Dave Farrow
@mr-shortwing.bsky.social
Birds mainly. Insects and Mammals likely. 🇪🇺🇯🇵 Birdquest Tour Leader, Sound recordist, Field Ecologist. Norfolk usually, Asia ideally
Rusty-bellied Shortwing Gedu, Bhutan May 2026 This is only the second time I have seen this species, the first being in Darjeeling 25 years ago. I spent an afternoon and a morning enjoying multiple singing birds along the roadside. #bhutanwildlife #shortwingwildlife #shortwing
A cheeky Water Rail in a ditch at Thorpe Marshes NWT, Norwich 09.04.26
Purple Sandpiper, Sea Palling 210126 Always happy to meet this chap, nice and close too #NorfolkBirding #UKbirding
Plenty of Redwings around Norwich today. I found these feeding on ivy berries in a hedge near Arminghall.
A New Year gift - Rough-legged Buzzard along the back lanes en route to the Norfolk coast, near Gresham village. Initially hovering close overhead, drifted down into a field by the time I could safely stop. Sat for a while before departing westward. No sexy pictures. #norfolkbirding
European Hornet Vespa crabro Norwich 020925 Chewing on a rotting log down by the River Yare Not often I get a chance to get a photo of one of these #entemology #bugsky #norwichwildlife #vespa
Willow Emerald, Norwich 020925 Always nice to see the dainty chaps down on the patch #bugsky #odonata #entemology
2/2 Zitting Cisticolas Clearly juveniles present with prominent pink bill bases/gapes, short tails, streaky crowns, also the presumed male (dull crown) coming with a mouthful of insects. Later 4 birds seen flying through the reeds, with 5 suspected, as reported later. Alas no photo #UKBirding
Decided a return visit to Walberswick was needed to improve on views of the Zitting Cisticola and try to get sound recordings. After finally getting a perched view, decided to hang on for more... I didn't expect to get three together in my scope! Two rounds of views, now up to four birds! #UKBirding
Eurasian Skylark _ Alauda arvensis An unexpected guest in my car while I was sitting in it! Escaping being eaten by a pursuing Merlin, once I had moved aside he flew out and went straight into a vigorous ascending songflight. The Merlin had to find its dinner elsewhere
Little Gull at Whitlingham Great Broad this morning. One of three, near-adult plumage. #norfolkbirding #norwichwildlife #gulls #migrants
From my recent trip to Japan Steller's Sea Eagle Rausu, Hokkaido. March 2025 #japanwildlife #hokkaidonature #rausu
Japanese Murrelet Synthliboramphus wumizusume Kadogawa, Miyazaki 270225 What a lovely little bird 😁 #japanwildlife #seabirds
Japanese Giant Flying Squirrel. Petaurista leucogenys. Karuizawa 20.02.25 Only my second-ever sighting. I noticed a good-looking natural tree hole, gave it a scratch, and out popped this beauty!
Sri Lanka Tree Nymph Idea jasonia The male doing a nuptial dance over a female. This went on for many minutes, but I missed the magic moment! #entemology #butterflies #srilanka #srilankawildlife #idea
Red-backed Flameback Endemic to Sri Lanka. Negombo 30.11.24 #srilanka #srilankawildlife #birds #ornithology #woodpecker #endemic
Spot-bellied Eagle Owl Siguriya, Sri Lanka 26.11.24 #birding #srilanka #birds #owls #srilankawildlife
Leopard, Wilpattu National Park, Sri Lanka 25.11.24 Very much against the run of play, lucky to see two sibling Leopards at Wilpattu during a week of never-ending rain and dark skies #mammals #mammalwatching #srilanka
December full moon and mackerel skies. Norwich 14.12.24
Filling my new timeline with pretty things, here's one of my fave pics from this year. Goldenrod Crab Spider (Misumena vatia) on Blue Globe Thistle
Happy to witness a bit of Larid/afterbirth carnage in the Grey Seal colony at Winterton. Nice to find so many Great Black-backed Gulls, plus this huge juvenile Herring Gull that was kicking off #NorfolkBirding
Nice views of Black-throated Diver feeding inshore at Winterton, seems quite happy sharing the sea with innumerable Grey Seals #NorfolkBirding
The Disappointed Turnstone. A similar reaction to Kallø Corn cakes as the one I had! 😕
