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May 2020
7:47pm, 13 May 2020
2,533 posts
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Tim of Fife
We have a male Blackbird with a white head. Very odd looking, but seems happy
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May 2020
7:51pm, 13 May 2020
41,687 posts
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Derby Tup
There’s been a cuckoo in the area of Haworth Cemetery (not far before you go onto the track to Withins on the Hobble ff, flanker, Kinky) but I’ve dipped several times running or walking past. We did get a nice view of a willow warbler nearby this evening in the sun though, plus a curlew
I’m still swiftless and fighting the temptation to have a drive out for wood warbler
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May 2020
8:50pm, 13 May 2020
5,828 posts
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Eynsham Red
It’s up a bit late, but I’ve just seen a solitary greenfinch chick rooting around under the feeders. I haven’t seen any adults in the last few days so I’m not sure if it’s been abandoned or if they fend for themselves after they’ve left the nest.
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May 2020
11:42am, 14 May 2020
2,771 posts
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phal
No chance of a cuckoo in Cov, we know where to find a couple close-ish but haven’t been able to travel there. One reserve is definitely closed and the other place will be stupidly busy now at a guess....
Ducklings down to three 😬
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May 2020
11:47am, 14 May 2020
1,633 posts
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flyingfinn
Lots of Swifts (and all other Hirundinidae) here this morning DT so I gave a few directions to your place  Hopefully they'll hoover up the mayfly and save me doing it inadvertently on my runs!
Also had a male Ruff in breeding plummage and my first Spotted Flycatcher of the year, I could hear the SF calling but it took ages to spot it!
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May 2020
11:49am, 14 May 2020
3,900 posts
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steve45
Simply too clear here to see Swifts even if they are in the area--need some cloud to bring 'em down. They feed far too high up there when the atmosphere is as it is.
One day soon I think I'll go Cuckoo hunting!
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May 2020
11:57am, 14 May 2020
41,712 posts
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Derby Tup
Spotfly is another ‘birder’s bird‘
I’m on swift watch atm. More chance of a pterodactyl me thinks
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May 2020
12:20pm, 14 May 2020
19,137 posts
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flanker
You know all those things you keep thinking are herons...?
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May 2020
12:30pm, 14 May 2020
2,772 posts
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phal
Now we can go walking with a member of another household, I'm hoping to take my eldest niece out with her binoculars tomorrow afternoon When we've done reading over the computer, she chose to read her bird spotting 'guess the bird' book to me
Agree with the 'start 'em young' (much to the disdain of her mother *laughs* mwahahahaha..... her middle sister loves going to the local nature reserve to look at the birds too (although that may also have something to do with the cafe!) and her littlest sister's first word was bird )
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May 2020
2:39pm, 14 May 2020
84 posts
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SteveCRunner
Thanks for the nice comments on my lapwing photo. My camera at zoom is not specially sharp but there is a limit to what I can fit in a Salomon waist belt when running.
Today I snapped an Egyptian goose up a tree in a local park and petting zoo, just towards the end of my run in NL.
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