Soldato
Was a slow day today. The hour I did for the watch wasn’t the best, but still 9 different species.
some really good photos in here too btw.
some really good photos in here too btw.
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So that's why I lose half a tube of feed in about three days, bloody gymnast...
(although I also like this one with the pigeon looking on in concern)
(although I also like this one with the pigeon looking on in concern)
Since moving in in Feb 2020 this is what we've had.
Robin
Green finch
Gold finch
Jay
Magpie
Jackdaw
Carrion crow
Ferral pigeon
Wood pigeon
Greater spotted wood pecker
Long tailed tit
Blue tit
Coal tit
Great tit
BlackBird
House sparrow
Collarred dove
Specials
Bullfinch
Sparrowhawk caught a pigeon (amazing)
Tree creeper
Resident hog
Sometimes 20 gold finch
Ugh YouTube really messes with quality. (it was only a phone video though)
Robin
Green finch
Gold finch
Jay
Magpie
Jackdaw
Carrion crow
Ferral pigeon
Wood pigeon
Greater spotted wood pecker
Long tailed tit
Blue tit
Coal tit
Great tit
BlackBird
House sparrow
Collarred dove
Specials
Bullfinch
Sparrowhawk caught a pigeon (amazing)
Tree creeper
Resident hog
Sometimes 20 gold finch
Ugh YouTube really messes with quality. (it was only a phone video though)
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Some amazing photos in here! I've only got a phone so my camera pictures are pretty rubbish but we seem to be quite lucky with the birds on our doorstep.
We have lots of Jays, to the point they're almost unremarkable. Love spotting them and hearing they squawks though
Lots of cormorants ; we went for a walk on Christmas day along the river and was lucky enough to see one bob up from under the water with, what i expect, was a brown trout going down the hatch
Woodpeckers, often hear them before we see them but we spot them fairly frequently.
When we go for walks in the evening we often hear the hoots of Tawny owls but we've spotted a barn owl
Noticed a Kestrel perched in a tree nearby which i couldn't stop staring at.
My favourite to look out for is the Kingfisher though. Stunning birds and the way they hunt is really interesting.
Terrible picture (it looks better on my phone as it's a live photo) but it was really cool just watching this little guy fly up and down the river. I didn't realise they also had the ability to hover above a river and dive down.
Bit of a give away that both my partner and I are fans of birds! My partner is Welsh so she really wants to take me to Skomer and Skokholm (spelling probably wildly incorrect) to go see all the puffins, which I would love to do once we are free to travel the country
We have lots of Jays, to the point they're almost unremarkable. Love spotting them and hearing they squawks though
Lots of cormorants ; we went for a walk on Christmas day along the river and was lucky enough to see one bob up from under the water with, what i expect, was a brown trout going down the hatch
Woodpeckers, often hear them before we see them but we spot them fairly frequently.
When we go for walks in the evening we often hear the hoots of Tawny owls but we've spotted a barn owl
Noticed a Kestrel perched in a tree nearby which i couldn't stop staring at.
My favourite to look out for is the Kingfisher though. Stunning birds and the way they hunt is really interesting.
Terrible picture (it looks better on my phone as it's a live photo) but it was really cool just watching this little guy fly up and down the river. I didn't realise they also had the ability to hover above a river and dive down.
Bit of a give away that both my partner and I are fans of birds! My partner is Welsh so she really wants to take me to Skomer and Skokholm (spelling probably wildly incorrect) to go see all the puffins, which I would love to do once we are free to travel the country
Some amazing photos in here! I've only got a phone so my camera pictures are pretty rubbish but we seem to be quite lucky with the birds on our doorstep.
We have lots of Jays, to the point they're almost unremarkable. Love spotting them and hearing they squawks though
Lots of cormorants ; we went for a walk on Christmas day along the river and was lucky enough to see one bob up from under the water with, what i expect, was a brown trout going down the hatch
Woodpeckers, often hear them before we see them but we spot them fairly frequently.
When we go for walks in the evening we often hear the hoots of Tawny owls but we've spotted a barn owl
Noticed a Kestrel perched in a tree nearby which i couldn't stop staring at.
My favourite to look out for is the Kingfisher though. Stunning birds and the way they hunt is really interesting.
Terrible picture (it looks better on my phone as it's a live photo) but it was really cool just watching this little guy fly up and down the river. I didn't realise they also had the ability to hover above a river and dive down.
That looks near identical to a park in Cardiff! So much so I checked where you lived!
When I'm out on my kayak I always see king fishers. They are absolutely stunning. Nothing in UK like them
Aha no it's that's boring old Bristol! Completely agree though, they're stunning. They look too colourful to come from this place!
We also want to go to skomer. Puffins are so cute. If you're ever down this way (post pandemic) drop me a message if you're like. Be happy to meet up. I still need to try and see a wild boar too in forest of Dean
Greedy raven today! We get loads of jackdaws here but not their big brothers!
Some randoms:
That's a rook
Ravens have completely black faces.
Pied wagtail
Bluetit
Dunnock
(in that order)
Whoopsie,
Everyday is a school day
Ravens are massive.
I see them since moving to Wales. Absolutely beautiful birds
As a master twitcher, what is this? saw it with the egret the other day
Could be a meadow pipit?
Edit. Rock pipet? As its by sea
We get a lot of egrets round here. But I'm on the gwent levels. Which is ideal for them
Not seen a rock pipet
I need an itwitch app
I'm a big bird geek .
I grew up in rural Suffolk and used to spend ages with my grandad watching birds. Had the books etc. All my knowledge comes from childhood!
We get loads of twitchers visit us down here, we have loads and loads of egrets which are fairly rare:
Got an invasion of long tailed ****, and some other randoms
lil baby:
FYI.
That's a song thrush
And a juvenile Robin
Geeky fact.
Long tailed **** are actually wagtails. They aren't **** at all. But bird watchers aren't always the most familiar with identifying ****.
I thought I was fairly proficient, but I guess it's what you are familiar with, birds I see everyday might bamboozle others: shags, puffins, choughs etc.. then you get all the **** hawks
which is local speak for seagulls, guillemots, gannets etc.. I took a funky seagull picture a while ago that won an award in the local rag:
I thought I was fairly proficient, but I guess it's what you are familiar with, birds I see everyday might bamboozle others: shags, puffins, choughs etc.. then you get all the **** hawks
That's a great pic.
Yeah I'm less familiar with seas birds.
I know a ganet, and a black headed gull etc. But the rarer ones I didn't grow up with.
Used to get cormorants and osprey at Rutland water (when I lived there). But cliff birds.. Not so familiar.
Saw some chough when I was in Cornwall. Which was cool (may have spelt that wrong!)
Would gladly do that! Yeah she keeps telling me it's a really cool place to visit, think they have a lot of baby seals there too.
Love forest of dean but yet to see a wild boar there. A friend and I rode out motorbikes around there recently and was amazed at how many sheep just litter the roads. Beautiful area and the Usk valley too... may have been the Wye Valley, not sure. We went past Tintern Abbey