Fetch Birdwatchers
165 watchers
Oct 2018
7:13pm, 24 Oct 2018
547 posts
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Roberto
Spotted two Jays in our local park today. Lived here two years and am in the park 1/2 times a day running or with the dog and never seen them there before which is quite exciting as they aren’t as common up here (Northumberland) as further south in the country.
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Oct 2018
9:01pm, 24 Oct 2018
17,931 posts
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flanker
4 short-eared and a little owl this afternoon. My first ever seo in the wild. Plus large flicks of goldfinch, lapwing and corvids. And a large number of photos to sort through! |
Oct 2018
9:23pm, 24 Oct 2018
27,327 posts
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Derby Tup
SEO are fab birds
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Oct 2018
11:21pm, 24 Oct 2018
1,475 posts
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J2R
flanker, Norfolk/Suffolk coast? Love to see a short eared owl, not seen one in ages.
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Oct 2018
11:31pm, 24 Oct 2018
17,935 posts
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flanker
Bit further in-land - Burwell Fen goo.gl |
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Oct 2018
8:06am, 26 Oct 2018
27,331 posts
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Derby Tup
A noisy nuthatch in the big oak across the road from home plus loads of titmice this morning 
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Oct 2018
12:30pm, 26 Oct 2018
2,127 posts
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jacdaw
Huge flock of fieldfare have just about cleared the berries off my half dozen little rowan trees this morning . There was one redwing with them, balancing delicately on the bendier tips, away from the big bruisers. They were joined by a single blackbird, one starling, and a baffled chaffinch trying to work out what the fuss was about. I have quite a few dark billed male blackbirds about; does that reliably mean they are migrants? |
Oct 2018
12:37pm, 26 Oct 2018
17,599 posts
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KinkyS
Could also be first Winter British blackbirds, they have dark bills too. Look out for dark bill/yellow eye ring combo to spot a Northern European visitor.
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Oct 2018
1:36pm, 26 Oct 2018
2,129 posts
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jacdaw
Interesting. So in autumn, adult British males have yellow bills, yellow eye ring, 1y British males have dark bills and dark eye ring, and so do 1y coninental males? But later in the winter the Brit 1y birds start to yellow up first? Are we saying full adult continental males have dark bill / yellow eye ring for the entire autumn and winter? Confusing. |
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Oct 2018
4:24pm, 26 Oct 2018
17,600 posts
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KinkyS
The conventional wisdom goes something like that, yes, but with so much age, seasonal and geographical variation both within as well as between different populations, IDing homegrown vs. visiting birds is something of a nightmare without ringing data. Nice to speculate though
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