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Apr 2020
3:58pm, 29 Apr 2020
1,602 posts
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flyingfinn
I only ever get a solitary Greenfinch. Always seems to visit as an add-on to the Goldfinches. One will turn up regularly for a few days and then no sightings for quite a while. That seems to have been the pattern for several years now but I keep hoping firstly that they become more regular visitors and in numbers.
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Apr 2020
4:24pm, 29 Apr 2020
2,417 posts
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Tim of Fife
When running on the beach, there were terns fishing just a few feet offshore. Hovering about thirty feet up, then screaming headlong into the surf like bullets.
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Apr 2020
5:10pm, 29 Apr 2020
40,765 posts
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Derby Tup
Kingfisher seen by the beck behind Spar in Haworth then disappearing over the engine sheds (I was hoping for a dipper)
Interesting illustration of how clean UK watercourses are now (thankfully) and that it’s always worth checking the most mundane of environments for wildlife
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Apr 2020
5:47pm, 29 Apr 2020
1,604 posts
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flyingfinn
Kingfisher is a pretty good consolation DT.
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Apr 2020
6:26pm, 29 Apr 2020
1,109 posts
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Roberto
Pied wagtail on the drive 2 doors down 10 mins ago. First I've seen this far into the estate
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Apr 2020
6:28pm, 29 Apr 2020
15,811 posts
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Rosehip
Same with the Greenfinch here ff, used to be frequent visitors en masse
Coal tits heard and then seen on this evening's mini dog walk 
Blue tits are nesting in the box on the garage - it's designed as a tenement block for sparrows, but two pairs of bluetits seem to have moved in
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Apr 2020
7:50pm, 29 Apr 2020
1,568 posts
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bonners
Spring is in full flow reading this thread, love reading of the different spots in different areas.
Highlights for me recently, wheatears, oystercatcher and sandwich terns on the seafront. A solitary lapwing still hanging around, apparently most of our local lapwings disappear to Denmark to breed. The garden has been great and watching the blackbirds always puts a smile on my face. But the absolute noisy best has to have been the shagging gulls whilst I was trying to enjoy a quiet cider in the garden tonight. At least I know I've several weeks of having lumps pecked out of my head to look forward to 😁
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Apr 2020
7:56pm, 29 Apr 2020
40,788 posts
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Derby Tup
Dunnock lurking round the back of the house looking for a shag
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Apr 2020
8:22pm, 29 Apr 2020
3,027 posts
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jacdaw
It'll be a cormorant DT. You're too far inland for shag!
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Apr 2020
9:01pm, 29 Apr 2020
40,792 posts
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Derby Tup
It was eyeing up a horse at one point. They’ll mate with anything
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