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Apr 2017
9:55am, 24 Apr 2017
419 posts
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J2R
becca7, great to see a brambling. I would have thought they would all have cleared off to northern climes for the summer long ago. We get them occasionally in winter on our garden feeders here in Norwich. Before they started turning up in our garden, I'd never got a clear view of one in this country (although I've seen lots of them in Norway in summer). They're easy to overlook among chaffinches. In fact, the first time I spotted one on our feeder, it was actually when I was looking back at some photos I'd been taking of chaffinches in the snow, and I noticed that the bird in the photo was in fact a brambling!
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Apr 2017
10:18am, 24 Apr 2017
1,621 posts
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steve45
great list there becca..that 200 mark must be on the cards for the year the way you're going. Quite late for Brambling too and I've not seen one this last twelve months at all! As for Corn Bunting not seen one since 1965!
Quiet morning along my running route this morning --in fact quite dull.
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Apr 2017
10:53am, 24 Apr 2017
420 posts
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J2R
steve45, don't know where you live, but over in East Anglia there are certainly corn buntings about, although they're not common. I've seen them a few times in north Norfolk, and in north Herts, and saw one a year or so back on a wire a couple of miles outside Cambridge as I was running in from the south. As with a lot of birds, it helps if you get to know the song, because otherwise they're easy to miss.
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Apr 2017
11:49am, 24 Apr 2017
2,064 posts
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154 Rob
Parakeets and more surprisingly, grey herons in Hyde park, all free yet used to humans...
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Apr 2017
11:52am, 24 Apr 2017
10,860 posts
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Chrisull
Just saw a goldcrest two feet from my face, under our eaves by the back door! Looked shocked then flew away.
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Apr 2017
1:19pm, 24 Apr 2017
221 posts
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bonners
Some great spots going on at the moment. Nothing that special for me. Saw the black tailed godwits again. Of more interest has been watching the fledgling blackbirds. Two surviving at the moment and both a good size and able to fly short distances, top parents
Also saw two Robins this morning, first time in our garden, male seemed to be feeding female I think.
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Apr 2017
2:35pm, 24 Apr 2017
22,777 posts
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Derby Tup
bonners, have a look into the migration of black tail godwits and (in common with many other wading birds) you'll see that they re very special birds  They are right up their with my favourite dippers, swifts, little owls etc
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Apr 2017
2:40pm, 24 Apr 2017
18,162 posts
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LazyDaisy
Sorry I don't come on here enough to know if this is old news but a cuckoo was calling in the woods yesterday
I was disappointed we didn't hear any when we were in Portugal the week before Easter because we heard several when we were there 2 years ago - but then I realised we'd been a week or two earlier in 2015, so they'd probably already flown on northwards.
I worry every year until I hear them
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Apr 2017
3:36pm, 24 Apr 2017
15,345 posts
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Chrisity
Young Pheasant (i presume) in my garden today, has no tail so i presume it must have walked under the fence or can they fly without a tail?
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Apr 2017
5:58pm, 24 Apr 2017
222 posts
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bonners
Cheers DT, forgot to say went on nature walk with BTO guy yesterday, local to the area and the godwits been around all winter apparently this year, for some reason staying around. I would never have noticed them in winter as apparently their markings are far more pronounced now. Was a fascinating walk all told, amazing work they do and really interesting with loads of information on the various waders which is his survey.
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