Where have all our garden birds gone?

[boxbrownie]

13 minutes ago, dhjgreen said:

Wow, just wow!! A treecreeper on our  Oak tree today.  It is about 40 years old and is 50 ft away from the house.

That is amazing....a forty year old Treecreeper 

Edited June 26, 2020 by boxbrownie

[steve1]

I’m reasonable at identifying birds by sight but rubbish when it comes to song.

 

There was bird in the hedge behind our garden this afternoon that make a snipping sound like scissors but we couldn’t see it.

 

Any suggestions as to what it might have been?

 

Thanks

 

steve

[Barry Ten]

3 hours ago, steve1 said:

I’m reasonable at identifying birds by sight but rubbish when it comes to song.

 

There was bird in the hedge behind our garden this afternoon that make a snipping sound like scissors but we couldn’t see it.

 

Any suggestions as to what it might have been?

 

Thanks

 

steve

 

Could be a nuthatch.

[boxbrownie]

8 hours ago, Barry Ten said:

 

Could be a nuthatch.

Or a hairdresser stuck in the hedge......

[MinZaPint]

We've had a pair of Bullfinches on our feeders recently that came from the hedge and then yesterday this a pair of juveniles, rubbish shot with my phone through the kitchen window, will try and get a better pic later,

[MinZaPint]

Just got downstairs with my camera and one of the juveniles turned up

 

[Barry Ten]

Some long tailed tits (and a blue tit crashing the party):

 

 

 

[jbqfc]

greenfinch fledglings today 

greenfinch by john brace, on Flickr

[Mallard60022]

On 27/06/2020 at 21:30, steve1 said:

I’m reasonable at identifying birds by sight but rubbish when it comes to song.

 

There was bird in the hedge behind our garden this afternoon that make a snipping sound like scissors but we couldn’t see it.

 

Any suggestions as to what it might have been?

 

Thanks

 

steve

Dunnock?

 

[jonny777]

On 27/06/2020 at 21:30, steve1 said:

I’m reasonable at identifying birds by sight but rubbish when it comes to song.

 

There was bird in the hedge behind our garden this afternoon that make a snipping sound like scissors but we couldn’t see it.

 

Any suggestions as to what it might have been?

 

Thanks

 

steve

 

 

Robins make that alert warning sound when cats are in the vicinity, and Wrens have a similar warning although a little higher pitched and faster. 

[Reorte]

On 28/06/2020 at 16:19, Barry Ten said:

Some long tailed tits (and a blue tit crashing the party):

 

I never see long tailed tits at this time of year, they turn up on my feeders over winter and early spring.

[Tim Dubya]

On 04/07/2020 at 13:19, Mallard60022 said:

Dunnock?

 

 

Bless you

[Barry Ten]

6 hours ago, Reorte said:

 

I never see long tailed tits at this time of year, they turn up on my feeders over winter and early spring.

 

That's been the pattern with us in previous years as well, but for some reason they've stuck around this time. We've also

seen far more of the bullfinches throughout the year - again I tend to associate them with winter, not all year round.

[Tim Dubya]

Funny, we only tend to see Bullfinches this time of year.  Although I haven't seen any yet.

[88D]

Any truth in the rumour of sightings of a bearded vulture in the Peaks? And, no, it’s not April!

[jonny777]

This site suggests that the sighting is genuine. 

 

 

https://www.4vultures.org/second-observation-of-a-bearded-vulture-in-the-uk/

[Joseph_Pestell]

23 minutes ago, 88D said:

Any truth in the rumour of sightings of a bearded vulture in the Peaks? And, no, it’s not April!

 

No, it's an ordinary vulture. But barbers have been closed. 

[PhilJ W]

I thought you were referring to a certain multi-millionaire with his own Caribbean island.

Edited July 8, 2020 by PhilJ W

[Flying Pig]

A willow warbler fed briefly in the tree outside my flat this morning, fortunately attracting my attention by a couple of brief bursts of song.  They don't breed nearby so it looks like autumn has begun.

 

[The Lurker]

I reported earlier this year an attempt by a fox to get a magpie that was newly fledged. I didn't think it was succesful.

 

Whether it was or not, the magpies have had a good year; over the weekend and yesterday i spotted 8 magpies at one go in the garden trees or on the fence, or on the roofs of the houses. That's even further than the rhyme takes me!

 

They seem to rub along together so i am guessing they are all related - perhaps parents plus one or two broods. They're certainly noisy!

[PhilJ W]

A few years ago a young magpie hereabouts was not so lucky. It had been caught by a cat and despite the noise and fuss being created by the parents the cat was calmly walking away with its victim firmly clamped in its mouth. 

[jbqfc]

juvenile robin 

robin by john brace, on Flickr

 

juvenile Dunnock 

dunnock by john brace, on Flickr

 

both seen in my garden 

 

[jbqfc]

today we have second brood goldfinch fledglings begging mum for food  

 

John

[Killybegs]

2 hours ago, jbqfc said:

today we have second brood goldfinch fledglings begging mum for food  

 

John

 

Same here last week.

[MinZaPint]

On the lookout for lunch? the pigeons seem to have disappeared!