Michael Caponi

Interesting visitor to Weston Shore early this morning at low-tide. Preened for about half an hour before lifting high towards it's usual hunting grounds of Eling and the Lower Test area. #HampsireBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Have I found a 2W Caspian Gull at Woolston Sewage Works? Or have i been fooled again! Not great pictures but it was only there for a few brief seconds after I spotted it and the weather was gloomy. Any thoughts greatly appreciated. 08.01.26 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

5 minute walk to see 3 Great Northern Divers crabbing by Woolston Sewage Works #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding #HampshireBirding

Regular visitors along the water's edge at low-tide, Weston Shore 11.12.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

A trip to Lymington on the bus and train to see the male Long-tailed Duck who has been staying on Normandy Lagoon 30.10.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Curlew enjoy a bathe followed by breakfast. Woolston Sewage Works 27.09.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Black-tailed Godwits, flushed by dogs at Bunny Meadows and a single ringed bird further along at Warsash. Hampshire, 13.09.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Grey Phalarope at Hayling Island Oyster Beds 04.09.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Gulls at Weston Shore 27.08.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Woolston Sewage Works 04.08.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Black Tern on the beach at Hill Head, 30.07.25 ##HantsBirds #HantsBirding

Bus and train to Fishlake Meadows in Romsey #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

New Forest birds 16.05.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Collared Pratincole on the stream at Farlington Marshes this afternoon. Worth the train trip and walk 😁 11.05.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Green-winged Orchids. Beaulieu Aerodrome 30.04.25 #orchids #HampshireWildlife

Garden critters: in amongst the predominant honey bees there many other wonderful native bees busy pollinating my garden flowers. Southampton 02.05.25 #bees #insects #HampshireWildlife #HantsWildlife

A sunny morning in the New Forest #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Wheatear, Skylark and Sandwich Tern. Recent arrivals at Hook With Warsash, 24 04.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding #HampshireBirding

A grey murky hour by Woolston Sewage Works this morning turned up 14 Brent, 2 Shelduck and a Whimbrel #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Still a group of Brent by Woolston Sewage Works at low-tide this morning, including a couple of ringed birds I haven't seen here recently. The feeding looked good after choppy waters yesterday. Also, a fairly frail Curlew feeding. #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Still a group of 41 Brent geese by Woolston Sewage Works at low tide yesterday afternoon, including a few ringed ones too. 13.04.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Bus and train to Romsey to walk the canal path to Fishlake Meadows. Lots of new arrivals singing from the reeds, mostly not showing their faces though! Sedge and Reed Warblers singing away but from low in the reeds. 12.04.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

A walk to see the bees on Netley cliff yesterday. The cliff came alive in the glorious sunshine, mining bees everywhere! This in spite of the erosion the cliff has suffered recently and man's attempts to prevent it. #Bees

A train and bus ride to see Mediterranean Gulls in glorious spring sunshine at Hayling Oyster Beds 18.03.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

A group of 10 Brent geese remained by Woolston Sewage Works this morning as the tide came in. 4 of the group had rings, 3 of which I have recorded there in the last few weeks. 03.03.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding

Queen Early Bumblebee, Bombus pratorum, visiting winter-flowering honeysuckle. Woolston, Hampshire 02.03.25 #Bees #HantsBees

Hairy-Footed Flower Bee, Anthophora plumipes. First of the year in garden sunshine. Woolston, Hampshire 02.03.25 #Bees #HantsBees

Courting Oystercatchers and feasting Brent, Woolston Sewage Works 25.02.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding

Woolston Sewage Works 21.02.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding

Bunny Meadows 13.02.25

Four more ringed Brent by Woolston Sewage Works, all different from those previously reported 06.02.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding

Red-necked Grebe. Off Normandy Lagoon, 04.01.25 #HampshireBirding #HantsBirds #divers

Lesser Yellowlegs, Keyhaven Marshes 04.01.25 #waders ##HampshireBirding #HantsBirds

3 ringed birds amongst a flock of 24 by Woolston Sewage Works. None of these 3 were amongst the 5 ringed birds recorded 2 days earlier at the same site; none of those 5 were present in this group. 20.12.24 #Brent #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding

5 colour-ringed birds amongst the Brent flock by Woolston Sewage Works today. #Brent #HampshireBirding

Great Northern Diver and Black-throated Diver at first light along Weston Shore 12.12.24 #divers #hampshirebirds

Weston Shore, Southampton 24.11.24 #hampshirebirds #waders

Hobby, Keyhaven 19.09.24