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Know Your Birds? - Edit - Not That Kind!

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  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    Stig said:
    Sadly, I've never seen one but there are lots of photos here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=any&taxon_id=7363&verifiable=any
    Their song is absolutely beautiful.
  • Starinnaddick
    Starinnaddick Posts: 4,345

  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    Is it a Tesla? 
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,813
    the blue tits in our garden bird box are about to fledge by the looks of it, been sticking their heads out for a couple of days now
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    Elthamaddick said:
    the blue tits in our garden bird box are about to fledge by the looks of it, been sticking their heads out for a couple of days now
    Ours fledged a few days back - thankfully, next door neighbour’s cat didn’t get any this year
  • Kips
    Kips Posts: 689
    Any day here too for the blue tits who are nesting in our roof. Magpies are the the main predator here to many of the song birds. The magpies were even taking my gold fish from the pond a couple of years back. 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,316
    So far the birdfeeder I've stuck into the front garden of my flat has only attracted lots of great tits - one there right this second, even - and the occasional goldfinch. Nothing else at all. I guess those are the only birds brave enough to visit a front garden by a fairly well-used road!
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    White-tailed Eagle, Poole Harbour

  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    And for good measure we came upon this Common Seal in banana pose

  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    At one point the White-tailed Eagle in the in-flight picture was "mobbed" by a Buzzard. I wish I had a picture of it, because it's only when you have another bird in shot that you really appreciate the sheer size and majesty of the Eagle. Made the Buzzard look like a pigeon.
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  • Sevensix
    Sevensix Posts: 156
    For anyone who doesn't know it the Merlin app is a great free download.  You just turn it on and it identifies any bird song that is audible in the moment.  It covers most of the world although I've only downloaded the birds of GB and Ireland at the moment.  It's a great way to encourage children to be interested.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,813
    Lordflashheart said:
    Elthamaddick said:
    the blue tits in our garden bird box are about to fledge by the looks of it, been sticking their heads out for a couple of days now
    Ours fledged a few days back - thankfully, next door neighbour’s cat didn’t get any this year
    my missus literally hasn't moved from the garden sofa under a duvet as she's desperate to watch them go (and to ensure the dogs stay away!)
  • Lordflashheart
    Lordflashheart Posts: 5,623
    Elthamaddick said:
    Lordflashheart said:
    Elthamaddick said:
    the blue tits in our garden bird box are about to fledge by the looks of it, been sticking their heads out for a couple of days now
    Ours fledged a few days back - thankfully, next door neighbour’s cat didn’t get any this year
    my missus literally hasn't moved from the garden sofa under a duvet as she's desperate to watch them go (and to ensure the dogs stay away!)
    When ours fledged it was lovely, as mum and dad were up in the silver birch adjacent to the bird box, singing away encouraging the chicks to come out - one by one they did, until the whole family were up in the tree chirping and chattering - mum and dad continued to feed them in the tree for a few hours - next day all were gone - the mum and dad worked SO hard to raise them - in and out the box all day long - they are I bet having a well deserved rest now
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,813

  • SouthallAddick
    SouthallAddick Posts: 140
    Harris Hawk spotted in Whitechapel yesterday. 
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    SouthallAddick said:
    Harris Hawk spotted in Whitechapel yesterday. 
    Beautiful, but non-native.
    Probably an escapee. They are often used to control/disperse pigeon populations.
    (You probably already know all this).
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,210
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts said:
    SouthallAddick said:
    Harris Hawk spotted in Whitechapel yesterday. 
    Beautiful, but non-native.
    Probably an escapee. They are often used to control/disperse pigeon populations.
    (You probably already know all this).
    Yeah stunning bird. One escaped in Norfolk this week

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026


    Just how cute are these?  Answer is hidden below for anyone who wants to guess the species.

    Black Headed Gulls


  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    I went on a boat trip to Skomer, Grassholm and Skokholm Islands last week. I got several reasonable pictures of the birds, but I reckon this Gannet is the best. 


  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Amazing pic Stig
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  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    Stig said:
    I went on a boat trip to Skomer, Grassholm and Skokholm Islands last week. I got several reasonable pictures of the birds, but I reckon this Gannet is the best. 


    How are the Puffin and Manx Shearwater numbers this year?
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    I don't know about the numbers, but I saw both. I actually went on a different boat trip earlier in the month specifically to see the Shearwaters. It goes to Skomer and then out to open sea about dusk - this is the time the Shearwaters head inland, otherwise they are mostly too far out to see them. On both boat trips Puffins seemed to be in abundance, and we saw quite a lot of Shearwaters on the dedicated trip. I've not been before though, so I can't honestly say that I know what 'good' looks like.




  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix Posts: 2,707
    Lovely puffin shot.
    The staff & volunteers on the islands are routinely involved in surveying, counting & ringing various species and all very happy to talk to we visitors.
    Quite the privilege to get to visit these important sites and similarly the Farne Islands but man oh man the stench of guano, once experienced never forgotten. 
  • Curbsgoldenera
    Curbsgoldenera Posts: 3,208


    Any ideas, this was spotted on Madeira, in the forest in the Northern part of the Island 
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,682
    Madeira Chaffinch?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madeiran_chaffinch
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,841
    The Azores Chaffinch looks a good bet as well,


    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azores_chaffinch




  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,210
    I would go with Madeira Chaffinch 
  • Curbsgoldenera
    Curbsgoldenera Posts: 3,208
    Thanks everyone 😃
  • KettsJohn
    KettsJohn Posts: 1,210
    Beeaters are back in Norfolk on the North Coast. They bred last year and are back at the same site again this year. A small quarry in a place called Trimmingham. Brilliant little birds!
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    Leuth said:
    So far the birdfeeder I've stuck into the front garden of my flat has only attracted lots of great tits - one there right this second, even - and the occasional goldfinch. Nothing else at all. I guess those are the only birds brave enough to visit a front garden by a fairly well-used road!
    Starlings wouldn’t bat an eyelid…..sodding things can completely strip your feeders within half an hour.
    I and my neighbours are currently at war with them, we have a large flock roosting in the woods nearby….all the young are particularly active right now and the bastards are also shitting all over the old wooden and cast iron garden bench I took hours refurbishing last autumn.
    All other species barely get a look in.

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