Birders Twitter - S2E7

Jonny H has a Merlin hanging around. As well as 100+ Reed Bunt, 80 Yellow, 25 Corn Bunt, 50 Linnet and the 1st Oystercatcher of year 🙌

Your presenters detail the sacrifices they have to make to bring such high quality content each Sunday #Media #SoGiving #Wow

Jonny R is preparing for Tern the Tide and has been watching Green Sands, Bullfinch and a squillion geese...

Dark-bellied Brent Geese - Titchwell

DDL arrives fashionably late - having fallen asleep. Then comes wafting in, like a big wafty wafter.

Dog walkers are discussed and reasonable conclusions drawn. No one is saying that anyone taking dogs onto a nature reserve is raw scum. No one.

DDL twitches Mistle Thursh and throws shade on other UAE birders and shows off about birds he didn't show Jonny R the other week...

Jonny R is still receiving grief for the Sand Sandgrouse faux pas. We talk Hoopoe Lark display and DDL is still boning on about Robins. I mean. Holy moly man... #RobinStroker

Patchwork challenge January round up is on YouTube...

Apparently they swear more than Birders Twitter and we all agree that all Shetland birders should be deducted 10 points. Jonny R’s tan is too much for YouTube - so we’ll stick to audio based media output.

It’s just a week out from Tern the Tide - Jonny R and Nick Moran’s endurance effort in support of the BTO’s Avian Bird Flu appeal:

Thanx to all the Birders Twitter listeners who have supported Tern the Tide and to Bird Watching magazine for covering Tern the Tide in the March edition. I am sure other publications care about Avian Bird Flu, the BTO and Tern the Tide - they just haven't shown it yet.

We talk Tattlers - with some working knowledge of past Westenr Pal/ U.K. records - luckily our listeners give us actual facts:

Jonny R gives the listeners a helpful reminder that it almost his birthday; 14th October. We do our predictions for the week ahead and confirm the Legends of Birders Twitter are:

Emma Turner

Dim Wallace

R. I. Thorpe Grey Tattler

Finally, have a go at this snap from desert legend and friend of the show Gary Burns aka @Desertwildlifem