Birders Twitter S2 - E3

Episode three of season two and we are absolutely bossing it. Listen again here, if for some reason you didn't listen live, I cannot think of any good reason that would be? Unless it was medical or really serious.

Jonny H finds a Caspian Gull, Pochard is still his favourite bird and he year ticks Chiffchaff. In a valiant act of restraint he resists the urge to twitch a Smew and instead looks at seagulls. Including a Caspian Seagull.

Other Jonny is training for Tern the Tide and looks like the offspring of Arnold Schwarzenegger and a partially shaved orangutan. The BTS team also celebrate Jonny’s tuft of chest hair.

Birding wise, Jonny R has seen Redpolls in forest and enjoyed an Avocet Vortex on the Blyth Estuary as well as picking up a Spotted Redshank on call, and big-time papping it:

DDL devours Lobster Thermidor live on air and we celebrate his new found face of Britain fame and the upcoming ‘pop-up’ publication and OnlyFans fame:

DDL has been guiding and sees his first Avocet and Black Kite for the UAE and tells us about Golden Eagle breeding in winter in Dubai desert!

Whilst Jonny R doesn’t twitch some Wood Duck - turns out DDL and Jonny H would’ve!

Our guest is Brian aka @BMcCloskey_98 who is still a total legend and joins us fresh from a Fudge Duck twitch - which is highly elite. When we last spoke to Brian his Irish year list was on 265 with a target of 270 for the yea - which he smashed.

Not content with taking the Irish Year List crown in '22 - he has now gone and won the County Dublin, new years Bird Race!

Be sure to look out for Brian’s article in the upcoming February edition of Birdwatch for more details of his Irish Year list and the different between UK and Irish twitching.

We reminisce about Mark Pass seeng 400 (UK400) in a year back in 2016:

We also reminisce about FootIt and the time Jonny H punched a Meadow Pipit whilst patching and collectively accept Cape Shelduck to the British List on the strength of DDL’s five London birds.

We celebrate the tweets that caught our eye in the preceding week and make our predictions for the week ahead. Standard: