On January 24th next year, the @msccruisesofficial MSC Musica will depart from Durban, sailing for the waters around Marion Island, home to 1000s of seabirds. It will be a life-changing trip for any nature lovers! Here are some of the experts from around the world that will be:

How many? School of Birding Class FOUR is go! A week of learning and lapping up the best of Scotland's birds to come! Thanks @ZEISSBirding for all the fantastic optics we'll be using throughout ✌️

Final roost count concludes our @WaterbirdCM trip to the Ouse Washes. We have a lot of counting to do! Great trip with lots of rings read & a few thousand Whoopers age sampled for #GSMP_UK. Thanks, @ZEISSBirding, for the kit to allow us to see & count the swans at night!

and as darkness crept in, more & more Whooper Swans, 5 Bewick's and 1 Black Swan arrived to roost! Equipped with the new @ZEISSBirding thermal imager we could see everything! 4/7

Tawny Owl among the Sycamore, Watercolour, 560 x 380mm. After an absence of a couple of weeks our Tawnies are back, only found with the aid of a Zeiss DTI Thermal Imaging scope, otherwise would have been near impossible to find such was it's position in the canopy. @ZEISSBirding

In our October issue - Rarities Committee news from @__BBRC @ZEISSBirding @Natures_Voice

Took a leap of faith and bought a thermal image camera. A few days in and low and behold, a female Tawny Owl on a house roof opposite! With only a handful of street records over 26 years, I wonder how many I’ve actually missed!!! @ZEISSBirding @BirdGuides @NTBirdClub

Treated by @NorfolkWT & @ZEISSBirding @ Cley this morning. April pic on NWT calendar looking very smart indeed!! 😊 Had another hour in Bishop’s and snapped assorted raptors. Thanks all for a very pleasant day. 🌦️#norfolkbirds #birding #britishbirds @NWTCleyCentre @_TCartz

🎙️ Stuart recently tested the new @ZEISSBirding Conquest HDX 8x32 over several days, birding during inclement weather, and he was left seriously impressed... 😎 Full review 👉 🔗 https://t.co/m1bdQGqcT2

At #Migfest24? Under 25? Take some photos? Submit up to three images representing what Spurn Migration Festival means to you, along with a caption, for a chance to win a pair of @ZEISSBirding binoculars! Submit at https://t.co/9eN9nAWSts Entry deadline: 22 September 2024

Plenty of interest in the new Conquest HDX here at Spurn for Migfest. Even from the moths... here pictured with a Convolvulus Hawk-moth.

Be sure to check out our @GlobalBirdfair page where we've got guided walks by @bugboybaker, @Markthebirder & @_TCartz. But also our Young Birders Masterclass ran by @StephenMenzie, @james_lidster & @_TCartz on the Saturday. https://t.co/u1SpYv8mc0

Amazing service from East Coast Binocular Repairs and ⁦@ZEISSBirding⁩ After 5 years of hard use for ⁦@RockjumperTours⁩ a good clean and service and they come back good as new ready for Peru and Ethiopia.

This morning, we ringed our Manton Bay chick with the BTO ring 1269435 and Darvic ring 1R0. Stay tuned for a video later today with more details on the measurements we took, but for now, we can confirm that the chick is a healthy male, weighing in at a robust 1.58 kilograms.

Osprey update! 🐣🦅 Both chicks are growing up fast, with the parents catching a constant supply of fish. We'll continue to update you all across our socials! #ZEISSBirding #morediscoveries

Otter through the garden stream a couple of nights ago captured on the @ZEISSBirding SecaCam 7.

Entries for our photo competition for 2024 are now open ✨ Send us your best photos and win a pair of Conquest HD binoculars or one of two Secacam trail cameras, generously donated by @ZEISSBirding themselves. Submit your photos: https://t.co/6idPHkalrR 📷 Amelia Jane Balls

Fox coming into the garden just now - so that is where she moved the cubs to. Amazing to be able to find out what is going on in real time while still at my desk thanks to ⁦@ZEISSBirding⁩ SecaCam.

At my desk and the ⁦@ZEISSBirding⁩ SecaCam sends me a message with a photo of a Little Egret in the stream at the end of the garden!