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Sep 2018
4:58pm, 30 Sep 2018
26,992 posts
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Derby Tup
Fleeting glances is a great description. You hear them usually rather than see them in your in woodland say
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Oct 2018
8:47am, 1 Oct 2018
19,560 posts
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Wriggling Snake
Kingfisher. On the Peak Forest canal. I kept hearing they were there 😁. That's me sorted for this week....
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Oct 2018
9:01am, 1 Oct 2018
26,993 posts
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Derby Tup
Singing dipper this morning, then ten mins later heard a chiffchaff too. I do a little dance when I hear the first chiffchaff of spring and thought it was appropriate to do one this morning too :):)
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Oct 2018
8:59am, 2 Oct 2018
887 posts
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bonners
Beautiful sparrowhawk back in the garden again today. We definitely have a pair around if I'm understanding correctly. This one has a pronounced amount of red and brown on its neck and chest, so must be the male?
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Oct 2018
9:11am, 2 Oct 2018
27,010 posts
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Derby Tup
Size is a good indication too; males are smaller
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Oct 2018
9:15am, 2 Oct 2018
27,011 posts
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Derby Tup
From Scottish Wildlife:
There is quite a big difference in size between the tiercel and falcon. Tiercel in French means a third and therefore the male is a third smaller than the female. This size difference is common in all birds of prey and is called sexual dimorphism. It is even more acute in the peregrine falcon than any other falcon
I first came across the term tiercel in the brilliant book H is for Hawk
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Oct 2018
9:20am, 2 Oct 2018
888 posts
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bonners
Yup, definitely smaller, thought it was a different bird until I checked my book. So I've also learnt that the previous visitor must've been a female.
Great run last night, plenty of redshank, curlew and little egrets around the river, turnstones around the harbour, cormorants on the beach and flocks of small waders flitting along the edge of the sea.
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Oct 2018
9:37am, 2 Oct 2018
27,013 posts
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Derby Tup
Small waders likely to be ringed plover and / dunlin - that run sounds ‘right up my street’
I saw three curlew earlier today over in Wharfedale 
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Oct 2018
10:41am, 2 Oct 2018
19,569 posts
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Wriggling Snake
H is for Hawk is recommended here too.
No Kingfisher today,
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Oct 2018
1:39pm, 2 Oct 2018
889 posts
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bonners
Cheers DT, dunlin sounds right looking at the behaviour, didn't see any ringed plover as I only see them when walking as they camouflage themselves really well amongst the stones.
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