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Feb 2018
3:11pm, 6 Feb 2018
15,801 posts
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Chrisity
Half a dozen raucous Jays along the old Nottingham Canal, and a Buzzard that i disturbed then perched on a telegraph pole giving me the evil eye.
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Feb 2018
8:34am, 7 Feb 2018
5,477 posts
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chunkywizard
OH managed to get a grab shot of Mr Sparrowhawk...
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Feb 2018
8:39am, 7 Feb 2018
28,237 posts
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HappyG(rrr)
Nice shot Mrs CW! The sparrow hawk dive bombs our bird feeder sometimes!  G
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Feb 2018
9:45am, 7 Feb 2018
24,901 posts
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Derby Tup
Wonderful sound of a nuthatch calling incessantly in our local woods by the River Worth today I was only thinking at the weekend I’ve not heard one locally this ‘spring’ yet
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Feb 2018
10:35am, 7 Feb 2018
5,481 posts
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chunkywizard
Had a lovely Dunnock flitting around today. Also another bird of similar size which I'm not sure about. Could be a siskin or a baby greenfinch (if they are around yet). It had a heart shape tail and was brown with a lighter chest. I'll try and get a photo later.
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Feb 2018
11:05am, 7 Feb 2018
24,902 posts
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Derby Tup
Siskin isn’t a brown bird - more black and brightest green / yellow. Female house sparrow? Wren maybe?
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Feb 2018
11:48am, 7 Feb 2018
13,369 posts
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mulbs
4 red kite swooping and wheeling in the sky above my opposite neighbour's house
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Feb 2018
4:05pm, 7 Feb 2018
1,009 posts
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J2R
Did a 15 mile run today with some satisfying bird action. Treecreeper, then a small flock of what I first took to be redpoll high up in the alder trees, flitting around eating the seeds. They could have been siskin, though. I only saw silhouettes, and they're pretty similar if you can't make out the plumage - small, fidgety finches with forked tails, with similar behaviour and habitat. A little further on, something I'd not seen before, a mixed flock of starlings and fieldfare. They were hanging around in the trees together and then flew down on to a ploughed field, where there were also skylarks and a yellowhammer singing in the distance. Lots of other birds very active as well - seemed very spring-like despite the cold temperature.
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Feb 2018
6:18pm, 7 Feb 2018
397 posts
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bonners
I love runs like that J2R, the type of runs that got me into finding out types of birds in the first place.
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Feb 2018
7:38pm, 7 Feb 2018
943 posts
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flyingfinn
J2R we seem to get those mixed flocks of Starling and Fieldfare quite often here in Derbyshire. Plenty of Fieldfare and Redwing around today feeding in the fields that were getting the full sun this morning.
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