Birder’s Twitter S4E10

Birder's Twitter does Frampton! One of the team is horizontal the other two are vertical. Listen again here:

Depending on your opinion, this episode is either peak Birder's Twitter or peak garbage. Luckily Toby Collett joins us after we give our Frampton highlights!

DLL (left) and Jonny H (right) - DDL and Jonny H have a combined height of 5 foot

We all arrived at Frampton roughly the same time. Jonny H flushed the Lesser Yellowlegs deliberately before DDL and Jonny R got there:

Lesser Yellowlegs - Frampton Marsh RSPB - 13th January 2024 - © Jonny R

Lesser Yellowlegs - Frampton Marsh RSPB - 13th January 2024 - ©Jonny R

We did still amass 81 species on the Saturday. Impressive! Including; Scaup, Hen Harrier, Lesser Yellowlegs, 10 Marsh Harrier, volume birding - whole landscape level birding!

Wigeon - Frampton Marsh RSPB - 13th January 2024 - © Jonny R

Dark-bellied Brent - Frampton Marsh RSPB - 13th January 2024 - © Jonny R

Scaup - Frampton Marsh RSPB - 13th January 2024 - © Jonny R

There is some tension in the Birder's Twitter camp because Jonny H and DDL have withheld information from Jonny R:

Just small matters like bilateral gynandromorphic plumage type in bearded Tits and dimorphic Little Egrets:

Everyone is disgusted at Jonny H and DDL for their behaviour and for some reason we then talk about prostates a lot.

Golden Plover - Frampton Marsh RSPB - 13th January 2024 - © Jonny R

We give DLL an appropriate amount of grief for showered before we go to the pub! On a Saturday! Shower boy.

Toby Collett saves an utter shambles of an episode. Always a legend and on this occasion a birder's Twitter angel:

Whooper Swan - Frampton Marsh RSPB - 14th January 2024 - © Jonny R

We hate Rutland Water and have a Frampton love-in. Listen again to Season 4 - episode 10 here: