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Feb 2019
6:38pm, 5 Feb 2019
11,712 posts
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Rosehip
10/10 House Martins - can watch them collecting mud and nest building for hours 
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Feb 2019
6:49pm, 5 Feb 2019
768 posts
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um
Anything that comes out in a photo, in focus, rates 10/10 for me ...
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Feb 2019
7:33pm, 5 Feb 2019
28,993 posts
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Derby Tup
Any wading bird with an improbably shaped bill and / or comedy call (basically any wading bird then) 10/10
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Feb 2019
7:39pm, 5 Feb 2019
18,118 posts
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flanker
Interesting birds to watch get 10/10, be that due to colour or behaviour. That'd include robins, dippers(!), pretty much any raptor, most ducks. Using this scoring most grey waders would be down the other end of the scale (dunlin sanderling excepted, as they are fun to watch).
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Feb 2019
7:44pm, 5 Feb 2019
28,995 posts
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Derby Tup
Avocet are bonkers teeeeeennnnnn!!
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Feb 2019
7:51pm, 5 Feb 2019
11,716 posts
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Rosehip
Partridges (grey-leged here) 7/10 -
Stupid birds, chhi-kwicking non-stop, even in the dark - so that the dog can work out where they are even if they think they're hiding and then all whirring off at once - usually straight towards your face and too low to the ground!
Daft creatures, but entertaining
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Feb 2019
9:14pm, 5 Feb 2019
17,629 posts
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KinkyS
Normally I'm a big Chris Packham fan, but dippers are at least 10/10.
Kingfishers and owls score high for me, and anything that gathers in mahoosive numbers. Starlings and knot may not by that interesting by themselves, but a mumurating flock of tens of thousands is breathtaking. A field full of thousands of grazing wigeon, or a sky full of skeins of pinkies...
In no particular order... male hen harrier. Puffin. Treecreeper. Turnstone. Snow bunting. Tufted duck - nothing makes me smile like a good tuftie Actually, I'm a bit like phal in this one - I do love a good *insert last bird I saw here*
The last bird I saw was actually a wood pigeon
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Feb 2019
9:21pm, 5 Feb 2019
29,000 posts
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Derby Tup
A big skein of pinkies with a proper move on are a definite teeeeennnn!
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Feb 2019
10:15pm, 5 Feb 2019
2,247 posts
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jacdaw
Pretty much everything gets a 10 from me, except maybe wood pigeons. I always catch a glimpse of one and think it might be something more interesting...
And pheasants, they are a 1 or a 2. Even the black ones on a sunny, frosty morning.
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Feb 2019
1:25am, 6 Feb 2019
18,121 posts
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flanker
I'd say about a 6 or 7 when in a game pie.
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