Garden Wildlife UK

As the title suggests, good weather, if breezy, made me decide on first trip of the year to Brownsea, but with something quite rare also been hanging about for a week, I decided to go for a "twitch", before returning for the first ferry at 10

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCRNG1

Very nice PB, well worth the diversion.

A Bluethroat. Super photos.

Oh my...you win

Hope the Egyptian Goose was flying north, well done you man!!! Proper twitcher noo with them finds!!!

Wow - think that counts as a mega but defo a lifer - did it actually land on your feet?

Thanks all. It was down a narrow bit of track with the flooded gravel pits either side, and people were queuing to see it, I was there before 7:30, and already half a dozen people in front of me. It deffo came close, but I had the big lens on, so was shooting over and around the people in front of me, so didn't wait to get to the front of the queue.... I had a ferry to catch lol. A comment someone posted was that it was getting fatter and fatter as so many people were feeding it mealworms!!

PimperneBloke wrote: Thu Apr 23, 2026 4:17 pm As the title suggests, good weather, if breezy, made me decide on first trip of the year to Brownsea, but with something quite rare also been hanging about for a week, I decided to go for a "twitch", before returning for the first ferry at 10

https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjCRNG1

Never seen a bluethroat, lovely.