RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted April 13, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13, 2016 Goldcrest singing its heart out right next to us in the garden. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted April 13, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13, 2016 Think I saw either a Chiffchaff or a Garden Warbler this morning - not too sure. If it is either, then it's a first for me in the garden. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CLARENCE Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Don't know if they count as garden birds, but we've had a pair of jackdaws trying to build a nest in our chimney for the last week or so. Just as well we don't have an open fire these days! David. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted April 13, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 13, 2016 YAY! We have Great Tits nest building in one of the boxes. They've always come to feed but have never nested here before. YAY! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted April 14, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 14, 2016 Also greenfinches and siskins, though getting a bit late for siskins this year. Siskin in the garden again today, shows how much I know 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 15, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 15, 2016 07.30ish, 2 House Martins over the garden. Incredibly these amazing birds have reappeared almost to the day for all the 10 years I've been logging them. For several years, to the exact day as the previous year. Brilliant. P 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted April 15, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 15, 2016 07.30ish, 2 House Martins over the garden. Incredibly these amazing birds have reappeared almost to the day for all the 10 years I've been logging them. For several years, to the exact day as the previous year. Brilliant. P Does that mean that they have leap year too? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Blue Streak Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 (edited) However I cheat because this was not in my garden but over the lakes west of Newark (Notts.) I think We will allow it Phil. If I can claim the Wedgetail Eagle I saw this morning next to the Line through the Valley. He/She was a monster, it took an absolute eternity to take off, but once it did it must have been at least 6 foot across it's wingspan. I really really wish I had my camera Edited April 15, 2016 by The Blue Streak 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted April 16, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 16, 2016 (edited) Pair of Yellow Wagtail in the garden this morning. Bit puzzled as to what they were as they were mainly brown but the wagging tails gave them away. Looking in the bird guide it seems they are first year adults before the yellow plumage becomes more pronounced. They are the first summer visitors from Africa this season. Keith Edited April 16, 2016 by melmerby 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted April 16, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 16, 2016 TITFEST! Blue, Great, Coal and Longtails all in the garden at once today. YAY! PS: and a solitary Starling, bless! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold teaky Posted April 16, 2016 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 16, 2016 Pair of Yellow Wagtail in the garden this morning. Bit puzzled as to what they were as they were mainly brown but the wagging tails gave them away. Looking in the bird guide it seems they are first year adults before the yellow plumage becomes more pronounced. They are the first summer visitors from Africa this season. Keith Ironic then that they arrived on the same day as the snow! (Only for about 15 minutes this morning but proper flakes.) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted April 16, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 16, 2016 Ironic then that they arrived on the same day as the snow! (Only for about 15 minutes this morning but proper flakes.) Actually saw one a couple of days ago and assumed it was a sparrow/dunnock/a.n.other brown bird with a longer than usual tail! It was snowing quite hard around dawn this morning and car windscreens had a thin layer although the ground was just wet. Keith 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted April 16, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 16, 2016 A pair of bullfinch with the golds and longtails today. Just started snowing here. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 17, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 17, 2016 Loads of Willow Warblers have arrived locally in the last couple of days, but I can only hear them from my garden. P 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 This morning's highlight a Willow tit, a bird I have only positively seen once before at our present home. This one perched two feet away on a wisteria branch outside the window while dealing with a reluctant to be eaten grub of some sort. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted April 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2016 Saw a redstart on Thursday, but it was at Goredale. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium melmerby Posted April 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2016 The birdsong of late has been particularly enjoyable. Plenty of recognisable species as well as some not so. Yesterday evening, even though it was overcast, was particularly good. Keith 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2016 The birdsong of late has been particularly enjoyable. Plenty of recognisable species as well as some not so. Yesterday evening, even though it was overcast, was particularly good. Keith Local Blackbirds start up about 04.00 at the moment. They are also often the last singing after darkness has fallen. I find this really reassuring and informs me that all is right with the world at that moment in time. Yesterday I heard my first Green Woodpecker this year. However, it wasn't in my garden it was in a Torksey garden very close to the railway viaduct/bridge. Phil 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2016 (edited) Actually, I have just realised (doh) that the title of this Thread does not indicate that we should only 'count' birds seen around our garden. I am guilty of having mistakenly thought this, so now I'm going to report on sightings of any birds that could have been/ appear in my garden (and that, in the past, has included a pair of Mallard (yes, honestly). I will, of course, be absolutely honest. Phil Edited April 23, 2016 by Mallard60022 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted April 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2016 Local Blackbirds start up about 04.00 at the moment. They are also often the last singing after darkness has fallen. I find this really reassuring and informs me that all is right with the world at that moment in time. "Blackbird sings in the dead of night" Paul McC and Wings 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted April 23, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 23, 2016 "Blackbird sings in the dead of night" Paul McC and Wings Blackbird wasn't actually a Wings song. It might have been performed by Wings of course. Paul McC also didn't have wings as far as I remember It is actually "Blackbird singing in the dead of night". You may wonder how I am such an expert on this? So do I ! Ar$e Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted April 27, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2016 Male bullfinch tapping on the window and looking hopeful, wonder what it wants? Plenty of seed out there. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted April 27, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2016 Male bullfinch tapping on the window and looking hopeful, wonder what it wants? Plenty of seed out there. Picture by my lady wife of 40 years as of 10th April. My AQ 29 BTW. 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 I have just had a puzzle solved thanks to a sex show. Over the past couple of weeks I had been observing a pale 'milky coffee' colour bird very much like a Dunnock in size and behaviour, but lacking the orange legs. Thirty minutes ago it perched in a hedge just a dozen feet away, and I had the binos to hand. Still baffled, just pale milky coffee coloured all over, slightly paler on the underside, grey legs. And then a male blackcap came, (and presumably came) and 'thank you ma'am' promptly buzzed off again: so assuming that Mr Blackcap can reliably identify Ms Blackcap, even when she isn't wearing her brown cap... (The only small bird I could find with a somewhat similar plumage to what I was seeing is the Eastern Chiffchaff, rare passage migrant in the UK, and too small anyway. Otherwise I might suspect that the hitherto unknown Blackstern Capchaff is about to evolve...) 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted April 27, 2016 RMweb Premium Share Posted April 27, 2016 That's red heads for you... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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