John Martin

Good start to our visit to Portland with brief appearance by Portland's first Pallid Harrier, 2cy male, in the Crown Estate Fields this morning! #ukbirding @PortlandBirdObs

@keelebirder Hope it's better from now on and you can reschedule everything.

Day 2 in Chile, was not good: Attempted car break in (smashed window, nothing taken) followed by our flight north cancelled with 48 hours notice. So half the day spent sorting these issues out; booking new flights, car hire & hotel😡. Only tick of the day: Moustached Turca.

@keelebirder Brilliant - never an easy bird and getting a recording always tricky as well. Would love to see another in Britain, it's been a very long time!

@pilning Cheers. Even managed to record its call, not that it should really be needed to clinch the id.🤔

I thought the day was going well when I found my first Great White Egret of the year on the Inland Sea, early morning. But it would soon get a whole lot better when I found: Anglesey’s second Pacific Golden Plover (Wales’s third?) on the Alaw Estuary!

Mean densities of Small tortoiseshell (A urticae, kleine vos) on Dutch Butterfly Monitoring transects and flexcounts in April 2025 up to now. Once a widespread species, now almost only found in the W and N of the country.

@Severnsidebirds @upstarts1979 @orioleboy66 I have only just seen this as I am a rare visitor to Twitter nowadays - love Shropshire but I miss the old place and all the local birders too. It seems to be getting better and better - have a great spring!

@upstarts1979 @orioleboy66 @pilning @Pilning is greatly missed from here and it is always nice to see him on his rare visits.

A great morning at @pilning wetland with @orioleboy66 high tide roost. Avocet 11, snipe 30, turnstone 6, Curlew 45+, Oyc 20, blackwit 2, Redshank 120+, Dunlin 60+, Lapwing 12, Pintail, Wigeon 70+, teal c150, little egret 3, SAND MARTIN, raven 2, mipits plenty @Severnsidebirds

@NiallMachin1 I am, will look for you when next on the laptop

@andymus1 Ditto, have been posting here too but with decreasing enthusiasm 👍

I'm now actively winding down my Twitter life, in favour of Bluesky. It's where a lot of the wildlife folk seem to have migrated + its ownership is also less questionable. A big change after 13 yrs and 20K tweets but seems the best thing to do. Will still check in here now & then

@NiallMachin1 @WiWildlife As others have said, (Eastern) Spot-billed vibes albeit a bit washed out. Any more pics?

Venus Pool with @spastreetbrewer doing some scrub clearing by Fen Hide. Cattle, 6 Little and 2 Great White egrets, 2 Egyptian Goose, Canlag, 3 Goosander, 43 Snipe, 195 Lapwing, 25 Redwing, 1 Fieldfare, 2 Chiffchaff, 3 Yellowhammer etc #ukbirding #ukwildlife #shropshirebirding

Garden moths in Shrewsbury better last night 18/11 including 2 Juniper Carpet and a Spruce Carpet, Sprawler etc but no migrants. Male Dytiscus marginalis a bonus now in the garden pond. #ukmoths #mothsmatter @BC_WestMids

Venus Pool this 4 GWE (inc strictly audition), 1 Cattle, 8 Little, 8 Egyptian Goose, 355 Greylag, 443 Canada, 1 Canlag, 16 Teal, 2 Gadwall, 6 GCGrebe, 2+ W Rail, 2 singing Cetti's, m Blackcap on Mistletoe, 1 Chiffchaff, 33 Redwing, 1 Yellowhammer etc #ukbirding #ukwildlife

A few pics from a week in Suffolk - Purple Sand defying gravity on the sluice at Minsmere and distant Water Pipit there on Wednesday pm (gull roost had 2 Yellow-legged Gull but no cachinnans seen, surprisingly). #ukbirding

Garden moths in Shrewsbury last night included 2 Sprawler (nfy), 2 Figure-of-Eight and Grey Shoulder-knot, the last nfg. Also a lone Silver Y to keep migrant hopes alive. #mothmatter #ukmoths @BC_WestMids

At Minsmere yesterday a Gem found near the visitor centre. An actual migrant moth. #mothsmatter

Yellow-horned Poppy, Glaucium flavum, still flowering on the beach at Minsmere yesterday for #wildflowerhour

@georgecmcgavin Always one of those very nice to find plants although fairly widespread plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9h.…

@joshual951 Well done Josh, keep up the good work, really making a difference on lots of sites there👍

I was SO scared this time last year of imminent bankruptcy as I started my own business, but what an amaze year it’s been! Over a year I’ve been included in projects involving some of our most imperilled habitats and plants, trained consultancies & lots lots more! So happy😍🌱

VP WeBS Cattle Egret new for patch yr and WeBS, 11 Littles (biggest roost of yr), 4 GWE, 76 Cormorant (most sinensis), 61 Teal. 2 Wigeon, 21 Shoveler, 25 Mallard, 6 Tufted (+8CF), Goosander (CF), 70 Lapwing, 40 Snipe, W Rail, Cetti's etc

@saloplarus @ShropshireWX @DaveThroup @RobDaviesEA @csmaff @jonokimber No ParkRun there today for obvious reasons. Frequently get Kingfisher there but not on the bins😅 Great pic!

Spot the Kingfisher! 🗑 River Severn in flood in #Shrewsbury this morning #stormhour #loveukweather #floods

Venus Pool to 0955 Crossbill to W calling (patch yearly), 2610 Woodpigeon, 325 Starling, 160 Jackdaw, 29 Skylark, 9 Redwing, 4 Redpoll SW, Swallow to S. Pool had just 2 GWE, 3 Littles, 33 Teal, 12 Shoveler, 5 Gadwall etc. Seed eater numbers not large but nice light.