Toby Collett @BoyWonderBirder Twitter profile

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Toby Collett

1 year

Yes yes YES!! So many farmers out there doing great stuff on the ground. The name and shame culture permeates so much these days😒 Any chance we can start #nameandfame to celebrate the brilliant work we see being done? @stuttonsparrows @wildernorfolk @graemelyons @GrahamDenny9

Operation Turtle Dove

@SaveTurtleDoves

1 year

Farm visit this morning included the genius use of pipework to create a House Sparrow terrace. And it is used!

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

3 years

Our Norfolk @naturetrektours group wishing they could have closer views of waders @ #RSPBSnettisham ..... KNOT!

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Today is a good GOOOOOOD day. We had an inkling this was happening but still amazing to know we've kept the habitat in the condition these wee beauties need. If only we knew how to manage water levels.....😉😛

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

2 years

There are defo worse ways to end a working day. White-tailed Lapwing. North Scrape #RSPBFrampton Get IN!!!!

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

While the eagle was an unexpected treat, the Knot were the big draw and are still the stars of their own show. Just amazing in scale and an infinite feast for the eyes and ears. #RSPBSnettisham just has no equal. @Natures_Voice @Britnatureguide @WildlifeMag @BBCSpringwatch

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

One of THE best birdy moment I've had ever ever ever. It just.... kept.... coming.... closer..... Phonescope first bit of video, the rest just using phone. Final bit where it stretches and crests was no zoom, about 3m away. I may have forgot to breathe. Hoopoe, I salute you 😍🥰

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Had this thrust into my hands this morning by my 6 year old so "all the visitors that haven't seen Caspian Tern know what to look for". #CaspianTern #unmistakable #rare Watch your backs @DarrenNWoodhead @JABBIRDART

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

8 months

Some good @PatchBirding bonus points coming my way😁 Semiplamated Sandpiper right outside 360 hide. One of the top 10 highest tides of the year this morning and only 3 people in the hide at 08:30. WRS also seen well earlier. @Lincsbirding @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK @RSPBbirders

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

7 years

Well played #rspbSnettisham well played 😳😲😎🤗Absolutely mind blowingly incredible morning with the @naturetrektours Norfolk winter tour 👊🏼

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

#BOC BLACK-WINGED PRATINCOLE @ #rspbFrampton

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Oh the noise, THE NOISE! The call that stops you in your tracks EVERY Spring. Eyes crane skywards, looking, ears straining for the next note to try and get a lock on a flight path. Then it drops. Tail flicks then bounces. And you see it, like its for the first time, every time 😍

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

1 year

On this day 10 years ago I started at RSPB Frampton. Got lots done in those ten years, trying to squeeze the best out of the site and improve every year. Not going to stop trying to get better in the next 10 either. Fantastic team working together for moments like this 👇👇😍😍😀

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

As we prep the #rspbFrampton overflow car park for a possible influx, it's important to stick to best practice principles even in a rush. A walk through of the area prior to cutting and parking found these 2 young leverets. Both safely moved several hundred metres to safety.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

3 years

If ever you were in ANY doubt about why representation in the birding world matters to allow others to feel safe and comfortable and enjoy it, watch this, watch this, make a drink and watch it again. Top work by Ollie and Nadeem in sharing their story and spreading the #birdword

BBC The One Show

@BBCTheOneShow

3 years

'Immediately someone commented and named all the birds. I said we need to set up a birdwatching club'🕊 Meet Ollie and Nadeem - a pair of true wildlife enthusiasts 📺Join us at 7pm tonight on @BBCOne as they take us on a bird watching trip you won’t want to miss! #TheOneShow

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

8 months

Covering the visitor team does have it's perks :) Semipalmated Sandpiper just added to the cafe office list. Have found face pattern to be a great ID help on this bird. Strong dark lores, pale super in front of eye, cap meets bill base and repeat. Little Stints = pale bill base.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Had suspicions the youngest was 'illegal reading' well past bedtime. A quick peek confirmed it.... about to read the riot act but how could I when he's engrossed in @Natures_Voice bird book! He'll be taking on @JLowenWildlife at #BirdersPubQuiz soon #ornithologicalparentinggoals

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

6 years

#rspbFrampton - last 5 days. SnowyOwl, Red-rumpedSwallowx2, Black-wingedStilt,Green-wingedTeal,Dotterel,CurlySandx3,WoodSand,TurtDove,SpotRedx4,HenHarrier,Hobby,Peg,CornBunt,YellWagx30+,Ruffx60+&lek, BlackWitx300+,Gargny,LRP16+,MedGullx2,Whimbrelx20+ Watch out @spurnbirdobs 😎😘

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Grey Ghost #rspbFrampton VC fly past..... AMAZING!!! @BirdWatchingMag @RSPBbirders @RSPB_Skydancer

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

7 years

@WeBS_UK @birdmanpaul @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK @Lincsbirding Apologies for the rushed scrawl but a breakdown of this mornings waders @ #rspbFrampton @PatchBirding @RSPBbirders @BirdWatchingMag #lush

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

3 years

Vagrant Emperor? @RSPBFrampton Brown eyes differ from greeny blue Lesser? Currently here. @BirdGuides @Richard_Doan_ @BDSdragonflies @LincsNaturalist @Lincsbirding

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

When is a time-lapse not a time-lapse? When it's The Wash on total #beastmode and absolutely pacing it in!! Mega to watch the high tide coming in @ #rspbFrampton this morning while doing the monthly @WeBS_UK count. @bbcweather @explincolnshire

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Previous video deleted as it was done in haste to get news out and I was a naughty and didn't identify it. White-tailed Eagle currently out on saltmarsh @ #RSPBSnettisham Been present all morning. Tide will be in for a while so going nowhere soon.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

7 years

Just about recovered from an awesome @naturetrektours Norfolk in Winter. Threegret, Brant, GreyPhal all ace but Snetts Knot the highlight!

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

11 months

What. An. Evening. Don't get the chance to bird the reserve as often as I'd like but woweeeee it's special. Birds coming and going. Numbers. Variety. Close stuff. Challenging stuff. Behaviour. Just an absolute birding feast and a joy 😍 RnPhal and Am Wigeon together - East Hide

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

7 years

Nice surprise while checking the water levels of Marsh Farm reservoir @ #rspbFrampton :D Reserve FIRST and a few #PWC17 points @RSPBbirders

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

2 years

Took the youngest to see the #RSPBFreiston Red-breasted Goose on Sunday and found this in his room earlier. Any chance some of you can spare a click and vote in the poll below? I can have his question answered when he come home from school. Thank you.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Red Kite flyover @ Midville @Lincsbirding Too busy getting the family on it in perfect light as it sailed over the garden about 10 metres up. By the time I got scope and phone it was well away and into the sun 😕 @SIBirdClub #BWKM0

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

3 years

Had my biggest big moth haul this morning. 12 Elephant, 3 Privet and 3 Poplar (including buff form) Hawkmoths. @BC_Lincolnshire

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Highlights from #rspbFrampton this morning. Black-necked Grebe family, Turtle Dove, Corn Bunting, Short-eared Owl, Hobby, 2 Garganey, Curlew Sandpiper, Little Stint, 4 Spoonbill, 7 Spotted Redshank, 2 White-rumpled Sandpiper and Long-billed Dowitcher plus oodles of waders! #ace

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Out with the diggers today and while getting some levels the #rspbFrampton 'Purp' flew to a nearby pool. A sacrificial soggy bottom later, I'm sitting tight and the wee beauty just carries on feeding around the fringe about 5m away. Absolute ripper 😍

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

9 months

After 6 months of volunteering @RSPBMinsmere 15 years ago today I officially started @Natures_Voice as assistant warden @RSPBSaltholme and now 10 years at Framps. Amazing to be part of organisation that just keeps on delivering and fortunate to work at places that do just that.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

8 years

What an absolute ripper! #pointblankBBS #rbnLIN @Lincsbirding @lincsbirders @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK @rbnUK

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

6 years

A shaky Snowy Owl video from the salt marsh this afternoon @ #rspbFrampton @BBCSpringwatch @BBCRadioLincs @BostonTarget @standardboston @LincsLive @Visit_Lincs @WildlifeMag @Natures_Voice

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Proper belting start to the week. Reserve 2nd for #rspbFrampton but first gettable Green-winged Teal for many. Long-billed Dowitcher and Spotted Redshank in vicinity too. All underneath blue skies, singing Skylarks and displaying Lapwing #bringonSpring #birdingbreakfast

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Don't really get time to take photos but took the boys out and we made a little hide near the feeders out of a ladder and blankets. Birds back within 5 minutes. Light wasn't great* but got close enough that these didn't need cropping. (*not sure why but lots of people say it 😉)

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Spooked a Merlin while sluice checking. Only had bins so some handheld #phonebinning in order. Result = 💩 as you can see. But now here's the thing.... @googlephotos is actually magic!! Check out the 2nd half of the video. @PaulHdigiman @leedsbirder An essential phonescoping app.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Lots of interest in the #rspbFrampton Pectoral Sandpiper so, thanks to this cracking pic by @Skeights , I knocked up a #birdycribsheet last night. Save it your phone and it should hopefully give you lots of pointers to ID our 'Pec' or find one of your own.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Lots of visitors asking about our Scaup over the weekend. A few unsure what to look for. Knocked this up so it's a little rough and ready but the concept's been well received so asked to do more. Any photographers happy to donate pics of Spotshank/Redshank and/or the 3 pipits?

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

A cracking day just got 🔥 Great find, not mine😔, of a beauty Broad-billed Sandpiper on South Scrape @ #rspbFrampton Great shout @GTAlstonWader

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

8 months

Really nice to hear lots of positive feedback about the ALT descriptions. Didn't take too long to do and hopefully adds to accessibility of rarities/hard to ID species and allows birders to have a crack at finding the bird themselves @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK

RSPB Frampton Marsh 🌍

@RSPBFrampton

8 months

We've had a great run of American waders on the reserve recently and added another this morning. Lincolnshire's 3rd Semipalmated Sandpiper was found in front of the 360. This is the 50th different wader species recorded on the reserve in 14 years. ID features in ALT descriptions.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Another go

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

6 years

How can you resist a dozen or so of these handsome fellas @KateRisely In fact how can anyone. Make a date this Bank Holiday weekend to see a proper UK Ruff lek. @RSPBbirders @Natures_Voice @RSPBintheEast

Ady leybourne

@ady40

6 years

Ruff today at Frampton Marsh @RSPBNorfolkLinc

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

7 years

A few more from the 70k #rspbSnettisham spectacular this morning. Didn't get any video of the two Peregrines terrorising them on the mud :(

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Quick handheld #phonescope of the #rspbFrampton Black-winged Pratincole hawking insects over the car park field. It does do circuits so best staying in one place (VC or one of the raised viewpoints) and waiting. #patienceisavirtue @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK @RSPBbirders

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

8 months

Absolutely mind blowingly birding bonkers on the reserve yesterday. Long staying White-rumped Sandpiper and Lesser Yellowlegs joined by a Semipalmated Sandpiper in the morning and this stunner later afternoon. SemiP the 50th wader for Frampton in 14 years. Love this place ❤️😍

Paul Hackett

@PaulHdigiman

8 months

Nice to see this American Buff Breasted Sandpiper @RSPBFrampton today 😊 @BoyWonderBirder @KowaOptics @LumixUK @RareBirdAlertUK @BirdGuides #digiscoping

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Fantastic walk and tide this morning @ #rspbFrampton Heaving with 2k+ waders of 20 species across site. 2 Otters have been exploring the reedbed and being enjoyed by those not watching the Squacco Heron @ #rspbFreiston Best of the rest on the board. @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

If anybody is up at 7am tomorrow and at a total loose end, feel free to join me in my garden as we go through the moth traps. Want to try and work out how to best do live engagement so will play at home. Appreciate it if anyone that knows their moths tunes in.... See you @ 7! 😴

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

7 years

A rambling explanation of what habitat improvements we're trying to achieve with the digger @ #rspbFrampton #rspbEcology @RSPBbirders

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

A successful catch by one of the wintering Spotted Redshank @ #rspbFrampton this morning. The getting it into the tummy part was a little trickier #sticklebackstuck @waderquest @BirdWatchingMag @WildlifeMag @BBCSpringwatch @Britnatureguide @NatureUK

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

3 years

Out at @LWTWildNews Gib Point last weekend and noticed something exposed in the layers. A packet of 'Treets' costing the princely sum of 7D. No idea how long ago this was dropped but shows how long litter stays around for and how quickly coastal habits develop and dissappear.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Just thumbing the forecast for tomorrow and Thursday and stupidly went further..... Check these easterlies for the 1st week of September!!!! 😬😬😬😬🤪🤪🤪😳😳🧐 #rareseverywhere @Bucktonbirder @dub_birder @Markthebirder @TimsBirding @jrmjones @Vaasetter @Oriole_Ashley

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Great to see this monster of a tern back at #RSPBFrampton today so lots more people can enjoy it. Absolute stunner of a bird and my first in the UK. Video taken last night. @RSPBbirders @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

6 years

Slightly better pic of Stilt Sandpiper @ #rspbFrampton this morning. 43rd wader species we've had feet down on the reserve in 9 years. Birds like this and numbers like that don't happen by chance.... #rspbEcology @RSPBbirders

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

6 years

We've got LOOOOOOOADS of birds on the newly flooded bits near the Marsh Farm reservoir @ #rspbFrampton These things don't happen by chance so here's some background to the how's and whys of our water level management. Come and check it out this weekend!

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

6 months

Only 2nd reserve record. A bit too scarce for #patchgold but certainly #patchyellow (and black). Fantastic bird on an incredible day. Thousands of geese, ducks and waders all day. Record Whooper Swan count (457), Bewick's, 15+ harrier roost and Starling murmuration to end 😍

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

3 years

So in 11 days time, it's the first of June..... That's actual 'meteorological summer' first of June. That means Spring is over.... WHAT SPRING!?!?! It's not stopped being Autumn since last August! 💨🌦️🌧️💨💨⛈️🌧️💨🌦️🌦️💨🌥️💨🌧️🌦️🌧️🌥️💨🌦️🌥️💨💨💨🌥️

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

7 years

A labelled map for all #rspbFrampton visitors, local and occasional, to get their bearings with. One to save to your phone or print out.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

3 years

Absolute monster morning on the final @naturetrektours #RSPBFrampton day trip of August. 2 Pacific Golden Plovers showing as well as they have, enjoying 3 Short-eared Owls and pick up a fly by Osprey, Hobby's terrorising Dunlin and then a Black Stork drops in. Waders next!

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

6 years

Just #gardenticked Red Kite! What an absolute ripper!! 💥 Floated over the garden with its ruddery red fork twitching in the sun. Appreciate it's a common occurrence in some gardens but was significant enough for me to shout the family out to enjoy it :)

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

3 years

Blue-headed type Wagtail @ #RSPBFrampton this evening with 60+ Yellow Wagtails. Showed distantly but appears to show characteristics of dombrowskii. Dark head and ear coverts, bright white super, yellow goes up to the ear coverts, yellow on the throat grades into a whitish chin.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

My old man with an absolute monster Glauc we caught during a half term break on @FI_Obs Good times indeed. Such a special place for birds and birders. Fundraising still ongoing to replace the bird observatory so please help if you can. Any donation welcome and appreciated.

Fair Isle Bird Obs

@FI_Obs

4 years

40 Glaucous Gulls ringed over the history of Fair Isle Bird Obs including this one in 1998. Photo taken by then-warden Paul Baker. One recovery - a bird ringed in 1951 reported in the Faroes 2 months later. Ringing is an important part of our research #FairIsleFriday @chas_holt

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

1 year

Great start to our Norfolk in Winter @naturetrektours with a late afternoon visit to @RSPBTitchwell This gorgeous male Brambling the best of 4 together in the willows. 3 Spoonbill and Black-necked Grebe the other highlights of a quick visit to the beach and back before supper.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Have knocked up a swan one too. Any preferences to the format? Do the bubbles make it too cluttered? May just do lines of text and occasional arrow/pointer to a key feature which would make the look cleaner. Thank you for all comments and thoughts so far. Please keep them coming.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

8 months

Loving our sunflower strip next to the path. Those bright gold and sooty seeded flower heads of the summer have withered away but look at what has replaced them. The black and gold combo is back but on the wings of this huge charm of Goldfinch, a bird to brighten the dullest day.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Mega #lockdown twister in Lincolnshire last week. First time I've seen one. @SIBirdClub @BBCSpringwatch @looknorthBBC @BBCRadioLincs @bbcweather @explincolnshire @BostonTarget @standardboston

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

And now it's proper proper 🔥🔥🔥 with this wee beauty in the #rspbFrampton hedgerow on the way to the reservoir

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Pratincole sp on Marsh Farm @ #rspbFrampton currently, honest.......

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

8 years

Some great views of Turtle Dove in the last few days @ #rspbFrampton Must be one of the best reserves to see them at

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Just finished a cracking raptor walk @ #rspbFrampton Male Peregrine as soon as we stepped out of the VC chasing Golden Plover. 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Short-eared Owl, male Hen Harrier, Barn Owl, Buzzard, Sparrowhawk and in the last glimmers of light a Merlin. 8 species and no Kestrel

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Happy 10th anniversary to the opening of the #rspbFrampton VC and all the amazing habitat creation that's come along with it. Hard to imagine this place without all the birds now, but 10 years ago it was just like any other field.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

6 years

After initial quick plays I had some preliminary nerves about the @HuaweiMobile P20Pro but a more relaxed half hour later and things are looking up. Still need some more time to tweak and discover. Here's a quick video I knocked up of BlackWits feeding @ #rspbFrampton

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

8 years

BWStilt @ #rspbFrampton #rbnLIN @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK @rbnUK @BirdInformation @Lincsbirding @lincsbirders

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

All prepped for our first reserve breakfast of the year. If you're wanting breakfast at 6am that's cool with me but I get to choose where we chow down. Hopefully an @RSPBbirders of the future #startemyoung

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

2 years

22nd July, a date I'll always remember as 'didnt see Baird's Sandpiper at Frampton Day', or as my youngest would prefer me to call it, his birthday.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

White-tailed Eagle currently @ #RSPBSnettisham @lizzie_bruce @acorncarver @hayleyroan @RSPBTitchwell @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK @Norfolkbirding @norfolkbirdtour

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

After 2 days of hoolies @spurnbirdobs it was nice to be able to walk standing straight. Couple of Whinchat and Stonechat in Triangle with Yellow Wags over. Willow Warblers and this confiding Spotted Redshank at Canal Scrape #spurnbirds @spurnbirdobs

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Other half just found a false widow spider at home. What a stunner! I'm thinking Cupboard Spider/Steotoda grossa. In the right area? @LincsNaturalist @LincsBeetles @BritishSpiders

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

7 years

Just in case anybody thought reserve work was all fun and games.... BLINKIN BOVINES!!! :( That's my afternoon workload prioritised.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

2 years

Got a full fat life tick at work t'other day. Proper mega well cool 🥰 Think that's my Wind in the Willows checklist finally complete 😀

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

8 months

And also an ID!! Still massive elitism at higher level where pics put out and assumption is that if you know you know. Don't gate keep rare birds.

Alan Tilmouth

@alantilmouth

8 months

Simple request to birders/toggers - if you're sharing an image add a date and preferably a time. Most people will have only found out about the bird because someone else shared timely news, do likewise. (Feel free to share/retweet).

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

After snapping a few phone pics at 360 hide yesterday I gave myself a lunchtime challenge today. How many birds could I take photos off @ #rspbFrampton using only my phone? Rule 1 - All identifiable. Rule 2 - no super zoom. I got 24 during lunch + bonus rodent. Are they ID'able?

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

7 years

@NatureUK @BirdGuides @RareBirdAlertUK @WildlifeMag @Lincsbirding @lincsbirders @waderquest @BirdWatchingMag @NottsBirders Spooners going for it! Great to see them active and not snoozing :) @Natures_Voice @RSPBbirders

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Now THAT is how you end a cracking day out birding. Absolutely bitten to smithereens but not shifting an inch because Nightjars are AWESOOOOOME!! 5 males chasing a female with others still churring and Woodcock roding. Dersingham Bog was 🔥🔥🔥 (*not literally*, 🚒 stand down)

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Hopefully got my eyes and ears tuned in for the day one of these wee beauties turns up on the Frampton scrapes. Loads of them dotted aboit with SBD's, Western Sand, SemiP, Piping and Wilson's Plovers at dawn this morning. Teeny tiny feathered awesomeness.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

A charming #birdinglunch at the #rspbFrampton VC feeding station. Great way to while a half hour away. It's about to undergo a revamp and redesign to hold a few more birds and offer some better photo opportunities. @RSPBbirders @lizzie_bruce @BirdWatchingMag

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

Lots of rough grassland where the shrike was though we didn't have a good luck as things were keeping down. 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Kestrel, Peregrine, Sparrowhawk and this absolute beaut of a Hen Harrier. Still amazed by Google photos. First part stabilised in app then original video

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

6 years

RRS flying right taken by @sibbyson at Gib today. RRS flying left taken by @Fenlandbirding @ #rspbFrampton today, samesies?

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Man alive I LOVE this place 😍 Quick scout for upcoming plans and these are the highlights 5 minutes from the office... Skylark, Turtle Dove, Cuckoo, and Lesser Whitethroat all 🎶 Ruff lekking, Spotted Redshank, 3 Wood Sand, Garganey♂️, Black-tailed Godwit and Lapwing displaying

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

I've been wanting to be vocal to show support for diversity and inclusion on our wonderful hobby but didn't really know what to say, and I suppose that's the key. Don't say anything. Listen. Understand. Reflect. Hear those who HAVE seen, who HAVE experienced and support them.

Sorrel Lyall

@SorrelLyall

4 years

Diversity in birding, a thread: Birding needs to be a whole lot more diverse and inclusive. The state of nature affects us all, it’s time the nature community welcomed everyone who wants to be a part of it. 1/11

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Room for one more? Several broods of Little Ringed Plover currently to be found @ #rspbFrampton @Lincsbirding @lincsbirders @LincsNaturalist @waderquest

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

What is this birding voodoo magic from the @BirdwatchExtra @BirdGuides team?!? Unfortunately the article didn't specify how they can be identified by head views only..... 😛

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

#rspbSnettisham went OFF this week. Absolute scenes with the high tides on Tuesday morning. Knot #takeabow #birdwatching #birds @RSPBbirders @RSPBEngland @waderquest @WashWader @BirdWatchingMag

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

4 years

@VirtualAstro As much as I like to see it up close, I love watching it move across the sky. Gives a sense of space, scale and self. Real time video of tonights #supermoon

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

1 year

Record shot of B99. One of 3 white collared Barnacle Geese in a group of 10 that arrived at Frampton today. Didn't get the combos of the other 2 though but would they all be from the same group @KaneBrides

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

3 years

Don't want to overdo the praise and sharing on here but defo worth a blurry pre 7am wake up call with a 'Look what I've just drawn'. So glad we got the wee man pens and bird books instead of a tablet or computer. His artwork is just coming on so amazingly well. Mega proud.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

11 years ago today I signed on the dotted line for @Natures_Voice to start saving nature @RSPBSaltholme and have loved every day since. The challenges are huge for all of us to save our natural world but I can't think of a better place to be to both fight for and inspire change.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

2 years

White-tailed Eagle and a happy @naturetrektours group @HolkhamEstate lake.

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Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

Well that's 14 hours done @ #rspbFrampton and I think I'll call it a day. A check of the wader roost that I couldn't see this morning added 3 (Barwit, Sanderling, Turnstone) and the saltmarsh 2 (Cormorant and Sprawk) ending reserve total for today on 108 #aceness #dontsayit

Toby Collett

@BoyWonderBirder

5 years

A less rough and ready tot up and a grilling of a few of today's long staying visitors has put #rspbFrampton on 103 for the day. Still a few gaps to be filled. Is 110 possible? 💯 club

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