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Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
Autumn walks just hit different 😍 Did you get out in nature this weekend? Share your snaps and stories below...
Lapland Buntings delight in today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight! ❄️ These Arctic travellers are a rare and special sight, weaving through our saltmarshes and coastal fields during their migration. Listen for their twittering flight calls on crisp autumn mornings.
On #WorldMigratoryBirdDay, today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight is the Grey Plover!
These impressive fliers migrate from the Arctic, capable of non-stop flights of 6,500 km to reach UK coastlines.
Some stay for winter while others continue their journey to western Africa.
WE WON. Lead in gunshot will finally be banned across the EU! Just now, the European Parliament approved in plenary the Commission's proposal to restrict lead in gunshot. This decision ends years of debate on one of Europe's most persistent forms of lead pollution.
Today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight... the Fieldfare! 🍒 Flocks arrive from Scandinavia, filling UK hedgerows and fields with their speckled breasts and blue-grey heads, feasting on berries and insects.
As autumn unfolds, who’s on fungi watch?🍄 Look out for the tell-tale staining of Green Elfcup, the iconic Fly Agaric, and other clusters of fungi making their appearance across our woodlands. What’s sprouting in your area...
The Wigeon whistles into today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight! 🦆 Numbers swell come autumn as visitors from northern Europe join the UK’s resident birds, creating large flocks on wetlands and lakes.
Shhh go quietly... a little Hedgehog is rustling through your feed. 🥹
Today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight is the humble Woodpigeon! Did you know these familiar birds migrate? From late October to November, huge flocks, sometimes tens of thousands strong, can be spotted flying south on clear, autumn days, while others stay in the UK year-round.
The Redwing steals the show in today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight! 🍂 Their rusty red flanks and soft ‘seep seep’ calls are a sure sign of autumn as flocks sweep in overnight from icy Scandinavia, Iceland and Russia. Spot them enjoying berries in our fields and hedgerows.
Joining our Autumn Arrival Spotlight flock today is the Brambling! 🧡 With their striking orange chests and white rumps, these gorgeous northern visitors often mingle with Chaffinches in UK woodlands and fields.
You have been selected for a random Monday inspection.
Please remain calm.
A Goldfinch among the teasels. 😍 What have you spotted in nature recently? Let's fill our feeds with nature.
Look to the coasts for Barnacle Geese winging their way into today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight. 👀 Arriving from Greenland, Svalbard & Russia, spot them feeding in coastal marshes. Fun fact: Never seen nesting here, people once believed they hatched from Goose Barnacles at sea!
Golden Plovers dazzle in today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight. ✨
While some stay year-round, their numbers grow in winter as they’re joined by visitors from Scandinavia.
Spot them darting about in fields and estuaries.
Autumn arrival alert: the Yellow-browed Warbler has landed! 😍 Once rare, these tiny travellers from Siberia are becoming a more familiar sight as they pass through each autumn. Weighing just 6 grams, their sharp, distinctive call is usually the first clue they're around. Have you seen one?
But does it have birds?? @channel5tv.bsky.social
Hello, the person running this account wants you to know that they are VERY excited that 'Sam & Ade Go Birding' is back on our tellies tonight at 7pm on channel 5!! Yaaaay 🎉
Anyone else?
Sanderlings scurry into today’s Autumn Arrival Spotlight. 🥰 These small, plump waders from the Arctic are a familiar sight on the UK’s sandy shores, darting along the waves in search of food.
A Kingfisher has chosen your feed for reasons known only to Kingfishers. Today is a good day.