

Always an absolute privilege to hear and see our first #YellowbrowedWarbler … this morning in the heli trap (our joint second earliest ever) caught&ringed under licence #autumn is here! 💥🥳

I’m migrating over to Bluesky today. Too many unwanted non-wildlife stuff reaching my X feed. Find me over there on @marcbuzzard.bsky.social -Thanks for all the follows + communications on here over the years. I will pop back occasionally over next month to see what’s going on👍

@AlanDaviesbirds @SteveOnHilbre @OwenPar91687609 @zspaul Superb Steve. Yes. Remember Clive being a regular there. Optics have come on a long way since the days Clive, Peter Dare and Peter Hope Jones use to seawatch there. It makes their dedication even more impressive 👍

@SteveOnHilbre @marcbuzzard @OwenPar91687609 @zspaul Blast from the past there Steve!

Great to see many local birders at Point Lynas this morning. 1 adult Sabine’s Gull, 1 Pom Skua, 11 Arctic, 1 Great Skua, 2 Leach’s Petrel, 945 Common Scoter, 4 Brents, 7 Black Tern, 160 Sandwich, 150 Commic, 15 Rt Diver, + 6 GC Grebe with @AlanDaviesbirds @OwenPar91687609 @zspaul

@Birduder344 @glaslynbirder It certainly is ☺️👍

@glaslynbirder @marcbuzzard Is Cob Records still there?

A stranded Manx Shearwater behind the chippie in Porthmadog this morning. Taken back to the open estuary after dark this evening where it flew out strongly. @marcbuzzard

@AlanDaviesbirds @torikittiwake Excellent morning and great company. Those Risso’s were superb ☺️👍

@torikittiwake @marcbuzzard A wonderful variety of birds this morning! Not very many Kittiwakes though x

Superb sea-watching at Point Lynas, Anglesey this morning. Great birds, great company. Personal highlights - 2 Leach’s Petrel, ad Sabine’s Gull, Bonxie, Pomarine & 9 Arctic Skua, 6 Black Terns, over 1K Common Scoter, fantastic views of Risso’s Dolphins. Many thanks @marcbuzzard