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May 2020
10:56pm, 9 May 2020
41,446 posts
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Derby Tup
Stef and I went out for a walk this evening where there’s a reasonable chunk of mature woodland. Roding woodcock is what I was hoping for, but we didn’t get one. The walk highlight was a small skulking brown bird I had a glance of but then heard clearly. Like a blackcap but obviously not a blackcap. Garden warbler
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May 2020
7:33am, 10 May 2020
1,590 posts
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bonners
First fledglings in the garden. Couple of greenfinches. Which is an absolute first for our garden. Are greenfinches normally earlier?
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May 2020
9:31am, 10 May 2020
1,121 posts
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Roberto
Lovely half marathon this morning in the rain with lots of birds.
Loads of swallows, sand Martins, starlings, 4/ lapwings, 2 grey partridges, bull/gold/chaffinches, 2 herons, several canada geese with their young. One of the herons was about a yard away from me and wasnt bothered at all.
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May 2020
11:12am, 10 May 2020
1,123 posts
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Roberto
Starlings all just came back, upwards of 30 of them. And what I'm assuming is a female house sparrow came with them. And also some sort of tit (according to my other half) which I didnt see.
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May 2020
11:19am, 10 May 2020
41,468 posts
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Derby Tup
Female sparrow is correct
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May 2020
11:51am, 10 May 2020
11,675 posts
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D2
Our bees swarmed yesterday evening which sent to local birds into a frenzy later mopping up stragglers
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May 2020
12:25pm, 10 May 2020
5,800 posts
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Eynsham Red
It’s been interesting seeing the hierarchy of “our” blackbirds developing. At the top of the pecking (🙂) order is the adult male, who is still collecting food for back home. He sees the all young blackbirds off.
Then there is a feisty young female who is seeing off the two young males, and nearly all the other birds off.
The two young males seem to be scared of their own shadows let alone the sparrows and starlings.
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May 2020
12:51pm, 10 May 2020
1,618 posts
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flyingfinn
The Martin drought is finally broken  lots around this morning, mainly House but with a good number of Sand mixed in. Might have seen a Swift as well but it disappeared before I had a proper look.
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May 2020
1:07pm, 10 May 2020
2,746 posts
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J2R
DT, great to see the garden warbler. I reckon I've seen them once for every ten times I've heard them.
Bike ride this morning in much colder, windier conditions than yesterday and birds seem to have all hidden themselves away. Can't say I blame them.
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May 2020
5:22pm, 10 May 2020
474 posts
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C-Cat
First sighting of a red kite over Hawkes End this morning. Yes Coventry has a place called Hawkes End. Usual to sight buzzards, sparrowhawk and the odd kestrel. Did a double take when I spotted a kite 🙂
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