#Patchbirding this evening. Was not expecting much as the evenings draw in, least of all a passerine. However a calling FIRECREST 🔥 on rural Godinton Park stopped me in my tracks, & then the little gem showed, feeding in the trees. Still a rare here (averaging 1 record a year). Year ✅ #102.

Thrilled to find a patch Pectoral Sandpiper a couple of weeks ago after it dropped in out of the sky calling at sunset. This represents a second individual in almost inside a year at Rhyl on the North Wales coast. #RareBirdsUK #birding #patchbirding

Wasn't expecting much but a good local walk around Crow Green this evening, highlights: Grey Wagtail, Little Grebe, Hobby, Tawny Owl and a Kingfisher.

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#Patchbirding this evening at @SingletonLake & rural Godinton Park. Pair of Egyptian Geese back on the lake, 1 GC Grebe, 1 Canada & 1 Grey Wagtail. At dusk a calling Little Owl & a very distant view of the Barn Owl flying away from me.

Yesterday 4th Oct: Back from holiday to an afternoon #PatchBirding session. 4 Skylarks S over rural Godinton Park + adult Med Gull S, 4 Clouded Yellows, 1 Sparrowhawk, C Buzzards, Kestrel, Jays & the usual Woodpeckers…

A good weekend on my local West Suffolk patch at Denston: 1CY YLG, 3 Stonechat, and 1 Rock Pipit – a patch tick! #patchbirding #Larids #Suffolkbirding

@robcrank68.bsky.social set today's #BirdOfTheDay theme; #WingsOpenNotFlying, birds with their wings open when not flying.

Found this Eurasian Spoonbill at Kilvington Lakes this morning. 3rd for the site. See alt text for others.
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Today’s #PatchBirding: first Redwing of the winter; last ?? 2 Spotted Flycatchers of the summer. Notable influx of Song Thrush overnight. Firecrest. 😊 Autumn 🍂 #sussexbirding

Beautiful couple of mornings #patchbirding on Dartmoor. Four Firecrest (3 Wotter Pit, 1 C Down), 2 Pintail, 5 Wigeon, 60+ Teal, 200+ C Geese, 2 Shelduck the best in lower pits. Plenty of Skylark over the house. #birding #ukbirding #birds

First Redwing of the Autumn in the park (Woodhouse Moor). Hopefully lots more to come.

But no Spotted flycatcher and likely none this year now we're into October - records only on Aug/Sept other years (grey bars on the graph).

31 spp for the week of birding in the city.
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Another great day on patch today, 2 Grey Plover (the second time I've seen any here) 6 Little Egret, a juv White-tailed Eagle, and yet again, even more Hen Harriers. I have seen at least one every day that I've gone down for the last 3 weeks! #PatchBirding @patchbirding.bsky.social

Delighted to get good views of the Sykes's Warbler at Girdle Ness today. I saw it only briefly yesterday morning, realised it was something significant but was unable to pin it down. Later, I scoped the bushes from home and got it on the house list🙃
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Marcle Ridge visible migration highlights after the mist lifted included 5 Golden Plover, first single Redwing of the autumn, 4 Song T, 17 Chaffinches, 67 Mips, 40 Skylarks, 3 Linnets, 2 Greenfinches, 1 Chiff and 3 Jays, all SW/W #patchbirding

My morning trudge round Girdle Ness wasn't a total waste of time, as I found this lovely Rustic Bunting near the Battery. My first record here.
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Grey plover being blasted by the waves on Spanish Battery Rocks, Tynemouth this evening. Not a common bird here by any means, even if I was hoping for better given the easterlies and murk. Newly arrived brambling and wheatear late on provided some hope for tomorrow though... #nebirding #patchbirding

Bull Point yesterday a.m: modest visible migration, mainly Meadow Pipit (105), Skylark (23) & Linnet (73). 3 Great Sp Woodpecker high over the lighthouse were bizarre! A Goosander was a patch scarcity, and mating Wall Browns a delight. Nice views of feeding Rock Pipit too. #UKBirding #patchbirding

A nice day on patch today, highlights being 2 rather nice male Black Grouse, my first flock of Pink-footed Geese, large numbers of winter ducks, my first Whooper Swans of the autumn and another male Hen Harrier they are becoming an almost daily occurrence! #PatchBirding @patchbirding.bsky.social

The 200th species for my 2026 south Shetland 10km Patchwork Challenge: a first winter Red-breasted Flycatcher in the stunted sycamores at Sumburgh Hotel garden this evening. #PWC2026 #patchbirding @patchbirding.bsky.social #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife

It's the time of year when Yellow-browed Warblers find their way to lonely coastal sycamores. This was one of two along the north side of Girdle Ness today.
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