AUTUMN ALMANAC 2026

 After my Tanzanian marathon I needed a rest and I am sure you did too.The autumn migration gets underway as soon as the birds have completed their breeding duties with Swifts and adult Cuckoos among the first to leave.Passage birds can turn up anywhere but more often than not coastal sites are obviously more likelyto receive migrants.

HOOPOE FOUND AT ABBOTSCLIFFE 

17 YEARS AND ONE DAY AFTER THE SAMPHIRE HOE BIRD.

BLACK REDSTART AT SAMPHIRE HOE

FEMALE GARGANEY AT DUNGENESS

GREEN SANDPIPER IN THE RAIN AT STODMARSH

ONE OF THE DOVER CHOUGHS,Evidently they have bred successfully raisng 6 chicks this summer. 

WHEATEAR AT SAMPHIRE HOE

CURLEW SANDPIPER at Rest Harrow scrape.

COMMON SANDPIPER

WRYNECK an annual but elusive passage migrant,this one at Swalecliffe

Having a stretch.

WILLOW WARBLER at Samphire Hoe

WILLOW WARBLER

WHINCHAT at Samphire Hoe

WHINCHAT.

GOOSANDER ON THE RIVER DEE AT LLANGOLLEN NORTH WALES

A SECOND GOOSANDER

THE ELUSIVE DIPPER AT LLANGOLLEN IT TOOK 3 DAYS TO SEE.

BEARDED TITS AT STODMARSH

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WHEATEAR AT SANDWICH BAY

Thats about it for now =good birding folks/

TANZANIA LATE LATE EXTRA FINAL EDITION.

 A few more photos missed first time round.

LITTLE EGRET YELLOW BILLED STORKS AND SACRED IBIS

GREAT WHITE EGRET

AUGAR BUZZARD

LONG TAILED CORMORANT

BLACK BACKED PUFFBACK

SACRED IBIS

LESSER MOORHEN

RED CHESTED CUCKOO

RING NECKED DOVE

ASHY STARLING

ASHY STARLING

BLACK FACED SANDGROUSE

HELMETED GUINEA FOWL

BLACK FACED SANDGROUSE

RED BILLED BUFFALO WEAVER

WHITE BELLIED GO AWAY BIRD

JUV MARTIAL EAGLE

BLACK WINGED STILT

SPUR WINGED GOOSE

WATTLED STARLING

LARGE SPOTTED ACRAEA

YELLOW BILLED OX PECKER

BLUE NAPED MOUSEBIRD

AFRICAN GREY FLYCATCHER

HILDEBRANDTS STARLING

COMMON BULBUL

SUPERB STARLING

MAGPIE SHRIKE

CROWNED HORNBILL

COQUI FRANCOLIN

AFRICAN GREY FLYCATCHER

YELLOW NECKED SPURFOWL

WHITE BACKED VULTURE

LAPPET FACED VULTURES

WHITE BACKED AND LAPPET FACED VULTURES.

SHORT TOED LARK ??

AFRICAN MONARCH.