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Jun 2020
8:49pm, 26 Jun 2020
1,700 posts
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flyingfinn
GSWs have red caps like these two until their first moult in the autumn. Then the males will have a red patch on the nape (back of neck) and the females will have a black/white head with no red at all. You can sex the juveniles by how far forward the red cap goes but you need a really good look (IIRC in male juveniles it extends forward beyond the eye).
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Jun 2020
10:09pm, 26 Jun 2020
16,804 posts
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Rosehip
^ what ff said 
Stoof=d by the garden door looking at a beautiful rainbow and wondering where our rain was when I spotted 7-9 swifts. First ones I've seen from home this year. Really pleased to see them, we usually have quite big groups and this year they've been missing
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Jun 2020
10:38pm, 26 Jun 2020
1,701 posts
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flyingfinn
I was sat outside having a beer in the last of the light just before 10 when I got a proper screaming fly past from about half a dozen Swift's š and immediately afterwards some big bats (probably Noctules). Clearly there was something tasty up there.
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Jun 2020
11:18pm, 26 Jun 2020
43,671 posts
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Derby Tup
We saw a party of about eight swift having a right burn-up this evening by the old Bronte Cinema screaming nicely
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Jun 2020
1:47am, 27 Jun 2020
542 posts
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njosmith
It isn't unusual to see Crimson Rosella's in Brisbane but I have just seen a Pale Headed Rosella for only the third time in three and a half years living here.
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Jun 2020
9:21am, 27 Jun 2020
1,542 posts
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Heinzster
Dabchick and a pair of Blackcap this morning in a damp and mizzly notparkrun
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Jun 2020
9:30am, 27 Jun 2020
43,680 posts
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Derby Tup
Two recently fledged dunnock in our garden this morning. They seem to have got the hang of things quite nicely. One was flirting with a bench and the other was making decent progress with the rockery 
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Jun 2020
10:03am, 27 Jun 2020
6,114 posts
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Eynsham Red
āOurā male blackbird woke us before 5am today with a very persistent alarm call. We rose to find a cat in the garden which we shooed away. There are still baby blackbirds in the undergrowth.
When we got up properly later, the blackbird was waiting at the patio door, seemingly waiting for us to put out his morning mealworms and suet.
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Jun 2020
10:22am, 27 Jun 2020
11,729 posts
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D2
bit late but I too can offer magpies for those in need, Indi does his best to keep them at bay.
For the first time in years I can report that there is a pair of swallows in my barn with young, this makes me more happy than I can explain in words
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Jun 2020
10:37am, 27 Jun 2020
43,686 posts
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Derby Tup
Lovely news D2 re your swallow family. We had some two years ago but not since
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