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Nov 2017
11:58am, 13 Nov 2017
5,087 posts
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chunkywizard
Was at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park yesterday and very excited to see a pair of Kingfishers and a female merganser
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Nov 2017
2:31pm, 13 Nov 2017
2,151 posts
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ferret
kingfishers  seeing them regularly on local beach, perching on breakwater sometimes. Assume they are catching the tiny silvery fish that float about in shoals.
I’ve been hearing a parakeet, was calling yesterday & all I could see was a magpie. Luckily someone passing said they’d just spotted a parakeet, & also seen one in a nearby quiet leafy road. If there’s only one it must be lonely but guessing more will be bad for local songbirds. Like magpies 🙄
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Nov 2017
4:58pm, 13 Nov 2017
5,089 posts
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chunkywizard
Around the Windsor/slough areas we see flocks of parakeets making a right racket. It's like the red kites around High Wycombe, you see so many you get blase (where's the accent when you need it) about them (although you really shouldn't as they are magnificent!)
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Nov 2017
8:11pm, 13 Nov 2017
825 posts
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flyingfinn
Steve, interesting to see the comments about the decline of Common Gulls with you. Here it's the polar opposite. There is a big Gull roost on the reservoir and recent counts have put Common Gull counts at a 1000+. Numbers seem to grow year on year recently.
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Nov 2017
9:49pm, 13 Nov 2017
842 posts
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J2R
First fieldfares for me yesterday - 8 flying over as I ran. Always like my first winter thrushes!
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Nov 2017
10:00pm, 13 Nov 2017
23,708 posts
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Derby Tup
I'm about 80% certain I saw a small group of fieldfare over the weekend. Blooming Baltic in Yorkshire atm. We should have skies full of winter thrushes
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Nov 2017
10:00pm, 13 Nov 2017
23,709 posts
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Derby Tup
I'm about 80% certain I saw a small group of fieldfare over the weekend. Blooming Baltic in Yorkshire atm. We should have skies full of winter thrushes
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Nov 2017
10:05pm, 13 Nov 2017
327 posts
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bonners
The good news is my new best friend, the grey wagtail is still a daily visitor in the garden. The bad news is, I went for a river run last week and decided to take my binoculars just in case there was a lot about. Thought I'd neatly strapped them on, but obviously mucked the strap up too much and they fell off and have managed to hit a stone or something on the trail and cracked the lens! Idiot boy!
Luckily were only cheap from the market, but still annoying as were good enough for me to see stuff on the river.
In other news, saw some jays, buzzards, bullfinches, long tailed tits and a kestrel in the hills above Abergele yesterday.
Oh, and Steve, I've noticed large flocks of wood pigeons which I dont normally see, only in the 30-40s, but dont normally see them. maybe the south Wales migration will be happening late this year?
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Nov 2017
11:56pm, 13 Nov 2017
17,322 posts
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flanker
Oops banners!
You can pick up decent models second-hand on eBay for a fraction of the new price if you invest a bit of time.
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Nov 2017
7:29am, 14 Nov 2017
328 posts
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bonners
Cheers flanker, I've already been trawling to see what I can get
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