What a day! Thanks to all the fab speakers, exhibitors & delegates who came along to our joint BTO and Glamorgan Bird Club Conference yesterday! Am ddiwrnod! Diolch i'r holl siaradwyr, arddangoswyr a'r gynulleidfa wych ddaeth i'n cynhadledd BTO a Chlwb Adar Morgannwg ddoe! 📹 @angnatur.bsky.social

The length this herring gull goes to in order to get away from its noisy teenager. Bond vibes #trainstationnature #birdsattrainstations Herring gull = gwylan y penwaig 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Brief but lovely views of 2 firecrests yesterday at Lavernock 💛 2 Dryw Penfflamgoch yn Larnog ddoe 💛

Annual trip to Llanwonno to see the nightjars (and midges!) Also noted were tree pipit, redpoll, whitethroat, willow warbler, jay and grasshopper warbler who only called for a few seconds but enough to positively ID it. A special place 🤩 Troellwr mawr a bach yn Llanwynno 😎

Pure joy #swifts #gwenoliaidduon A woodland walk around Castle Archdale Country Park started with a glimpse of a red squirrel and ended with screaming swifts at the Courtyard. The best.

Waiting… 😃 #Springwatch #Springwatch26

Hot? Our wildlife is feeling it too! 🥵 Here are four ways to help your garden visitors stay cool this summer. 👇

With my To-do list getting longer and longer, it’s difficult to get things done when swifts are screaming in the skies, the bees and butterflies are in flight, the garden is wild and green, hungry and vocal juvenile house sparrows and starlings, magpies squabbling and insect/caterpillar spotting 🥰

My battered copy of 1979’s Life on Earth #DavidAttenborough Signed by little me in my best joined-up writing, and a couple of photos that bring back memories of flicking through the pages (I never read it! 🫣) Happy Birthday Sir! 🎉 Penblwydd Hapus! 🎉

This time last week I was in Linlithgow, and this was the soundtrack surrounding the accommodation. Yellowhammers (Wel: bras melyn). Such a treat. This one was just outside the bathroom window. Fair to say, still on a downer since returning! The power of birdsong eh 💛

Redstarts & Wheatears. They’re here! Early morning local walk also included chaffinches galore, linnet, whitethroat, siskin, parachuting meadow pipits, stonechat, a beautiful pale buzzard, blackcap, rattling fly-by mistle thrushes & willow warbler. And scratching sheep 🐑

More birds at Aust yesterday. A feasting fieldfare, a stunning stonechat stance, an unhurried heron, and kissing kestrels* . . . . . *they weren’t, they were just close…had to keep up the alliteration 😬

Aust’s penduline tit, 10.01.26 Literally blink and you’ll miss it. Hours of standing around but a beautiful patch to do so in the winter sun, and lots of other birds to stare at too. Also lovely to meet the like minded

First bird of 2026, tawny owl heard from the garden Blwyddyn Newydd Dda 🦉 Happy New Year

“Siawns am gêm?”

“I’m ready for my close up” @naturespy.bsky.social

An early morning ‘stand-in-the-garden-to-see-what-I-see’ in Denbighshire was worth it this morning when a male blackcap turned up, and a mistle thrush camouflaged within branches a while. Vocal blackbirds were busy, chasing, fighting, eating, and a great tit shared a repetitive, splendid song

Feeder’s busy then @naturespy.bsky.social 🎵 Birdhouse in your Soul - They Might be Giants

At last one for the @bto-gbw.bsky.social I’ve heard goldcrests and seen glimpses in surrounding gardens for aaages, and finally seen here in nextdoor’s tree. They hopped along the garden fence to get to this tree…that’s a GBW ✅ for me 🤗 2 dryw eurben yn yr ardd…un yn showan off ei eurben! 💛

Fading light over River Clwyd, Rhuddlan. This time of year is the best time to witness beautiful light, dramatic skies, and silhouettes (I’m obsessed!) 😍 Afon Clwyd yn hyfryd ac arbennig iawn heddiw 🤩 27.12.25 @marcbuzzard.bsky.social

An unseasonal Common Sandpiper on the River Clwyd near Rhuddlan this afternoon on enjoyable walk with @angnatur.bsky.social 55 Pink footed Geese, 47 Black-tailed Godwits and many many Wigeon, Teal and Dunlin to search through. #ukbirding #birdingwales

An afternoon walk with @marcbuzzard.bsky.social along River Clwyd, Rhuddlan; long overdue catch up, a good list of birds, and beautiful light. Easier to repost Marc’s post for bird list! 👆🏼👆🏼

Yr ysgyfarnog a’r ffesant. The hare and the pheasant. Just found this video from Penllyn in 2021. The posing is perfect at the end.

Lots of squealing water rails at Newport Wetlands this morning and amazingly I spotted 2. Here’s one…honest! Water rail = Rhegen ddŵr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 06.11.25

Morning trip to RSPB Newport Wetlands, numerous reed buntings, blackbirds, pheasants and 100s of wood pigeon. Quick glimpses of jay and kingfisher. As usual, the vocal Cetti’s warbler, but I’ve never heard so many squealing water rails across the reserve 06.11.25

Redwing calls caught last night on Merlin, among the bangs and bright lights of the fireworks. Not picked up here, but also tawny owl in the distance. 05/11/25

The annual Sunday morning somewhere-in-Ceredigion walk, the day after the WOS conference. This year, Parc Natur Penglais. Not many on the bird list, but amazing trees and lots of fungi. Bore braf yn cerdded Penglais, a nath hi ddim glawio! 🧵 1/2

Thanks for sharing! It would be amazing to have some extra sign ups across Wales! Only 500 gardens currently submitting their records.

Hei Cymru, BTO’s Garden BirdWatch (not RSPB’s GBBW) needs you! More so if you live in one of the thin slivers below, give it a go-just note the birds that visit your garden throughout the year💚 Shot taken from @welshlassy.bsky.social talk in @birdsinwales.bsky.social conference @bto-gbw.bsky.social

WOS Conference 2025: 'Hear it! See it! Record it!' Great talks about the importance of monitoring & recording birds and flora & fauna sightings. Fab day👌🏼 @birdsinwales.bsky.social @rivers-disguise.bsky.social @penrhynbirder.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @btocymru.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social