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Dec 2017
8:59pm, 10 Dec 2017
7,530 posts
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becca7
I had a great visit to Ronda in place of trying to bully a grumpy hip around Malaga Marathon. A lovely place to go to anyway but great for birdwatching.
A lifetime first for me for chough and raven. I said a few weeks ago that I didn’t think I’d seen one before and, now I’ve seen one, I know I hadn’t before. Should be a few others once I’ve studied my photos.
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Dec 2017
9:26pm, 10 Dec 2017
23,976 posts
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Derby Tup
^ great stuff
We went for a walk round Clumber Park lake yesterday. Saw tufted duck, pochard, GCG, coot, gadwall and shoveler 
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Dec 2017
9:53am, 11 Dec 2017
911 posts
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J2R
First redpoll of the winter on the sunflower seeds a couple of days ago. It continues to baffle me that we get these visiting our garden occasionally, but never house sparrows, which are abundant some 200 metres away.
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Dec 2017
10:58am, 11 Dec 2017
8,116 posts
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Watford Wobble
Pied wagtails in the garden which are very rare visitors for us. They were enjoying the food we put out.
I've only ever seen one redpoll in our garden. At first I thought it was a sparrow with facial injury from flying into a window.
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Dec 2017
11:18am, 11 Dec 2017
912 posts
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J2R
Pied wagtails are around here, 400 metres or so away, and I'm hoping we get one in the garden some time, but none so far.
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Dec 2017
11:58am, 11 Dec 2017
4,234 posts
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Wine Legs
OOoh exciting! I just had a redwing on the hedge out the front of our place. Never seen one before, so that was pleasing 
We have LOTS of pied wagtails here. Funny that they're rare where you are, WW, given that you're pretty close.
Must go refill the bird feeders... they destroyed it yesterday with the snow.
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Dec 2017
3:43pm, 11 Dec 2017
5,217 posts
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christmaschunky
we had a pied wagtail in the garden for the first time in forever today
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Dec 2017
4:34pm, 11 Dec 2017
839 posts
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flyingfinn
Here I get quite a lot of Pied Wagtails (six at once a couple of weeks ago) but they are normally on the roof or stick to very open areas of ground but yesterday I had one scavenging under my feeders in quite an enclosed space in front of the windows.
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Dec 2017
8:51pm, 11 Dec 2017
344 posts
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bonners
Haven't had a pied wagtail in our garden this year, but the grey wagtail with the injured tail is still a daily visitor. Great walk in the snow along the river yesterday, highlights being loads of lapwings, shelducks and v after v of greylag geese noisily coming in to land.
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Dec 2017
9:25pm, 11 Dec 2017
7,531 posts
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becca7
I've had a look at my Ronda photos and think I've got a serin, which was a happy little yellow thing in a tree, whinchat, stonechat, plus a griffin vulture and a couple of other things that I've not been able to identify yet. Leaving these out I think I'm up to 149 different birds seen this year and will fall short of 200 but not a bad total.
Having seen a cough there that's two off my "most want to see" list in the last few weeks, having seen a ruddy duck (in New York). Not all on this list have names involving mild swearing but it still has kingfisher, dipper and hawfinch.
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