Lovely birds and rare sightings

SueDonim

Maybe she needs to check under her gooseberry bush, just in case, Rosiesmaw!

😁

We had three gooseberry bushes.

27David49

Tuinoma

Hedge sparrows, the odd tree sparrow, fieldfares, mistle thrushes, the odd osprey flying over, buzzards en kestrels, a sparrowhawk dived over my bird table a while back and flew off with a bluetit while I was watching from my window.
Plus of course the usual crowd.
I love watching them

Magpies, Sparrowhawks etc raise their young by killing other birds, if you want a reason for lack of hedgerow and garden birds look them.

Im sorry you enjoy seeing a sparrorhawk killing a blue tit.
David49
Watching any nature documentaries where animals lower down the food chain are killed by predators to be eaten or fed to young would be off limits then... including most of David Attenborough's nature programmes.
Come off it and stop stirring david49

We had one too! Photo from my armchair!

Maybe she needs to check under her gooseberry bush, just in case, Rosiesmaw!

I used to often see a heron sitting on a neighbour's roof - until all the fish in his pond had gone!

At first glance my neighbour thought this was a stork but no, congratulations are NOT in order!

Tuinoma

Hedge sparrows, the odd tree sparrow, fieldfares, mistle thrushes, the odd osprey flying over, buzzards en kestrels, a sparrowhawk dived over my bird table a while back and flew off with a bluetit while I was watching from my window.
Plus of course the usual crowd.
I love watching them

Magpies, Sparrowhawks etc raise their young by killing other birds, if you want a reason for lack of hedgerow and garden birds look them.

Im sorry you enjoy seeing a sparrorhawk killing a blue tit.

As I was waiting for a train today a black-backed gull flew over the station. We have gulls by the zillions here in Cornwall but I've never seen a black-backed one so far inland.

I have a pair of wrens residing around my ivy-clad patio. They are always in and out of the dense creepers.

The parakeets are taking over! www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c99km49ejjeo

They say that the flocks of LTT split up into pairs on Valentine’s Day 💕

On holiday walking alongside a river in East Devon I saw a kingfisher. So beautiful and smaller than I'd imagined. Never seen one before or since.

Saw a sparrowhawk dive into a spiky shrub in my garden and take a sparrow one day. It happened so fast.

I love birds and I see, rarely, a coal tit or blue tits or a chaffinch in my garden. Makes my day.

Not rare, but definitely beautiful. A mute swan in our local park this morning.

MiniMoon

I had a little flock of long tailed tits in my garden this afternoon, there were probably about 10 of them. They were taking turns to feed on the peanuts.
We don't see them very often around here, they were just passing through. Lovely to see.

We quite often get a little flock of them, up to 8, on our fat ball feeder in winter.

Starling murmarations go over just below our house. It’s at about 4.15 now. I know some birds are in decline but I feel that this year it is bigger than ever. They are really noisy and it’s not a good idea to below them when going over

My morning was brightened by the sight of a grey wagtail perched on the Dock wall, the yellow feathers glowing in the sun. They’re such a beautiful little bird.

(Not my photo, it’s from the wonderful bird guides.com)

Starling murmarations near where I live (Brough, East Yorkshire) are a magnificent, breathtaking sight-sadly, house building has destroyed where they used to gather, I have to go further afield (literally!) to see them on a nature reserve called North Cave Wetlands now-they used to be on the Bae airfield...better than anything you will see on t.v, and free to view!

I had a little flock of long tailed tits in my garden this afternoon, there were probably about 10 of them. They were taking turns to feed on the peanuts.
We don't see them very often around here, they were just passing through. Lovely to see.

nanna8

Today it has been very,very hot here (42c) and I was in our pool when a kookaburras dived in next to me, cooled off and then flew off. I told him he was a gorgeous bird ( I know, I know but I often talk to the birds we get ) Never had that happen before, they are not water birds.

How exciting!

Yes, I talk to the birds. I did tell the robin that he might think it's his garden but it is in fact mine. He did not agree.

nanna8 I love kookaburras. They are so friendly or at least the ones I've met have been.

Last year I was heavily pruning a very old 'Wedding Day' rambling rose. It had to be done as it was over a building that was having a new roof. I was actually standing in the middle of the stems when I heard the unmistakable sound of a flock of long tailed tits around - I froze and eventually about 7 or 8 of them came onto the rose with me inside. One was only about a foot from my face. It was magical, I had my phone in my pocket but didn't dare move!

Today it has been very,very hot here (42c) and I was in our pool when a kookaburras dived in next to me, cooled off and then flew off. I told him he was a gorgeous bird ( I know, I know but I often talk to the birds we get ) Never had that happen before, they are not water birds.

Lovely post OP. We have peregrines living on top of the cathedral (they raise their broods every year and the young leave but the adults stay) and I’ve been delighted to see many wagtails pecking away at the ground, even in the town centre.

I’d love to see a jay, what a privilege.

I have watched jays burying nuts in the autumn to get them through the winter but it always amazes me how they remember where they are when they need them. I often bring things home, put them in a cupboard and then completly forget about them. If I were a bird I wouldn’t last five minutes!

While drinking coffee in bed, I have been watching a Jay hopping around the flower beds. Lovely bird.