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Aug 2018
3:56pm, 30 Aug 2018
16,194 posts
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Chrisity
It's been 2 days DT, surely Lapwing must be on your list by now.
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Aug 2018
5:26pm, 30 Aug 2018
26,749 posts
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Derby Tup
On yesterday but ousted by golden plover today 
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Aug 2018
5:35pm, 30 Aug 2018
1,343 posts
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J2R
I think the 'Best Wader In Flight' award must surely go to the lapwing, though? Yes, you could argue that something like the black-winged stilt is pretty funky, but don't you just love the lapwings' rounded wings and the way they move around in flocks?
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Aug 2018
5:36pm, 30 Aug 2018
26,750 posts
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Derby Tup
Good call
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Sep 2018
9:08pm, 1 Sep 2018
1,110 posts
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flyingfinn
Eveningby run enlivened by spotting a Great White Egret They're not unknown here but they aren't seen that often either.
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Sep 2018
9:24pm, 1 Sep 2018
26,781 posts
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Derby Tup
Nice - I saw at least one kingfisher and several dippers this morning on the river Worth virtually in Keighley
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Sep 2018
9:30pm, 1 Sep 2018
35,390 posts
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alpenrose
I haven't seen one kingfisher this year. I saw swallows last evening and also today - different locations.
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Sep 2018
2:07pm, 4 Sep 2018
1,116 posts
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flyingfinn
Judging by the visitors to my feeders it looks like the local Blue Tits have had a successful year. I'm currently getting 15+ simultaneously, most of which look like juveniles and boy can they eat! I'm going through food at a hell of a rate. For the last few days I've also had a single adult (male I think) Goldfinch bringing one newly fledged juvenile that so far won't feed itself but sits close by and lets the adult know in no uncertain terms that it needs feeding!
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Sep 2018
2:56pm, 4 Sep 2018
35,434 posts
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alpenrose
I saw a kingfisher yesterday! Also lots of swallows gathering to take off for distant shores and amongst other things I can't remember, a buzzard and a hovering/diving kestrel on the cliffs.
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Sep 2018
4:26pm, 4 Sep 2018
1,350 posts
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J2R
FF, we have had a great year for blue tits, too. They have taken over from goldfinches as the most common bird in the garden. I know they do badly when it rains a lot, as the larvae they feed to their young get washed out of the trees, so I presume they do correspondingly well when there are long dry periods as we've had this year.
We haven't had nearly as much of a honeydew problem as we normally have in summer, though - we have to park the cars under a massive lime tree, which normally seems home to 90% of the world's aphids, considering the amount of honeydew which showers down. So I wonder if aphid numbers have suffered, which I would have thought would affect blue tits?
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