Birder’s Twitter S4E20

Black-tailed Godwit - Blythburgh - 23rd March 2024 © Jonny R

Listen again to Season 4 - Episode 20 here:

DDL and Jonny host the show....

Jonny H has looked at a Wheatear and a Golden Plover and absolutely loves ducks.

DDL saw 5 Meadow Pipits and a Wheatear and 12 House Sparrows.

DDL talks about books. Like some kind of librarian geek person.

Mauritania is a place. Jonny H talks about it and new Western Palearctic species:

DDL talks about the UAE Little Whimbrel and big UAE birders like Jonny R:

Big bad Mark Golley is in the house! Which is such a relief after a particularly shaky start to the episode by DDL and Jonny H...

Mark is wholly against nudist Twitter based recording. Which is totally fair.

What. A. Guest.

Greatness knows greatness and Mark shouts out Jonny R’s >> Blythburgh godwit fest << and talks his love of limosas.

Black-tailed Godwit - Blythburgh - 23rd March 2024 © Jonny R

Unlike DDL and Jonny - Mark has a useful addictions, obsessing over godwits instead of various unsavoury vices and website subscriptions.

In some awful news the lads consider Caspian Gull could be a new British breeder. It’s like Covid all over again:

This episode is extremely informative, genteel and genuinely good. It could have been broadcast on Radio 4. I will never, ever, let this happen again.

Mark gives us his top three field identification conundrums.

1. Eastern Stonechats

2. Kamchatka Warbler vs Arctic Warbler

3. Pterodroma petrels and Cory’s vs Scopoli’s

Mark’s top three wants/ he would still twitch are:

1. Hawk Owl

2. Wallcreeper

3. Blue-cheeked Bee-eater

We all agree with him.

It’s a very long episode and people talk about books and art for a bit.

Listen again to Season 4 - Episode 20 here: