Niels Goulem

My most bizarre observation this year. On Öland for late autumn birding. Walked along the eastern coast this morning and heard a sharp call I couldn't place, eventually found a passerine high in the sky. A migrating Dipper! #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdwatching @BirdLifeSverige

Much cheaper also. No need to walk around with a large lens or anything, just an extra casing for your phone. Makes it more convenient as well.

There's no doubt for me: a phonescoped video of a bird, even in the simplest of situations, takes you so much closer to it than any still picture could. For the same reason people now mostly take videos of their children, I'll mostly take videos of my birds.

@mrtnrey Hey Maarten, tot welke hoogte is dit? Heb onlangs nog een report gehad van een "big insect strike" op de windshield op 16000ft

Insecten vandaag op de weerradar! Kijk hoe het ZDR signaal stijgt naarmate dag vordert (roze vlek). Dit zijn geen standaard beelden, maar differentiële reflectiviteit: zegt iets over de vorm van wat de radar oppikt. Insecten zijn afgeplat en hebben daardoor hoge ZDR (radar KNMI).

In the past five years I have ringed 34 Long-eared Owls. They are rare in Wiltshire so these totals are pretty amazing. We ringed this female in Jan 2023 and in March 2025 she was retrapped by a ringer in Finland - only the 4th 'LEO' ringed in the UK to be recovered in Finland!

Alpine Accentor Aire point Cornwall L ✔️

@mrtnrey Opletten Maarten, seffens wordt je nog een vogelkijker! Dat is levenslang hé

Wat een spektakel! Een groep van 16 ooievaars zweefde zonet over Kessel-Lo (Leuven), drijvend op thermiek, zonder ook maar één keer met de vleugels te klappen. Prachtig! #vogeltrek

@pancartazoss @writebikerepeat Quite the opposite, the groups are incredibly scattered and keep on coming for ages, even as people are leaving. As the groups are smaller you have lots of time to see who's riding by and cheer

@writebikerepeat Yes but in some climbs you have a bit more of time, gaps, grupetto, can climb it before with your friends... I guess in Roubaix once you are gone, you don't even finish

Honestly, Paris-Roubaix is probably the race I'd like to visit most, but it's also the one race that I can't imagine not watching every second of live on TV. I don't know how to reconcile these two feelings 😅

📢 New paper alert! Dive into the fascinating migration of the Woodland Kingfisher within Africa! 🌍✨ 📄doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2… Big congratulations to Yann Rime and @taymida on this outstanding work! 👏!

@demanopdedijk @BoogaardMarjet @johan_2710 Dag Ben, speelt klaver rol hier in aanwezigheid spreeuw en meeuw of zijn het andere factoren?

Veel Meeuw + Spreeuw gisteren tijdens telling klaveronderzaai @BoogaardMarjet @johan_2710 gisteren op Voorne Putten. Blijft leuk om te doen en bovendien vrijwilliger Gijs mee op sleeptouw.

Surveys by @CardiffOTT for @MARINElife_UK on @PelticSurveys provide more proof that thousands of Woodpigeons cross the Channel in Autumn: England to France. Many flocks visible on radar, all south, at 30mph speed, with 1.6k seen 15m N Alderney 31/10 & 10-20k 20m SW Guernsey 26/10

@George_NRBO No belgian ring on it?

Black-faced Bunting trapped at the obs!

Ringed in 2008, still flying around. Ringed in the port of Zeebruges, but hasn't been seen there since 2014. Spends its time in Koksijde (BE) with occasional holidays in Vlissingen (NL). 109 sightings along its life, last one in October, same place. Have a nice spring KN•AT

1510, 200 years before Linnaeus, 350 years before the first porro prisms were invented but this guy knew his birds

15242 roosting gulls (mainly black-headed with common, herring and caspian) forming a cute little heart at the CCB quarry (Tournai) on Saturday evening. Just before a Eurasian eagle-owl started singing openly from the top of a poplar. Quite an atmosphere!

@TomBovens Leuk spelletje. Ik zie 8 grielen?

Zoekplaatje. Hoeveel vogels staan er op deze foto en welke soort?

@RoyDennisWF @timmackrill

Amazing news! A Scottish Osprey, from a nest in Clyde Muirshiel Regional Park, has been photographed in Barbados, having crossed the Atlantic on its first migration. Read the full story by @timmackrill on our website: roydennis.org/2023/03/24/a-t… Photos: Michael St John

Voor mij qua zang een van de mooiste zangers van de Lage Landen. #proofmewrong

@ASandovalRey 😍

Gaviota de Sabine ayer en Estaca de Bares. ¡Pasó muy cerca!