Marc Hughes

@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

@glaslynbirder Great job Elfyn! Da iawn 👍

An impromptu seawatch in the new Spaull hide with @ZSpaull +Tom. As the wind swung northerly, between us we managed 2 Sabine’s Gulls (ad + Juv), 2 Black Tern, Arctic Skua, 93 Common Tern, 6 Arctic Tern, 27 ‘Commics’, 425 Sandwich Tern, 2 Manx Shearwater, 7 Kittiwake, + 4 RTD☺️👍

Cool to come across a Grey Phalarope earlier this week. I nearly walked past the tiny waded during my early morning walk along the Ceredigion coast. Luckily it stayed all day and good friend Paul Leafe got these images. In Welsh Llydandroed - ‘Widefoot’ due to its lobed toes🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍

@cranky1456 Diolch Trebor. Have a good day 👍

@marcbuzzard Nice capture Marc

A walk along Llanrhystyd beach to Llansanffraidd, Ceredigion this morning came up trumps with a very tame Grey Phalarope. Still here as I type. Spending quality one to one time with this little beauty. 2 Knot, 2 Sanderling, Golden Plover, Bl t Godwit and 20 Med Gulls too☺️👍