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Jan 2018
2:14pm, 2 Jan 2018
24,300 posts
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Derby Tup
I think of meadow pipit as ‘the sparrows of open places’. Look for them around moorland, heaths, rough pasture and coastal grasslands. Small and brown but a huge favourite of mine 
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Jan 2018
2:33pm, 2 Jan 2018
950 posts
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J2R
They're a favourite of mine, too, not sure why. I was walking (yes, walking, not running!) the Norfolk Coast Path the other day and saw quite a few, along with linnets, lots of very tame turnstones, wheeling flocks of lapwings (another favourite), stonechats.
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Jan 2018
3:04pm, 2 Jan 2018
847 posts
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flyingfinn
More numbers for DT. Popped across to the res more in hope than expectation given the murky weather today and managed to get the 2018 properly moving. Up to 45 now, including 18 Snipe in one spot and great views of the Great Northern Diver. But my favourite of the day are the group of 5 to 8 LTTs that keep coming to the fat balls outside my window. They always makes me smile 😀
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Jan 2018
3:26pm, 2 Jan 2018
848 posts
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flyingfinn
Thought i'd spotted some mipits too for you DT but sighting too brief and in poor light to be certain and they didn't reappear. So decided they couldn't count today.
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Jan 2018
1:54pm, 4 Jan 2018
98,673 posts
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GregP
~gatecrashes thread~
Goldcrest in the back garden. Lived here for getting on for 30 years and never seen one in the garden before.
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Jan 2018
1:57pm, 4 Jan 2018
24,320 posts
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Derby Tup
Well worth a ‘crash. Nice one Greppers
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Jan 2018
3:11pm, 4 Jan 2018
355 posts
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bonners
Nice, I've never seen a goldcrest, let alone in the garden.
Great run this morning along the sea front with loads of different birds despite the storm winds. Highlights were a huge flock of lapwings doing their dance and a determined v of cormorants battling out to sea.
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Jan 2018
3:17pm, 4 Jan 2018
21,882 posts
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Dave A
The 2 Little Egret that we’re hanging around by us last week have increased their number to 7. All hanging round a couple of very boggy horse fields.
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Jan 2018
11:21am, 5 Jan 2018
17,527 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Goldcrest. I have heard them in the garden. Day off sitting here with ny tea and there one is in the bare bushes with a couple of LTTs.
Made my morning.
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Jan 2018
4:45pm, 5 Jan 2018
24,332 posts
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Derby Tup
Friday was flock day:
Several flocks of lapwing, a flock of redwing but most intriguingly a very organised v-shape skies of geese flying high and fast South Easterly over the M1 / M62 junction. Pinkies? Probably 
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