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May 2018
2:59pm, 11 May 2018
1,157 posts
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Heinzster
At least it explains why I can't sing. It doesn't go with my exceptional good looks 😁
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May 2018
4:20pm, 11 May 2018
1,230 posts
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J2R
Beautiful birds, redstarts, and always very exciting for me to see as they are pretty rare in the east of the country, where I live.
Heinzster, :).
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May 2018
6:01pm, 11 May 2018
25,825 posts
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Derby Tup
I saw a small raptor being mobbed by a corvid yesterday but wasn’t sure what it was. My initial thought was merlin, but why hadn’t it just flown away? Today miles away I saw very similar but closer. This raptor was a small male sparrowhawk. I guess when ‘you’re on the pull’ nothing is going to stop you 
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May 2018
6:22pm, 11 May 2018
25,826 posts
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Derby Tup
Group of swallow over the back of the house. Swift everywhere likely today on drive to Lancaster and back
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May 2018
6:47pm, 11 May 2018
1,231 posts
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J2R
Saw a mobbing incident myself yesterday, a magpie being chased over some distance by a noisy, clearly angry starling.
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May 2018
9:24pm, 11 May 2018
17,569 posts
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KinkyS
Screaming swifts and diving terns back on my river route last night
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May 2018
11:31pm, 11 May 2018
582 posts
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bonners
Still no swifts and beginning to wonder if the sandwich terns will return this year.
My spot of the day is not exciting, but have worked out why my little bird bath has to be filled each day..... Seven starlings crammed in having a pool party😀😀
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May 2018
12:12pm, 12 May 2018
2,547 posts
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steve45
What a great Hen Harrier obs!
At last...saw my first three Swifts screaming as they headed west yesterday. Has to be one of my latest "first dates" having had them as early as 17th April before, although more often than not the very end of April-early May.
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May 2018
1:24pm, 12 May 2018
25,835 posts
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Derby Tup
I don’t record anything but think of swifts being here first week of May
A warbly warbler buried deep in shrubbery today in Skipton: garden warbler I think because it sounded like a blackcap but not entirely if that makes sense. More notes and long bursts but not quite as ripe or plummy 
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May 2018
1:44pm, 12 May 2018
1,232 posts
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J2R
DT, only reliable way of telling the two apart I've found is to gas the bush and see which falls out.
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