Rob Laughton
Dad, Birder 🐧, Twitcher 📟, Photographer 📸Moth Botherer 🦋. Area Sales manager for Opticron UK 🟢 Bristol City Supporter 🔴⚽️. Views are my own. BOU 519. Founder of ABNG.
- A rather unexpected addition to the the local 2026 10km list today in the form of a Red crested Pochard! A female on a woodland pond near Pensford. Locally I have only seen this species at CVL. Woodcock was also added. Total now stands at 67.
- New Opticron Tripac - Tripod Harness & Accessory Pack now in all good optics retailers. Available in Black, Brown and Green. SRP £65 www.opticron.co.uk/new-products/
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- Lammergeier !!!
- Not a bad list of birds up on the Gemmipass this morning!!!
- The popular Steppe Grey Shrike has relocated to coastal fields a few hundred m north of Gunwalloe Marsh. It gave fabulous views this morning (30th October) in the field adjacent to Pedn Gwinian lay-by. This is the second record for Cornwall and approx 30th for the UK. #cornwallbirding #birding
- Is that a 1st for Cornwall Steve?
- Well!! That wasn't what I expected to see today. A Garden Warbler at @birdersstore.bsky.social !! #WorcsBirds
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View full threadI know right. Did cause a brief heart flutter when I first saw it, tail cocked upwards in Barred like way!
- Odd record. Any previous in Worcs this time of year?
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- Wallcreeper!!! Saint-Oyen, Italian Alps
- Redwing from Hanham this afternoon
- OTD 9 years ago….
- Finally made it over here as sick of my birding twitter being full of Reform UK! Please feel free to re...post (?) this so I can find some fellow Bristol/SW birders 👍👍
- Exactly why I left X
- 3 new life birds in 2024. Yellow Warbler, Scarlet Tanager & Pale legged Leaf Warbler. Not as many as in 2023 but that was a bumper year nowadays. Quality over quantity.
- So my local 10km list ends on a record 119 species, beating the previous by 23! Let’s see what we can do next year but it will be a hard total to beat! #UKBirding
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- HNY too mate, good to see you as well! Great bird wasn’t it! 👍🏻
- My retinas are still recovering - Yellow Warbler - New Hythe, Kent 27th Dec. 9th Record for the UK and only the second mainland record. #UKBirding
- My third lifer of the year. The stunning American Yellow Warbler at New Hythe in Kent. #UKBirding
- Nice images Rob. Glad you connected.
- Thanks Andy
- I went back with a camera. Siberian Chiffchaff - Compton Dando. #UKBirding
- Today’s Siberian Chiffchaff from Compton Dando Sewage Works. Also 3+ Colybitta. #UKBirding
- The local 10km list now up to 119 species with the addition of Hawfinch and a surprising find of a Sibe Chiffchaff this afternoon. #UKBirding
- This mornings Yellow browed Warbler at Eastville Park in Bristol makes it 116 species for my 2024 10km list. #UKBirding
- 2 unexpected Crossbill calling over the house this morning pushes the local 10km list for 2024 up to 115 species. #UKBirding
- A speculative early look on Worcester Cathedral rewarded. A Black Redstart on the roof above main entrance #WorcsBirds
- How many Wallcreepers?
- A lovely Firecrest today in West Bristol, showed well and was calling constantly, whilst looking and failing to see Lesser s Woody. #UKBirding local 10km list on 114 for 2024.
- Well it was brief but good views of the Scarlet Tanager this morning in West Yorkshire. Unfortunately no photographs, apart from the crowd.
- An unexpected pair of Pintail on Broadmead Flash Keynsham increased the local 10km list to 112 species.
- OTD in 2001. It was a quick dash over to St Martins for a Rose breasted Grosbeak. We had a brief but good view before it dived back into cover and was only seen once again the next day. (Photo Steve Blain)
- OTD in 2022 - Blackburnian Warbler on Bryher IOS!!! Mental, bloody mental!!!!
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- Nice one ! 👍🏻
- Crimson Speckled
- Graceful Prinia - Turkey
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- Showing well then!
- Great white Egret on Bristol Science Park Lake this afternoon takes my 10km local list up to 111 species.
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- I’m going to have to my up there one day or I might never see one!
- Well done Mark. Still on my wish list!
- Some record shots of the Pale legged Leaf Warbler from this morning at Bempton Cliffs #UKBirding
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- Thanks Andy, yes certainly was this morning in the wind!
- Alpine Chough - Swiss Alps
- 1st year Lammergeier, Swiss Alps.
- It’s seems that it’s not quite the same this year? 😄😉
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- OTD in 2011.....St Mary's, was, in rarity terms on FIRE!!! 🔥🐧🔥 Northern Waterthrush 1 Solitary Sandpiper 1 (on the same pool as the Waterthrush) Blk & W Warbler 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 Bee Eater 1 Buff breasted Sandpiper 4 And we missed Blue winged Teal, Woodchat and a Red eyed Vireo by 5mins!
- A brilliant write up by Graham Gordon on last years mega fall of yanks. A great read! 👏🏻
- Wake me up when September comes One year on from the historical fall of American landbirds in Britain and Ireland, Graham Gordon gives his personal take on that extraordinary week: bit.ly/3znoUEC
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- God they’ve gone up a lot in price!
- 32 species locally this morning. The best being a female Common Redstart at Troopers Hill NR
- Bye bye X. Account now deactivated.
- Autumn is here with a local Common Redstart at Hanham Hills last week. What will tomorrow bring? #UKBirding
- Decent views of the Scottish Stejneger’s Scoter last week off Musselburgh lagoons.
