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Jul 2018
10:40pm, 5 Jul 2018
729 posts
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bonners
Great photo and the last few days have really helped with meadow pipit id, although I've only seen them on the lower slopes of mountains!
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Jul 2018
12:04am, 6 Jul 2018
17,663 posts
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flanker
Got bored being housebound, so nipped across to Burwell Fen this afternoon. It was awash with birds. 50+ little egret, adults and juvenile, double figures of green sand, handful of greenshank, pair of little ringed plover with 3 young (first ever), many grey heron (adult & juv), a clump of scruffy feathers which one of the regulars assured me was a ruff(!), a snow goose that has apparently been around for a couple of years, several noisy reed warblers and probably a sedge.
Need to go back with more time and a decent field guide. I'm not used to summer waders!
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Jul 2018
11:25am, 6 Jul 2018
2,670 posts
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steve45
Reed Warbler and Cettis singing this morning. Two or three Blackcaps. Typical early July.
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Jul 2018
8:06pm, 12 Jul 2018
1,303 posts
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J2R
DT, 'song thrush the size of a sparrow' is a great description! Love that.
Just come back from 10 days travelling around Slovenia (wonderful place). I didn't see anything that sensational, and it was slightly frustrating in that I knew lots of interesting birds were around, just remaining hidden. But a decent haul nonetheless. Highlight was some small eagle (?) a couple of days ago, size of a large buzzard, but with a completely different call. Unfortunately we were cycling and couldn't easily stop at that point. Booted eagle, maybe?
Black and common redstarts (stunning birds); red-backed shrike; black woodpecker; nutcracker; dippers; wood warbler; alpine swifts. Oodles of blackcaps and, I think, garden warblers, singing, and what may have been another warbler on many occasions, blackcap-like song but in shorter bursts, and with what sounded very much like the great tit 'teacher-teacher' frequently thrown in. They may have been blackcaps doing mimicry, but is it common for lots of birds in an area to do the same mimicry?
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Jul 2018
8:19pm, 12 Jul 2018
26,314 posts
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Derby Tup
I’ve long wanted to see one of those black woodpeckers 
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Jul 2018
6:47pm, 13 Jul 2018
26,332 posts
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Derby Tup
We *might* go birdwatching tomorrow as in take guidebooks, pack sandwiches, make a list of target species, dig out RSPB memberships etc  Target species will be water birds with funny shaped beaks and strange calls
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Jul 2018
12:31am, 14 Jul 2018
17,678 posts
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flanker
Are you going by train?
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Jul 2018
7:18am, 14 Jul 2018
26,333 posts
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Derby Tup
No 
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Jul 2018
9:04am, 14 Jul 2018
13,111 posts
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HowFar?
Snipe, heron, and sandpiper down by Lough Erne yesterday, plus a cormorant that must have had something tangled round its foot because it flew over and was trailing something brown behind. It was like an aeroplane trailing one of those advertising banners.
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Jul 2018
1:22pm, 14 Jul 2018
17,680 posts
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flanker
should have probably asked if you were going by boat or train?
(which is when you now say I've got the wrong bird 😂)
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