Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) #photography
Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
Fstoppers Photo of the Day for October 31st, 2026
Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
by Danijel Turnšek
Crouched low along the edge of the rapeseed field, I tracked the whinchat through the telephoto lens as it favored the highest stalks to survey for passing insects. The dry scent of pollen hung in the morning heat. I dialed down the exposure slightly to preserve the fragile plumage against the flare of yellow, holding still until the bird turned its pale supercilium toward the sun and snapped the shutter in a single quiet burst.
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November 2, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra) #photography
Also new for #Kenya and #BirdsSeenIn2026. A pair of gorgeous African Stonechats and a Whinchat.
October 27, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Also new for #Kenya and #BirdsSeenIn2026. A pair of gorgeous African Stonechats and a Whinchat.
🏅 #POTD October 31, 2026
Title: Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
📸 Photographer: Danijel Turnšek
— “Crouched low along the edge of the rapeseed field, I tracked the whinchat through the telephoto lens as it favored the highest stalks to survey…
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Title: Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
📸 Photographer: Danijel Turnšek
— “Crouched low along the edge of the rapeseed field, I tracked the whinchat through the telephoto lens as it favored the highest stalks to survey…
Learn how to be featured at https://fstoppers.com/potd
November 2, 2026 at 8:18 AM
🏅 #POTD October 31, 2026
Title: Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
📸 Photographer: Danijel Turnšek
— “Crouched low along the edge of the rapeseed field, I tracked the whinchat through the telephoto lens as it favored the highest stalks to survey…
Learn how to be featured at https://fstoppers.com/potd
Title: Whinchat (Saxicola rubetra)
📸 Photographer: Danijel Turnšek
— “Crouched low along the edge of the rapeseed field, I tracked the whinchat through the telephoto lens as it favored the highest stalks to survey…
Learn how to be featured at https://fstoppers.com/potd
Last chance to apply to be our next Bird Atlas Organiser ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs
This is an exciting career opportunity that comes around just once every 20 years! 🐦 #Ornithology
@rspbscience.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @birdsinwales.bsky.social
This is an exciting career opportunity that comes around just once every 20 years! 🐦 #Ornithology
@rspbscience.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @birdsinwales.bsky.social
October 27, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Last chance to apply to be our next Bird Atlas Organiser ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs
This is an exciting career opportunity that comes around just once every 20 years! 🐦 #Ornithology
@rspbscience.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @birdsinwales.bsky.social
This is an exciting career opportunity that comes around just once every 20 years! 🐦 #Ornithology
@rspbscience.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @birdsinwales.bsky.social
🥰 It's time to test the next location of my birdsong guessing game Chorus Quest!
🦅 Visit Ynis-Hir in Wales - 12,000 years of birdsong, 800 hectares, one Dyfi estuary.
🐜 Come and guess who's singing, help me squish the bugs
chorusquest.uk/ynys-hir?pre...
#IndieDev #GameDev #Testing #Birds #Bugs
🦅 Visit Ynis-Hir in Wales - 12,000 years of birdsong, 800 hectares, one Dyfi estuary.
🐜 Come and guess who's singing, help me squish the bugs
chorusquest.uk/ynys-hir?pre...
#IndieDev #GameDev #Testing #Birds #Bugs
November 2, 2026 at 6:17 AM
I'm running out of ideas for what will be the next garden tick? I'm up to White tailed eagle and black winged kite as possibilities. A sat tagged eastern imperial eagle flew directly over our village. Other than that. Wood warbler? Collared fly? Whinchat? YBW? I've seen griffon vulture 1km away.
October 28, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I'm running out of ideas for what will be the next garden tick? I'm up to White tailed eagle and black winged kite as possibilities. A sat tagged eastern imperial eagle flew directly over our village. Other than that. Wood warbler? Collared fly? Whinchat? YBW? I've seen griffon vulture 1km away.
For #SmallBirdSaturday by @janesgallery.bsky.social I've got my first ever picture of a female Whinchat, taken a few weeks ago on its migration route across the Alps. Lacks the striking colouring of the male, but still a perfect example of a Little Brown Bird
#photography #birds
#photography #birds
October 24, 2026 at 6:59 AM
For #SmallBirdSaturday by @janesgallery.bsky.social I've got my first ever picture of a female Whinchat, taken a few weeks ago on its migration route across the Alps. Lacks the striking colouring of the male, but still a perfect example of a Little Brown Bird
#photography #birds
#photography #birds
Word of the Hour: Furzechat - The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
October 27, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Word of the Hour: Furzechat - The whinchat; -- called also furzechuck. #WordOfTheHour #WordOfTheDay
Minutes after I photographed yesterday's Whinchat I saw more #BrownBirds in the Alpine meadow I was visiting last month. One was this Water Pipit - yet another birding first for me that thrilling day.
For #BirdoftheDay by @atlanticbirding.bsky.social
#photography #birds
For #BirdoftheDay by @atlanticbirding.bsky.social
#photography #birds
October 25, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Minutes after I photographed yesterday's Whinchat I saw more #BrownBirds in the Alpine meadow I was visiting last month. One was this Water Pipit - yet another birding first for me that thrilling day.
For #BirdoftheDay by @atlanticbirding.bsky.social
#photography #birds
For #BirdoftheDay by @atlanticbirding.bsky.social
#photography #birds
October 19, 2026 at 3:17 PM
BTO’s own Louise Bacon temporarily traded the flatlands of Cambridgeshire for the rugged landscape of the Isle of Rum in this week’s featured blog post: www.bto.org/get-invo... She even managed to get there by public transport! @btobirds.bsky.social BTO Scotland #Ornithology
October 21, 2026 at 6:10 PM
BTO’s own Louise Bacon temporarily traded the flatlands of Cambridgeshire for the rugged landscape of the Isle of Rum in this week’s featured blog post: www.bto.org/get-invo... She even managed to get there by public transport! @btobirds.bsky.social BTO Scotland #Ornithology
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LittleLegs – any bird with small legs.
The alternative theme is #Brown
Among dry grasses lingers a brown guest on short legs, ready for the next big journey. 🪶
#birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Greece #wildlife #photography #nature #thelittlethings #ECK
The alternative theme is #Brown
Among dry grasses lingers a brown guest on short legs, ready for the next big journey. 🪶
#birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Greece #wildlife #photography #nature #thelittlethings #ECK
October 20, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #LittleLegs – any bird with small legs.
The alternative theme is #Brown
Among dry grasses lingers a brown guest on short legs, ready for the next big journey. 🪶
#birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Greece #wildlife #photography #nature #thelittlethings #ECK
The alternative theme is #Brown
Among dry grasses lingers a brown guest on short legs, ready for the next big journey. 🪶
#birds #BirdsSeenIn2026 #Greece #wildlife #photography #nature #thelittlethings #ECK
Glossy Ibis, Whinchat and Osprey 😄
October 20, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Glossy Ibis, Whinchat and Osprey 😄
Good Morning Bluesky Folks!
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay is #LittleLegs birds with small legs.The Alt theme is #Brown, birds with a brown background.My choice is a European StoneChat.taken on my Canon EOS R50!
#Birds🪶 #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #NatureLover #UKBirding #WildlifePhotograph
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay is #LittleLegs birds with small legs.The Alt theme is #Brown, birds with a brown background.My choice is a European StoneChat.taken on my Canon EOS R50!
#Birds🪶 #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #NatureLover #UKBirding #WildlifePhotograph
October 20, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Good Morning Bluesky Folks!
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay is #LittleLegs birds with small legs.The Alt theme is #Brown, birds with a brown background.My choice is a European StoneChat.taken on my Canon EOS R50!
#Birds🪶 #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #NatureLover #UKBirding #WildlifePhotograph
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay is #LittleLegs birds with small legs.The Alt theme is #Brown, birds with a brown background.My choice is a European StoneChat.taken on my Canon EOS R50!
#Birds🪶 #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfBlueSky #NatureLover #UKBirding #WildlifePhotograph
A great week @bardseybirdobs.bsky.social despite the unfavourable winds. Highlights…
Yellow-browed
Lesser Whitethroat
Whinchat
Spot Fly
Pom Skua
Arctic Skua 4
Pintail
Med Gull 100+
Brambling 4
Manx Shearwater 50+
Black Guillemot
Razorbill 5000+
Puffin
Purple Sand 18
Chough 50+
Whimbrel 8
Yellow-browed
Lesser Whitethroat
Whinchat
Spot Fly
Pom Skua
Arctic Skua 4
Pintail
Med Gull 100+
Brambling 4
Manx Shearwater 50+
Black Guillemot
Razorbill 5000+
Puffin
Purple Sand 18
Chough 50+
Whimbrel 8
October 18, 2026 at 9:33 AM
A great week @bardseybirdobs.bsky.social despite the unfavourable winds. Highlights…
Yellow-browed
Lesser Whitethroat
Whinchat
Spot Fly
Pom Skua
Arctic Skua 4
Pintail
Med Gull 100+
Brambling 4
Manx Shearwater 50+
Black Guillemot
Razorbill 5000+
Puffin
Purple Sand 18
Chough 50+
Whimbrel 8
Yellow-browed
Lesser Whitethroat
Whinchat
Spot Fly
Pom Skua
Arctic Skua 4
Pintail
Med Gull 100+
Brambling 4
Manx Shearwater 50+
Black Guillemot
Razorbill 5000+
Puffin
Purple Sand 18
Chough 50+
Whimbrel 8
(1/) The UK Bird Indicators have recently been updated, which BBS data feeds into. The upland indicator has shown that the smart Whinchat dropped in numbers by almost two thirds 1994–2024. Read on to find out more… @btobirds.bsky.social JNCC RSPB Science #Ornithology
October 16, 2026 at 8:01 AM
(1/) The UK Bird Indicators have recently been updated, which BBS data feeds into. The upland indicator has shown that the smart Whinchat dropped in numbers by almost two thirds 1994–2024. Read on to find out more… @btobirds.bsky.social JNCC RSPB Science #Ornithology
29 - Meadow
Not the most creative thing I could do, but at least I finished it
#whinchat #meadow #artsky #artistonbluesky #backgroundchallenge
Not the most creative thing I could do, but at least I finished it
#whinchat #meadow #artsky #artistonbluesky #backgroundchallenge
October 16, 2026 at 3:25 AM
29 - Meadow
Not the most creative thing I could do, but at least I finished it
#whinchat #meadow #artsky #artistonbluesky #backgroundchallenge
Not the most creative thing I could do, but at least I finished it
#whinchat #meadow #artsky #artistonbluesky #backgroundchallenge
My highlights of autumn 2026 so far at Beer Head and Axe Cliff.... something of a rapid fire catch up post, but at least its got some nice 'birdery' photos! stevesbirdingblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...
October 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM
My highlights of autumn 2026 so far at Beer Head and Axe Cliff.... something of a rapid fire catch up post, but at least its got some nice 'birdery' photos! stevesbirdingblog.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...
(2/) Some recent research led by Andy Stanbury from RSPB has shown that habitat related changes, especially woodland expansion, may be a significant driver in the decline of this species across the UK in recent years:
Habitat and other environmental correlates of the decline of breeding Whinchats Saxicola rubetra in the UK since the mid-1990s
Declines in Whinchat Saxicola rubetra breeding abundance in the UK vary with habitat and other environmental conditions.To test for associations between changes in Whinchat abundance between 1994 a...
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October 16, 2026 at 8:01 AM
(2/) Some recent research led by Andy Stanbury from RSPB has shown that habitat related changes, especially woodland expansion, may be a significant driver in the decline of this species across the UK in recent years:
Whinchat will be heading South soon. Spring and autumn passage migrant.
October 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Whinchat will be heading South soon. Spring and autumn passage migrant.
Long eared Owl from this morning #BirdingScotland One of very few highlights of what has been another very poor month. No Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat or Garden Warbler this autumn, with the latter presumably missed for the year. Mid way through Oct and still not seen a Goldcrest!!
October 15, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Long eared Owl from this morning #BirdingScotland One of very few highlights of what has been another very poor month. No Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat or Garden Warbler this autumn, with the latter presumably missed for the year. Mid way through Oct and still not seen a Goldcrest!!
The whinchat (that's for @levparikian.bsky.social )
October 14, 2026 at 5:22 PM
The whinchat (that's for @levparikian.bsky.social )
Whinchat declines track upland habitat loss across the UK. These BBS indicators are exactly the kind of data that feeds into global biodiversity assessments and why COP17 this month matters. Two thirds gone in 30 years.
October 16, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Whinchat declines track upland habitat loss across the UK. These BBS indicators are exactly the kind of data that feeds into global biodiversity assessments and why COP17 this month matters. Two thirds gone in 30 years.
6/ There’s been a 19% decline in the Upland Breeding Bird Indicator since 1994. Over the long term Peregrine Falcon has declined, along with Dotterel and Whinchat, whereas Red Kite and Stonechat have increased.
October 15, 2026 at 11:39 AM
6/ There’s been a 19% decline in the Upland Breeding Bird Indicator since 1994. Over the long term Peregrine Falcon has declined, along with Dotterel and Whinchat, whereas Red Kite and Stonechat have increased.
October 11, 2026 at 8:37 AM