Manx Radio's Tweet of the Week
If you want to know more about the birds you can hear on the Isle of Man, this is the series for you! Manx Radio’s bird supremo, the early birder Tim Earl, explains more about what remain the original, often beautiful and frequently most intelligent tweets on the Island
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Episodes
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Thursday, 17 August 2023
A well known game bird - but sadly little seen these days, The partridge
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Thursday, 3 August 2023
Tweet of the Week Supremo Tim Earl brings us the elusive water rail - often heard, less often seen!
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Monday, 5 June 2023
Perhaps the best known and most loved of our summer visitors - the swallow
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
As we head towards summer Tim gives you the tiny but unique meadow pipit!
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Monday, 6 February 2023
One of the few birds everyone can identify from its song alone. The increasingly rare cuckoo . .
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Monday, 30 January 2023
ooooOOOOOoooooh! It's Frankie Howerd's favourite bird. The eider duck . . . .
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Thursday, 5 January 2023
The aptly named - and sadly less frequently seen - redshank
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Friday, 9 December 2022
Last but not least in our collection of Island birds of prey - the Royalty of Raptors, The Peregrine Falcon.
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Thursday, 1 December 2022
In this penultimate look at the Island's raptors, Tim tells us about the ladies Hawk . .
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Thursday, 24 November 2022
How well are you feeding your birds? This raptor may give you a clue . . !
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Thursday, 17 November 2022
The jewel in the crown of Island raptors - the Hen Harrier
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Tuesday, 8 November 2022
As we continue Tim's tour of the Island's raptors we hear about the Scottish tourist bird!
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Monday, 31 October 2022
We start our mini series of tweets from birds of prey found on the Isle of Man with perhaps the best known of our raptors - the kestrel. And we won't mention their old folk name . . . .
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Tuesday, 18 October 2022
A great conversationist and a long-distance traveller . . . the Brent Goose
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Keep your eyes and ears open for our favourite drummer and a handy "picker" too . . .
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Another bird which sounds like it's name! The kittiwake . .
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Monday, 5 September 2022
The tweet of the twite!
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Wednesday, 24 August 2022
One for H! And others of course. The increasingly endangered stock dove and it's single hoot . . .
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Monday, 15 August 2022
Two pebbles clicking against each other? Must be the stonechat!
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Monday, 1 August 2022
Two of our best known seabirds - one more comical than the other for some no doubt . .
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Tuesday, 26 July 2022
A little bit of bread and no cheese . . . . . have you heard one . .?
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Monday, 18 July 2022
It's big. It's lovely. It goes "craaaak!". It's the grey heron . .
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Monday, 11 July 2022
The ever chatty - or is it argumentative - house sparrow . .
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Wednesday, 6 July 2022
A relatively new attendee at our bird tables - the diminutive but lovely siskin
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Thursday, 30 June 2022
Count your coos! It's the wood pigeon . . . !
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Tuesday, 21 June 2022
It's the yessir bird or Chiswick flyover, take your pick. The pied wagtail
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Monday, 13 June 2022
An iconic sound of the Island and a special song for TOTW supremo Tim . . . .
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Monday, 6 June 2022
This week a bird with its own charm - the goldfinch
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Tuesday, 31 May 2022
This week - the avian chimney sweep, better known as the jackdaw.
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Tweet of the week - the original and best twitterati
Tuesday, 24 May 2022
A winter visitor and star of Watership Down - the black headed gull