First time sighting [British Bird]

I love watching and trying to recognize birds, not that I'm very good at it. Especially all the little brown birds, the different sparrows, chickadees, siskens and juncos on the northwest coast of BC.

I have seen my first American Robin of the season, so looking forward to spring, and in May when the swallows come back from the south.

We do have Kingfishers here, quite common. They have quite a distinctive call so recognizable.

I saw a song thrush last week. The first one I've seen in years. A bird that was common in my childhood. Such a shame.

Sandye I have happy memories of crabbing with GS in Beadnell harbour in Northumberland, where Eider ducks and their ducklings would wait for the crab lines to be retrieved and then pinch the crabs as they were coming out of the water. It was like a takeaway restaurant for ducks😊!

We quite regularly get long-tailed tits in our garden and it’s lovely to watch them. They love the fat balls we put out. They always appear en masse and, when we see them, we always say ‘the gangs arrived’.