Birder, photographer and GIS enthusiast
Dover
Joined December 2011
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Martin Collins retweeted
KOS species of the month - February
A resident and partial migrant Crossbills are not common in Kent but those present could be breeding this early in the year. Blean Woods is a good area to check this month. #kentosbirding #kentbirding
Martin Collins retweeted
Reminder: KOS Winter Talks are back and start next week, Wednesday 18 December at 19.30, with a talk from Nicole Khan: ' Surveying the Turtle Dove Population in Kent'. Details on the KOS website: ow.ly/Uqta50UoX2g
Martin Collins retweeted
The Big Kent Bird Migration Day is this Saturday - Will anyone see a Snow Bunting? KOS Member Andrew Henderson supplied this chart of first autumn dates. Most early records are coastal with wintering areas such as Reculver & Sandwich Bay still attracting birds, but fewer now.
Amazing close views of this Grey Phalarope that literally appeared just feet from shore at Kingsdown during an superb sea watch in the wake of Storm Ciaran. #seawatching #kentosbirding @kentishplover #canonrf600mmf4 #canonr7wildlife #stormciarán
ALT Grey Phalarope on sea
ALT Grey Phalarope on sea
ALT Grey Phalarope in flight
Martin Collins retweeted
Safely home from a birding week away in Norfolk where weather (wind & rain) and illness proved rather challenging… now time for a @PatchBirding walk to test out my newly acquired @KentishPlover merchandise.
She still going! Stonechat ringed as Violet over White by East Kent Wildlife Group has reached 5 years 25 days since ringing and has followed her usual pattern of summering at @SamphireHoe1997 and wintering who knows where?
ALT Stonechat with colour rings
A record shot of 'Ratty' my Water Vole sighting on @Sandwichbirdobs Restharrow Scrape this evening. @KentMammalGroup
ALT A Water Vole
“Sorry but you can’t park there!” Car floats towards #Poole Harbour Chain Ferry this afternoon after coming off the slipway at #Sandbanks. Multi agency response from @rnli @PooleLifeboats @dorsetpolice and @PooleHarbourC
Martin Collins retweeted
This female stonechat who is part of a colour ringing project with the #samphirehoe and the East Kent Wildife Group is now into her 7th calendar year. An unusually good age for a stonechat.
I finally caught up with the Glaucous Gull at Shakespeare Beach this afternoon which showed to ridiculously close distances. Also a Turnstone when the sun came out and my first Wheatear of the year.
ALT Glaucous Gull
ALT Glaucous Gull
ALT Turnstone
ALT Northern Wheatear
A selection of birds photographed at @Kearsneyparks this morning. #dover #kent #birdphotography #canonr7 #Winterwatch
ALT Common Gull
ALT Coot
ALT Little Grebe
ALT Tufted Duck
Not a grey duck - The sun really made the Gadwall stand out and show their true colours at @Sandwichbirdobs Restharrow Scrape this morning. #ducks #canonR7
ALT Gadwall
ALT Gadwall
ALT Gadwall
ALT Gadwall
The lonely photographer at St Margaret’s Bay. #sunset #whitecliffs #bbcsoutheast #nofilter #wexmondays #iphonephotography #englishchannel @ St Margaret's Bay Beach instagram.com/p/ClMadekssVY/…
Martin Collins retweeted
Thanks to everyone who came to the recent linocut workshop, it was a great afternoon, brilliantly run by Judith Westrup.
A record shot of one of the South Foreland Pallas's Warblers this morning. Thanks to @bonser_rich & @jarpartridge for finding and getting news out. #rbnken @pholt3
ALT Pallas's Warbler