A brilliant screaming party of 40+ Swifts & my first ever perched Ravens from the garden! The comeback of the Raven met its zenith tonight! A pair of Ravens perched on an urban roof in Halesowen enjoying the last rays of sun, before heading to roost. ⁦⁦WestMidsBirding⁩

Halesowen W.Mids 28/7 Autumn moves on at pace! Eerily quiet skies tonight apart from a few single Swifts over. The excited flock of screaming Swifts at Dusk just a few days ago have gone, beginning their incredible migration back to Equatorial/Southern Africa! #WestMidsBirding

A stunning Third Quarter #Moon rising just now over Halesowen W.Mids ⁦BBC The Sky at Night⁩

Lutley Wedge Worcs 28/7 100+ Swifts over Wassell Grove #CommonSwift #WorcsBirding

Pale & worn migrant Rusty Dot Pearl to light overnight, Halesowen W.Mids 25- 26/7. Likely a primary migrant. Migrant Lepidoptera #mothsmatter

Lutley Wedge Worcs/W.Mids 1/8. Brilliant views of 2 Hobby circling together yesterday, and sparring high over the patch. (The first Hobby sighting on the patch this year) One of the Hobbies was also mobbed by a Kestrel. Worcestershire Bird Records #WorcsBirding #WestMidsBirding

Lutley Wedge Worcs/W.Mids 1/8 Nothing more thrilling than watching a Hobby hunting and going into a full on 90+mph vertical stoop right overhead! #LutleyWedge #WorcsBirding #WestMidsBirding

Lutley Wedge Worcs 1/8 Male Kestrel & Hobby over the patch. #WorcsBirding Worcestershire Bird Records

Lutley Wedge Worcs 11/8 A sky watch this afternoon beneath the cooling limbs of a magnificent c200+ year old Oak tree A Hobby was hawking insects high over Wassell Grove also seen Sparrowhawk, Kestrel, 3 Common Buzzard, 6 Swift, 32 House Martin,6 Swallow Worcestershire Bird Records #WorcsBirding

Lutley Wedge W.Mids 21/8 A stunning dawn sunrise over the patch this morning, for my first autumn #vismig watch of 2024. #LutleyWedge #WestMidsBirding

Lutley Wedge W.Mids 21/8 Crossing the high blue and contrails, on a mission into an ever freshening Southwesterly, eyes and instinct firmly fixed on a far distant continent. A few late Swifts moving this morning including a flock of 10 #vismig #CommonSwift #WestMidsBirding

Lutley Wedge W.Mids/Worcs 21/8. Definitely autumn on the urban fringe! A noticeable post breeding movement of Canada Geese this morning moving W/SW. Including this flock of 24 coming in from the East before dropping in against a backdrop of Clent/Nimmings #vismig #WestMidsBirding

Lutley Wedge W.Mids/Worcs 21/8 #vismig A Tree Pipit dropped in at 09.25am, before heading off South towards Clent, u-turned and then went back high North. 23 Swifts SSW, Peregrine WSW, 6 Swallow SW, 8 House Martin (2 SSE) 6 Raven #LutleyWedge #WestMidsBirding #WorcsBirding

Third quarter moon overhead and another stunning #vismig sunrise over the patch this morning #LutleyWedge #WestMidsBirding #WorcsBirding

Lutley Wedge W.Mids/Worcs 26/8 2 Yellow Wagtails dropped in at 09.40am, the first of the autumn, also c50+ Swifts moving through SW into the freshening wind, 2 House Martin & 4 Swallow, 3 Raven #vismig #LutleyWedge #WestMidsBirding #WorcsBirding

Another year, camping amongst the wonderful veteran and ancient oaks of the New Forest. ⁦New Forest NPA⁩

Lutley Wedge W.Mids/Worcs 2/9 1 Wheatear, 1 Hobby SW, 7 Swallow W/SW, 2 Grey Wagtail North. #vismig #LutleyWedge #Worcs_bird #WestMidsBirding #WorcsBirding

Just stunning! Found this Sycamore Moth caterpillar in the New Forest last week 28/8. #mothsmatter New Forest NPA

New Forest Hampshire 28/8 It was great to find a late Spotted Flycatcher in the forest last week. Fly catching from an old recumbent Scots Pine, in one of my favourite ‘spot fly spots’! A few days later, and it was gone, off on the long trek to Southern Africa! New Forest NPA

Lutley Wedge W.Mids 2/9 Grey Wagtail are starting to move, 3 heading North on 2/9 #vismig #LutleyWedge #WestMidsBirding #WorcsBirding