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Dec 2020
12:41pm, 7 Dec 2020
47,817 posts
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elfinrose
I saw a kingfisher down on the weir this morning. 
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Dec 2020
1:08pm, 7 Dec 2020
3,307 posts
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J2R
steve45, one of my recent delights has been watching a GSW on the peanuts as I have my breakfast. There most mornings. We've had them in the past but only sporadically, but not that regularly until now.
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Dec 2020
4:06pm, 7 Dec 2020
5,207 posts
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AChristmasCarolScribbler
Fat pigeon in the garden again today. Pied wagtail on my walk. There was much excitement at a robin on the bird feeder last week.
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Dec 2020
6:11pm, 7 Dec 2020
2,376 posts
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flyingfinn
Flock of Siskin and a single Hawfinch in Sherwood Forest today, always a sign of the changing seasons. Big spot though was an Otter swimming across a lake whilst looking at 8 very smart Goosanders. Also found a Marsh Tit visiting a feed station close to the car park at the end of the walk, conveniently it was calling quite clearly thus saving a long Marsh or Willow debate.
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Dec 2020
8:13pm, 7 Dec 2020
18,816 posts
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Rosehip
We've had fairly thick fog for at least the last 48 hours. I've seen somewhat bedraggled sparrows on the feeder one green woody on my run this morning and a couple of male pheasants strolling along the back lane - and that's about it. Very quiet.
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Dec 2020
9:15am, 8 Dec 2020
4,276 posts
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steve45
Great obs there flyingfinn.
You're lucky J2R having GSPecker regularly-- I've only had one in my garden nine times in the last ten years.
Fat pigeons can be something if a nuisance in my garden scribbler, but always nice to have a Robin .
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Dec 2020
9:54am, 8 Dec 2020
18 posts
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Blizzard
We had a Goldfinch fly into the glass of our French Window yesterday. It lay stunned on the decking for five to ten minutes. We thought that it had a broken wing too, but it suddenly took off and flew into a neighbours tree.
Then this morning, at about the same time of day, a Sparrowhawk landed in the same tree and sat there for five minutes.
Not really a close call, but I wonder !
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Dec 2020
10:17am, 8 Dec 2020
3,309 posts
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J2R
flyingfinn, a hawfinch is a rather special spot, I would say! I was so excited when I saw my first ever hawfinch during that irruption a couple of years ago.
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Dec 2020
11:30am, 8 Dec 2020
2,377 posts
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flyingfinn
I was spoilt during that irruption J2R, we had a sizeable flock in a churchyard about 5 miles away that stayed for 2-3 months. Yesterday's was spotted at a location well known for them but we only saw the one and then for not very long. So far this year apart from a small group in a village on the Derbys/Notts border there only seem to have been intermittent sightings round here.
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Dec 2020
11:45am, 8 Dec 2020
3,310 posts
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J2R
I had a couple of frustrating near misses during that irruption, but ended up spotting 3 or 4 a few miles from home in a place they had been reported on https://twitter.com/HawfinchesUK. They're reasonably often reported at Lynford Arboretum in Thetford Forest, but when I was there a few weeks ago the birds that were there had just been scared off by a buzzard.
How are we doing for waxwings? Good year, bad year? I haven't been following.
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