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Aug 2018
11:25pm, 27 Aug 2018
17,814 posts
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flanker
so it is 
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Aug 2018
11:32pm, 27 Aug 2018
1,193 posts
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Heinzster
Got it, eventually! Love dippers😀
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Aug 2018
11:32pm, 27 Aug 2018
1,194 posts
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Heinzster
Got it, eventually! Love dippers😀
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Aug 2018
11:36am, 28 Aug 2018
1,338 posts
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J2R
Swifts evidently departed from my home patch while I was on holiday a week or two ago. Sad that they've gone, it's a kind of marker of the end of summer. But I saw a solitary one, on the Norfolk coast yesterday. (I also saw more kestrels than I think I've ever seen before, along with stonechats and wheatears).
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Aug 2018
11:54am, 28 Aug 2018
26,735 posts
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Derby Tup
You did well - I saw my last swifts around 14/15 August
Heron flew over house this morning. Sparrowhawk active around garden yesterday
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Aug 2018
12:18pm, 28 Aug 2018
825 posts
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bonners
No swifts here, plenty of housemartins on my long run in the hills on Sunday though, great to see them flocking. Some swallows, but not on the same scale
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Aug 2018
1:59pm, 28 Aug 2018
7,570 posts
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NDWDave
Flamingo. A flock of actual pink real wild flamingo. I’m in the South of France - I didn’t realise they lived here.
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Aug 2018
5:10pm, 28 Aug 2018
17,817 posts
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flanker
Numerous red kites along the Ridgeway over the weekend, some of them virtually within touching distance. They seem far larger (scarily large!) when gliding just over your head.
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Aug 2018
5:18pm, 28 Aug 2018
1,103 posts
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flyingfinn
I had a similar experience yesterday Flanker. I came round a bend into a local village and there was one very low over the churchyard, seemed to fill the windscreen and my initial reaction was wtf is that big?!
Highlight of this morning's wander down at the local res was a pair of Knot in amongst a dozen Ringed Plover and a solitary Dunlin. New local tick for me. Good views of both Blackcap and Willow Warbler and a fair few Swallows and House Martins zipping about but unlike Saturday i couldn't spot any Sand Martins.
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Aug 2018
5:29pm, 28 Aug 2018
26,737 posts
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Derby Tup
Red kite are vast and truly majestic raptors. Always exciting seeing one. Not seen sand martin for weeks. I always feel a bit sorry for knott - if I see an ‘odd wader’ they’re always bottom of my list as to what they might be (just below ruff, which are all over the place in terms of scale and plumage)
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