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Sep 2020
10:24am, 7 Sep 2020
2,228 posts
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flyingfinn
Still lots of Mipits and Wheatear on the Lakeland tops yesterday, even when it was hissing it down. Given Wheatear were moving through at home last week I had wondered if they would be all gone from the tops but still plenty around.
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Sep 2020
10:28am, 7 Sep 2020
46,080 posts
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Derby Tup
Mipit still around on early part of Yorkshireman route yesterday even relatively high up. Waders long gone 
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Sep 2020
11:47am, 7 Sep 2020
19,403 posts
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flanker
Yep, still loads of mipit and several wheatear on the moors on yesterday’s run.
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Sep 2020
4:02pm, 7 Sep 2020
3,172 posts
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jacdaw
Still got the odd curlew round here, and some small flocks of golden plover. Wheatears still active, too.
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Sep 2020
5:59pm, 7 Sep 2020
2,991 posts
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J2R
Trudge across a muddy saltmarsh yesterday. Calling curlews here and there, a favourite, and meadow pipits investigating the creeks.
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Sep 2020
10:21am, 9 Sep 2020
3,001 posts
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J2R
Can anyone tell me what the 'subsong' is about? For the last couple of days, I've had a robin perched on a post doing the full robin song, but with the volume turned right down to 2, sometimes even 1 so it's scarcely audible. It's charming, but strange. Meanwhile other robins (or perhaps even the same one) have been singing away at full volume at different times.
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Sep 2020
12:21pm, 9 Sep 2020
1,675 posts
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bonners
Last night's walk was a very memorable, round the river and for once had my binoculars on the 'wrong side of the river'. Curlew on the mud flats in huge numbers with fantastic noises coming out. Tried counting up to 25 and then estimating how many clumps, reckon must have been in the region of 300. Eerie wonderful sight.
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Sep 2020
1:26pm, 9 Sep 2020
3,256 posts
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um
J2R - possibly a juvenile practising, and/or not wanting to upset the big boys too soon?
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Sep 2020
2:00pm, 9 Sep 2020
3,003 posts
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J2R
bonners, wow! Curlews are among my favourite birds. Their call is so magically evocative of wide open spaces, whether upland moorland or saltmarsh/mudflats.
um, interesting possibility. If only this reticence about high volume were shared by juvenile humans.
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Sep 2020
6:44pm, 10 Sep 2020
4,120 posts
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steve45
Chiffchaff in the garden, first one of autumn in my urban garden.
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